Milepost 68 - Returning To A Normal Life

In the beginning

Here's to living a relatively normal life, if that means anything in our current culture. 2007 has been an "interesting" year for Father Time and family, especially if you use the Chinese translation of the word "interesting." Somewhere between chaotic and a Level 5 hurricane would be apropos. (No disrespect to Katrina victims intended - just a metaphor to lay groundwork for the following:)

Let's take inventory.

Loss of Mother In Law after a 5-month illness;
Recurrence of breast cancer in Mrs. Time;
Prostate operation for yours truly;
Return of son from college with a truckload of furniture;

That's about it. Pretty average compared to the travails some people face daily, monthly, and permanently.

Take Fly for instance.

At this point, Henny Youngman would prompt me to say, "No, you take Fly. I can't take him anymore."

Fly has lived in the desert, commuted cross country to take a job with a mystery company, now lives in the South, and works at a job that is so secret that even he doesn't know what it is or where it's located. Now that's "interesting."

Henny Youngman

Now Fly enters and says, "Who the heck is Henny Youngman?"

That's to be expected from any pseudo-historian whose primary focus is war.

As a public service to those under the age of 25, here are some examples of Henny Youngman:

I'd commit suicide, if I could do it without killing myself.

My wife and I got remarried. Our divorce didn't work out.

Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live.

I made a killing in the stock market. I shot my broker.

There were three kids in my family. One of each sex.

My wife has a keen sense of humor. The more I humor her, the better.

He's an agent now. He must know talent. He gave up acting.

Most girls are attracted to the simple things in life. Like men.

I'll never forget my first words in the theatre. "Peanuts. Popcorn."

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

In conclusion

That's all folks!

Next installment - The Fly's impression of Rodney Dangerfield.