I finally sat down to finish up my posts about my trips West this
past summer. Well, as most of you know, I'm quite behind on writing any
posts and reading those of other bloggers. My apologies to those of you
that I seem to have neglected. I still love all of you. And, no, I have
not given up blogging for Facebook. I've just become lethargic and
reluctant to break out the laptop in order to get posts written. Using
the iPhone is much easier--sometimes. There are glitches in the Blogger
app that annoy me. It probably works fine. I am most likely the cause of
the glitches. However, most of the photos that I care to post are on my
phone and it is much less trouble for me to use the phone, despite the
fact that I have to use a tiny keyboard, to write the posts than trying
to go back and forth between the phone and the laptop. And the laptop
has an annoying feature of having an super sensitive mouse thingy area,
so that whenever my thumb(s) hover even slightly too close to the
surface, the silly cursor jumps all over the screen and ends up anywhere
other than where it needs to be. I don't catch this until I have typed a
few letters and realize that they are not in the line in which I am
typing. Then I have to find and fix the intrusive letters that have just
been inserted into previous lines. How annoying! I do not need this, so
I usually use my phone for whatever computer chores need doing or
whatever Internet entertainment I choose to pursue. So...
So.
I began by doing a little catching up on the blogs of some of my
Blogiverse friends. That took more time than I intended, so now it is
later than I care to be up hunched over the laptop. Yes, I'm on the
laptop. It is much more comfortable to sit or lie down and use the
iPhone in order to do these things. I have grown truly lazy. Even
better, the cat can also curl up beside me instead of trying to squeeze
her way into my lap between me and the laptop keyboard. So...
As
I pondered the time it took and what I originally intended to do when I
broke out the laptop, the words "I meant to do my work today" popped
into my head and I thought of a poem that I had to learn in elementary
school. Probably in Mizz Corinne's fourth grade. I could remember about
the first three lines, so I looked it up. It is
so the story of why I never get anything done. It is in the public domain, so (yes, that word again), here it is:
I Meant to Do My Work Today
by Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947)
I meant to do my work today--
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,
And a butterfly flitted across the field,
And all the leaves were calling me.
And the wind went sighing over the land,
Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And a rainbow held out its shining hand--
So what could do but laugh and go?
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| My place is in your lap. You will put the computer down. |
