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Writings in the Sand

by Ned

Rated: 13+ · Book · Entertainment · #2199980

Thoughts destined to be washed away by the tides of life.

I've been studying my cover photo for a while now, and it seems to me that it is more than just a photo of what is there that can be seen, more than just three white rocks stacked on a beach. It contains an important question about the future, about what happens long after the photographer has gone. What will happen to our pile of stones when the tide comes in? Will it topple or has the architect built this structure at a safe distance?

I don't know what will happen to these words that I stack here on the sand. They may prove safely distant, or they may be swallowed up by a rush of self-doubt. They may be here for a season. They may lose their balance and be scattered by the shoreline, or be hidden away under shifting sands. Perhaps someday, the tides of life will reclaim them.

Or maybe that's just a bunch of poetic, romantic nonsense. After all, this is just a blog.

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Ned

about 19 hours ago
In response to "Typing in the Sand"

Disgruntled Cheapskate

I usually swap my computer for whatever slightly used one someone gives me when they buy a new one. I use the swipe keyboard on my phone. Just because I am all thumbs doesn't mean they know how to type. I learned typing at school on typewriters so my fingers can't adapt to any new-fangled ways.

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Disgruntled Cheapskate

Mar 30, 2025 at 7:51am
In response to "Typing in the Sand"

Makes sense. I cut my technological teeth on smartphones, so I’m used to finger typing on screens and can dispense with mice entirely. Perhaps you should swap your traditional laptop for a hybrid one with a multipurpose touchscreen and optional keyboard. My iPad has a Bluetooth keyboard with no mouse in sight.

Ned

Mar 26, 2025 at 2:20pm
In response to "Hobbies of My Dotage Part One"

Disgruntled Cheapskate

I mostly watch YouTube and free streaming services. Lots of classic TV and movies on YouTube.

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Disgruntled Cheapskate

Mar 25, 2025 at 8:10am
In response to "Hobbies of My Dotage Part One"

I don't watch TV, but I do have a tendency to fall asleep while Mom's watching YouTube videos. There's something vaguely comforting about sleeping through voices, though I would never have thought of it that way when I was younger!

Nixie 🦊

Mar 24, 2025 at 12:46pm
In response to "Where'd Spring Go?"

Ned

Spring is no fun for you.

Ned

Mar 24, 2025 at 7:11am
In response to "Where'd Spring Go?"

Tiggy

Nixie 🦊

I have lived New England winters all my life. Sometimes they are quite exciting with blizzards like in 1969 or 1978. I remember the ice storm in May of 1977. I always liked shoveling and as kids, we used it as an income stream. My mother was from Maine and my father was from the even colder Canada. I guess it's what you are used to. And spring is a muddy, windy, soggy trickster. I think I prefer winter.

tj wanderlust-words-in-motion

Mar 23, 2025 at 4:07pm
In response to "Where'd Spring Go?"

Our spring goes the same, here today, gone tomorrow. Usually by April winter stops interrupting, but I wouldn't put the snow shovel away until May, just to be safe.

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SandraLynn

Mar 23, 2025 at 11:38am
In response to "Where'd Spring Go?"

I laughed at your opening statements. Switching to Spring mode is a rigamarole. I haven't yet been fooled or lolled into its acceptance.

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Nixie 🦊

Mar 23, 2025 at 9:14am
In response to "Where'd Spring Go?"

Tiggy I lived in Maine for 7 years and traveled to the New England states frequently. Maine was more about cold, -20 degrees, but sometimes snow fell to such heights it covered my car. Since we had two cars, we waited for the warm weather to free it.

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Tiggy

Mar 23, 2025 at 8:46am
In response to "Where'd Spring Go?"

A friend of mine lived in Maine and he told me about the winters in New England. I live in old England and it's nothing like that here. We didn't even see snow this year - come to think of it, the last time we had proper snow, the kind that has to be shovelled and doesn't just melt by lunchtime, was in like 2009.

We had a couple of days of Spring last week. The temperatures reached pleasant levels and the sun was shining. Today it's grey and miserable again. The plants in the garden got tricked into sticking their heads out of the ground and I really hope the temps don't dip below freezing again!

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March 30, 2025 at 7:42am

#1086207

Typing in the Sand

The laptop should be such a portable joy. But I find that many people don’t actually use it in a portable manner and it is installed on a desk or table with a mouse. I think that’s because for many of us who learned to use computers back when they were honking huge pieces of machinery with separate monitors and had a mouse with which to navigate, the transition to portable feels unnatural. Or, maybe that’s just me. I don’t adapt well.

I finally figured out what makes laptops so awkward for me to use. Someone decided way back when the first laptop was made that the keyboard should be behind the touchpad. This means that your arms naturally hang over the touchpad and make it more likely that you will accidentally touch it. If I could just find a laptop with the keyboard closer to me and the touchpad behind, I think it would work much better for me.

Of course, I am an ergonomic anomaly.

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