1) Today would have been Gramma’s 121st birthday, since she was 81 when she died in July, 1983. Forty years ago. I can’t wish her still with us — she was truly failing — but there is always something I want to share with her, some beautiful thing or new piece of information.
2) What software engineers call “updates” I call “removing functionality.” Stop it.
3) My horoscope said that March would be more social for me, and that has certainly proved true. Working on a column today on free speech vs. civility because tomorrow I’m violating my No Scheduling rule twice: brunch with friends from out of town, and then two local friends coming to my place for dinner. But rules are for breaking, and life is for living! Accommodation must be made.
3a) My two informal rules for writing days (usually Sundays and Wednesday) are to schedule nothing, not even a grocery delivery or a trip to the dry cleaners, and to complete something significant by 11 AM. The latter defines whether or not it’s been a good day.