Shipwrecked & Comatose

Guessing the Wordle in three or fewer tries is truly a thing of beauty. Do today's Goths identify more with Visigoths or Ostrogoths? As I try to cut back my Facebook use, I turn to other timesucks.  Now it seems  I am becoming a Pinterest addict. (I know Pinterest is out of fashion.  I have a LiveJournal account too).  I  think it’s safe to say I have Pinned more recipes (especially dessert recipes) than I will ever make in my lifetime. Yoga is the perfect form of exercise.  It’s the only workout I can do where I can do nothing at all and yet still say I am exercising.  Lie motionless on the floor? I'm exercising.  It's called the corpse pose. Last year I was impressed with the quality of  movies coming out of Hollywood.  I was looking forward to seeing some more actual good movies this year.  What happened Hollywood?  This year I had to suffer through so many long rambling dull movies that all too often came to thoroughly unsatisfying ends.  I think the industry is now tr

You're bored.  You're looking for something new to do. You notice a local theater group is posting auditions for its latest production.   Maybe you did some plays in high school or college, or sang in your school or church choir. You think community theater is something you can do.  You decide to go for it. Community theater is fun and rewarding, but it may not be everything you expect.  I want to provide you with some tips and some reality checks about auditioning and rehearsing as well as the culture of community theater. Understand what you are getting into before you stand in front of the table.  You want to walk into that audition as prepared as you can possibly be, not only for the audition, but for everything that comes in the weeks that follow. Competition is stiffer than you think You saw Waiting for Guffman , and you assume all the stereotypes about community theater are true.  Community theater is made up of a plucky band of amateurs with little theater experience an

By now the entire internet knows about the craze that’s sweeping the nation, Wordle.  I began my own Wordle obsession after hearing about it on Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me a few weeks ago.  It’s an addictive game for sure.  It was a brilliant move on the part of the creator to provide only one word daily.  It keeps us all wanting more.  Everyone has a strategy for playing.   There are articles on how to beat Wordle all over the internet.   Some of them seem a bit too complicated for my taste.   It takes the fun out of the game.   I believe in being strategic, but I am not going to start creating my own algorithms.   I do have my own strategy though.   I think it’s interesting to see how people play and what everyone does to come up with the right word.   I thought it would be fun to share my strategy and see how it compares. My strategy works too.   I have never not guessed the word. (I may be jinxing myself by saying that.) For my first try I start with a word that contains at l