Tomorrow is Wednesday.
Wednesday is my day in the office.
Therefore tomorrow is my day in the office.
I don’t wanna go. I wanna work from home. I don’t wanna commute. I don’t want the sun to go down an hour before I have to drive home.
I know I’m whining like a spoiled little brat but I don’t care. I’m sleepy and I don’t wanna drive 40 miles to work in the morning.
That’s just the way it is, folks.
Today’s haiku for you is brought to you by internet security. It is not in reference to anything specific though. Just a thought on the state of the universe today.
Cyber attacks are,
such a serious dick move.
Stop being a dick.
What will your life be like in three years
Daily Writing Prompt
Yup… the app and the browser are different prompts again. The tags are different too. The browser’s prompt looks like it will show up on the app a couple of days from now. Nice effin’ bug, jerks.
Today’s tag is dailyprompt-2112… 2112… as in Rush… so this, despite being a dumb question, is my favorite daily writing prompt ever.
So what will my life be like in three years? Hopefully it will be pretty similar to my life today, as my life is pretty good right now. Optimistically, maybe the kids will be living a little closer to us than they do now, but it’s more likely that they will be further away. That will be bad, except that it will probably mean that Jen and I will travel more often so that would be the silver lining.
I will be 55 years old. The chances of me still having red hair will be pretty slim. However, I have been saying that about each new year ever since I turned 40 and somehow the red hair is still there. There’s more white mixed in than there was before, but it’s still mostly red. I think that’s pretty neat. I like being a red head. I hated it when I was a kid, but I love it now. I will be sad when the red head days are over, but it is inevitable and I will definitely be okay with it.
Three years from now I am guessing the band formerly known as Lizardfish will still be looking for a new singer. I will hopefully still be in guitar love with my 1978 Les Paul, and maybe by then I will have had my 1979 ES-335 fixed up too. That would be nice. Maybe by then I will have finished The Great 2015 Re-Recording Project as well. Probably not though.
Have you guessed that I am not taking this question all that seriously? I don’t know where I will be in three years. I just know I will still be with Jen and that’s all I really care about.
Look at how lazy they are. I’m jealous.
When I bring up the Jetpack/Wordpress app on my iPhone the daily writing prompt looks like this:
When I bring up wordpress.com in a browser on my laptop the daily writing prompt looks like this:
Really guys? You let two different prompts out on the same day? Is this a bug or just really shitty implementation? Add this to the prompt not pulling into the posts on their own anymore, and you have me really not wanting to play this stupid fucking game anymore.
So which question do I answer? Who cares, right? Why even bother?
Aw, hell. Right then. How do I manage screen time for myself. I don’t. I work at a computer for 8+ hours a day and I am an adult. I don’t need to manage my screen time. I am not a child. I can do what I want.
Invent a holiday. I’ll give you one. It just happens to coincide with my birthday, but it’s not related to my birthday. May 8th. That’s the date that Germany surrendered to end the European portion of World War II. We can create a holiday out of that and call it Fascism is Evil Day or something like that. How about Death to Fascism as a Political Ideology Day. We can all celebrate by not being fascists. We can all celebrate by reading of the evils and horrors caused by fascism. We can all celebrate by throwing rocks at fascists, fascist collaborators, and fascist sympathizers. It would absolutely be my favorite holiday of the year.
There. I answered both daily writing prompts because Jetpack or WordPress.com or whoever is responsible for it fucked it all up and put out two prompts.
Fix the fucking bugs, please. Pretty please.
I’m in Thanksgiving holiday planning mode today. Can I turn it into a haiku for you?
Holiday planning,
Managing all those schedules*.
What are we doing?
*Okay, does schedule have two syllables or three? I asked Jen and she didn’t know either. I then asked Google and the answer is apparently both.
‘Schedule’ can be three syllables or two syllables. The first syllable is stressed: sche-, sche-. So it can either be ‘schedule’ (sche-du-le) or simply ‘schedule’ (sche-dule).
https://rachelsenglish.com/pronounce-schedule/#:~:text=’Schedule’%20can%20be%20three%20syllables,’%20(sche-dule).
In this haiku it is two syllables. If you can’t wrap your brain around that and need it to be three, then replace the second line with, “Manage all those schedules.” That will work for the haiku rules.
What are your favorite websites?
Daily writing prompt
Do people still think in terms of favorite websites? Wouldn’t you say they are more like commonly used tools now rather than favorites? Back in the early days I might have thought in favorite terms, but I don’t think I do anymore.
I can give you a list of commonly used sites. These are the tabs that I keep open on my browser on my personal machine:
Really, I could do without all of those except Gmail, WordPress, and the food spreadsheet. The rest are not really that important.
Honorable mentions? There could be a few. The For You page on Google News gets a lot of use. So does US College Hockey Online, the NHL, MLB, and ESPN sites. Of course the one page that gets used more than almost all others is Google. Anything that comes up gets a Google search. Wikipedia is probably second on the list, but it’s a distant second.
I guess the answer to the question what are my favorite websites though would be… none, I think.
A Saturday evening haiku for you…
Date night with my wife.
The Deathly Hallows Part One.
Movies on the couch.
Oh my poor little baby Les Paul Custom. I hate leaving it behind, but it’s time.
Inside the Red Head's Head 