An apology as life goes on

Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009, at 1:13 PM

"The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors

On his hobnail boots

Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy

Working overtime."

Happiness Is a Warm Gun

The Beatles, 1968

It's been awhile since I've have posted a fresh blog, thanks to a change in Internet Explorer, which would not let me access the means to do so, and then misplacing my password after Firefox was installed, giving me the means to do it.

I've since uncovered the password.

So in the weeks since I've posted anything new, life has gotten more complicated. I'm still working at Walmart part time, hours at the newspaper have been cut back a little, and we have been told that all but ad salesmen are to take four days off without pay in the second quarter. Thank God I have two jobs.

Meanwhile on the home front, my wife had another knee replacement, requiring me to take some time off from the newspaper to accommodate her surgery and physical therapy. She's been home for a few weeks now, and I have been doing the cooking -- bacon-wrapped sirloin burgers, Oriental orange beef, TV dinners.

I've been eating pretty well, and so has the wife, but without the volume. She is pleased to note that she has lost quite a bit of weight, which definitely takes some of the stress off her knee that is still recovering.

The big problem for me is remembering to get the trash out to be picked up.

This week, I took some time to take her to Dallas at Peachtree to get her hair done. It looks good, with definite grey in a spiked style.

Meanwhile, I look forward to the day when the wife and I can do the tango or waltz again.

Two Cents' Worth

E. Alan Long

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I've been in journalism actively since 1974, with my first letter to the editor published in 1959. I'm a rarity, being a native Northwest Arkansawer with roots in these hills dating back to 1834. "Two cents' worth" traditionally means "to contribute one's opinion and dates from the late 19th Century. It is apparently related to the days when postage was two cents, which in the U.S. was between 1883 and 1932, with the exception of a brief period during World War II. In recent decades it has obtained a secondary definition, "of little value," and indicating the writer's modesty about the value of one's contribution.

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