Tuesday 11/05/2024
Less than a month left in this blog’s year, which, faithful readers know, starts on the 3rd of December.
Yesterday at FOPAL, I picked out of the donations a stapled pamphlet, a summary of maintenance procedures for the IBM 1401 computer. I set it aside to bring home, meaning to pass it to the 1401 team at CHM. Except I forgot to bring it home. So this morning I drove back down there and looked for it, and it has disappeared. I can’t imagine it being thrown away, so presumably it will show up at some point. But damn I am getting unreliable. Or have I always been a forgetful, easily-distracted, dweeb?
Writers meeting, the prompt was “something that made you laugh”. I could only come up with one thing, a one-sentence post in a Reddit thread a couple of weeks ago, which made me laugh out loud and chuckle for minutes after. Unfortunately the whole topic was decidedly, um, adult. And although everybody in the group is extremely over 21, I still didn’t want to have to explain the context.
Practiced some guitar. The only thing I practice these days is RATCT and it is stressing my skills. I may just give up and only sing, not try to play.
It’s election day and I am not checking numbers until tomorrow. We had a pleasant concert by The Fabulous Jewel-Tones, an amateur women’s group that has been here once before. Despite that I am feeling alone and alienated. Two hundred friendly neighbors. It doesn’t help.
Codgerville 