Barbara J. Hamby

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Down Memory Lane

I have just completed editing the more than 800 blog entries I’ve written since I started Barbara’s Blog. The transfer to a new service provider produced some glitches because I compose the blog pieces on Microsoft Word, which has certain idiosyncrasies. Most dashes and apostrophes converted themselves to question marks, so I had to delete and replace them. Before I started that editing job, I changed the smart quotations marks and apostrophes back to straight ones on my copy of Word. Now I just need to remember to change it back if I’m going to submit something for publication. Haven’t done much of that recently.

Reading over all my little trials and tribulations over the past few years was entertaining. Also, it was a little daunting to realize how much I’d already forgotten. The old brain is overloaded, I fear.

Tonight’s news had a peek at a recent medical discovery. As the story was told, when surgeons were operating on a patient’s brain to attempt to correct his obesity, they accidentally stimulated areas of the brain that brought back buried memories to the patient. The possibilities of developing those skills are mind-boggling and it is brain surgery, actually. Think how many Alzheimer’s patients could be helped, that is, if they could afford the surgery.

Interspersed with transferring hundreds of documents to my new computer from the old, I’ll now be editing my travel pages. That should be even more fun, remembering the trips.

My daughter called tonight to report that she has a flu bug and described some of the same symptoms I’ve been having the last few days. I was happy to know that I have something that’s going around, and nothing worse.

Time to get back to work.