1. I’m not a math expert, but I do believe the number of starving children in the world is close to the number of stray cats– Am I the only one who sees the obvious solution to feeding the stray cats so they don’t keep pestering me?
2. I just had an hour long conversation/drawing the words session with Jonathon when trying to describe what video game he wanted to play.
[our conversation after him trying to spell it on a reader board and drawing it out]
“Philety”
“Philety?”
“Yes.”
“Huh?”
“It’s on the shelf…”
[I read the name of games from A - Z, all 120 of them-- nada]
“Did I name it?”
“I don’t know, maybe.”
[I read the names from Z-A, all 120 of them]
“You didn’t say anything…”
“It’s there.”
“Can you please tell me Yes or No when I read the names…”
[I read the names and after being bored he says yes to Salt Lake City Skiing.]
“Seriously? Salt Lake City? The skiing game you hate?”
“No… I’m just tired.”
“Okay… let’s try something else- [I turn the pc on the tv and hand him the keyboard"
"Chase-- cops-- NYPD-- you go after bad guys-- you get chased by cops"
"Grand Theft Auto?"
"Noooo"
"You're making this up, there is no game.."
"You beat it before."
"I beat all the games before."
"Run from NYPD"
[another 15 minutes of going in circles and him repeating everything he said previously] All of a sudden it hits me and I go to the other side of the room and pull off the shelf “Indigo Prophecy”
“YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!”
“Philety? Really?”
[he shrugs]“I forgot the name. It was close.”
So here I am. :-\
And here’s a comic that reminds me of my latest string of conversations with people when I was slaving my drive, adding a new graphics card and trying to talk shop with people to get ideas on how to make improvements without getting a new machine considering all my memory slots are full as well as most of my ports. Yes– I still run XP in a world of people who now have Windows 7 or Macs.
