Pounding The Keyboard

       In the news these days and on my FB News Feed a lot are the wife and husband who own a construction company, and who, almost a   year ago, flexed their forty (yes, 40) luxury vehicles inside their mansion’s mall-like parking area. Why the hell would you need and want forty luxury vehicles? The wife was even heard claiming that they actually owned almost a hundred vehicles.      So, I have an FB friend who was so happy and excited to receive an email from a publishing company telling her that they were excited to work with one of her online novels, which means they would want to print it and distribute it. And printing it would mean shelling out money—specifically, her shelling out money and giving it to them. Yes, it’s more likely a scam.      Taylor Swift is getting married. I am not a fan, though. If I would be asked to name one of her songs to save my life, I’d fail and die.      A few days ago, I was ...

       Five years ago, weeks before the pandemic, I thought I damaged a nerve or strained some muscle on my back. I couldn’t move my left arm well, I couldn’t raise it and it hurt when I put my hand on my back. I also felt pins and needles and some burning sensation throughout my body, which felt worse during the night. And I would wake with my whole body aching, like I was just mauled by a violent minotaur. It was an experience you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy.        Naturally, I went to Google, not to a doctor, lol, and found some exercises to treat it. And after a few weeks, I thought I got healed, I could already move my arm well, I could raise it and move it to my back without pain and I could ride my bike without pain, and the pins and needles and burning sensation were gone. Only downside, I still could feel some minor pain when I tried to lift some weights. I wasn’t a bodybuilder so it was okay, I just avoided lifting some heavy we...

       I don't know, but if I had a few billion dollars in the bank, I would stop seeking ways to have more money, especially through politics or manipulation or grifting. I would just secure my loved ones’ future, buy everything I want, like a private jet with an amusement park inside, and a racetrack (for horses), and hold a private concert for Radiohead in the living room of my mansion, produce a Hollywood movie about Pink Floyd, lol, and then, donate the rest of the money to charities that help ease poor people’s lives, and build animal shelters (especially dogs), ones where there won’t be no need for adoption. What are you gonna do with so much cash? Eat it?      But alas, I don’t have billions in the bank. When I last checked my GCash, it only had 600, 500 of which I then donated to a rescue shelter for dogs and cats. The one hundred left, I’d buy some whole wheat bread.      Meanwhile, on my Facebook News Feed, a female conten...

       “What are the songs that instantly make you happy or feel good the moment it plays and what songs instantly make you sad?’      I saw this question just this morning on a Facebook page that I don’t even follow. I didn’t comment but I looked at the answers and saw lots of familiar happy and depressing tunes (for the feel-good songs, I saw The Turtles’ “Happy Together” a lot and for the sad ones, I saw, expectedly, “Alone Again (Naturally)” a lot.      For me, I had a lot of instant feel-good songs, but the first one that came into my mind that moment was Paul McCartney’s “Coming Up.” Years ago, that song always perked me up. I haven’t had the opportunity to listen to it again for months now, I think, but I think it still would have the same effect on me once I hear it again. I once read an article that John Lennon changed his mind from retiring from music into being active again the moment he heard “Coming Up.” “A good piece of...