First off, if we posted all day, we couldn't outnumber the spam posts on MyBloggers now. It was a matter of time before the male enhancement topic started showing up. There should have been a blog category for that.

If I was administering a blog, I would have different categories/channels than the ones we have to choose from. I realize it's a standard list that follows commercial and educational lines: look at all those separate categories for Education.

I always thought it was funny when Jeremy would pick random categories for his posts.

Here is what popped into my head this morning:

Caller ID

One of the technological advancements that has irrevocably changed book and movie plots is caller ID. Young people today will never understand that scenario where the bereft parents have to keep the kidnapper on the phone long enough for the FBI to trace the call. Anyone under 20 years old would not understand why it was such a problem unless the script somehow painted them a picture of how it used to be, and that might get tedious for just that little bit of suspense.

Speaking of writing a story, look at how air travel has changed. I can remember when people would buy cheap air tickets and peddle them in the classified ads, the only requirement being that the purchaser's gender match that of the person to whom the ticket was issued. I can remember when we didn't have to show an ID to get on an airplane. I can remember when there weren't even metal detectors much less all those x-rays and scanners, and the whole family went trooping out to the gate to wait for the plane to take off. Heck, I can remember when it was okay to get to the airport half an hour before departure.

Based on all this, I keep an eye on how today's authors deal with the problem of getting their protagonist around quickly and anonymously, not to mention obtaining a gun at the other end of the journey. Some of them set their story several decades in the past. Lee Child has Jack Reacher latch onto an active military person to get him onto military flights that don't have the security requirements. Many of them have some contact at their destination who provides the weapon no questions asked.

Home Decor

I've been sitting in a different chair in the living room lately, and from this different perspective, have decided it's time to do some rearranging. Some of the things on display need to be arranged right out of here, and maybe I'll arrange the books by height so there are gently slanting lines instead of ups and downs. They're not alphabetized now, so no big loss. I'll keep the reference books together, at least.

Outside

There's a couple of fishermen out in the river and I'll go say hello and then go put a rock on a piece of roofing that has blown loose on the shed over by the red cabin.



That's it on the right. I don't know what we're going to do about that roof if it's going to start blowing off. I wonder if Mr. Troutbend feels up to applying a metal roof. It should be pretty straightforward, but what do I know.