It's been a while

Seems to me I've said this before.

More than a year since last I was here.  Poor performance on my part, part of it I'll blame on age (after all, I am 73 now headed for 74) and part on age (stuff is falling out of my head every time I tilt my head a little to one side).

I still go to work - various excesses and stupidities perpetrated in my youth have assured that, unless I want to take a lifestyle hut clear back to subsistence level I will continue to work for some time yet.

It's long past time for a rant on many things, but I may not do that today - I have to get back into writing more regularly - if I hold onto all these things my psyche gets clogged and I can become unreasonable, harsh and not too nice, and I prefer not to be that way.

I think people around me like me better when I'm not that way.

I think for now I will have to stay away from politics.  People who know me know what I think about many things, and people who don't know me probably don't care all that much.

I have a Kindle app on my cell phones (yes, I do have two - one belongs to me and one to my employer) and am rediscovering the amount of Good Stuff out there to read, to the detriment of my sleep many evenings.    There is a truly amazing quantity of stuff out there that is available to read, fictional and not and there are several online resources that mine various sources of publications (bookbub.com being but one) that will point you at free or bargain-priced e-books - and Amazon has a setup that lets you read as many as ten books at a time for a mere $10 per month - for folks who read fast, it is an incredible bargain - and it will keep you from buying a book that turns out to be a waste of time

The other great aspect of a Kindle is that it will also read PDF files.  Most of my professional library is available on PDFs, so I can carry a whole room full of books on a little SD chip that lives permanently in my phone and holds lots of the music I like as well.

In addition, there's a Kindle app on my tablets and laptops, so if I am reading something at work I can pick it up where I left off when I get home even though I am using a different device, operating system, and application framework.  Doesn't matter where I am, it knows where I was when I put it down.  Almost smarter than I am, it is.

Since I use Gmail (and Blogger) I have delved more int what Google does with Chrome, and I stand amazed. Last time I bought a phone, all I had to do was tell it about my Gmail account, and it went out and found all my contacts, phone numbers, calendars and other goodies and set up my phone for me as if there was no break in usage. It remembers so I can forget, and will even start up my browser with the same tabs I had wherever I was when I used it last.

Seems to me application writers are finally getting some of it right!

On other topics, I wonder why everyone's so busy calling everyone else Racists or similar names because of something that doesn't hatter?

When a questionnaire contains a category of RACE, my answer is always HUMAN, even if I have to check the OTHER box and write it in.

You might wonder why, but it is really very simple - body parts and blood interchange regardless of skin tone.  How different can we be if my pancreas works in your body?

I'm telling you folks, everything else is invented nonsense, created specifically for someone in fear of his own status to feel superior to someone else when nothing else can be found that makes a difference.

Now, I'm gonna set my soapbox on fire and go to work a while.