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Wednesday, March 31. 2010
March Out!
Today is the last day of the month. A year ago today I was in the Veterans Administrations Medical Center in La Jolla recovering from cardiac bypass surgery. Sharing a room with an old man, an old crazy man. My, how time flies.Today, my sister Elaine is still in a hospital recovering from a March 10 surgery that had a complication. She is doing much better now, but she expected to be home in time for Easter, which is now just four days away. We all hope Lainey will be released next week sometime. I get teary thinking of my little sister in the hospital.
Her son is Dan and his blog is posted at the upper left of this page; Eschew Obfuscation. Nothing to note about Young Dan, other than he raises some interesting topics I wouldn’t have thought of, but he thinks on a much different plane.
• Did you know that on this day in 1917 the United States took possession of the Virgin Islands? News to me, but what the Hell, now we have a place in the Caribbean we can call all our own! Don’t need a passport to go there!
• A year later we adopted Daylight Savings Time. Springing ahead gives us more useable daylight hours so employers can effectively get more overtime — hopefully unpaid — out of their employees.
A year after World War I, Daylight Savings Time was repealed, sort of brought back for World War II to save energy and then made official in 1973 by decree of President Nixon to once again save energy. Our energy consumption has been steadily rising since then. And I have to get out of bed an hour earlier? Sheesh.
• On March 30, 1981, President Reagan was shot (and almost died) by crazy man, John Hinckley, Jr. who was trying to impress Jodie Foster. And people wonder why I was so worried about sharing a hospital room with a crazy man.
Just for the record, regardless of how I feel about the political leanings of our public figures, I don’t advocate, promote or condone violence and assassination as a means of changing our national policy.
John Hinckley had no political ambitions, he was just crazy, but either way, he should not be allowed to roam free in public.
Not much happens at the end of March, although we are on the cusp of Easter or into Holy Week at least, the most sacred time of year for all Christians. My sister Elaine is a Good Catholic and I won’t make any jokes at her or her religion’s expense. She takes this week quite seriously, as our mother did when we were growing up.
Good Catholics will go to church nearly every day, if only to mark the Stations of the Cross. Thursday through Sunday of course are the really sacred days of Holy Week: marking Passover and the Last Supper (Thursday), Good Friday, when Jesus was crucified, died and was buried, Saturday, which is a day of mourning and then Easter Sunday when Jesus was said to have risen from the dead.
Scripture says Jesus was to rise from the grave “three days” after his crucifixion, but really, it was only two days. Anyway, this is the Holiest time of year for Christians.
Me, I’m more into bunnies, chocolate and otherwise. My friend Alan was commenting about this blog and was dismayed at the lack of bunnies of the otherwise variety. He and I share political views and that’s what we usually talk about when we see each other — that and riding bicycles.
Alan is the guy who, seven years ago, convinced me to buy a bicycle, a Trek no less. That is how the Trusty Trek came into my possession. Alan rides road bikes and is quite an accomplished rider. He’s conquered, on several occasions, the Pomerado Road Grade, a long, steep climb that boggles my ideas of riding bikes.
He said he hasn’t ridden his bike for a while. Get your ass off the couch and onto your Trek, old man! We ain’t getting any younger! Yeah, it gets harder, boy is that apparent, but as we get older we have to continue riding. Even if it’s only two laps around Lake Miramar.
Alan and I hadn’t seen each other in months, but Monday when we met, his first topic was the lack of bunnies of the otherwise variety these past few weeks. So, my friend, bunnies you can appreciate.
For me, I’d like a chocolate bunny, with some of those marshmallow bunnies, peeps. I love those, and jelly beans, chocolate eggs filled with sweet stuff and more chocolate. Candy!
Then of course there is Easter Dinner. Usually, in our house it was ham, or maybe the occasional leg of lamb. Mom was Greek and her Uncle Bill and Aunt Mary would often cook a leg of lamb for Easter.
This year Easter falls on the same Sunday for the Catholic and the Greek Orthodox Churches. Back in the day this would have been an Easter Dinner with a leg of lamb. Don’t know what I’ll have for Easter Dinner this year, maybe a nice ham with all the goodies.Sadly, my doctors and nutritionists would all say none of this should be on my menu this year, or any year in the future. Fortunately, I’m not telling them what’s on my mind for Easter. But they’re right, none of it, the ham with all the goodies, the chocolate and other candy, ought not me on my menu, but it’s Easter!
So, here’s to the end of March and the beginning of April! And here’s to Elaine’s speedy recovery! May she get home soon and have an Easter Dinner of her own, albeit a week late.
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