March 16, 2005

Wow! Woke up this morning to the realization that another day had slipped by without even a teeny whoop-de-do. A huge amount of those have come to pass in the last month or so. Giving it some thought I'd say the more proper wording would be like over the last several years. It's like life is getting past us with our taking but very little advantage of all the opportunities afforded us every day. Yep, we spend most of our days just coasting and that needs to be changed! I'm going to give that some serious thought during today's coast.

Coasting or not, I expect that today will find us eating a free or two for one buffet at one of the gambling joints here about. We'll gamble a little too, starting with the free five dollar primer that the crooks give us to really get the pockets pumping. Too much of that leaves nary a cent for tipping the waitress at the buffet. Maybe she should get a job in the bingo parlor where they expect or even seem to demand a percentage of every pot paid. Their demands go unheeded when I hit for a pot. Of course they don't miss much since I've only won once and that time I had to split it with another winner. Still fifty dollars wasn't too bad. Why would the lady that paid me think she was entitled to any part of that? She didn't stake me to any of the games. That really irks me and here I sit hoping to be irked many times in the very near future. I do believe a bingo session is on Glenda's list today too.

When I worked in a shoe factory years ago a nice lady told me that I was a good pilot. I quizzed her on that statement only to find out she meant pile-it. She said she thought I did a real good job of piling a little here and piling a little there. I can't imagine what brought that memory up but I do think that I've piled up here about all I can for this day.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.~-Daniel Hudson Burnham