Good morning. 😴⏰☕
8 November 2026
I just finished doing maintenance on my email account by going through and deleting all the unsolicited messages from businesses, politicians, and various other organizations. I get hundreds every day, and I imagine you do too. Do those organizations really think we sit down and read every email they send? Who has time for that?
It's better than a pile of junk mail in the mailbox, but guess what? They still do that, too. So part of my day is spent feeding unopened solicitations into the shredder. Well ... I suppose I sometimes open them, but only because the envelope and its contents are too thick to fit through the shredder.
That's enough whining for the morning. It's not like I'd go back to the days before computers, cell phones, and the internet. Nor do I want to. Like all things, you have to take the bad with the good.
Back in the day, and I mean way, way back in the day, I wrote letters on paper with a pen or pencil and dropped them in a mailbox. I still have a few of those letters somewhere, written from Vietnam to my family back home. I have to admit they were awful. My handwriting looked more like chicken scratch than penmanship, and there is plenty of evidence that I couldn't spell at all.
Oh, how the world turns.
Don't get me wrong. My penmanship hasn't improved all that much, but my spelling has gotten exponentially better. I seldom write by hand anymore, and when I do, I use that cryptic cursive we relied on so heavily back then. These days, some younger people would probably need a translator to read it.
"I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world." — Mary Anne Radmacher
"Nothing is so constant as change." — Heraclitus
"Every man has two educations: that which he receives from others, and that more important one which he gives himself." — Edward Gibbon
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