Greetings, Fellow Earthlings!

I am writing on a new laptop and may be distracted by what ever it does. Yes I realize that a) user error is a big part of this and b) the laptop is not capable of rational thought and independent action. (Although I am not so sure of this latter one)

However, I seem to be changing the size of the font without knowing it by some swipe of the keypad. Or, perhaps the laptop is doing this? Already it has changed  to about a sixteenth of an inch high. Then, somehow, changed it back to a legible size. Back to small, then back to big.

I am distracted. Now in all fairness, I am easily distracted. If you have taught with me, you know this. If you have talked with me, you know this. If you…, well, let’s move on.

So I am looking around, trying to find something that will determine the size of the page and this is what I find, next to a checked box: “Enable full-height editor and distraction-free functionality”

Now, if the editor is full height, shouldn’t the page, by inclusion, also be full height? And if the functionality is distraction-free, shouldn’t I be, also?

Enough of this. I just got the mouse and plugged it in. Maybe if I stay away from the keypad, the page will say the same height.

Technology is not my friend. Technology often gets together with friends and laughs at me.

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There’s a picture that I just TBT shared on FB. My sister and I are on a beach, probably a military base beach, on the island of Oahu. We had access to this beach because our sister-in-law was an Army nurse at Tripler Army Hospital in Honolulu.

I am striking a pose —when have you known me to ever do that??—and she is looking down at me like I am crazy—–and when has she ever done that?? It’s a goofy photo.

It was a landmark vacation for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that the astronauts who first walked on the moon splashed down near HI and were picked up by the ship we saw in the harbor a few days before.  I felt close to history.

Then, Judy Garland died.  We were shopping in the Ala Moana shopping center when her passing was announced over the PA.  They played “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”  I was standing at the Shiseido make up counter looking at some blue eyeliner. How is it that some moments in time are frozen like that?

The third  reason this vacation was so important to me was that I grew to love living in an apartment. It was freeing. I was not looking forward to returning to finish my last year of high school. After this freedom, it seemed like moving backwards.  Band was the only thing to which I was looking forward.

Anyway, there’s a reason why I have been thinking about that trip, lo, these 46 years ago. And you’ll find out in a few days…

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Okay this has absolutely nothing to do with either laptops or Oahu.  Did you know that you can get a Bahamian quarter in a roll  of U.S. quarters? Furthermore, did you know that said quarter will not go through the coin counter at the bank? And last of all, did you know that if you take said Bahamian quarter to the window at the bank to exchange it for an American quarter, you can’t, even though this bank was the one that gave you the Bahamian quarter in a roll of U.S. quarters?  They don’t exchange coins this far inland.

She suggested I save it for when I visit the Bahamas. She obviously doesn’t know of my campaign to get rid of accumulated stuff around the house.

So, if any of you are planning to go to the Bahamas anytime soon, I have a quarter you can have.

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Did you know that if you go into an Office Max looking for an extra wide  binder that will hold  plastic page protectors and the extra wide  tabbed dividers that are made to separate and organize the  page protectors,  you won’t find anything that says extra wide?

Now I am talking about the names of the binders that are on the part of the binder that faces out toward the buying public.  The biggest names.

Nope. I thought maybe Heavy Duty would translate into Bigger, Better, WIDER.

It didn’t.

So, then, I surmised that if they sold the wider tabbed dividers, what else would you put them in besides a binder? They had to be there somewhere. I began to try the dividers in the binders.

And I found one that fit!  It was called “Durable View.”  Hmmmm.  I think of heavy duty as durable. Why would they name the binders essentially the same name?

They would have saved me the trouble if they had named it  “Extra Wide,” or “Use This if You Want to Use the Page Protectors and Then Separate Them with Our EXTRA WIDE  Tabbed Dividers.”  Or maybe even had a note on the shelf with the dividers telling you which binder they fit.

I don’t ask for much.  Just common sense.

 

Which brings me to our political scene.  Don’t worry. I’m not about to rant and rave.  What I am going to do is ask that we do more to get along.  With the current rhetoric, I am concerned that even after the election, the rift will not heal.

Let us come together,  work together, to  move forward. We have problems that need thoughtful solutions. We need all of us.

 Yours in Distraction Free Functionality,

and with love,

Janet