Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Sore thumbs, etc.

 

 

The afternoons suddenly start to drag when we go off daylight savings time. I'll look up and think how can it be only 2 o'clock? 

I been working on this piece of embroidery forever. Really more tedious than fun, but relaxing to focus the eyes on something other than a screen. 

Not to mention, good for the hands. I thought "texting thumb" came from writing messages with your thumbs (I peck everything out with my index finger) but actually it's a pain at the base of the left thumb caused by clenching the phone for hours on end. Pitiful thing to admit. 

How did we amuse ourselves before we had phones and computers? 

Cleaning out bookshelves, I found this battered old Norton Anthology of English Literature, saved from my English major undergraduate days in the early 70's. 

Speaking of patience, not to mention visual acuity, the tissue thin pages are covered with my intense pencil notes. 

Does anyone even read Chaucer anymore? I would be hard pressed to still decipher it. But I'm grateful for that cheap and excellent liberal arts education at San Diego State. Young people want more practical degrees now, understandably, when you consider the financial investment. 

  

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