Shakespeare's Sonnet # LXXIII (Read it)

.....Casting the musical which I titled "43!" is coming along.  There are some new talent who moved into the community, and they will certainly enhance the show.  If I can get CDs of the show, I will send them out to friends and relations.  Unfortunately the theatre is being renovated, so we can't get in there to begin rehearsals...and we certainly are going to need rehearsals.  Well, enough about the show.  We have put down a deposit at the Westchester Country Club's banquet hall for the 28th of February birthday party I'm to have.  Ten years ago I had my 80th there.  It'll be an extravaganza with plenty for our guests to eat and drink. So hold the date.  Who knows? You may get an invitation.  I did not want a big party, because I don't like being in the middle of a place with a lot of people.  Rh+ however, philosophized that you're only 90 once.  Yeah; if you can reach 90 and I'm not there yet.   If I do get there, I'll be amazed; then I might as well go for 100.  That's like Don Quixote trying to reach the unreachable star.  Maybe I'll get to be the oldest WWII vet alive.  Then they'd have to award me the Medal of Honor even though I have two of the highest combat medal the Navy awards--the DFC.

.....Speaking of birthdays, my virtual reality cousin, Ruth Grimsley, just had a birthday a couple of days ago.  I don't know how old she is, you never ask a lady her age or how much she weighs.  Nevertheless, I do hope she had a happy birthday; she keeps my spirits up one way or another.  Speaking of spirits, I have kept mine up by thinking of, not my life, but the lives of my children, and recently I thought about my son, Joel's, life.  He was a bright student in school, he played Little League baseball and was a great base stealer.  He picked apples one year in the summer; he graduated from Cornell; he went to Australia and was a teacher there; he worked on a kibbutz in Israel and wrote a book about that experience--so he was an author as well.  JR also spent 20 years or so in the CIA, and when he retired he went to work for a software company and kept an "office" in his basement.  Now he is the Vice President of that company and he has offices in a new building.  Now consider that he is over 60 (!) and is the captain and manager of a 55+ champion soccer team.  And, oh yes, I almost forgot, he married a beautiful girl, Barbara, and has two grown children, Adam and Hannah.  Now that has been quite an industrious, exciting, and noble life. He has made me proud and a grandfather.  I have three more "kids" and I will get to them eventually.

"Democracy is government of the people, by the people, for the people" (Lincoln)

........Well, finally the Grand Old Party buckled somewhat so that the job of keeping America on an even keel got somewhat done.  The Tea Party wing of the Republican Party is ripping it apart in their imbecilic frenzy to get rid of a black president.  If there is anyone who doubts that racism still exists in this country, well then it is a black mark on our democracy.  Democracy?  Not much left of what the founding fathers envisioned. What we have is a plutocracy or oligarchy; not much difference.  No doubt I might not live long enough to witness the people of this country taking charge of America at the ballot boxes.  For unless we do, the Lilliputians and Blefscudians will be running this country at the behest of the Yahoos.
..........Right now, I'm recovering from my sixth fall!  Yes, I have fallen for one reason or another--no doubt from carelessness primarily.  So I'm left with two broken hips and a lot of ripped skin.  I am subject to the ignominy of not being able to walk without the aid of a "walker" which I hate.  Every time I use it, I am reminded of how I ran two marathons and flew 60 missions in WWII aerial combat.  I flew with barely a scratch from enemy submarines, Messerschmitt's, and Japanese Zeros.  (That's how I became the Red Baron). And now I'm almost housebound.  RH+ drives me wherever I have to go; she is really my only friend and she is the epitome of what one can expect from a friend.  That is why she is a + and not a --.  Actually I do not have a single male friend in the world anymore; they've all died, and I am blessed to be able to live at least until I'm 90--and that will happen in another four months.  RH+, of course, is making a BIG party for me on Feb. 28.  Save the date in case you're invited.
........I am now proud of myself; I have written a musical which will be performed here on the last weekend of March.  I have not only written it, but I will also direct it.  So, now I join Rogers and Hammerstein and Steven Sondheim in the annals of hit musicals!

"After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser." (Franklin)

.....Well I suppose I have to write a post on this blog more often--(I hate when people pronounce the "t" in "often). I have had at least 5 readers who have asked me to continue this blog, so I must even though it's difficult.  I mean because there are tremors in my hand, I keep pressing the wrong keys--oops! There it goes again. Now I have to backspace and delete the wrong letters.

.....Today we went to the Westchester Country Club where there is a banquet building and selected the kind of dining we will entertain our guests with on Feb. 28.  Hold the date.  I did not mind not having a party because if my family comes, it will cost them a lot of money just to come for dinner!  I have four in California, about eight in Maryland, and three in the Navy--including one guy who just started walking I presume.  And of course there are cousins all over the place--and one cuz I never met who lives in England, of all places.  Too many Muslims there.  But I don't think she will come to the party; too far and too expensive. 

.....I suppose you all know that I fell for the sixth time a couple of weeks ago.  I had too much trouble getting out of the house with one hand on the walker, one hand trying lock the door, and the screen door resting on my butt; so the walker tipped over and I went with it.  I did a number with the skin on my arm and both knees.  RH+ called 911 and off to the ER they took me.  I was there for a few hours while the dressed my wounds and sent me home.  Now I have a nurse coming every other day to change the dressings.  I fell, but of course I already broke both hips from falls on two cruises, so at least I was fortunate not to have three hips.

.....Now, I have something political to say.  The Republican party--and particularly the Tea Party is destroying our government, and making us the laughing stock of the world.  There is no doubt in my mind that this wing of the GOP is fiercely racist, and doing everything they can to keep Obama from getting anything done.  At one time in Boston, a tea party tossed all the tea in the ocean.  Now, perhaps the Republican Tea Party, itself, ought to be tossed in the Ocean.  Oh, I have a better idea; allow the states whose government is irrational and racist secede from the Union.  Then the UnUnighted State's government would be smaller and thus find it more easily to function.  There.  I said it.  What is happening in our Congress these days is Un-American.