Identity Loss and Epiphany

 

The ether world both giveth and taketh away.

This morning when I was firing up my laptop, my attention wandered and created an “Oh noooooooo!” moment. I’ve been dodging Firefox’s nonstop prompts to download the next version. If there’s any way I can avoid change in my electronic efforts, I’ll do it. Except my cursor wandered over the yes prompt instead of the decline one.

So now I can’t stay logged in to my own blog; the sign-in button does nothing. If I want to reply to any of you nice folks without being anonymous, each time I have to go to a “select profile” box and click on “Google account”. Annoying. Who knows what other horrors are awaiting me.

On the plus side, thank you Google for being an unending source of trivia.

We were watching a new mystery on Masterpiece last night, Sherwood, which I highly recommend – how can you go wrong with the fabulous Lesley Manville of ‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’? (Also, look for the dark comedy ‘Mum”)

(To save you from looking him up, too)

In a crowd scene I spotted a familiar face. He only appeared for the blink of an eye, and wasn’t seen again for the rest of the episode. But I knew this was someone who couldn’t possibly be playing an extra. I did remember him from ‘The Full Monty.’ So, I looked that up. Aha! Mark Addy! He’s been in any number of things, one of whom I’d forgotten- ‘Game of Thrones’, as King Robert Baratheon. Reading on, I learned that Addy won’t show up until the last two episodes of the ‘Sherwood’ series.

Amazing all the little questions we used to leave unanswered unless they could be found in that big dusty set of encyclopedias on the living room bookshelf.