Our Weekly Zoom — A Day Later Than Usual!
It was a great weekend — but last night I realized that I was just about done in. It was about time for our weekly family zoom get-together — Marta, Charlie and me — and so I wrote to find out if we were “on” — and probably to wiggle out of it if I could. In the subject-line of my zoom I wrote: Are we zpp,omg tpmogjt??? which gives you some idea of my condition. (Even worse, I didn’t notice what I had written until this morning!)
As it turned out, Marta was at a movie that lasted longer than planned — (“Barbie” she reported today. She gave it a mixed review although she siad she did go all in pink including a pink Barbie Tee Shirt! YIKES!) Charlie wasn’t checking emails at all, apparently — going along “as usual” the way guys do…
A Sign of Summer
So… I went to bed. Marta re-scheduled the zoom meeting for tonight and all was well with the world. I slept ten hours. AND took a nap today. And, in trying to reconstruct the whys and wherefores… I only had the cowboy breakfast on Saturday. I didn’t even ride a bull or rope a steer! As for Sunday… it must have been the music of Millionth Street that did me in — soothing to a fault!
Cuzzin Sydney, And I thought I was the only one who frequently misses the home keys (“F” and “J” with the raised bumps/ridges) with my big index fingers, whose tips may not be as sensitive as they used to be!
Cuzzin Sydney, I forgot to mention that I was self-taught on my mother’s ancient Underwood Standard typewriter (around 1920’s or earlier vintage). This particular “Touch Typist” model had no letter markings on the keys so for tutorial purposes she put little squares of Johnson & Johnson white cloth adhesive tape marked with the appropriate letter on each key. I breezed through typing in 10th grade (1964) with the latest improved version: the IBM Selectric. Years later in 1976 I typed the rough draft of my PhD dissertation on that same model IBM Selectric. Real pain to type as I used a lot of Greek mathematical symbols, etc. so had to constantly switch among three different type balls!