Things I learned this week

Well, I did it. The computer room is somewhat tidy- right now, my keyboard has an echo. Now that it is better, but not perfect, I have a whole new list of wants. Besides my obvious need for a new window treatment in here, I want a new computer desk, and a little sofa and a credenza- not the captain's bed we have now.
I guess I learned I'll never be satisfied. Here's what else I learned:

* I learned that there is a name for obnoxious authoring, when the author gets in the way of the story with flowery prose and arcane vocabulary- purple prose. I may have already heard this once, but if I did, I forgot it. Purple prose makes me drop a novel as if it had been contaminated with anthrax spores. Oh, wait....


*I learned that there is a Vermont secessionist movement. Let them go, I say. What good do the rest of us get from Vermont, anyway? We can get all the New England charm and uppity-ness we need from Connecticut.


And here are some "befores."
They may soon be "deleted."