Just A Thought

 There was a time in the not too distant history of humanity that a person having feelings or delusions of being listened to by their phone would have been experiencing some kind of psychotic break.  Nowadays if a person was in denial that their phone listened to them to collect information about them and their conversations, this person would be the one whos’ thinking would not be considered to be consistent with reality.

 As human language evolves, grammar is going to have to evolve along with it.  How is that for simple.  #caniblamecaffeineformyproclamation

I’m attached to my iPhone emojis but the one dissatisfaction that I have with them is that there are lot more human emotions and corresponding expressions that aren’t depicted by any of the emojis.  You just have to pick one that maybe feels similar.  I think I have complained to my family members on a couple of occasions about there not being enough iPhone emotion emojis and they don’t think I am making any sense. 🤭 They are all like, “What are you talking about.  There are so many!”   #needtogetalife #iwillneveractmyage Maybe I should start a list of missing emojis. 😂

I’m so out of the loop with current television commercials.  Usually I want to avoid having to watch them like the plague, but it’s possible that a person could miss learning about new developments in technologies and so forth without ever watching any commercials.  I don’t win any awards for television viewing in my house.  I’m married to a grand champion, so I don’t stand any chance. 😂 And on the subject of commercials, the Freevee streaming channel subjects a person to a lot less of them than the Roku channel.   It’s funny to think about how things change over time.  The way things are, such as how people can view television, can see so many developments and changes.  With the world as it is today, I think that all sorts of things are going to keep changing faster than they ever have before in human history.  Technology wise, I sometimes think that we can’t be sure that the way certain things work today is the way that they will work tomorrow. On the subject of television, I cut th

 I never finished watching the series, “The Queens Gambit”.  Hmm, since I’m thinking about it, maybe I should if I turn on the television some night and I’m not sure what to watch.  Knowing myself though, I will have to start from the beginning again because it has been quite a while since I started watching it.  

 Si is a Spanish word that I know.  Sometimes I astound myself with my amazing knowledge of the language.  (I am being sarcastic.) 😜 Maybe someday I will actually make it my goal to take advantage of where I live and try to learn the language.  I’ve forgotten the younger me who wanted to learn Spanish. 

 Sometimes when I set out to write about something, I seemingly can’t ever finish the job.  Every time I think I have written what I wanted to write and said what I wanted to say, new thoughts about it come into my head.  It really seems as if I am guided and led in this respect.  Whether I can credit it all to the functioning of my own mind and brain or whether I have some ability to mentally receive input from outside of myself, I can’t for certain say.  Whatever the case may be, my ongoing barrage of new thoughts render my task incomplete over and over and over.   And now that I have thought about writing and revisions, I feel the need and have begun to go back to reread everything that I have written here and make improvements where I see that improvements can be made. 😯 This is another task and not the project that I was previously referring to.  

 Sometimes it is not only the present but the past also that requires human attention. 

 Self motivation is the only means by which I really operate well.

I asked Storyteller AI for suggestions of some magical movies to watch and these are the recommendations that I received.

 I remember years ago when “fill in the blank” walks into a bar jokes were popular. 😂 I like to ask Chat AI for jokes sometimes, but you have to ask for something specific or it will most likely default to its scarecrow, atom, or blushing tomato joke.  I asked for “an owl walks into a bar” joke and got more of a tale. I had to ask for “a mushroom walks into bar” joke also.  Okay, that was a ridiculous post but sometimes we can’t be all serious in life. 🥸

 A horror to many coffee lovers would be decaffeinated store brand instant coffee with added powdered non dairy creamer. 😂  I remember my maternal grandmother always wanted her Sanka coffee after meals and she was “quite satisfied” with it. She probably put saccharine in it also. 😜 I did make myself a cup of this coffee but I used Splenda and not saccharine. 😂 The coffee in the cup in this photo looks like a solar eclipse.  I once made a cup of coffee that had a perfect smiley face in it.  Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of it which is too bad because how often does coffee smile? 😁  I had a dog who loved coffee and she would drink it all up if somebody left a cup where she could reach it. 😂

 As human beings we often don’t appreciate all of our opportunities for learning until they have already passed us by.  It seems ironic that we require hindsight to be able to experience the right appreciation for things.  It seems that life is not designed with ease of experience in mind.  It is like we are all pioneers having to blaze our own trails for ourselves in order to better understand who we want to be, what we want to be capable of, where we want to go and how we should get there. Wow, that had a negative tone didn’t it?  Maybe a better attitude is that we can learn to appreciate and embrace all of life’s opportunities for learning.  Maybe we can learn to have eyes and ears and minds that can receive helpful messages in a more timely manner.

 It is usually not until a person becomes personally affected by something that they can learn and truly understand what the experiences and realities are like for others.  Unless maybe people are willing to really listen to others. 

I wish my phone camera could capture what I can now see with my solar eclipse glasses.  The sun looks like a thin crescent but nonetheless it still casts enough light here to make the daylight seem pretty close to normal.  Thirteen minutes to go until it reaches its’ peak at this location. The sun is a little crescent moon but even so, there is no lack of daylight.  You have to visit and an eclipse path of totality to witness the day become night.  In a path of totality it doesn’t get completely dark.  You can still see clouds and it looks just like the night sky if you live in a more city like area where there is artificial lighting outside during the night that keeps the sky a little illuminated.  Oops, I’ve been looking up without glasses.  We have had a lot of clouds but I managed to take some pictures through my solar glasses during the breaks from clouds and even when it was shining through the clouds.  I even managed to get a couple that came out well without the eclipse glasses

 “These are not savages.  These are intelligent men no different than ourselves.”  This would be a revelation of a 17th century man ahead of his time in his capacity to recognize the humanity and intelligence of those regarded as inferior others.  He would of course have needed to have had some kind of personal experience or connection with the Native Americans,  It is really unfortunate that such an idea was so lacking through so much of American history and is still not completely a thing of the past, to this very day, even if others aren’t regarded as wild savages. I just the other day watched another program about 17 century pre American life in colonial America.  I guess this is what has me thinking about 17th century minds.

 I have a real talent for putting down and then not being able to find pairs of glasses.  Right now my reading glasses have seemingly vanished. 😧 It’s a good thing that my eyes are stuck in my head or I would surely lose them in the dark! 😱 I found them on the floor in the morning and I never even heard them drop probably because I had headphones in my ears. 

Today is solar eclipse day.  We won’t be within the path of annularity, in my part of Texas, so we won’t see the ring of fire but we are pretty close, so we will experience a good partial eclipse.  I traveled to Colombia Missouri in 2017 to be in the eclipse path of totality, and I hope to travel to another part of Texas next April, to be in a total eclipse path of totality one more time.  🌕🌑 😄

  The mystery of tuna fish.  How is it that this fish that is sold in cans has the quality of being something other than fish?  You add some mayonnaise and celery and seasonings of one’s choice and presto, it’s not fish.  Or rather, I just don’t think I’m eating fish.  #tunaisdifferent

  I could never get myself to like canned grapefruit when I was younger.  Now I’m attached to it and always want to have a can on hand.  Even better is Del Monte Citrus Salad but that is a more rare find here.  I of course have to add a little sugar or Splenda. 😋