LOTSA STUFF, MAN

Getting old - miseries

Just as I finished with a cold, my right leg started acting up and I'm having to use a cane again.

Years ago in an antique store in Berlin, Maryland, I bought a "Depression Era" cane with a built-in surprise.  It is finished in shiny wood and has a gold-plated eagle handle.

Hidden in the cane is an area in which a narrow bottle resides.  One can sneak a drink right from that bottle, without being caught by the "feds."

One day, in my excitement to display my prize possession, I accidently stepped on the cane and broke it in half.  Someday I will figure out how to get it back together; meanwhile, I will have to be a "teetotaler."

Puzzles

Francine S. sent me a page from a recent school newspaper.  It listed New York Times puzzles ranked in order of popularity.

Wordle

Crossword

Spelling Bee

Sudoku

Vertex

Tiles

Letter boxed

I do Wordle every morning. (I thought today's solution was very hard to get.)

I try to do two crosswords every day.

I do the Sunday Spelling Bee.

I gave up on Sudoku long ago, because I felt that using logic on it was futile.

I never heard of the last three.  I'll need to investigate.

Lookie, Lookie!

My tiny friend, Cookie, who lives under the molding in my bathroom has a boyfriend!

At 2AM, she was giving him a tour of the premises.

He looked identical to Cookie, a half-inch-long ebon creature that one could take for a black smudge from a ball-point pen.

I'll probably be looking at some even smaller creatures in the near future.

Words

Professor Curzan spoke about words that are frowned upon.

"hopefully" - a word that makes editors and teachers cringe. I don't care, I like to use it.

 "fun - "

"That was fun."  OK

"I had a fun time,"  OK, but not great.

"I had a funner time than she had." NO NO

Better would be: "I had more fun than she had at that time."

Dictionaries say fun is an "uncountable noun" meaning pleasure and enjoyment, or it could be an adjective.

American Tourists

An American couple that I know visited London and noticed all the ads for "fish and chips."  They went into a pub and ordered that dish.  As the waiter took their "fish and chips" orders, the husband said, "and add some French Fries on mine."

That reminds me:

The first time some of my Air Force buddies and I visited New Orleans, we sat in a bar and ordered drinks.  They were very high priced, so we "nursed" them all night long.

What we didn't realize was that the drinks were high to include an entertainment fee. Drinks after the first were extremely cheap.

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