“I like coffee exceedingly…”
I never tire of beautiful days. Today will be 75° and sunny while tonight will have a low of 58°. The morning is quiet and still. My tasks today are simple, fill the bird feeders and vacuum the Henry fur which is all over downstairs. The little balls of fur resemble tumbleweeds in their shape and in their ability to travel in the breeze when the dogs and I walk by them.
I miss phone booths. I miss the banks of them at train and bus stations. I miss them on corners. I never went by one without checking the change slot. I sometimes found a dime. They were refuges in the rain. I’d wait behind the folding door hoping the rain would stop. If I was walking and got tired, I’d sit in the booth for a while. I know cell phones are convenient and sometimes life saving, but the old phone booths had personality and real operators.
When I graduated from high school, my gift was a typewriter for college. I used it all four years. I also used bottles of white-out and those tiny typewriter sheets you put between the ribbon and the offending letter and then typed on the sheet the correct letter. I was often impatient waiting for the white-out to dry. My typewriter is in my cellar somewhere. I’d like to find it. I suspect hunting in the cellar will resemble an archeological dig.
My dogs and I have regimens. When we first get downstairs in the morning, the dogs rush out the dog door. One time they tried to go together and got stuck in the door. Henry goes to his favorite tree and lifts his leg. Nala runs into the yard. They both come back in for a biscuit and a small treat then they have their morning naps. I make my coffee. I read the newspaper and have two cups of coffee. This months the coffee is from Uganda. After that I start my musings. It is pretty much the same very day. It is never a grind. It is a routine.
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September 14, 2024 at 12:52 pm
Hi Kat,
Today will be sunny and hot again. The high is predicted to be 98° or 99°. A perfect day for my daughter to swim. I will sit on the patio to keep an eye on her. Usually, after Labor Day the water is too cold for me to take a plunge into the pool.
Yes, pay phones and phone booths are a thing of the past. They have gone the way of buggy whips. A couple of years ago, I read an article that said that the last three phone booths in Manhattan had finally been removed. I used to tell our new hire instructors a story about how being in a powerful position, a U.S. Senator, makes a difference in getting things accomplished. I don’t tell it any longer because it happened over 40 years ago and it involves phone booths. I got tired having to explain to the younger ones what is a phone booth. 🙂
My father left me his portable, manual, Hermes typewriter. Although the ribbon is completely dead, my son, when he was four or five years old called it, “The ancient word processor”. He got a thrill out of just pushing the keys and watching the hammers hit the empty paper roller. I assume I can order ribbons for it on Amazon, but for what purpose. It along with a lot of other stuff I have stashed away in closets which are totally useless today.
I like regimens a lot. My spouse, on the other hand says she hates them. Every morning during a workday, I dress and carry my shoes and socks downstairs to place them in my home office. I then make a cup of coffee in my Kurig and read my email while sitting on the sofa. Then, I put on my shoes and socks on so I can drive the seven minutes to my place of work. That’s where I have my second cup. Also, I drink my coffee black without sugar. I enjoy the taste of the unadulterated coffee.
September 14, 2024 at 10:26 pm
Hi Bob,
The day was lovely, but tonight is a delight. It is cool and bright. I just got home from a 1974 class reunion. I was a guest. It was a wonderful evening.
I would love to have a phone booth somewhere in my house or yard. It would be such a touch to the past.
I have a small roll top desk I found along the road. A rotary phone is on the top shelf, and I would place my typewriter on the part under the roll top. It would be a perfect way to honor my past. Typewriters are making a comeback. People seem to love the hands on and the sound of the type.
The dogs have forced me into a regimen. They hate change so I go along with them. If I sleep late, I change my sequence of events, but the dogs never do. When I worked, I always did the same thing every morning. Now, I don’t have the same order. It took me a while to get used to the changes.
September 15, 2024 at 7:23 pm
Do you have a land line? We dropped the land line several years ago. We just never used it. It wasn’t an old fashioned Ma Bell copper wire land line. It was really an internet phone. At work all our desk phones were internet phones. Now, they have all disappeared and we use MS TEAMS to make video phone calls through our computers or iPads. Also, the company gives us a $50 per month stipend to use our personal cell phones for work related communications. We issue all of our instructors iPads. The video part of a call is optional.
Since the pandemic, we are teaching a lot of instructor training courses over the internet using MS TEAMS. It’s not ideal but it’s cheap. The unfortunate part of business is that cheap beats whatever is next in line. Quality takes a back seat to cheap.
September 16, 2024 at 12:05 am
I do have a land line. My iPhone is an old one I need to replace. Most people who call me also have land lines.
I use my iPad often as my computer needs to be repaired. It is a big screen iPad. I am quite good at it but it took time, and I got frustrated when I first had to use it for Coffee, for embedding videos and such.