I think I'm too old to change.

Or maybe I’m just exceptionally comfortable with the way things already are. Blogspot — the website that hosts the Howdygram — has decided (once again) to change its blogger interface for composition and editing, resulting in a format I definitely don’t like and on-screen type that’s too small to read when I’m entering HTML code. Right now this is all still in a “try me” phase so I keep reverting back to the older style I like better. The clock is ticking, though. One day very, very soon I’ll have to deal with this baloney and write the Howdygram on a screen that I absolutely hate. I want to slap somebody for doing this to me. Seriously.

I just read an article on MSNBC.com that Alzheimer’s may be transmissible like mad cow disease. Holy crap, I wonder if this means your cattle won’t remember your name, they’ll forget where they left the keys to the back gate and you’ll have to hire a cow-sitter if you go away for the weekend.

I might be a little confused about this, however. It was a pretty short article — just enough to screw with a person’s head, like another fairly brief story I read this morning about huge amounts of contaminated imported seafood taking over our food supply. Apparently the new normal these days is “panic journalism” that’s designed to scare you half to death. Mad cows, infected fish, salmonella chicken, terrifying spinach, poisoned cantaloupes. Effective immediately I’m on the Howdygram Cheetos and Beefaroni Diet, two of the safest foods known to man that could survive a nuclear holocaust. Another is Twinkies, whose primary ingredient is polyester, except I’m diabetic.

Thank you for reading this.