Imagination

I like to believe that I still have an imagination, albeit not so strong as when I was a child and saw some abandoned puppies and ran home because we were convinced they were mad dogs or when some cows escaped  from the pasture and my brother tried to convince me that the bull was daddy dressed up in a bull suit. What tricks are my imagination playing on me today? We've had rain off and on this past week which makes going to the park not very pleasant - too muddy so we just walk around the neighbourhood. This morning I saw a dark blue car parking in the street where we were walking - all very normal. The driver got out and got into a school bus yellow car which was waiting - all very normal too. Not too long after that, Zara decided that she needed to walk up that street again. I suppose there was a spot that she missed sniffing the first time around. Anyway, there was the same yellow car again. This time a person with a box got out of the car and rang the doorbell of the Telefonica building (Telefonica is my phone and internet service provider, which I'm sure I've mentioned before). Anyone who works in this building can punch his/her code into the panel outside and the door opens. Perhaps it's not unusual a parcel being delivered to this building,but I'd say it was on a Sunday, and the last time I checked it was indeed Sunday. I have no idea if the door was opened for this person because we turned the corner just then. However, when the person with the box got out, the car continued its journey. All very strange! A legitimate delivery of material or a disgruntled customer with a delivery? Hope we don't hear a big boom!

I'm not the only one with an active imagination. Imagine you have a few days holiday at Easter and you decide to go to Granada for a visit. Probably you will have booked your hotel beforehand in case everything is booked up. Soon after you go out of your hotel you're arrested by the police who have mistaken you for a wanted drug dealer and confined for FIVE days (all of your holiday) all the time protesting your innocence, but because you have the same name as the drug dealer... Don't ask me how that happened but it did.

If you haven't found either of these two events funny, although the second one is anything but,  this one you will. If you've read my post from last Sunday, you'll know the problems I'm faced with concerning hiring an administrator, blah, blah, blah. It was decided by the president, after her telling the person that I'd recommended he had the job, that no he wouldn't do because his office isn't near. She thought another office would be better because it is near. On Friday morning, she rings my doorbell to ask me to read the contract she's been given by this new office saying that it states that they control the money and they have the right to change the bank account to any bank they choose and who knows what else. I, of course, told her that I was preparing my classes and didn't have time. This weekend she's hasn't insisted I read it and that's that I see her almost every time I step out the door. Is there a Goldilocks Syndrome because in her case I think there is? That one is too far, this one is too sneaky. Where is the one that's just right?

Post Secret hasn't come out yet. I 'imagine' it will be online about 3 PM my time. Whenever, I'll note down my visitor number you can bet on that. Since I can't say anything about today's secrets yet, I'll tell you about the experience I had with changing to IE 8 yesterday, so if you use Norton antivirus and you have 2008 or earlier, you'll have to upgrade to 2009 (the upgrade, of course, is free). IE8 isn't compatible with the earlier versions of Norton. The 2009 version has new features, but I still say it slows down my computer when it's scanning. I don't use IE if I can avoid it and don't find it any quicker than IE 7. However, it's probably a good idea to upgrade to IE8. I haven't changed to IE8 on my netbook yet, which uses Avast antivirus and which allows you to do things on the computer without slowing it down while it's scanning or updating itself. Ever since I've known about it, I use Mozilla. If you like themes, FF has some good ones. I use the'Bricks for Firefox' theme on my Acer and on the netbook I have ' personas for Firefox'. Note: it is 'personas' and not 'persons'. You can find these in the add-ons section of Mozilla or getpersonas.com.

It wasn't my intention to go on so long. I'm making some crash hot potatoes again for lunch - at the moment they're boiling. Hope everybody has a good week with better weather than we've been having.