GUEST POST from Don: Kid Tech +

SAFER TECH (and cheap) FOR KIDS What mobile tech do you want your 9 or 12 year old girl (or boy) to have? Up until a couple years ago the choices were limited, expensive, and BAD. There were no inexpensive or GOOD choices. Your options were between an Apple or Android phone. Yes, you could …
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GUEST POST from Don – Golden Silence +

GOLDEN SILENCE + How would you like to eat a meal at a restaurant in peace?  No music blaring, no game on the TVs, no server asking questions “How was your meal?”  If you need something you punch it into a console … “Coffee refill.”  People are paying extra for nothing extra. Restaurants aren’t the only places providing …
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GUEST POST from Don: Wind Chimes, part III

PART III:  WIND CHIMES (the positive side). As reported in Part I, as I age I have found that some things irritate this curmudgeon which didn’t when I was younger.  We talked about wind-chimes, crowds, and weights & measures.  In Part II we mentioned waiting, screaming children, wokism, local government irresponsibility, and political parties. “And Now for Something …
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GUEST POST from Don: OOPS! That’s How I Write

OOPS!  That’s How I Write I never took a writing course, … obviously.  I overuse and misuse CAPITALS and (parentheticals).  That is partly because I am too cheap to use “Word.”  Copy and paste is not the best way to send documents…and therefore I can’t include BOLD or UNDERLINE.   Sad to say I rarely have an agenda when writing.  If …
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