Right Place at the Wrong Time

 

"I been in the right place
But it must have been the wrong time
I'd have said the right thing
But must have used the wrong line
I been on the right trip
But I must have used the wrong car
Head is in a bad place and I wonder what it's good for

I been in the right place 
But it must have been the wrong time

My head is in a bad place
But I'm having such a good time

I been running trying to get hung up in my mind
Really got to give myself a good talking to this time 
Just need a little brain salad surgery
Got to que my insecurity

I been in the wrong place
But it must have been the right time
I been in the right place
But it must have been the wrong song
I been in the right vein
But it seems like a wrong arm
I been in the right world
But it seems like wrong-wrong-wrong wrong-wrong

Slipping dodging sneaking creeping hiding down the street
See my life shaking with every who I meet
Refried confusion is making itself clear
Wonder which way do I go to get on out of here
I been in the right place
But it must have been the wrong time
I'd have said the right thing
But I must have used the wrong line
I took the right road
But I must have took a wrong turn
I took a right move
But I made it at the wrong time
I was in the right trip
But I made it in the wrong car
Head is in a good place and I wonder what it's bad for ..."

Dr. John, 1973
The bass line in this song seems to lift my spirits.

Dancing to the BeeGees

Dancing!  Fun!  Smile!  Exercise!  Memories ...   Do, stand up, move, and groove to Disco Dancing. 

John Travolta dancing in Saturday Night Fever (1977).  A dark and disturbing film.

Keyboard Fun Over the Years

I first learned to use a manual typewriter in 1960.  I think it was a Hermes 3000, purchased by my parents.  I became keyboard proficient and could type up to 55 words a minute with a high degree of accuracy by 1961.  I used a portable manual typewriter, office typewriter, or electric typewriter in high school, college, and at my part-time City of Commerce Library job from 1961-69.  





In 1970, I volunteered for and was assigned to work as a Personnel Specialist at the Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi.  I coded IBM cards with personnel information.  In 1971, I was working at Keesler in Officer Personnel Information Services and using a Burroughs online computer system and a computer keyboard (no mouse).  I was honorably discharged from the U. S. Air Force in 1973 with the rank of E5.  

Keesler was part of Air Training Command, and trained upwards 15,000 Air Force personnel each month primarily in electronics used by the U.S. Air Force.  I met with officers and enlisted men on their personnel business, and helped them with processing in and out of Keesler for temporary duty training.  At that time, 1970-1973, the U.S. Air Force was extremely busy in the destructive Vietnam War.  


From 1973 until 2017 I was employed where some kind of computer keyboard or electric typewriter was at my workstation, office, or at nearby locations.  I was employed as a librarian, supervisor, manager, coordinator, adminstrator, writer, technology and media services supervisor, teacher ... with my fingers on dozens of keyboards over the decades.  

The keyboard and mouse have been my interaction with computer software.  I still have a great computer set up at home in 2020.   

So, a keyboard under my fingers controlling computer software or mechanical typewriters has been an essential part of my educational life, scholarly life, librarianship life, community service life, employment life, professional life, creative life, or daily life from 1960-2020.  The skillfull, speedy, and effective use of keyboards and mice controlling computer software is critical and essential to succes in business in 2020.  

In 2020, I now use a Logitech MK 710 wireless keyboard and mouse in my home office connected to a Dell Inspiron desktop computer running Windows 10.  

  




Some of my webpage reading Keyboard Shortcut Favorites are:

Ctrl + F    Search the document to Find something

Ctrl + +   Increases the size of the font displayed on the screen for html documents

Ctrl + -    Decreases the size of the font displayed on the screen for html documents

Ctrl + P    Prints the document displaying on the screen

Windows Symbol + E   Opens the File Manager Explorer   

Credence Clearwater Revival Hits on the Harmonica

Credence Clearwater Revival Band  1969-1972

You Can't Dance and Stay Uptight

Dancing in the Moonlight
By King Harvest
1972

"We get it almost every night
When that moon gets big and bright
It's supernatural delight
Everybody was dancing in the moonlight

Everybody here is out of sight
They don't bark and they don't bite
They keep things loose, they keep things light
Everybody was dancing in the moonlight

Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight

We like our fun and we never fight
You can't dance and stay uptight
It's supernatural delight
Everybody was dancing in the moonlight

Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight

Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight"

Hot Stuff

The late Donna Summer brings us back to the disco days of bad girls and Saturday night fevers.  One of the great Queens of Disco!  Hot Stuff!!