Maybe I’m over-reacting, but I feel like I’m under keen surveillance on two fronts. Through the living room window, small red furred creatures check to see that we haven’t decamped. No reticence is shown. We provide, and they hide. Eggs, seeds, kibble; all help in providing steady meals.
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One of my preferred appliances is getting cranky. With age? Unsure, because the quality control sticker is dated 2017. Despite our warped sense of temporality, under the cloud of a pandemic, that wasn’t as long ago as it seems. My Sodastream “dispenser”, it doesn’t actually dispense anything other than measured shots of CO2. But, that’s a required ability, here in a post-pop household.
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Another afternoon among friends. Or at least, with a friend. How did forty-five years go by, so quickly? Do I feel like I’m getting old? Not usually, but forty-five years. That puts me back to a time BC (before children), when vinyl records and stubby bottles were a thing. And when my phone was tethered in place (actually, no change there).
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There it was: an email from eBay, along with a pop-up on my profile. The need to confirm my info, including my mobile telephone number. Oh, and a choice to use in the extraordinary situation where I don’t keep a phone in my hip pocket. I took several tries before I could proceed, and leaving the phone field as blank didn’t work. I filled in my landline number, and it looks like I have made it past the guardian. Still, why bother? Would they want to every speak to me, in real time?
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The passage of another day without my main laptop isn’t as painful as I would have predicted. Oh sure, there are email accounts that will need to be checked, eventually. And my ongoing family tree work suffers from my not having access to my software. But, really, isn’t this period of “not knowing” just a bit better than having to accept my eventual upgrade to Win 10. After all, I’ve managed to put off for years (literally). A bit longer won’t hurt.
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I suspect that this self-enforced quarantine is going to be more difficult, going forward. Here in Canada, the realization that winter is coming (no GOT reference intended) makes our summer seem even more valuable. Any vacation travel has to be planned with a climate-based agenda.
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While everything seems to be going wonderfully, I now have a distraction that is going to cost me time. Not money, hopefully, but lots of head scratching thinking. You see, without warning, the main hard drive on my laptop is MIA. I’ve dealt with situations like this, many times… fixing the impossible is what I did for a living, for many years. I can handle this. The only question is about how painful it is going to be.
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Bread. As I cut into another (fresh) loaf, with that faint scent of a cultured yeast, and spread some butter from edge to edge, it’s clear. The reason why history has given a seat of honour at the table is because bread wins out. You won’t get that consistent level of goodness from a salad, or fried whatever. If the larder could hold only the essentials of flour, salt, and a bit of oil, we could still manage bread.
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Today, I moved my alternate power supply system a little closer to a step I like to consider as “useful”. Let’s face it; a battery (in its box) or a solar panel, without the required connectors, or a charger that still uses those awful jaw things that are best suited to welding… all fine in theory but hard to rationalize.
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I attended an impromptu meeting about our local museums, this afternoon. Unscheduled, while standing in the parking lot at the general store, near the mailboxes. No agenda. That’s how we roll, here in the heartland.
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