It is good to make provisions for all sorts of eventualities. A person may, for example, find her email access all messed up.
A person may, for example, find her blog commenting all messed up.
To all this I say, Go Fish
In these troubled times, it is good to walk down the road and make a plan with Cora to go have a fish dinner tonight. We can accomplish two things: We can have a nice time over a dinner someone else has cooked AND we can support camp scholarships for Boy Scouts. If you are from Around Here you can join us. If you are not free this evening, you can wait until next Friday and go then. I don’t see how you can go wrong.
I figure a person can never have too many pleasant dinners someone else has cooked, and a person can never have two many qualified Boy Scouts in the neighborhood. A person never knows when even crossing the road might become as complicated as email. If memory serves, assistance with road crossing is something of a Boy Scout specialty. Excellent.
I will tell you all about the desserts when I get back.
Torch Lake Views 
Heather
March 16, 2012
So THAT’S the trick to the new commenting woes on WordPress.
I think I would be much more tempted by the dinner if I hadn’t eaten entirely too much lemon-blueberry cupcake earlier.
Good luck getting your email fixed by. Such an unfortunate dangling preposition – and I’m no grammar police 🙂
Gerry
March 16, 2012
Yes indeedy to both. Many many bloggers have gotten in touch with the Happiness Engineers. No one, of course, has been able to get in touch with Bill at COLI on account of his email is down . . .
But bye and bye . . .
You might be hungry again by suppertime.
P.j. grath
March 16, 2012
“Happiness Engineers”? Why does that sound so scary to me?
Gerry
March 16, 2012
Because you are a person well-versed in history and the misuses of language?
shoreacres
March 16, 2012
How is it I’ve had no problems commenting? This worries me – The Happiness Engineers may have me in line for some other problem.
In any event, the dinner sounds lovely. I must ask – what are glazed cherry carrots? OH! Never mind. I think I figured it out. You live in cherry country, and it’s a cherry glaze that’s used much as we used maple syrup.
But I must tell you – there have been changes in the past few hours. I’m sitting in the middle of Louisiana now, in a town called Iowa (you know where the original settlers came from). I’m here to enjoy a rabbit cookoff tomorrow. They say rabbit will be served up braised, creoled, baked, frittered… who knows? And after we’ve eaten rabbit, we’ll see 400 prize rabbits on display. And then we’ll listen to Cajun and Zydeco music, and les bon temps will roulez. Perhaps we’ll even see some Boy Scouts.
Gerry
March 16, 2012
You have had no problem because you have a WP account and probably a Gravatar avatar as well and you are logged in when you comment. The problem is with folks who find their way here because they Googled, say, “Torch Lake + fabulous writer” or “old bat with disreputable dogs.” They aren’t bloggers. They are voyagers in Internet Space, seeking communion with exotic creatures such as Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and Miss Puss. We are always delighted to see them, and hope they feel comfortable here. What on earth is WP thinking?
The dinner was very tasty. The carrots were, as you surmised, cherry glazed. The desserts were presented most elegantly. Photos tomorrow, with a surprise Bonus Event and a Special Guest Appearance.
I am looking forward to your rabbit tales. While we had les bon temps they did not roulez in any meaningful way. This is Michigan in March, and we are a long, long way from our French Canadian roots.
Dawn King
March 16, 2012
Glad dinner was good…you are right you can never go wrong attending a Boy Scout function. Or a Girl Scout function for that matter. WP apparently is like any other big company…someone got a ‘great idea’ and no one paid attention to how it would REALLY work. At my company they have computer build installations every weekend. Most Monday mornings (and sometimes days into the week) are …well…I probably can’t say it out loud. But you get the idea. Something else is always broken after the build installation. So they fix it the next weekend with a new build. And then it’s Monday again. They’re installing a fix this weekend to an astronomical problem they created last weekend. I don’t have high hopes.
Gerry
March 17, 2012
You know, I think the whole thing is a metaphor for life. Maybe I’ll start a new blog: “And then it’s Monday again.”
Dinner was excellent and we had fun with the Scouts.
tootlepedal
March 17, 2012
There are plenty of unhappiness engineers about so it should come as no surprise to find one or two happiness engineers as well. I would include you, Gerry, in that group as you engender happiness in me when I read your blog (though it doesn’t have enough moaning in it to be really good).
I agree that you can’t have too many boy scouts. They are a ‘good thing’.
Gerry
March 17, 2012
Thank you, I think. (Am I an un-ironic Happiness Engineer or a creepily ironic HE? I suppose time will tell. It usually does.)
The scouts were very engaging, and it was heartwarming to see the whole town turn out to support them.
I am working up to a good moan over WordPress, but I will save that for later. It’s a pretty morning and the Duo need to have a walk. Me too.
Gerry
March 17, 2012
And now we have this update from Sybil:
Sorry Gerry, can’t leave comments. Perhaps you might want to switch to Blogger ?
Sybil
Gerry
March 17, 2012
Shoot. I can’t do all the heavy lifting around here. What would Torch Lake Views be without the conversation? I would switch to Blogger, but it is playing the same games as WordPress. Internet companies all want to own a person’s entire internet life. Good luck with that, guys. The Tea Party has absconded with the perfectly good Revolutionary era symbol of the coiled rattlesnake, so I am proposing a new symbol and a new slogan.
Don’t step on our tails.
Dawn
March 17, 2012
Oh that’s GOOD! I personally would take it very seriously if these two told me not to step on their tails!
Gerry
March 17, 2012
You are perceptive and wise.
Gail Davis
March 17, 2012
Which brings to mind the Boy Scout Motto: Be Prepared.
There are days when those words have special meaning.
Gerry
March 17, 2012
You are right. We have had many lessons in preparedness in the last few weeks. That reminds me. I still need the replacement chimney for my oil lamp . . .
Kathy
March 18, 2012
Go fish! Oh, this is a GREAT response! I am smiling all the way across Lake Michigan and beyond. Go fish! Sometimes the best response of all.
Gerry
March 18, 2012
I’m working hard at keeping my blood pressure under control.