More predictions:

For women: Fuzzy light-weight sneakers that come with their own fuzz brush

For men: Suspenders will be returning but will match the color of the shirt with no patterns: ex: white shirt white suspenders

DVD/CD swap parties: I see women doing this more than men

Slow dancing: ergo a shift in the music industry's choices for new music

Decorating with books: Pulling out the red and green dust jacketed books and displaying them in imaginative ways for Christmas; Kelly Green dust jackets for St Pat's etc.


Okay enough with the predictions.

I forgot to pump up the heat so it is mighty frosty up here by the computer. Fingers don't type as well in the cold...can you use the word type or must I say: Fingers don't key as well in the cold? And, if you type on a typewriter do you key on a keyboard?

I am not crazy about wireless mouses and keyboards. Great to spell mouses and have it not be incorrect...I think. I am constantly nervous that at any moment PSSSSTTT it will shut down. I did get used to the flat screen and I've adapted. At first I felt like it was tilted in a way that it would fall on me. My favorite computer of all time (and it didn't break -- it just couldn't handle modern day internet) was my old Mac SE.

The little screen was so comforting..like a pet, and it was never ever not working. Currently I have a sound problem with this Dell (2 years old) and last month I spent $250 to get a video card so I'm pretty sure the video card installation had something to do with the low to no sound problems.

There was a miracle of Christmas though. Christmas morning I scurried up here to check mail and lo and behold, there was sound! I looked over to the battery-operated digital clock which hadn't worked in a few months, and voila, it was working too.

Sound died in about a week but I have hope that it will return again some day. The clock keeps on ticking or digitaling?

I believe that mechanical things have souls, ears and hearts. Why else would my old car start for me but not for my husband?

I mentioned the books before. It is really getting to me that so many of them are still in boxes. How can they breathe? I miss them even though I have complained about how many we have and how we hardly ever go back and look at them again. Now that they are in the box I know that isn't true. Sure, old text books aren't being looked at but many others are sought after and I cannot tackle the pile of boxes up here and unpack them all to find the ones I'm looking for. Simple books I depend upon like my Peterson Bird Book.

Must pump up the heat because my fingers are getting stiffer by the moment. Ta ta