In the morning, I went to my "Train Your Brain" class... fifteen people in attendance, more than ever. We did some interesting puzzles. Nice class.
Music in my head today: Another tune that I can't name... pop... but not current stuff that is called "pop". More melodic and memorable... where the instruments do not drown out the human voice.
After my brain got trained, I went to a luncheon for volunteers. Since I had volunteered for more than 100 hours last year, I got a "silver" volunteer award. (Actually, my volunteerism probably topped 100 hours in just two months.)
A nice sit-down dinner was served and the three persons at my table got crab cakes, which came quickly. However, as these poor folks waited politely for me to get my Cordon Bleu... I realized that the servers had forgotten me. I had to get up and find somebody in charge to get my food.... some bosses came over to apologize. Anyway, since I told my table mates not to wait for me, I got to eat alone. But it wasn't all bad... I had plenty of time to regale everyone with tales of my youth in Germany, and I didn't catch them nodding off.
Later, I took Elaine to Reisterstown for an eye examination. She ordered $800 worth of eyeware! It costs a lot these days to look stylish in specs.
Let's try some more old stuff:
Words to Live By
Here are some quotations taken from the 1983 edition of Words To Live By, a fantastic compilation of extremely important information from my wife and my friends... at least I thought so back then.
"Old dogs don't grow new spots." Elaine Vaughan
"When you stop to think, don't forget to start again." Candy Levroney
"Don't let anyone pull the bull over your eyes." Elaine Vaughan
"After you put your foot in your mouth, make sure you don't leave room for the other one." Phil Fribush.
"Never admit defeat until you are defeated...'cause you may be able to weasel out of it." Henry Drumheller
"We ride on four channels." Bernie Rubin
"That's like putting a Band-Aid over a big pus-hole." Larry Penn
"How come everybody gets quoted except me?" Marty Holtz
Other Quotes worthy of Consideration
"A whale in shallow water amuses the shrimp." Anonymous
"A Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged." Anonymous
"Refrain tonight, and that shall lend a kind of easiness to the net abstinence; the next more easy." Hamlet (on Quitting Smoking)
And now... a poem worthy of consideration.... a classic.
Coronemus nos rosis antequam marcescant
Let us drink and be merry, dance, joke and rejoice,
with Claret and Sherry, Theorbo and voice!
The changeable world to our joy is unjust,
All treasure's uncertain, then down with your dust!
For we shall be nothing a hundred years hence.
We'll sport and be free with Moll, Betty, and Dolly,
Have oysters and lobsters to cure melancholy;
Fish-dinners will make a lass spring like a flea,
Dame Venus, love's lady was born of the sea;
With her and with Bacchus we'll tickle the sense,
For we shall be past it a hundred years hence.
Your most beautiful bride who with garlands is crown'd
And kills with each glance as she treads on the ground,
Though now she be pleasant and sweet to the sense,
Will be damnably mouldy a hundred years hence.
Then why should we turmoil in cares and in fears,
Turn all our tranquill'ty to sighs and to tears?
Let's eat, drink, and play till the works do corrupt ups,
Tis certain, Post Mortem Nulla Volumpatas.
For health, wealth and beauty, wit, learning and sense,
Must all come to nothing a hundred years hence.
From Thomas Jordan (1612?-1685)
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enough!
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