Monthly Archives: February 2018

What do you do to lift your spirits when you hit rough patches? KB goes outdoors with Shyla, and sometimes R. February 18, 2018  

Yesterday’s comic about dogs and dropped food reminds me of a pup that warmed my heart. Wilf was a 11-year-old pup and was blind, diabetic, arthritic, and dying of cancer, but he kept soldiering on. Sometimes on a walk he … Continue reading →

This comic reminds me of sweet old Sammy. Sammy has lost his hearing, too, but he has Tempi to show him what is going on. In fact, Kaitlin and Torben got her so soon after Montana died because he was … Continue reading →

February 15, 2018  

A friend of mine was criticized for her “endless LOLs” and considered breaking herself of the habit. Fortunately she reconsidered. So what does LOL mean? How is it used? According to Wikipedia, it was first used as an initialization for … Continue reading →

I automatically back up my computer using Apple Time Capsule, but a couple of times the backup became corrupted and I lost everything and had to start from scratch. So from time to time I back up to other external … Continue reading →

Once again, DPLDT. February 12, 2018  

It’s been mostly sunny and dry here the past few months, so I keep forgetting that it’s supposed to be winter. That’s not the case with Kaitlin, Torben and the pups. Kaitlin wrote that it has been a hard two … Continue reading →

So, my last post was a bit about gloom and doom, but Steven Pinker in his essay The Enlightenment Is Working disagrees with it and with anyone who says the world is getting worse. He says, Such gloominess is decidedly … Continue reading →

I’ve been watching (The Great Courses DVDs Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean and Ancient Civilizations Before Alexander) and listening to/reading Charles Freeman’s Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean to help put our … Continue reading →