it took me forever to write this title, so i’m not going to quibble about the fact that the year disappeared.  

We bought a new computer – because my old one is incredibly slow and unwieldy.  And even though the camera shows all the mess in the corner of my study, I was happy with its speed.  But then, the new computer started shutting down in the middle of a zoom – and I’d move back to connect on the old computer, that I stubbornly refused to part with.  And now, Ezi, who can barely stand up with the pain from his shingles in his back, has spent the day on the phone with Mohammed, who is instructing him about resetting, rewiring, renewing the old computer.  It won’t work by the time I have a zoom in a few hours, and I’ll probably have to include Mohammed and Ezi in the event.  Moreover, Michael, who was supposed to be handling the technical issue of the zoom, has just handed over the reins to me.  So I’ll be hosting and pulling the strings at the same time.  On the creaky old computer. 

Oh, yes, our TV went two days ago.   The few pleasures of staying at home all the time are being denied us.  With a little wink, I remind you of the first verse of Samuel Johnson’s Elegy on his friend Dr. Robert Levet.