3 June 2022
As a semi-accomplished auto-didact, I didn’t need PE to teach me “how to lose.” I’ve been losing all my life, even before the orchestrated torture of “Phys Ed” so it has been relatively easy to reconcile myself to the inevitable losses that any move entails. I may well file a futile claim once I get an actual intra-web connection. Meanwhile, because of my cybernetic (and other) deficiencies I am unable to save these files until I am reconnected to “the cloud.” The new “improved” computer doesn’t seem to carry a great deal of its own memory, so I’ve become externally dependent on the IT weasels who still yearn for revenge for their mistreatment in Senior Juniorhigh.
I was naive enough to believe that I could waltz into town, drop a wad of cash, move into a small street level house or apartment, and proceed therefrom to secure employment and to apply for (actual) reparations (aka “Social Security.”) Because EVERY rental agency demanded documentation verifying THREE TIMES the proposed rent as income, every move had to be performed backwardly and inside-outly. Presently, I am kneeling before my formerly efficient (but now crippled) word processor as I compose this form-letter and fear power outages deleting these words before I can print them several times.
11 June 2022
in re Job Number @#######, and Lot No. ######:
While I realize that I have surrendered any claim against your additional service, having taken receipt of my goods on the 14th of May, and being too tired and fatigued at the time to fully inspect delivery, I nevertheless entreat your assistance in my pursuit of one item. Subsequent inspections revealed a few losses, most of which are of too little value to warrant additional efforts, but one has great personal significance and I retain high hopes, though modest expectations, of its eventual return.
Because a few items arrived lacking the characteristic Orange Tags (Lot No. ######) my missing item MAY be tagged with any with any of the following Item Nos: 26, 38, 124, 137, or 143. Or it may not be tagged at all. At any rate, this cardboard box (a recycled Hershey’s container) of dimensions 7.5*8.5*11 inches WILL be tagged with my own reference number, DQN 032. I will cheerfully guarantee parcel postage for its return.
Furthermore, I also received, among a variety of other broken bits, a part of someone else’s delivery of Lot No. ######, Piece No. ### (blue tag) containing photographs of strangers, to me, but perhaps cherished loved ones to others. Please feel free to provide that aggrieved party (“Name?”) with y contact information.
13 July 2022
Have you seen these lost loved ones?
in hard money:
A set of Canadian Maple Cents, representing about Fifty Cents Canadian, and constituting Endless Hours of Curation.
in hard covers:
Tanglewood Tales (published in 1934), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish.
Scavengers in Space (pub. 1958), by Alan E. Nourse
Brave New World (pub. 1980), by Aldous Huxley
in hard or soft covers, all by Robert A. Heinlein, various publication dates:
Assignment in Eternity, Beyond this Horizon, The Day After Tomorrow, Farmer in the Sky, Have Space Suit Will Travel, The Number of the Beast, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, The Star Beast, Starman Jones, Tunnel in the Sky, & I Will Fear No Evil
on newsprint and between flimsy paper covers:
most Silver Age X-Men issue numbers from 9 to 66, plus a few reprints from 67 to 92
Amazing Adventures 1 to 14, (reprinting X-Men 1 to 8), Amazing Spider-man 92, plus various late Silver and early Bronze X-Appearances in other Marvel mags.
on CD: The Beatles’ Anthology three release packages totaling six discs.
fortunately, I have a copy of my one disc edit of the most significant selections, but still… It’s the Beatles! (*sob*)
15 May 2023 — Just deleted from the comix file.
The GRAPHiC WORK of M.C. Escher (Ballantine 1971) — tpb
*sigh* So the aforementioned “book” might also be this one. And this one may in fact be on its way to Earlie Riser, whose given name and own hand appear in said volume. That would be fitting, I suppose. In fact, that’s yet another way of finding a pony in this room!
Good show! (If fact.)
& while I’m here today, I just wanted to add that I’m loving Mark Waid’s take on the current World’s Finest, and even more so Dan Abnett’s retcon on early Mar-Vell (and Groot)! Folks are missing out by not heeding my counsel!
18 June 2023 — yet another…
Bite Me, by Christopher Moore. I know I’ve never owned a copy of Lamb (Moore’s great gospel of Levi called Biff), but I do recall getting a copy of Bite Me from correspondent BA. It seems until I actually look for them, books don’t appear missing. But Moore’s been in my head lately, and it just occurred to me…
8 July 2023 — Her second husband only had to lose Diva Dearest once. One day, sooner or not, Sugar or Bud will lose one or the other of them. But just once. I’ve already lost them both, and I will lose them again, whether they like me or not.