This is a Test

Okay, this is my new program for word processing, it is called WPS Office and according to the website it does most of the functions that Microsoft Office does except this one is free. Louise has Office and for about a year or so I just tagged along as an add on to her program but last night it wouldn’t let me tag on any longer unless we paid another $3 per month. Not a lot, but free is less. I didn’t do too well in Math during my school years, but I did learn that zero is lower than three.

Of course time will tell if this program is any good or if I will indeed need to pony up that three bucks every month. The info on this program did say that there were some unobtrusive ads that pop up from time to time, but so far there has been nothing. Maybe I will be able to type and save my documents only to find out that I need to pay to get them back. Kind of a digital protection racket as it were.

I kind of miss the days when I could just take the cover off of the typewriter, slip in a clean, fresh, white sheet of paper and proceed to type. Granted that the page looked pretty bad by the time I finished typing because I could never get through a whole page without any mistakes and back in the day there was no back space and delete to retype the word. Of course there wasn’t any auto correct function either. I would have freaked out if all of a sudden the typewriter erased and typed what it thought that I meant by “fucked up”.

I did think at one time that I would write all of my blogs by hand and then post a photo of the handwritten pages on the blog space. That fell apart because my handwriting is less than legible and I have never written a full page without numerous mistakes. Often I add an extra stroke onto an “a” making it a “d”. I cross out the extra stroke, but that just looks terrible. I also love fountain pens but they don’t always love me and will blot and blotch randomly on the page and there seems to be no way that I can control it.

I just wrote this to test if the WPS Office program will indeed work for my blog which is really the only writing that I do. If you are reading this then it worked or I gave up and spent the cash to be added onto Louise’s Microsoft Office program.

IN A PIGS EAR!!!

Bread and Circuses

I haven’t written very much lately because like the rest of the world I don’t know what is happening. Oh, I know what is happening I just am having a little trouble processing it. I don’t understand how so many people feel that the governments all over the world are for some reason over reacting to the threat. I guess that a certain percentage of deaths is acceptable.  

The way that I look at it is that humans, especially the humans that are rich and powerful like being rich and powerful and will do anything to keep rich and powerful. None of them would willingly part with a penny let alone shut down their businesses unless there is a very serious threat to their bank account. They cancelled hockey in Canada for God’s sake! If that doesn’t indicate the seriousness of the pandemic then nothing will.

  

Wash your hands and keep working from home if you can and if you can’t then from this day forward you will be considered heroes. Some of us have always known that the common, every day workers are the ones that carry our society forward, not the pampered babies that think they run the world who are cowering in their gilded cages. Enough!

I just finished baking a couple of loaves of bread. I like this recipe because it makes okay bread. It is good for sandwiches and toasting. Some breads that I have made taste much better than this, but I have no will power and can’t keep from eating the “good” loaves quickly. I have been striving for bread that is good but not too good. 

  

Since the beginning of the pandemic I have been watching a lot of youtube videos and found a very good sandwich bread recipe. It makes just one loaf and is very much like store bought Wonder bread. Very good for sandwiches but not as good for my morning toast. You can’t have everything I suppose. Anyway, I have been rotating the different breads and every now and then I toss in a really good artisan type bread. That never lasts too long in the pantry. I wish it would disappear as quickly from my waistline.

Last week I found a pita bread recipe so I thought “What the hell?” 

I’ll tell you that there is nothing like watching the pita puff up like a ball in the oven and when it comes out (in minutes) it is melt in your mouth. Well, not your mouth because the chance of you getting any is slim to none. This recipe will go into the rotation with the other breads. 

If nothing else comes from this strange time we live in then I have at least found a couple of bread recipes I can stuff in my mouth while I am social distancing. I’ve been social distancing ever since I retired so the world isn’t that much different for me other than no more trips to Tim Horton’s for a daily coffee and there was no Roll Up The Rim this year.  

We all make sacrifices...