Life Lessons 101

• Four days away from work sure passes by a lot quicker than four days spent at work. I think someone is messing with the ticking seconds. I wonder how four days of retirement plays out in this scenario?
• How my life has changed ..... These days I get as excited about the purchase of a new piece of cookware as I do about a new vinyl record.
• If the instructions state to use a potholder to grasp the handle, then do so!!
• Just because some guy who only identifies himself as "Frank" puts a semi-slick video on youtube claiming that the beginning of the end is going to occur the day after tomorrow, it doesn't mean that I have to believe him. Hell, his actual name probably isn't even Frank. I wish I had started keeping a notebook forty years ago with all these various doomsday claims so I could assign huge check marks to each as they have failed to take place.
• In keeping with the conspiracy theme .... I wonder if that armed division of Russian troops that I read about twenty or thirty years ago, waiting beneath the streets of Indianapolis, is still down there? I wonder if they ever got the word that Stalin is no longer in power?
• A personal belief with no basis other than years of living .... God prefers that we don't get tattoos on our body.
• I've had problems understanding whenever I'd hear of people from my age group, falling down for no apparent reason .... Until it almost happened to me. Suddenly it's not such a mystery.