Passing Through
I just learned that a former co-worker, about 66, teammate on three company softball team championships, was taken by a massive heart attack. His dad lived into his 80’s. His poor mom is still living. I wonder if his heart were affected by Covid or the vaccine. I’m stunned. Condolences to his wife and all the kids and grandkids. So many have passed on lately, some much younger than me. Who’s next?
Columnist Erma Bombeck is credited with having said: “Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.” That’s how I’m feeling right now pressing on with this blog.
Here’s something I’d never heard of prior to this afternoon — a Rainbow Python:
Interesting and amusing headline from nypost.com: “New York inmates offered food, conjugal visits, more to get COVID vaccine.”
According to a headline at foxnews.com, Bill Cosby wants to return to comedy. Have the grace to go away quietly, man.
Facebook and youtube are valuable sites but, given their censorship of politics with which they don’t agree, I’m feeling guilty about using them. I easily ditched Twitter, from which I didn’t glean much, but I love hearing from relatives, friends and acquaintances at FB, and love the wonderful variety of videos at YT. How I wish both would chuck politics.
From an article at foxnews.com by Michael Ruiz, edited by yours truly: A Nashville woman is suing Tennessee officials after her vanity license plate, 69PWNDU, was taken away a decade after she first registered it. It combines the year of the moon landing and a common gaming term, a sort of in-your-face bragging about owning the player one has beaten. Why has it become taboo after ten years? State law allows it to revoke vanity plates that may carry connotations offensive to good taste and decency or that are misleading. How many people would even understand the plate’s intention? I didn’t. Did someone finally complain about it after ten years? Is there anything in life that isn’t offensive to someone? Government certainly becomes more so every day.
I let the forecast intimidate me into not running the floating book shop today. I could have easily set up at a nearby viaduct. All was not lost, however. I sought out local building porter Robert, who’d said he had a cache for me, and it turned out to be an awesome mix of English and Russian titles, many of them classics. My thanks, sir.
RIP, Kev:
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