Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 10, 2024

To each his (or her) own! 8^ )

I think that was last Thursday and you thought it was great.

I gave up calendars when I retired.

I thought that was a week ago last Monday.

Let’s at least hope your underwear has changed, Arlo…

Actually, at least for me, it was last Monday.

too early in the morning or need a couple more cups of coffee

Very early last Monday morning. But I was asleep for both the “new year” and the “old year” festivities.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Alphonse Karr – 1849

How about some Luddie for us cat lovers?

We are such momentary creatures. The universe, everything in it, including us, are changing. I wonder whether we ignore it, or just deny all the change. I’m 76, I think of myself as unchanged, knowing full well I’m no longer 26, but feel a connection to myself of years gone by. The pine trees outside my window look the same as they did ten years ago, but inside they’ve added ten new rings of wood, dropped and added millions of needles, added and lost numerous limbs and branches, yet they are themselves.

Come on JJ….stop the boring stuff………..

I use mine for doctor visits and to plan traveling trips, got things book out to August

clever

Anyone older than 25 realizes that nothing changes just because the calendar has a new month on it.

Knowing the day helps us avoid weekend crowds at the grocery store. Any appointments we have are entered into our phone alarm app. The general calendar app is reserved for birthdays and anniversaries.

Waaaaay back in the days of writing checks (you know, those archaic pieces of paper that are now used only by super-slow old ladies in scooters that hold up everybody in line at the grocery store), it was the day when you’d forget about the new year, stop being careful and start accidentally writing the previous year on your checks.

Sad times :-(

Pardon my asking but why “last Wednesday”?

Last week, when they were also having their morning coffee at the table together, and the theme was the new year, Janis was glowing with delight, and you could surmise she was not wearing much, if anything, under her robe.

Hey, at least he gave it a week before giving up!

Husband quit his job about 15 – 20 years ago. He was exec director of a children’s mental health program and school. If State Ed came in and told him that the agency had to do “X” and the agency spent the money and setup to do so – State Mental Health would come in and say "What are you doing?! You are not allowed to do “X”. And vice versa. He would come home and sit at the kitchen table with his hands in front of him & stare at the TV – not actually watching. At my suggestion he quit his job. I became our primary income plus we were going to build up our craft business for more income – latter never happened (though we do still make and sell items) and my accounting practice was a dying one – literally – down to 3 tax clients and one business client now. But we get by.

Despite being early adapters of computers – I first learned programing FORTRAN on a main frame in high school and we both learned programing BASIC in college using remote entry around the campus into the main frame computer. He had an Atari 800, followed by a Commodore 128 (both still upstairs in the spare bedroom) and then a 286 – and so on from there to our having multiple desktop and laptop computers. How wonderful, one could buy software and not have to write one’s own.

One thing we both learned early – there is no such as a secure Internet connection & we always remember that. There are only a few rare items purchased online/using a credit card and we have a special credit card set aside for same (as well as phone or mail order).

I pay almost all bills by check & mail. There are three repeating monthly bills which are charged to the above card. I pay all other bills by check and mail the payments by USPS. One thing we each learned in our early years of computer use which still holds – there is NO SUCH THING AS A SECURE CONNECTION. (I know someone who did programming for local bridges – he still has a backdoor in – and he is honest, I hate to think of others who are not.