10972 Kilometres: Happy New Year

That's pretty much it.

The last few hours of the year are ticking past, and many people are either celebrating already, or are preparing to party.

I am sitting here blogging, I would normally write a review of the year, but we all have had a rough time of it in 2020, and most of us will be glad to see the back of it.

There have been too many losses this year, and so few gains.

For my own particular reasons, I will be glad to leave the old year behind, but I am a realist, and don't expect much to change in the coming year. Yet there are things I hope for, I hope to have a new home, I hope that home is with my man, and I hope we can be happy there. If I achieve this much, I will declare it a good year.

So, 2020, prepare to die. You will not be missed.

2021 awaits us.

It is my sincere wish that everyone has a better time of it. Stay safe, and keep on truckin'

Soundtrack: Happy New Year - ABBA

9657 kilometres: One More Robot

 

A T-800 Hunter/Killer from The Terminator
("It absolutely will not stop")

"Alexa, create a blog entry."

I took the plunge, and ordered some Smart devices.

It wasn't really on my agenda, but when Amazon Music gave me access to Alexa, and she found music for me that I had forgotten about, and even some I'd not known about, but discovered I liked, I began to think about other ways she could help me.

Now, like any sensible person, I do have security concerns. I'm aware of how much I use the Internet, and the amount of stuff that already lives on various devices, and in The Cloud. I know that Smart stuff can provide an Access Point to a local network, but it's already the 21st Century, and I take precautions. 

I'm enjoying the novelty value of turning on the lights before I get home, as a test I went across the road, and asked for the lights to be turned on, and then giggled when it happened, figuring that range wasn't an issue, I went to put fuel in the car, and put the lights on from there, suspicion confirmed. I'm a simple girl, with simple needs, so this, to me, is that technology which is so advanced that it is indistinguishable from magic.

I have watched and read a lot of Sci-fi, and there are as many different ways the future could look, as there are plots in these books, and films, and while it often looks like it might turn out like "THX 1138" or "Minority Report," I prefer to think our future will turn out more like "Star Trek," than "Star Wars," In any event, being closer to death than birth, I'm unlikely to end up on a list in the office of the Thought Police, or running from some robot intent on putting me to work on the Meat Farm, or worse.

Instead, the Great Omniputor, will likely let me live out my days in relative peace until, at last it decides I've been around long enough, withdraws my life support, and sings quietly to me as I pass peacefully away, and begin the process of entropy. 

Soundtrack: One More Robot - The Flaming Lips