Sigh. Now my mouse refuses to pair with my Mac.

I never shop on Prime Day. Or Black Friday. I have never felt deprived.

Oh come on, guys, not one mention of Elfa from the Container Store?

Oh come on, guys, not one mention of Elfa from the Container Store?

“Love it or leave it” was profoundly stupid in the 60s and it has not aged well.

An oldie but a suddenly relevant-again goodie.

Mother Nature provides a good built-in splash guard. Don’t remove it.

Best kids’poetry I ever read: You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You by John Ciardi.

Windows 8.1 looks so radically different from Windows 7 that some people can’t cope. (My husband is one of them.) Windows 10 looks more like Windows 7 and can ease the transition. (He just got a new Win10 laptop and there has been a certain amount of cussing and fuming, but he’s managing.)

I just have a few rough equivalents that work for most things. 28C =82F. 10cm=about 4 inches. Oh, and buy a digital kitchen scale that measures both ounces and grams.

Put in cities, click “find fares,” get nothing. Los Angeles to Kona or Hilo. *bzzzzt*

Put in cities, click “find fares,” get nothing. Los Angeles to Kona or Hilo. *bzzzzt*

Not interested. We get the soundrack all night every night from people roaring down the street half a block from our house.

I bet that’s the answer for me. I’ve got generations of family photos plus about a bazillion slides.

Slide rules were hot when I was in junior high. I talked my dad into buying me one (I don’t think he ever figured out why I wanted it). I used it for many years. I think I was the only girl in the school who had a slide rule.

This kind of thing has gone on for a very long time. When I was in grade school, “lunch for the week” was $1.35. My parents never did have that much money available on a Monday. I often got “lunch for the day plus ice cream” for 36¢ or just a carton of milk to go along with a bag lunch for a nickel. Assuming that the…

Perfect! That kind of teacher always produces unexpected results. When I was in grade school, we could use a pen to do our homework if we got an A in “penmanship.” Let’s just say I used a pencil all the way through.

Well, good. The one person I know who might find this appealing used to work in an Amazon warehouse and won’t touch anything of theirs ever again. He’s real lah-di-dah about paying bills. Which is why he has no credit to begin with.

The Los Angeles Public Library system has pretty much everything you might want along with pretty much any book, periodical, video or audiobook you might want. You can take language classes online and check out e-books through Overdrive or direct from the Amazon web site for Kindle. I’ve never managed to get their…

We had full size mechanical office typewriters with blank keys.

I took a “secretarial” typing class in high school 1967-68. So we learned all kinds of extra stuff like how to fold a letter correctly, how to work with carbon paper and how to use eraser shields. I was typing about 65wpm at the end of the class.

And “The man who never was,” a dead body landed in Spain with a case full of phony documents to convince the Germans the landing would be in Sardinia.