More complaints, this time about prepositions, mainly. I have a question (two, actually): when and where did these awful blunders begin? Take "the both of you". That's horrible. A simple "both of you" will do. Apart from being unnnecessary and illogical, "the both of you" sounds ugly and awkward. The same goes for "of" as in "it's not that big of a deal." Just say "It's not that big a deal." How hard is that?

I'm tired of it, tired of listening to gratuitous mistakes made like these where there is no reasonable, viable, necessary alternative. Being bored is different from being tired. It also takes a different preposition Why do people say "bored of"? Because they're thinking "tired of". But one is bored with something, not of something. Bored of sounds uncouth.

While I'm at it, and this has nothing to do with prepositions but a lot to do with being uncouth, unlettered, untrained, insensitive and annoying, stop saying "anyways".

Anyway, that's my thought for the day.

My random thoughts read like blogs now, that is, if I wrote them down. Instead, they bounce around my head until I catch one and nail it. I added an app called EVERNOTE to my store of activities on the computer to try to master and use. I'm so accustomed to paper it's difficult.

I was given a page-a-day calendar rather late, on my birthday. So I had almost 2 months' worth of pages to read and tear off and there was a pile of little note papers, 4 inches by 4 inches, BLANK on one side. That's like waving a red flag at a bull. Of course, I have to use that paper and of course I can't throw it out until I do. I was reading another book, still going on with research and plumbing my depths for the book I am writing, so I put the pile beside the book and gradually filled every page with little thoughts and reminders and noodges and lists of groceries to buy and people to write and I'm adding a page a day, remember, so it goes on and on. Now I have put the ideas in Evernote and thrown out the little papers, but what happens when I print out the ideas? More paper. I don't know if I'm doing this right.

I'm going to think about it.