The date was April 1st, 2025.  She had gone out for a leisurely walk, minding her own business, soaking up the sights and sounds on this beautiful, blue-sky day.    Pausing for a moment to rest, she suddenly spots him, out of the corner of her eye, staring at her.  This wasn’t the first time she had encountered those menacing eyes.  Just last week, she had narrowly escaped a near-fatal run-in with him.  Perhaps she thought she had seen the last of him, yet here he was creepily stalking her again (as if there was any other type of stalking).  Was she considering whether or not this was just an April fool’s joke and that he’s

There I am…now writing in full screen mode (FSM).   Now, the problem is that my wireless keyboard keeps sliding around on the desk – but only one side of the keyboard. I’m thinking that there’s something wrong with the rubber feet on one side of the keyboard. My first thought is that Apple sold me a defective keyboard.  “Too bad the warranty period has already expired.  I bet Apple intentionally manufactures these keyboards just to last past the warranty period,” I say to myself.    There are a few other, and, might I say angrier, thoughts that followed along down that spiral, but I pulled myself out of it

Here I am, standing at my standing desk, enjoying the ergonomically efficient set up I’ve got.   I’m comfortable and inspired. I’m ready to start writing.   The only problem is that my writing tab window is small enough that I’m able to see 14 other windows open, and in various sizes, running the background on my computer. See, if you had been a fly on the wall (How actually weird is that expression?) what you would have been able to see is this: I start writing, then I see, out of the corner of my eye, my email notifications, my calendar, my browser tabs (and let’s just say there