A Pleasant Day
My first birthday greeting of the day came from the Wii Fit when I started it up at 5:45 am. Followed shortly thereafter by the Hubs, and the Empress, via ecard. (Ecards came later from Golf and R, so, thank you to all!) And K, of course, but that was delivered in person.
My birthday gift from school, apparently, was that we interviewed and picked someone to be the substitute librarian come February when the SCM leaves. (Oh heavens! I'll have to think up a diary name for her!) Anyway, an uneventful day, pleasant enough. After school, K and I went out to buy lottery tickets, because if there's anything I really, really want for my birthday this year, it's a million dollars.
Anyway, I picked up a mini-Key Lime cheesecake for birthday dessert, and I see by the clock on the wall that the time has come.
WATCHING QUANTUM LEAP :: ENTRY #1962
READING: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke
happy birthday!!!! yay!!
ReplyDeleteHappy happy birthday to you!!!
ReplyDeleteHow do you like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell?
The happiest of birthdays!
ReplyDeleteMy dad is a Vietnam vet, who served in the earlier years of the war... as well as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs. He liked Nixon, as did my mother, because aside from the Watergate scandal, he ended the war... and did a few other things that Johnson did not do. (Uh, my brain's shot, sorry... or I'd list them.)
ReplyDeleteNeedless to say, it goes back to the whole Kennedy vs. Nixon televised debates. If it were televised, would Kennedy have won? A survey completed in the 1960s summized that if it were a radio debate, more people would've voted for Nixon. I think that intrinsically, he was a decent president, followed by one who did nothing special (Ford) and another who is blamed for the whole inflation/gas lines thing (Carter).
Every president does things that people will sneer at. Many do things that we are not privvy to, and therefore we don't get a chance to sneer. Bummer. Sometimes I like to sneer. :)
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