Welcome to April 19, 2022. Yesterday I tried to step over a gas house at the Sam’s Club gas station, failed and did header into the cement. I’m fine, no bones were broken, and I’ll mend quickly, however, it could have been much worse. Yesterday could have been the end. The lessons from yesterday are 1. Never try to step over a gas hose again, and 2. Enjoy every day because you don’t know how many you’ve got left. This one is Bicycle Day, Go Fly a Kite Day, National Garlic Day, Humorous Day, National Amaretto Day, National Hanging Out Day and Oklahoma Bombing Remembrance Day. If you recall, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were the bombers and 168 people were killed. The were right wing extremists trying to avenge the attack on the Branch Davidians in Waco Texas. Continuing with the history of today, in 1775 the first shot was fired in the Revolutionary War at Concord. In 1919, the French assembly established the 8–hour workday. On this day in 1927 actress Mae West was found guilty of “obscenity and corrupting the morals of youth” and fined $500 and 10 days in jail. The publicity launched her Hollywood career. Finally, this is the day in 2011 that Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba’s central committee after 45 years of holding the title. It’s now time for a quote from someone dead. 1st is Lord Byron who said, “Always laugh when you can. It’s cheap medicine.” Next the novelist Daphne du Maurier who said, “A poor workman blames his tools”. And I’ll end with the Mexican poet Octavio Paz who said, “The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us ‘Not Yet,’ and thus denies us. Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.” Abide.
