Philip

My main aide Philip was in a traffic accident this morning.

I don't know yet how serious it was or when he might be back.

Visit

My brother Jon and his girl Callie came over for a visit this morning.

Callie did a great job in kindergarten and is headed into first grade.  She is also a budding basketball player.

Ducks

Outside this morning, we got within ten or fifteen feet of a couple ducks waddling along before they quacked and flew away.

Pretty neat.

Email

I had 33 emails waiting when I got online today.

Most of them were junk, but that's still double what I usually get.

Software Tick

I had some trouble doing this blog today.  The software in this site wasn't cooperating.

It's always something.

Annoying

Recently when I've gone to one of my websites, I've had to watch a commercial before it goes to the website's contents.  It's annoying.

I wonder if advertisers consider that annoying people might not be the best way to sell them your product.

Laughs

I watch a lot of the old western television series. and I'm struck by how often the main characters laugh.

All the shows are dramas, and they have the reputation of telling simplistic, violent stories.  Often, however, they use wit and humor and tell worthwhile human tales.  That's why they're still watched 50 and 60 years after the fact.