David S. Atkinson's Blog, page 44

Editing

I was just remembering when I did a little editing work one time.

I used to live in West Seattle in the mid nineties. There was a bus I rode that went down the hill through the woods down to a quieter residential beach area.  Just as the bus turned down into the woods, there was an old, moss-covered wall with a lot of graffiti on it. One quip that kept standing out to me every time I went by was the stupid and pompous statement:

MORPHEUS WILL HURT YOU BAD!

This bugged me. After many trips past seeing this annoying message, a friend and I finally walked all the way up there at night to do a little editing work. Afterward, it read:

MORPHEUS, WILL HURT YOU BAD!

I Just Got Lucky

As I was starting to type this, I just got lucky. Behind me, I heard noises indicating that my cat was preparing to vomit. I turned around fast enough to startle him, and he took off a few feet before actually vomiting. This time that was good, because he had been on carpet and ran onto tile.

Way easier to clean up.

There’s no way to know though. Sometimes you hear that noise and end up starting the cat from something easy to clean onto something hard. I’ve definitely started the cat off a bare glass coffee table onto carpet.

This time it worked out though. This time I got lucky. With cats, each time is a gamble…only the best you hope for is easy to clean up vomit.

Fun prize.

I Am Technologically Lazy These Days

I am technologically lazy these days. I used to mess with computers. Now I just deal with one when I’m writing or on social media, or working.

I have a MacBook at home and like to use a real mouse and keyboard. I had USB for a while, but that was annoying when taking the laptop places so I got Bluetooth ones. That was fine for a while, but the mouse stopped working. It still gets recognized from the computer and still claims to connect, but it doesn’t do anything. Even restarting, turning Bluetooth on and off, whatever. The keyboard is still fine. So far I’ve just left the mouse sitting there and have started using the track pad on the MacBook.

I don’t even care anymore.

Take Off Every Zig! For Great Justice!

It’s funny, I get more entertainment out of reading some of the butchered content people try to include in comments on here than I do actually reading other people’s blogs. Maybe just because I have to read more of it. This is way better than all the pharmaceutical/pornography junk:

Hey, people helpful to jot down wonderful, however carry on quite a few content pieces are generally somewhat boring… I skip your good documents. Prior a few articles are only a amount outside observe!

come on!

That’s right…skip my good documents.

Annnnddddddd I Looked At How Much Money I Had Once I Paid Bills…

Annnnnndddddd I looked at how much money I had once I paid bills…

Book Plug!

Book Plug!

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I’ve Started Being Offered Badges On Facebook

Facebook has started offering me badges for being a top fan on certain pages. Just The Onion and Dave so far, I don’t follow many pages with enough fans that they can turn on badges. Regardless:

I Actually Went Camping Recently

I actually went camping recently. I even survived. This is quite the miracle. I haven’t been camping at all since some time in 2003-2005, and that was just sleeping one night in a tent just outside of town. I hadn’t been even halfway camping for real since 1990, and really real since 1985 or so. This was quite the deal, and a great deal of fun…mainly thanks to the help of friends who actually knew what they were doing. It was a blast.

Chef Boyardee Gif Week Day Finale

Chef Boyardee gif week day finale.

Chef Boyardee Gif Week Day Six

Chef Boyardee gif week day six.