trivia

Just a quickie before I spend the day preparing a tax report for my accountant to make sense of my past year.  I am innumerate. It doesn't make me happy.  Anyway....It isn’t even a thought for the day, it’s a mere and minor irritant. 

Why do they keep making larger rolls of toilet paper? They’re bulky and difficult to carry, even if you have a car, which I no longer do, so I must rely on grocery delivery.  But some older bathrooms, like mine, have built-in porcelain niches to hold the toilet paper roll and they were designed to hold a standard size roll, whatever standard is.  Double size was hard enough: you had to slip the paper along carefully so as not to tear off a length too soon.  But last night I saw a TV commercial proclaiming the convenience of a new triple-sized roll, saving you three times the effort of replacing it.  Really?  Where am I going to put it?

New and improved!  I wish they would stop doing that. Look what happened to Coca Cola.

yesterday

Another lurking deadline blindsided me yesterday (well, the day before) and I spent so much effort on it and, ultimately, emotion, that I was a lump for the remainder of the day and passed blog-time well before bed-time.  My fault.

I had put off a reply to a biography project for playwrights for far too long, always too busy to go into the detail required to fill in the gaps in the information required for the completion of a program documenting the details of the plays of Canadian playwrights.  I was away I was busy I was lazy I was daunted, to tell the truth, not so much by the details the memories I would encounter as by the feelings that would overtake me.  Yes, indeed.

Overtaken by nostalgia and total recall and a combination of pride and ruefulness, I filled in the gaps, to be sure, but as I looked back I marveled at the energy and optimism I generated.  How many times can you be pushed in the face and rise again with hope for the next time?  I guess more than I can count.  That’s when I started saying failure goes to my head. And I’m not even a complete failure.  But of course my reach exceeds my grasp.

Well, as someone once said, tomorrow is another day.