Rob, you got me. I don’t know how to respond, brother. ✌️
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The above is what happens when you try to write ;-) with the computer set to work in English, when the default is actually Spanish. Of course, this is a new development for me because for years I was accustomed to working the keyboard (a Spanish one by
acer) in English, and all was well except for the damned autospell thing that sometimes took upon itself to underline everything I wrote in red. But not always, which made life complicated.
However, on a recent visit, a family member decided to help me get with it, as it were, and changed the default setting to English. Now, unless I remember first, every time I start the machine and want to write, I end up with the wrong keyboard... which means I start and finish at the same moment. Is that quantum physics?
Not that I accuse my relative of being either opportunist or charlatan, but the moral is clear: change screws with you. To show that my idea is the right one, there is even a swamp pop rock song to complain about everything not remaining the same. Of course, there is obviously another that complains in the opposite direction, on the grounds that everything the singer's lady cooks tastes the same: fish or fowl or pudding. Maybe she was a charlatan and deceived him of her culinary prowess prior to the nuptials. There is also a song about peanut butter, but in the circumstances, I wouldn't recommend going there.
Stability is good, especially in politcs, as is now evident even to the dead or the locked.
Rob