Showing posts with label happy hour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy hour. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Wordplay Wednesday™ August 03, 2016 – Ruth



A Name by Any Other Definition … 

Ah yes, here I am again, fighting the clock, trying to post Wordplay Wednesday ON Wednesday … I made it in California time! Sigh.
 
All day, and yet NO work accomplished, NO progress made on anything, except to learn a new word that runs the gamut of my emotions …

RUTH (rōōth) n. –  1) pity, compassion; 2) sorrow, grief, remorse. [WW #71]  

Certainly Ruth at times, is a ruth by any other rosy name. Today, my ruth proved to be a stem-full of grievous thorns!

A simple renewal of my Trend Micro computer security program that should have completed in less than an hour, usurped the meat of my day, sucking up nearly four hours of precious time.

My initial lame attempt at imitating a bumbling techie, commandeered nearly two hours of my time. That was just the beginning …

Apparently incarnations of the program prior to my May installation of Windows 10, buried themselves so deep into my computer that it took another hour-and-a-half with a more knowledgeable bloke to cut the vines away.

TM’s tech rep, young Patrick, obviously from The Jetson’s age, labored patiently in remote access control (while I fumed). The difference is he knew what he was doing (I hope) and STILL it took that long! 

Consequently, this is a short and not so sweet Wordplay Wednesday. I feel your ruth (pity) for me. 

Not to worry, when finally I was up and running again, I proceeded to drown my ruth (sorrow, grief and remorse) in a lengthy happy hour!

Word of the Week: RUTH. Show your heartfelt ruth to others, while fitting it into your writings for the week.

                       
  

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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Wordplay Wednesday™ July 6, 2016 – Happy Talk



What makes you HAPPY?

Although the Universe loves to throw life changing cherry-bombs at me, I generally find a way to dodge or diffuse them before they can make me unhappy – at least for more than a day – or until happy hour. And we know it’s 5 o’clock somewhere!

After another such game-changer today, and needing to write this article, I wondered – what would make me happy – right now. Of course, the upcoming 500+ Mega Million$ lottery would make me smile – a lot. For the moment, though, I do what I always do to diffuse the bomb – write.

Curiosity got the best of me – how many “happy” terms are in the dictionary?

Of course, the Webster’s folks are relatively choosey. One might expect a bushel full of happy terms created with hyphens, and of course there are happy words running off to form “happiness,” and more. Officially, though, there are only five happy phrases, plus the core word.

You’re likely familiar with “happy camper,” “happy-go-lucky,” “happy hour” (my fave!), and “happy hunting ground.” But do you know the Webster’s “happy” term that is actually an oxymoron and (in my humble opinion) should be redefined?

HAPPY TALK (radio, tv) – a style of news presentation characterized by cheerful commentary and informal conversation among anchors during newscasts. [WW #67] 

 I don’t know about you, but I don’t think there is any way the newscasters can sugarcoat what is going on in our world these days!

What’s cheerful about terrorists, home invasions, and every news show trying to outdo the other with carnage and negative news?

“Happy” is a fleeting, subjective word – in our world, often it’s that which makes one person “happy,” turns someone else livid. Go figure.

This writing exercise has urged me to consider what – today at this moment – makes me happy.

The love of my family and close friends … and a cold beer in summer. Cheers!

Word of the Week: HAPPY TALK. Feel free to say what makes YOU happy on Twitter or Facebook, while fitting it into your own writings for the week.


                       


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