Google Chrome is working on my last damn nerve.Ā I never signed up for these effing notifications and the annoying pop-ups are disrupting my ability to do what I want to do!Ā I might move over to Microsoft Edge which was forced on me a few days ago.Ā Is Edge the new IE?Ā I liked IE. Yes I am a Luddite techno-pheeb who is making words up.Ā I wrote pheeb not phobe since I do not fear technology.Ā I’m just feeble.Ā Which is a bad word isn’t it?Ā Ergh!!!!!!!
Day: July 25, 2020
#SoCS ~ 7/25/20
Here we go now! Time once again for #SoCS. If youād like to join in the fun festivities š„³, here are the rules and ping back.
Definitely is the weirdest summer of our lives. But we power on. Up, over, or under!!
On tap for today, Linda writes and I rewrite āYour Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is ācheck/cheque/Czech.ā Use one, use āem all, use āem any way youād like. Have fun!ā
Hmmm š§. š¤š¤š¤ No planning but whatās a cheque? Maybe itās a fancy way to spell check. Yep. Thatās it. And checks are so yesterdayās news like … like Blockbuster and cassettes and rotary dial phones. Ever since this Rona nonsense itās more evident things are never going back to what they were. In some instances thatās okay. Evolution is improvement. But somehow feels like weāre going backwards.
But enough about that. Yay š Czech. My heritage. My dad didnāt learn to speak English until he entered first grade. Then he became bilingual. But Czech was always his first language and he had a pretty heavy accent.
When he moved from Moulton to the big city of San Antonio, he became multilingual. He always told us once you learn a second language picking up another was easy. Supposedly your brain goes on autopilot ārememberingā how to convert. Of course Iād never know. I barely passed Spanish. I learned a few curse words in Czech. And a smattering of other things like jak se mas? Nowhere near the fluency of my cousins who stayed in Moulton.
My favorite memory is Pony siting right next to my dad in the BarcaLounger. Dad would be telling him the āthis little piggy went to marketā nursery rhyme in Czech. Wi-chee-ka, Wi-chee-Ka, Wi-chee-ka … all the way home. And then the giggles would fill the air.
Alright, thatās all she wrote. At least for now. Getting into another closet today. Fun time for sure. š
As always more to come.