Dwight D. Eisenhower: "I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."
Biology Major
I went to the library one day for a quick book or two and before I left, I met this wonderfully charming young woman in line to check out. She was there with her little boy (about 6 or 8, I guess). He seemed like a nice kid, too. That was the problem—she was so young, perhaps her twenties. She, too, was just a kid. But very friendly and very charming.
I must say I yearned for her acquaintance, even if only perhaps to see her again at the library. Maybe her charm would wear off quickly, but it didn’t so far. She said she was a biology major at Mosquito University, had lately been reading about things like parapsychology. Woop, what do I care about stuff like that?
Her kid was checking out science books (ecology, for one, and a picture book on fish) for his summer reading. Where do such inquisitive kids come from here in Podunk, Texas?
Ah, well, the torpid observations of an ever-failing dirty old man. I’m still here, but I never saw her a second time. Women who aren't very glad to see me seem to come out of the woodwork, though.
Well, I got my Sandisk installed, easily on the new computer, with much travail on the old computer. I've transferred a few files, the ones I need for Blogger Help Group. So I've done it, but the Sandisk was not very clear about how to Copy or otherwise designate the files on my hard disk to be copied! I figured it out once, but it was obtuse and I can only hope I can figure it out a second time. Maybe I should go try right now.
This'll be a long delay, so don't hold your breath!
Well, that partly worked and partly didn't. Still, it's encouraging. It shows me I can copy the right files without deleting them entirely! Some went into the correct folders and some all jumped into a single directory! That's an odd thing for it to do when it was a single command for the whole list! In any case, it's partly done and entirely encouraging.
Soon I'll have everything in one place where it belongs. Goddamn hoo ha! That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!
You read those books where luxury
Comes as a guest to take a slave
Books where artists in noble poverty
Go like virgins to the grave
Don't you get sensitive on me
'Cause I know you're just too proud
You couldn't step outside the Boho dance now
Even if good fortune allowed
Extract from "The Boho Dance" on Joni Mitchell's album "The Hissing of Summer Lawns"
Squabble
Squibble and squabble, tibble and topple,
Everything's going on and nothing!
Bush won't stay off the airwaves
Or get off the dime or even get a new dime
And everyone else I know has either
Too much or too little character
And perpetually hangs around here too long!
So where's that at?
Go and call Dr. Phil, he'll tell you,
Tell it loud, make you proud to be
A famous fuckup prick on his TV show
For 15 minutes, not longer.
You went in beating your children
And came out with Dr. Phil paying your psycho bills--
It's not a bad deal, I'd say,
For a demented degenerate loser skunk like you are!
rcs.
1st draft: 05/03/06
©2006 Ronald C. Southern
I was on the brink just now of getting my Sandisk device installed, but I'm told that I need to load a driver on the old machine and somehow the CD drive won't even open the door! I could scream. I can't move any files, after all. My nephew might fix it, but not this instant; he's at work. The CD player always worked when I didn't give a damn, but now it chooses to die when I won't even need it but this one last time! I can still play on this new computer and DSL, but I wanted to move those files. I thought it would happen NOW! Fat chance. I may just plug it in, but I have no reason to think it has files in it that will recognize it. I barely recognize it. I didn't even know which end was which until I pulled on the device and was surprised to see which end had a plastic cover that came off. I ain't smart enough or alert enough for all this tribulation. I'm sick and get dizzy easily and angry even easier!!!
Send money, guns, and lawyers--I need all the help I can get!
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