Sunday, June 2, 2019

What Has Come to Be


How are things with you? Let me tell
you how it goes with me. Yesterday,
my computer gave me fits. It took my
son to come over after his day teaching
school to unwind the mess I had un-
wittingly done by trying to download
a stupid App which I never needed in
the first place.

And too, it took a call halfway around
the world to the Phillipines and a pan-
icked plea to a couteous technician in
order to complete the fix properly.

I swear I’m getting too old and short
on patience to handle complex matters
such as this on my own. A good indica-
tion of my situation is revealed here in
my writing, for I tend to ramble aim-
lessly with these run-on sentences I
spit out endlessly.

I suppose my frustration comes from
the fact that I’m home-bound and rely
upon my computer and the Internet
to get things done everyday. I shop, I
pay bills, I communicate with the out-
side world, I write these long mono-
logues of mine on a timely and regular
basis. Now, there are things we expect
and become used to, things on which
we rely to get us through each day.

When I was a child many years ago,
sick at home and unable to attend
school that day, I depended upon
Captain Kangaroo on TV to entertain
me in the morning, and then Mickey
Mouse Club in the afternoon.

Hell, even with this modern technology
today, things for me don’t seem quite
the same. Enough of my bitchy com-
plaining, how are things going for you?

Keep it short if you don’t mind. Now
that my computer is up and running,
I’m pretty sure that I can find other
things to do.

Chris Hanch 6-1-19

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