Amongst the many recommendations for keeping your memory sharp is to do crossword puzzles.
The  New York Times crossword keeps me pretty sharp.

Except when it makes me feel like a dinosaur.

 A recent puzzle asked for the  online shorthand for "if you ask me."  It wasn't iyam which I imagine was already registered to Popeye. The correct answer was imho.  For those of you who have a burning desire to know, it stands for In My Humble Opinion.

The url http://www.netlingo.com is now my new best friend. And when I figure out if I want to Twitter, or more importantly why Twitter, or how to Twitter, I can use this site to help me maintain the no more than 140 character limit.

So now, you can be right there with the rest of the on line world.

iyswim.

I always was a fan of Bea Arthurs’.

The character Maude certainly epitomized the Boomer generation.
Norman Lear wrote her as a woman struggling with marriage, divorce, her daughter, abortion, aging…all the issues we may have, at one time or another, grappled with.

We met her again as Dorothy, living in retirement splendor, sharing her life with Blanche, Sophia and Rose.

And if you think about it, these four Golden Girls have the exact same character traits as Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte, respectively. Exactly the same.

I suppose then, in around thirty or so years, we’ll see the Sex and the City stars sharing a condo in Miami.

By then, I imagine, Candace Bushnell will have made another bundle chronicling the lives of Archie and Edith during the early days of their courtship.

They would have us believe that the best part of waking up is Folger's in your cup.
Not so much.
The best part of waking up is the relief in knowing that you are, indeed, awake.

Really, if there's any coffee to be had, I'd chalk that up to a bonus.