Apparently, I have not been around here for the past few days. I have been outside a lot, raking a lot, picking up the windblown trash a lot, fighting a lot of grapevines. That does not really explain such a long absence, so I am wondering if while outside I was abducted and probed.

I did watch the movie Interstellar which involved the relative nature of time. That, in itself, took two and a half hours. I did not realize the movie was that long when I started watching and spent the last 45 minutes asking myself, “Is this going to be the ending?”

I also viewed “The Imitation Game” and might actually buy it when the price drops. If you look on the Internet, you can find the actual crossword puzzle that was published in England in order to recruit code breakers. I had to explain to someone that English crossword puzzles contain a good many clues/answers that involve word play and are not as straight forward as the usual crossword puzzle in US papers.

Come to think of it, people around me lately might have a whole different idea of cross words.