Hard to believe that the third month of the new year is here already. The above vintage picture of Ireland is intended to put you into a March mood.
I plan to write a few more Hollywood-oriented blog posts....
I'll wait a moment until you calm down from the excitement
....but I'm presently inundated with problems and ill health (so what else is new??), which seriously impedes my creativity, wit, and irresistible charm.
What's wrong with your health, Jon?
What's right with it ? The short version is that I feel like I died three weeks ago.
What problems, Jon?
My problems are presently so multitudinous that I use a special computerized file system to sort them.
Presently, my biggest problem is the furnace - which has been blowing cold air instead of heating.
As fate would have it, next week is predicted to be extremely cold - with frigid weather arriving on Sunday night.
I innocently thought Tennessee was a temperate southern state. If anybody had told me that there would be penguins and ice floes in March, I wouldn't have moved here.
So....
I've been doing research about errant furnaces on the Internet and learning incredibly boring but eye-opening things.
My gut instinct (which is usually wrong) tells me to check out the heating ducts, which could have been damaged by the friggin' wild animals that weasel their way under the house.
I'll try to investigate tomorrow (Saturday) - - if I can summon the courage.
I may look tough, but I'm a sissy.
Change of subject.
I sent my first text on my new cell phone last night (to my cousin Nancy).
It was a difficult procedure because the new phone is a LOT different than my old one was.
So...
everything was going fine - until I tried to send a second text. Suddenly I got a "no service" message.
Cell phone reception isn't particularly good out here in the boonies. Sometimes, in order to successfully send a text I have to go to a different room, or stand outside on the front porch, or out in the back near the forest and hold the phone up towards the east - in the direction where the town is located
(no, I am not kidding!!!!!)
Anyway, last night I couldn't send texts at all - no matter where I was. Yet - strangely enough - I could still make phone calls.
Life is one BIG, irritating enigma.
But you already knew that.
