This is one of those mornings where I’m having trouble getting all the body parts to function in a coordinated manner.  I think you know what I mean.  If I have an idea of what I want to do, the rest of me doesn’t quite hook up and go along with it.  As a result, my typing goes slowly because I keep misspelling the words and have to backspace over and over to do it again.  Couple that with my blurry eyes refusing to focus in on whatever I’m looking at, and you have a real clown show going on here.

I’ve never used those “spell-checker” features that are usually built into the writing programs now.  I tried one out several years ago and it was so distracting that it drove me crazy and slowed my writing down almost to a standstill.  Every time I’d type a word that wasn’t in the approved vocabulary of the computer demon, it would suddenly become underlined in red and make me stop and growl at it.  This was always the case when writing out a proper name or place and I didn’t know how to get the underlines to go away.  So I turn the bloomin’ spell-check feature off and do what I’ve always done…plug along and go back over it when I’m done.  Even then, I mess one up every now and then.  But, so what?

Of course, there are some words that, no matter how many times I write them, I still have to double-check before I set them loose.  I think everybody has a few words in their cranial databank that they have a problem remembering for sure how to spell them.  I’ve pretty well got “occasion” settled in firmly now.  (Shouldn’t there be two “s”es in there?  No… shut up.) 

 But one that will give me fits until my dying days is “bureaucracy” or “bureaucrats.”  I use those a lot in this forum, and yet I always have to double check with the Webster’s before I press the Send button.  I guess everybody has a stumbling block over a couple of words like that.  No matter how hard you try, they just won’t let you control them.

Well, while it’s understandable that you have trouble with a few words and maybe drop an apostrophe in the wrong place,  just make good and sure that you don’t forget your wife’s birthday.

All right, let’s get the equipment checked out.  I’m functioning well enough to run the coffee now.

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