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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
  • I’m sporting a Walmart haircut. Which is fine because I wear a hat and I don’t own a mirror. #
  • Time to sit on my sister’s patio and drink coffee. I had stopped drinking coffee. But I’m here and it’s here and what are you going do? #
  • Taking a stroll around the outside of my sisters house. Between 2 decks and 4 patios, she has outdoor seating for 27 people. Ha! #
  • I fed my sister’s llamas. I have to stand between them or the bully one will try to eat the other one’s food. I am the new alpha llama. #
  • I’m worried the airline will lose or damage my gear. So, I bought a cheap duffle bag to throw all the stuff I can’t carry on into; the … #

Until we win, tinySpell.

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

If you are waiting to learn to spell as a form of protest until English spelling makes sense, instead of the random use of letters and sounds that require a person to clutter up their mind with memorizing each word, I applaud your noble cause. 

If between now and that glorious day when the letter “C” will be stricken from the alphabet (because if you have a “k” and a “s” you do not need a letter “c”) and when we have a  phonic based language, you might find a spell checker handy. 

I have Tiny Spell on my computer.   It runs constantly in the background, beeping everytime I misspell a word in any application, and does an excellent job of guessing what word I’m trying to spell.   It’s a free down-loadable program and is one of the handiest programs on my computer.