I am overdosing on basketball today.

I have a feeling this will go down as a lost weekend.

But what a way to go.

It still is, 50 years later:


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Yesterday I made a comment about shenanigans being permitted on St. Patrick's Day.

Mentor commented I had forgotten Halloween.

On Halloween, you have the option of trick or treat.

On St. Patrick's Day, there is only one option and that is shenanigans.

One other observation, unrelated to shenanigans or trick or treat:

Three people were killed in our capitol city over a disagreement over the $1,400.00 stimulus check.

When I was a young man, here in my hometown, a gas station attendant was killed during a robbery of $25.00.

One could say, trying to be thoughtlessly humorous, that the value of life has increased with inflation.

To me, it only shows that people still don't value human life where money, no matter how little, is concerned.

Sadly, some things do not seem to change.

The one day of the year where shenanigans are permitted.

Have a happy one!

... with mother Nature.

Throughout history, nature has, from time to time, come up with her own plan to 'thin the herd', so to speak.

In the Middle Ages, the Bubonic Plague killed 20 million (or almost 1/3) people in Europe.

Following WWI, the Spanish Flu infected 500 million people world wide, with 50 million people dying - 675,000 in the U.S.A. alone.

Then, in the 1980s, the AIDS epidemic hit.

And now, COVID-19.

So far, 120 million cases, with over 2 1/2 million deaths - almost 550,000 in the U.S.A. alone, and those numbers keep climbing as we race to get vaccines out to everyone.

Yes, there are still things new under the sun and a lot of those surprises are deadly.

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I had not put my winter coat away yet and I'm glad.

The same storm that dumped a few feet of snow on Denver has arrived here.

Fortunately, it has only produced rain, but the temperature is hovering in the 30s.

Ah March, with it's ups and downs.

Tomorrow is supposed to be in the upper 50s.

SMH

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DST.

15 years ago, our state changed over to DST.

It was tried for about four years when I was a kid and nobody liked it, so they switched back.

Now, everyone is bitching (except the golfers), but no one is trying to switch back.

I live in a very conservative state.

... to go swimmin' with bow-legged women

and swim between their legs.

I've had both my shots and I'm house trained.


Now all I need is a match.

... than fiction.

I should have saved the article, but I read in the newspaper where the CDC has issued guidelines for a Zombie outbreak.

Be prepared!

:O