Jail Bird J
Hi again, [J].
A nightcap.
Now, in that pic you sent, what in heaven’s name were you doing, standing in front of a jail? 
That place looked really cool.
I found a pic my siblings, plus one. This is of my sisters, a niece, and me, taken in late 1997 over the Christmas holiday. Front row (left to right): Joann holding her daughter Katie, Christine, and Mary Ann. Back Row: me, and Diane. Christine and Diane are the twins.
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Were you ever married before?
Not a TV fan, ‘eh? I like 60 Minutes now and then, but can’t bare to watch it every week. Sometimes during the day while working at home, I’ll put CNN on here in the home office. And I like shows like The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Lost in Space, JAG, Star Trek Voyager, and All in the Family. But when I’m dating someone, I rarely watch these. These are just filler for the lonely times I guess.
No, the world doesn’t make sense. Mom says that she wasn’t really happy until she STOPPED trying to make sense out of it. But continuing to move toward total understanding, though we know we’ll never get there in our life times, is still good to do. It provides purpose, and while each step up that mountain of mental expansion can agonize, there also comes the joy of having learned something new. IMHO, the trick to avoiding depression and feelings of worthlessness is to keep the mind busy assimilating new information. That “ah ha!” feeling when an insight bursts into the conscious mind is quite the antidepressant. I like to have at least one of those “ah hah!” experiences each day. And it need not be an earth shattering discovery. Today’s “ah hah!” for example, was that I fixed a squeaky wooden rocking chair. Sunday’s “ah hah!” was the installation of new memory in one of the home computers. Depressed people do not have enough of these “ah hahs” in their lives. One could argue that without “ah has”, then there is no life – thus, the command, “Get a life!!!” that friends often say to someone who has been down in the dumps for an unusually long time. But I’m off babbling again.
Well, once again, off to bed. The cold is just about gone, so I’ll not be having any mint tea tonight.
Talk to you later.
