"I'm Gonna Live To Be a Hundred"

Because I just found out that if you do so, that you can request a birthday card from the Queen! Even though that does sound a bit senseless. After all if I have to request it how much will it really mean?

While I'm waiting to get the card I'm gonna practice some good habits so that I deserve it. I'm gonna try

1)not to suffer because of the actions or reactions of other people
2)not to manipulate situations so that others behave as I see fit
3)not to cover up anothers mistakes or misdeeds
4)not to create a crisis
5)not to prevent a crisis if it is the natural course of events

That's not a very long list but at least for me a daunting one. If I can truly achieve these few things by the end of my first century I will have accomplished something. I know I will be a happier and better person.

So enough with the serious stuff. Today a friend made the comment that it was friday and therefore "bath night". The comment seemed to imply that he had a bath once a week. Boy did that take me back. I don't know if it was just us poor immigrant farmer types but I can clearly recall that saturday was bath night for the week when I was a kid. Further to that I recall that we shared the water amongst several of us...or at least the boys. We would maybe get a quick warmup and a stir between bathers just to dissipate the scum a little bit. I also have a very clear memory of Mom dumping powdered laundry detergent on my head and telling me to scrub! And it all seemed so normal to me!

And in the winter we walked 20 miles to school in knee deep snow without any mittens, and it was uphill in both directions. Sometimes I cried so long that the tears would freeze to my cheeks!

That's it y'all. Be safe and be sober. Take what you like and leave the rest.

The only thing I'm worried about is that I thought Freddie Mercury was already dead. How's he gonna send me a card?

"Who wants to live forever?"---Freddie Mercury

“Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath."---Lyndon B. Johnson

love
peter