All posts by Jocelyn the Plaid

Ummm… yeah. So true here. Zoom is about the easiest platform I know but Zoom is out of favor in many districts due to privacy concerns. I’m pretty sure that one reason why parents and students are massing to fight the possible evil of masks is that some issues are too complicated to parse out… Read More

Longevity? The following email is littered with factual errors: “Fact Check-Post states wrong ages at which several inventors died.” See Fact Check-Post states wrong ages at which several inventors died | Reuters This post should remind us that people are just making up their own factoids at an astounding rate. But here are the factoids… Read More

Crap. I’m a mess. Watching the Mandalorian with rum ball and milk. This week I didn’t 1) Finish social security app 2) Finish book 3) Exterminate the flies 4) Get to Costco 5) Buy a van 6) Destroy a Death Star. I did 1) Coat the fly-infested kitchen in guava nector (the Ninja blender survived… Read More

From the Northbrook Police Blotter: ARRESTS SUSPENDED/REVOKED DRIVER’S LICENSE (Random dude), 58, … accused of having a suspended driver’s license, an expired registration, no proof of insurance, and was arrested…. He was released after posting $2,500 bond and assigned a court date. INCIDENTS BATTERY “An employee of a business … reported … they were slapped… Read More

To the Twitterverse: Who cares if “they” don’t like your tweets? They could run right past you in a marathon, completely unknown and unremarked. With rare exceptions, you would not recognize even one of “them” at the local Target or Walmart. They might as well be Super Mario’s second cousins. Social media creates bubbles within… Read More

Obese Time, filled with to-dos Eats up its own children, the fleeting minutes escaping into the too-much landscape littered with lists real or imagined written or implicit. On lucky days Time slips out of sight and mind where lists can’t follow. . Zombie phrase for the day: I think I lost my list. Ahhhhhhddiihhhhgggh ahh… Read More

My begonia In critical condition Drooping, wilts, crumples. A poinsettia dominates that window space now. I am the poinsettia whisperer. My last one lived nearly ten years, a gift from the Friends of Something or Another who helped out in the North Chicago schools.

Ten Periods is Four periods too many Walk walk walk walk walk END OF DAY Going outside I Walk grateful as I detach, Say “See you!” and smile. I will find some more of these and add on over the next few days. Zombie phrase for the day: The young ones are too fast. Duhhhh… Read More

Mostly, you can’t go wrong by focusing on the positive. A belief that things will work out for the best can create a mindset where things appear to have worked out for the best. If that best includes attaining the peace of mind that comes from having been bitten by a zombie and then converting… Read More