Written by a English Friend

Dear Greenwich Observatory,

I am writing to you as a concerned customer, what you are doing with time is all wrong. In fact, I think your actions are highly unethical and that for once you should be taking account for them.Your monopoly on my time is having dire consequences; I would like a full apology and a refund of around 20 years. Sometimes I find that I have no time at all, it all drains away so fast when I need it so. Couldn't you have given me warning, when I thought that hour or day or year would reach their full duration... whereas you had other plans, you would suddenly decide a the last minute that maybe, I didn't need those minutes hours or days. Such cuts to my time can take a toll, don't you know? I've ended up with half a minute's output for several hours, or maybe a day. You think that doing this to a person is acceptable? I don't, and I'm sure many like me would agree.
As for 'spare time', what you are doing with mine is driving me nuts. So many things I want and wish to do, but they keep getting taken away from me. I set aside an evening for this, and another for that, but in the end it’s like they're never really come or gone. You've taken everything I never had away from me, everything I should have done and never got the chance. It seems now more then ever like these moments I keep hoping for will not come. Its such a waste of my time, I just don't know what's being done with it, but I'm pretty sure its all down to you. Give me back my time that you have stolen.
Now we touch on another matter, there are those moments that seem to last forever. Yet you are putting them in all the wrong places, I don't need to be sitting in waiting rooms for hours and hours on end when I am supposed to be there a meager few minutes. I don't need to spend all that time listening to a bore, going on and on and on about their dull and drab interest. What about all that time, when I lay there trying to drift off into sleep... can't something be done to use that time how its meant to be, why won't you just let me rest. Enough of the tossing and turning, let me dream a pleasant dream; let me feel peaceful, for once.
You've misused my time all throughout my life, so give it back to me and next time don't waste it. I want it all back, repaid in full. Make it a good life this time, don't leave it with so many static moment, don't leave me frozen in fear or uninspired. Just let me be the me I am supposed to be, anything but what you're doing with me now... This time, can you litter my time with people who love me, people who mean the world to me? Take away the people I can't stand whether they're close to my heart, or a nagging suspicion in my mind. Give me a life that I can cherish, let me be born again, and this time make it mean something.
Diane

have we really evolved?

This is something that I heard many years ago and would play it to death. I wish things would have changed in the last 40 years but I'm not so sure it has. RIP my brave Americans who fought for justice, integrity, world tranquility and decency.

May your effort not be in vain.

just be nice!

Kitty

minor adjustment

I'm over the music. I deleted it. I'll bring it back if the demand is high enough.

Bruneau Dunes State Park

This is actually one of my better pictures. I guess cameras make allowances these days for people that only know how to point and shoot. I was messing with Marisa's fly pole (or whatever the friggin' thing is called) and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Fly fishing is very different from the other kind of fishing. (that is the kind I hate)

All you have to do is stand still while someone puts the pole together and ties the fly on. Then you get to unroll a pile of the fish string on the ground.

After that's done, you whip the pole around, watch everybody take cover and fly the fly into water.

Halloween

I think it's about time that we move on to something besides the fine picture sent to me by Marci.

One of my children got a new outfit. The other one is just too fat, so I gave her a cookie.