Test
your
vocab
your
vocab
How many words do you know?
Cassi
Creek: It is well and truly Monday. We’re waiting for the Comcast tech to swap
out, yet, another DVR box and restore the connection to what it was. Our appointment is 0800 – 2000. We arose and showered early this morning to
be ready for an early resolution.
Foolish of us. We may still be
waiting tomorrow.
While waiting, I grabbed another
incomplete repair to complete. The
replacement shelf for the refrigerator, the part that was backordered for two
months, was the wrong part. Back to the
phone to get an RGA and to order the correct part. The old part is now boxed, labeled, and will
be dropped off at UPS.
Gloria’s new contacts are incorrectly
made it appears. That entails a trip
into town. I’ll drive her in and return
the last pair of shoes to Mahoneys. I
may have found a better fitting pair in the Brooks Ghost line. But it also appears that any new shoes I try
to wear will be size 13.
The vocabulary challenge above is
partly for fun. It is also partly for the
chance to boast a bit. 64 years of
voracious reading fiction and non-fiction have conferred a reasonably large
vocabulary. Training for spelling
competitions in grade school citywide contests helped with the acquisition of a
decent vocabulary, too. I was a city
champion one year and a runner up another.
I have no idea why there was no higher level of competition. I’d have competed.
The spelling mistakes I make are
treated to a trip through a spell-check program. They tend to be the same words, some sort of
patterned brain glitch that I seem to have developed over the years.
Books are windows into
everything. Even in VietNam I carried
something to read in those moments when it was safe and permissible. Gloria gave me a Kindle 3rd gen
e-reader last year for our anniversary.
I promptly named it “18th” in honor of the love, behind the
gift. I’ve never received a more
appropriate and desired gift. It is
loaded with books from the library, classic literature, fiction, some sci-fi,
and books on mathematics, physics, chemistry, and other mind-stretching material. It carries two dictionaries.
It’s rainy, cloudy. We have some wonderful Thai-style chicken
left over from the chicken Gloria marinated yesterday for me to roast. We’ll have that over salad for dinner.
“Burma!”
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