
Friday, December 23, 2016
As I Lay In Bed Last Night
I am sure you thought I was going to say that I heard Santa's reindeer and their hoofbeats on the roof. No, although I was indeed awakened at 2:30 AM. Suddenly my computer screen which had been dark on the sleep command burst into shining light and I stumbled over to it, and then it was dark again. I can't quite remember but in essence the Apple people had just decided to download the operating system. I only learned this later, after the fact. At that moment in the dark of the night I was in panic. The screen went dark, and I thought the machine was broken, my computer had died. Of course, I panicked, thinking of all the photos, frantically trying to reconceive the lectures notes for the Odyssey course I would be teaching in two weeks. Well, everything is okay. Now we have to celebrate Richard's thirty odd years of sobriety which we only do be smiling at each other all day. I can hardly stay awake. All this eating is adding the pounds. Dinner out again tonight! And tomorrow! And the next time! Then Christmas day and we can dig into the leftovers from the fantastic wedding anniversary dinner we treated ourselves to last night and only nibbled on. And then Boxing Day and we can defrost the stuffed peppers I made for dinner two nights ago. Those were some of thoughts and impressions that scattered through my hysterical brain as I looked on my Ipad for service centers for Macintosh products, all the while staring at the black screen which oddly enough had a little pointer still going. If I had known anything that would be an indicator like pulse in the human body, but I know nothing. Suddenly it was daylight and I guess I once more pressed the little unobtrusive button that turns the damn thing on, a futile gesture, but, lo, the computer came back to life. Well, breathe deeply, finish your lecture notes, get you photographer guru over to help remove all the photos and make more albums over at Walgreens. That is such a great service, and so short. It is ridiculous to keep these photos on the computer when you can have albums and sit on the sofa with chums and leaf through them. Now for a nap!
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