Barbara J. Hamby

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Back at the Keyboard

This Word program tries too hard to be helpful. If I type the month, in this case April, it immediately fills in a date. Once in a while, it’s actually the right date, but tonight it was stuck on the 29th. Oh well.

Helping my son proofread his blog this afternoon reminded me that I haven’t posted to mine in several days. I get distracted more easily every day and forget what I should be doing.

I checked Google Analytics tonight and, as usual, I can’t figure out why some days only two or three people check my website and other days it spikes to ten or fifteen. Twelve countries are represented among my viewers. The Czech Republic is a new one. I have no idea why that is either. Only three or four countries have more than one hit apiece—mostly the English-speaking ones. I can imagine some countries, such as India and Africa, are represented by scammers looking for new victims. I get SPAM fairly often from them.

It’s been a busy week. Sunday we had a lovely brunch and visit with Floyd’s daughter and family, along with his son from Seattle and family

Yesterday I had lunch at our Senior Center and then went to my writers’ critique group meeting. The “group” consisted of only two of us but we accomplished a lot.  Later I did some shopping and my exercise/swim routine and barely had enough energy to heat some food for dinner.

Today I sat in on a Write Your Life Story class at the Senior Center and thoroughly enjoyed hearing snippets from the lives of a few of my peers. I stayed for a special luncheon with a Hawaiian theme, then went to the library and home for a nap.

We fell heir to a small stack of firewood that was left by a tenant who moved out (I assume) since we found it by the garbage cans and the manager assured us it was up for grabs. So today I picked up a large plastic tub to store it in on the deck until next winter. It will be nice to burn along with the fire logs we normally use.

We are being bombarded with political propaganda. Even our favorite Boston Legal tonight was largely political. I agree with their premise that our democracy is somewhat of a sham, but I am tired of all the hoopla. I will vote for my choices whether or not I believe it makes any difference. Once in a while, I luck out and pick a winner.