Another beautiful day - 61 degrees, not a cloud in the sky. The weather has been spectacular these past few days. Blah, blah, blah.Rode on the sidewalk down Mem drive today. Some days I get a skittish feeling if it seems the drivers are being a bit more unruly than usual. I started off on the road, but moved to the sidewalk/bike path about a quarter of the way down. You can see by the photo of the outcrop right before Land Blvd that things get a little tight if you're riding on the road. Blah, blah, blah.
Today is Thelonious Monk's birthday. He was born in 1917 - the same month and year that the Bolsheviks took over in Russia. October is a big month for birthdays. Dizzy Gillespie was also born in October 1917. My mother was born in October, my wife was born in October, my sister-in-law was born in October. It's really just a month of parties.
It's also a month of bad news. I got the news that the division of the company that I goof off for will be closing at the end of December. But as Stanley, the company janitor, says "Hey, at least your alive. You're here, and that's good." Crazy. He's always saying that, no matter what's going on. If he was thrown in a Turkish prison with nothing to eat but rats, he'd still say "Hey, at least I'm alive, I'm here, that's good." One of these days I'm going to tell him that every day isn't necessarily a good day.
2 comments:
Birth stats show that October is the most popular birth month. Must be something going on in February that gets folks frisky.
Sorry to hear that you're getting locked in a Turkish prison come December. If you need rats, I've got them infesting my house at present. Mice, whatever. Take all you want. We'll make more.
Hmm that's interesting about October. Never made that birthday connection before. I can add three more things to that list - all major life events - marriage, death and the closing of a business.
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