I just realized

I just realized I’m one assignment behind so I decided to free write and see where the road takes me, so hang if you along for the ride. I usually to try to craft a story or at least retell one. But not tonight- this will be a blog. I’m talking with my brother who having transmission problems – that’s the next best thing to marital problems – his wife is ready to choke him. She thinks the car is on its last legs and she wants him to raise his concern level- in other words fix it. He’s in the wait and see camp, he’s unwilling to jump up and spend a fortune on what could be clogged filter or dirty transmission fluid; but he’s not like me- he wants someone else to change the fluid. He tried putting transmission additive in the beast but it still sounds like a love sick cow.
I finally got my laptop to connect to the internet – I don’t what I did to aggravate my computer but it got even with me, it was giving me fits, I gave up several times. I was ready to upgrade to Windows 7 just to fix it. But I did my usual I waited until felt in the mood to handle the frustration and gave it another try – I needed to access the internet to get the answers so I jumped on the other computer and wormed my way through several frustrating web pages until I smartened up and went to Dell’s web site and accessed the original drivers. I downloaded the drivers to a jump drive popped it into the laptop and within minutes the first driver update fixed a problem that had haunted me for a couple months. I updated the rest of the drivers at the same time; just for good measure. Now I can sit in my recliner and write my Blogs – which I like.
The conversation changed to Cable TV, I don’t own cable – I hate infomercials and refuse to pay for that abuse. I installed a high quality antenna that brings in High Definition Television without paying a dime to anyone – I mostly watch PBS, woodworking shows and some cooking shows so I’m perfectly happy without a cable bill. My brother keeps changing the subject – now it’s the Olympics and women’s hockey – he likes the Chinese women’s team. Then he jumps on the sport of Curling –I can’t stand curling and he knows it so he pushes my buttons, telling me how much action there is – I ‘m smirking – it’s all I can do to keep from laughing out loud. Boring is putting it polite – it’s just plain lame – who the hell would chase a rock with a broom to begin with. How can someone invent something so …. I leave out my choice of expletives. I wouldn’t watch Curling if I was chained down. Don’t get any ideas – it remains me of the when the Army played rock music outside a Church in South American to drive a fugitive government official from his protected solitude. I think it was Manuel Noriega.

This certainly wasn’t my best piece of work – but it’s a blog in the truest sense of the word.