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early adopter of the world in which we now live
Wednesday, October 19 2016
[REDACTED]Ro is a year younger than me, but she came of age in a different world, one dominated by in-office communication and telephones. By contrast, I'm "an early adopter of the world in which we now live," and am mostly comfortable with newer forms of computer-based communication, particularly if they can be done on an actual computer (as opposed to a smartphone). I told Da that we need to be more flexible in how we interact with someone like Ro. But I agreed that we have to be careful not to let her monopolize our attention.
In amongst the routines of a normal workday, I took time to conduct a mid-intensity cleaning jihad. Gretchen and I would be leaving for France tomorrow, and the house needed to be clean for our housesitter Betty (whom Gretchen had found on housesittersamerica.com, her preferred house sitting networking site).
This evening, Gretchen and I watched the final Clinton-Trump debate of this long election season. It was just us, and Gretchen made some rigatoni pasta to mock Trump's repeated insistence that this was to be a "rigged" election. The debate was less stressful than ones in the past seemed to be, and Clinton seemed to be holding her own better than in the last debate. She also knew the correct rhetorical pressure points to apply to instigate Trump's many routines of self-destruction, the most appalling being when he said "Such a nasty woman!" as Clinton insinuated something about his avoidance of taxes. His biggest unforced error tonight was his refusal to say whether or not he would accept the result of the November 8th election. Even if he had "won" the debate, the acid reflux from that one remark was destined to keep coming up for days.
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