Yes, dear Reader, if you've got an old model robot hanging around your house not doing much, maybe falling asleep on the couch in the evenings, I've got news for you - the Japanese have developed a " "humane" solution - it was in this morning's Onion News (see page 94!).
Poor aging robot !!!! Still, this is, sadly, what's happening these days, isn't it, with our manufacturing sector's ideas about so-called "humane planned obsolescence" or "HUPO" as they cruelly call it!
Once again, however, the Japanese are leading the way, which is nice for me to see, as one of the UK's fast-growing "pressure group" of aging Japanese linguists!
Yes step forward Colin, yes, Yours Truly, who got a degree in Japanese language and literature a mere 56 years ago, would you believe!
me in 1969 - the year I got my Japanese degree
Well, they told me having a Japanese degree would be the key to something or other, I forget now, but today I can exclusively reveal - it's true! Because I can finally use that degree to help my two dear 11-year-old twin granddaughters with their homework, which is a nice thought!
"Surely, Colin, your 11-year-old twin granddaughters don't have any Japanese homework to do, do they?" I hear you cry! [Not me, I've already got my "jammies" on and I'm making my bedtime cocoa! - Ed]
Well, it is true as a matter of fact, because when my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and I were speaking to them, and to their mum Sarah - our dear daughter - just this morning, via the magic of a whatsapp video call, we found out that those little rascals will soon be starting Japanese lessons, would you believe!
this morning's whatsapp video call we have with our dear
daughter Sarah and her 11-year-old twins Lily and Jessica
And it seems those two "little rascals" want their "old poppa" to give them some "pointers". And this news is not so surprising when you realise that they live in Australia, where such things are pretty routine these days.
Not so "useless" now, am I haha! And perhaps it'll help stop me being "dumped", as an obsolescent, "old model" grandpa, into a retirement home before I'm really ready for it, which will be nice !!!!
But what a crazy world we live in !!!!
our dear twin granddaughters Lily and Jessica having fun this week at a
playground near their home just north of Perth, Western Australia
- but they won't have so much "play-time" soon, when they begin studying Japanese
after starting high school next February, that's for sure!!!! Poor twins !!!!
And it's a bit of a crazy day today all round for Lois and me, after we get off the phone with Perth, Australia, that is! Lois has to log in online to her church's Sunday Morning Meeting over in Petersfield, and also work on the talk she's giving on Tuesday morning to other female church-members in the church's regular "sisters' class".
For days, our dining-table has been covered with Lois's "research materials" - she's going to be talking about biblical character Timothy - and so currently we're eating "on our laps" no the couch. What madness isn't it!
(background) my wife Lois on the couch, where we're currently
eating all our meals, while our dining-table has been
converted to her study-table, where she's researching her
presentation - what madness !!!!
But I'm very happy for her, and I'm sure she'll deliver a "stonking" presentation, if she's got the slightest fragment of her dear late dad Dennis's DNA in her, a lay preacher known for his eloquence by church members all over the world, bless him!
So it's "busy busy busy" again today! [What exactly is your contribution, Colin? Just asking! - Ed]
We're so busy today, that we only get about an hour in bed this afternoon, for statutory "nap-time", and all the time we're keeping one ear open (each!) for a call on one of our mobiles, or a ring of the doorbell.
Let me put my cards on the table at this point! Lois and I only moved into our current home in rural, semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire, a mere 5 months ago, and, when we moved in, on January 3rd, we unexpectedly found that the garage, garden-shed etc were full of old DIY-materials, bits of wood, old glass doors, weird bits of stick etc, that the previous owners thought "might come in useful" - what madness!
[That's enough madness! Ed]
Fortunately our other daughter Alison, and husband Ed are calling round today with their big car to take all this "tat" over to the "County Tip" at Bordon, which will be a relief.
our daughter Alison and husband Ed clear out some of the "tat"
in our garage, garden shed etc, left by the previous residents
- what madness !!!!
20:00 Alone at last, Lois and I try to watch a film of TV this evening. It seems to be all somebody, a Hollywood director, we think, who wants to turn a famous long-running Agatha Christie murder-mystery play, "The Mousetrap" into a film, but he's being hampered by the fact that a lot of the actors who are going to be in the film are getting murdered too, which is "playing merry hell" with the poor guy's schedule. What madness!!!
Unfortunately there's a problem with the subtitles for the old and hard-of-hearing, which are being intermittent, so we have to turn over to another channel after about 30 minutes. There's some interesting sidelights on police methods however, when we hear about young woman's constable Stalker's note-taking principles, which is illuminating.
Here her boss, the Scotland Yard inspector investigating the murders asks the young constable how she handles her record-keeping.
Fascinating stuff isn't it! And Lois and I will try to watch it again later, when hopefully the subtitles will be working properly. What a crazy world we live in!!!!
21:00 And there's more crime going on when we wind down for bed with tonight's programme in the "Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club" on TalkingPicturesTV channel, according to stony-faced club chairman and "turn manager" Colin Crompton.
Well, I've got a possible lead for police hunting the ashtray thieves - looking at this morning's paper, could the thief be a regular use of the local "dorm study area" where so many other shocking thefts have been occurring recently?
I wonder..... !
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz!!!!!
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