Progress

Here's what gets me!

First, Facebook changes everything around; then Blogspot changes everything around.

Why can't there be a button to push when you just want everything to stay as it was? As it was when you last figured it out? As it was when you purposed to put the time and energy into setting up your pages? If people what something newer, flashier, better,...whatever, why do I have to go along?

Can you tell that I have just had difficulty getting into this blank posting site? And it looks nothing like the site I typed on last week. It looks bare. Sterile! Unfriendly!

Oh well, progress continues whether or not I'm on board with it.

Like the new and improved dish washing soap. Since the girls grew up and left home we have had an automatic dishwasher (not to be confused with the two of them who did the dishes when they lived at home). I have been satisfied with some brand of liquid soap which yes, did leave marks on the glasses and the silver, but otherwise, did the job of washing the stuck-on food down the drain. My husband came home from the store one day with a bag of new-fangled dish soaps. In little plastic bags, the soap formed a little cake of pressed together soap. My husband claimed that putting soap in the dishwasher would be so much simpler with this product, and so it was. That freed up 8 more seconds of retirement time to enjoy. Hurrah!  (and at only 1/3 more the price!)

On another note: we have just stayed the weekend in a hotel which charged an exorbitant rate because it was near an international airport and thus, a major city.  I did not mind the cost as much as I minded the waste baskets that were in the room. Leather, they had inserts that divided the baskets into two clearly marked parts: one part for trash, the other for recyclables. A separate sign in the bathroom indicated that in order to save the earth I could opt to use the towels again by simply hanging them up. If they were on the floor they would be replaced. Was it less than five years ago that hotel sheets were not changed everyday?

Please don't think I am against saving the earth, against the 'greening' of the country or something like that. I am all for that. And as soon as that hotel chain lowers its prices, I'll join the parade to recycle and reuse. Until then they can hire a trash separator.It won't be me.

And that's what I think about it.