Opus 2026-100: No Events Today

I knew that.

As I was looking at my home screen, I noticed that the Calendar app is still there even though I never use it and it informed me that I had no events today.  Actually, I do have an event today, but I have that event every Friday and so I really don’t need to be reminded by my computer about what I’m going to do this evening.

I keep a date book.  I write important things in it.  Next week I have an appointment with the dentist.  This week I had an appointment do you have a CAT scan.  I know I go to church on Sunday morning and when possible on Wednesday night.  I don’t need my computer to tell me that I have an event today.

I have pretty much always been this way.  I use a date book.  I check it every once in a while but even in my early stages of potential dementia, I know generally what I’m doing this week.  It used to be I would get up in the morning and go to work.  I didn’t need my calendar to remind me of that.  If I was in a good mood, I would remember to come home.  Usually, I would schedule several stops on the way to pick up groceries that were on sale at one of the many markets that existed in Southern California.

We have so many aspects of our life that our computers are trying to control.  Often when I go online to check my emails it urges me to sign up for some AI application.  I don’t need an AI application to check my emails.  I don’t need an AI generated summary every time I do a search on Google.  I don’t know if Google realizes it, but I am getting less and less willing to submit myself to the nonsense that they keep throwing my way.  I’m finding it of less and less value because it doesn’t bring up things that I know were there that should be at the head of the list.

Visit your local library.  Don’t bother putting it on your events calendar, just go.  If you don’t have a library card, shame on you.  Get one.  Check out a few books.  Take them home.  Find a good easy chair and read them.  Rinse.  Repeat.

Usually, if you forget an event for the day, it’s because it wasn’t all that important anyway.

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