Blog attempt 1. | 
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The first few entries come from a private journal I have kept for a few years now. also home for my entries for ![]() 
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| PROMPT November 11th You are desperate to use the bathroom. But, you share this with several others. It's down the hall (waaaay down the hall), and it's cold despite the heat being set to the 'normal' temperature. Being an older person, your legs and ability to hold it ain't what it used to be. How do you handle this dire situation? Well, Jim to be frank It is called a bucket! Some people cut a hole in a chair and place said bucket beneath it. Others just squat and aim as best they can, at the can. Some call it a commode, others a chamber pot. I know you said I was old but you didn't sound as though you were too young to be aware of this rather ancient technology. Anyway, the way it works is that you use said bucket, then free of the emergent need to use the toilet you shuffle down the hall bucket in hand and deposit the material when you get there. Now can I go back to watching MacGyver reruns? The original series, not this upstart reboot!  | 
		
| PROMPT November 10th Your neighbor’s hay crop is ready to harvest. Everyone in their family is sick and their Combine is broken. How do you respond to this situation? I can't imagine why I would live on or near a farm but here is what I would do. I would pay my neighbors for their hay and let my herds loose to graze. I figure between the guinea pigs, hamsters, goats, and chihuahuas they should have the fields cleared by planting time, right? Plus fertilizing it, which I wouldn't charge for...  |