One of the best things about writing a blog? I pay attention to each of my random musings hoping to snatch a topic from their midst.
One of the worst things about writing a blog? I pay attention to each of my random musings hoping to snatch a topic from their midst.
Typically my ideas come while I’m driving and either listening to NPR or a random music station. I don’t have access to satellite radio in my car, so I’m at the mercy of whatever turns up on my am/fm dials.
Since I can’t type a note during drive time, I have gotten in the habit of leaving myself voice notes through SIRI on my iPhone. This is a wonderful tool that I also implement for grocery lists and appointment reminders. I highly recommend it. Just be sure to speak slowly and distinctly.
Some of my notes have gone amusingly wrong. An idea for a blog post called “Swap Meet Saturday” went through the following permutations before I got it right:
Lock gate Saturday
Call me Saturday
Swamp Meat Saturday
I like the title “Swamp Meat Saturday” a lot, so it might be featured in a future post.
Similarly, I wanted to write a post about the amorous insects the locals call “love bugs,” those annoying little insects that hook together in some sort of in-flight mating ritual. I asked SIRI to take the note, “Love Bugs are in the Air.” Instead I got “Love Butter Beware!” Again, I have plans for writing about Love Butter in the future, perhaps on my adults only blog site.*
Just a few days ago I wrote a post called “Hypochondria and the Art of One Upmanship.” The voice reminder for that translated first as “Hypochondriac and One’s Up On the Ship,” then as “Hypochondria and the One on the Ship.” Both possible future titles!
I don’t think SIRI and I are in sync all the time, but we make it work. Kind of like a good marriage. She has some really great random thoughts. I just can’t figure out why she can’t understand me. Everyone else seems to. Right?
*I don’t really have an adults only site.
Peace, People.
Praying for Eyebrowz 
funny stuff! Siri seems to have a wicked sense of humor. She does that to me quite frequently. I’m used to it though, my husband does it too. I wonder if he and Siri are related?
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Ha! SIRI told me a golf joke the other day. I’d asked her for directions to the nearest golf club and she said something like,”I broke 70 one day. It made a huge mess.” Then she gave me directions. I’d never had that happen before.
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