Youffraita sent another letter, today, and I am still not sure how she will get the wifi for her computer, but she hopes to do so. In the meantime, she is in an 11x11 room and she inherited a bureau, a small TV with a built in tape player (though she has no tapes), and two mini fridges. She has two floor fans and a ceiling fan and some lamps.
She would really like a computer desk and chair…this may be the only chair she will have. She mentions sitting on the floor and sleeping on the floor. In an earlier letter she had hopes of buying a mattress, but seems to prefer the desk instead. She says sleeping on the floor is good for her back, but I think she is just trying to be brave. Also a couple of bookcases would be good.
I am sending her a check and maybe others would like to help, too. She said before that she didn’t mind if I gave her address to a few friends. I just don’t want a bunch of strangers to have it or have her real name passed around too freely. A couple of years ago, two people sent me gift cards which I sent to her, but a few months ago we had trouble with our mail so bad that I wrote a letter to the local post office about it. I never heard back. So I don’t want to try taking things for her, but prefer they are sent to her personally.
Without a computer set up there is no hope of Paypal or GoFundMe and I don’t know how to help her with that even if she does get wifi. Maybe someone else could help her with that when she makes it back to us. In this letter she says her work place makes her take 3 weeks of vacation…not at once, I guess…but she is thinking of taking one week soon. But it is unpaid and it makes it hard to make her rent and eat so there is that, too.
Send me a Kos Mail if you do want her address.
Message from Youffraita:
Tell everyone I hope to be back Real Soon Now. And I appreciate all the good wishes and computer advice. I do like my new room. I miss my old one, but this building is much better kept up and much better built to begin with. I mean, it’s really nice: old enough that I can blast the TV to me inside my room & still barely hear it as soon as I go out and shut the door. (Reason for blasting is the white noise from the window fans, LOL) Gotta have ‘em.
So it is quiet-except for the traffic & after 20 years in (mostly) midtown Manhattan, and another 10 on one of the main drags here, traffic is NOTHING at this location.
Dearest Tara: No worries. No Least Grebes here, more’s the pity & no Transom Alligators either. Birdeez trying to teach a fledgling to fly.
Also, the cats are all indoors only. I can’t take Spitfire until I get a litter box, tho.
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Brecht:
Yes, of course one always wants to learn more. I am embarrassed to say how long it was before I could confidently use “whom” correctly.
You will love Beowulf. Heaney waited for decades before he felt he could do it right-but when he did, he deserved all the accolades the critics gave him. And I’m not a huge fan of epic poetry unless it’s gob-stoppingly wonderful.
Would love to read Gaiman’s Norse Mythology.
Good luck understanding literalists. They clearly do not understand parables. Nor any other kind of literary device. But you are a better person than I am. I miss you, Brecht. Hope to be back soon. Might need vacation to get fully settled in including internet. But I SHALL RETURN. Have no doubts about that.
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rebel ga: Thank you so much for the Win 10 audio tips. Will check them out as soon as I’m back. Also for your free hug coupon.
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To jabney: Thanks! Once I’m back online I can try out what you said. For now, it’s TV only (groan…well, except for Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert & Samantha Bee. Feel free to add anyone I don’t know about).
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To kishik: So jealous! Great shows you get to see! Actually, local theater here gets a fair amount of Equity actors. And a friend has expressed interest in going to see some plays with me. Just waiting for the schedule of the new season.
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To gizmo59: It’ll take a while to find my way back to theatricals. But I’ve missed doing them. Gotta get back in form, n’est-ce pas?
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Hugs to Wee Mama! Pirates of Penzance sounds like fun-delighted you got to see it with son & with his friend in the cast.
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Sending best wishes to all who sent me a comment. Thank you so much!
Please feel free to send Youff messages in the comments. I will be sending a letter to her ASAP and I will include them in it. I will hope she shows up here and surprises us, though, very soon.