No Ass Kissing in the Afterlife

Just before Louise and I arrived at Tim Horton’s this morning for a coffee, there was a news report that I knew would be the perfect thing to write about for the blog. The news was interesting with just the right amount of quirkiness to suit me. I was looking forward to writing about it. I could have jotted down a note about it, but it was so perfect, there was no way I could have forgotten about it.

I forgot!

I’ve been through several newspapers and listened to the radio in the hopes that I would hear it again. Normally, I hear the same news so often; I can and do recite it word for word. Well, except for today. No luck and no idea for the blog. Well…SHIT!!!

I know I don’t have one of those minds that can visualize the chess board seven moves into the future. I don’t have a mind that can plan the perfect invasion, so I am no good at the game of Life. I don’t have the kind of mind that is able to weigh all of the factors in a problem and make the right decision. I am easily distracted by electronic, shiny things. I suppose that I have an average or below average brain.

Even with a below average brain, I should be able to remember one thing that I am actually interested in, shouldn’t I?

I’ve tried to carry a small pad around with me in order to make a note of interesting things and occurrences during the day, but often I will forget to bring it with me. Even when I have the pad, there is no sense in jotting down a reminder, because how could I possibly forget something this cool?

I wonder if when I am reborn, I might request a body with a brain that can remember things. Not everything, that would be greedy, but to remember the important things would be nice. I wonder whose ass I need to kiss to get the right brain in my next life. No, don’t tell me, because dollars to donuts I’ll forget the name before I die. Just before I die! I’ll be there looking at all of the souls in the afterlife and I won’t have a clue who I should talk to.

With any luck, the souls in charge of the Akashic record are reading this and they will be able to remind me whose ass I was supposed to kiss. Mind you, if they already know that I plan to kiss their ass, more than likely it will be a waste of time.

No ass kissing in the after life for me I suppose.

Computer Magic

I am having something of a frustrating day. You might be saying to yourself “Why would I care what kind of day this dweeb is having?” and you would more or less be right. In fact, I am oscillating between caring and throwing my hands in the air and saying “Screw this!” The only reason I don’t, is that sometimes if you keep worrying a problem, the solution magically appears. Yes, I am hoping for magic to happen.

 

I am one of those people that believe magic actually exists and has an effect on the world around us. So far, I don’t think any magic has changed or altered my life, but I continue to be optimistic. What is an optimist? If you take a pessimist and remove good sense and reason, then you have an optimist. That sounds just about right.

I am the kind of person that continues to believe that our elected representatives actually want to build a better place for us to live. That’s not based on empirical fact, but hopes and dreams. They are people too. I’m the kind of person that thinks everyone is more or less like I am and that they want to treat people with respect and fairness and expect to be treated fairly and with respect in return. I am the kind of person that has bought lottery tickets every week for the past 35 to 40 years, and I believe that I just might win every time I buy a ticket.

The “C” drive on my computer has almost reached capacity. I could do a couple of things to relieve this problem; I could buy a new, bigger, shinier computer and just transfer the files over. I could delete a good portion of the files that are on there or move them to my “E” drive. That is becoming more and more problematic, since I have done that time and time again. The option that I am going to do is to clone the hard drive onto one that is double the size, and then I will just swap the new drive into the machine and store the old one for a back up copy.

 

Well, that’s the plan and I believe that I can do it. I bought an external enclosure for the hard drive that I already have and once everything is set up, it should work. It should have worked, but for some reason my computer won’t recognize the new drive. I have spent about an hour already, but so far no luck. I think the problem is that the new drive isn’t formatted, but that is just a guess. I may have to install the new drive in my computer to format it, and that may or may not work. I believe that in the next day or two I will have a larger “C” drive and a perfect backup sitting in the computer closet.

Yes, I am hoping for magic to happen, but in the meantime I expect to stay frustrated.