Satire, nostalgia and a dog with retrieval disorder
When you don’t know whether you should laugh or cry, follow the lead of American television, and show an evening of political satire. After all, if even one more person is scared enough to go and vote then the goal has been met. These are tense times; somebody crack another joke, please!
Nostalgia also has a place; tonight I happened across a short video shot in 1966 in Charlottetown, and the memories came flooding back. Stores that have moved on, cars from my memories, the hustle and bustle of downtown. What day was it that everybody closed in the country so they could go to town and shop? Wednesday? Thanks, memory bank. They even had those double decker buses back then. The same ones, you say? Wow, talk about keeping your rig on the road long after the warranty is gone.
I’ve been busy reformatting some of the home computers as well. A few bad bouts with virus infections, and a desire to recycle the Asterisk into the Obs box have left me with another evening spent. Thankfully SP3 is now available, instead of the hours of repetitive downloads and reboots. Why not change to Linux? Well, some software just isn’t available, and I don’t want to sit and whine about Wine for the next few weeks. I’ll just accept that some jobs are simplifed by the product we know and love to hate. Sometimes a coumputer is just a machine, nothing more.
The dog is pretending to be a hyena to the neighbour’s cat; we have to inspect all retrieved gifts VERY carefully.
