Rats! As one can clearly see from yesterday's post, the spacing strategy did not work. This means I will be indenting my paragraphs from now on. Let's see if that effort can also be subverted by some unseen force or formatting.

Carol took the plunge today and applied for Social Security Retirement Benefits effective 1-1-12. That means as my neighbor puts it "We be pensioners come the new year." In Mr. P's musings, he often wonders why certain words fall out of fashion and we all have to learn the new vocabulary. Has intra-species really been improved? Part of it may well be attributed to political correctness. I will grant you that some of those changes have been long in coming. Other examples make me think of the opening chapter of "The Virginian," where the distinction is made between smiling and not smiling when one calls someone an SOB. It has been some 40 years since I read those words. I think they have real merit, but I still haven't brought myself to try that advise out when I meet a new neighbor. Maybe when I am a little older.

Now what? I just previewed this post and found that the indents disappeared. Have the grammar gods changed the rules of written discourse? I'm not asking for much; I just don't want run-on paragraphs. My thoughts are specious enough already. I think it is time to sign off, take responsibility for what I can change, accept what I cannot change, and watch the Brewer's game.