This blog.
I have thought about a generic blog of things I think up for
a while now.
The biggest holdup, the largest blockade for me is that I
come up with my best ideas while driving in a car alone. Yes, I do have a micro-recorder someplace
–God only knows where it is, because I have a black hole in my dwelling. Whether I live in a house or an apartment or
even out of a suitcase… things have a way of disappearing without really being
gone. I mean I find everything
eventually.
I do not generally lose articles of clothing, especially
socks or gloves. I have pairs of gloves
mated up that I have owned for literally decades! But here’s another story: When I lived in McHenry, Illinois I had
occasion to make a pair of gloves fingerless –that is to say I purchased a nice
pair of knit gloves for the express purpose of cutting the ends off of the
fingers to keep my hands warm at my data entry job. (That building was cold
inside in the winter-time!) Later I just
stuck those gloves in my home office on a shelf. A few years later, that room was re-purposed
and there was only one glove. I have no
idea how the two gloves got separated-not a clue! Well, we moved to a new house in Crystal
Lake, Illinois, where I lived for 9.7 years, never mated up those two gloves,
and only ever saw one of them at a time.
At the end of that 9.7 years I moved into an apartment in Rockford,
Illinois and what do you know? About 2
years after moving into the apartment I finally got that pair of gloves back
together again! And they are folded
together one over the other in an attempt to keep them together for future use.
The gloves aside I am a very clever magician, but only when
it comes to making things disappear!
There is a long list of missing items at my house. The latest addition to that list is the AC
charger cord and also the car charger cord for my personal cell phone. I am so very clever that I hid those two
items, and hid them so well that I have not been able to find them at all. In fact, I suspect that I turned them in at
work with other ‘obsolete’ phone chargers and cord. Regardless of where the phone charges are now
I had to purchase a new cell phone, because the one with the missing cords was
so old that I cannot replace those charger cords –they no longer make those
type of connectors on newer phones. And
apparently I was only a few weeks too late in trying to make such a
purchase. Because I am so very clever at
hiding things that no one would want to steal in the first place!
But I love my black hole. I love it because so often what
gets sucked down that black hole magically reappears at some later date….. or
is that a wormhole?
