February 6, 2026: What's Up?

 What's Up?

The jig is my usual response.  Sarcasm is part of the DNA of my family.  Family communication accepts it as normal responses.  That has changed with addition of our DIL's family.  Well, her dad gets it.  She is not a fan.  It goes completely over the head of her daughter, our Granddaughter #1.  That means often a response has to be explained.  Often there will still be a puzzled look in response to the explanation.

Communication is so very important in relationships.  Relationships with individuals, organizations, and between nations.  Communication can take so many forms.  People actually being present and talking.  All the electronic options from phone calls, face time, emails, texts, and the list goes so far beyond those.  Take for instance my Hubby's hobby, amateur radio.  Yes, speech is probably the number one way of communication between the hams, as they are called.  Number two is Morse Code.

For those of you unfamiliar with Morse Code, here is an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.^[3][4] It is named after Samuel Morse, one of several developers of the system. Morse's preliminary proposal for a telegraph code was replaced by an alphabet-based code developed by Alfred Vail, the engineer working with Morse. Vail's version was used for commercial telegraphy in North America. Friedrich Gerke simplified Vail's code to produce the code adopted in Europe, and most of the alphabetic part of the (ITU) "Morse" is copied from Gerke's revision."

Hubby meets up 'on the air' on a semi regular basis with other hams to practice code.  Dits and Dahs float through the apartment.  The electrical impulses will actually turn on and off his bedside table lamp that has touch control.  Yes, that is rather strange.

One form of communication that is offensive is what the man in the White House does in the middle of the night using AI.  Putting himself in a plane and dropping poo on protesters.  Dressing himself as the Pope.  Last night he posted a racist image of former President Obama and First Lady Michelle.  Actually, those forms of communication show such an uncouth nature.  It is shameful for our nation as a whole.

I'll take the dits and dahs that turn on the light next to my bed any day.  Meanness has no place in a civilized nation. 

Thanks for stopping by got a bit,

Janice