Long Time No Blog

If it's said, it's not true. I have not been on a drinking binge and unable to write a blog entry since we voted to go "wet".

Not Particularly Different

Vickie and I had met at Red's tonight to get a quick evening meal before going on to Wednesday night church services. It was a different day today like every day is different. But yet the same, because it's just life, always moving and always bringing some variation of life's refrain.

The family had one of its children give birth to a child today. Not particularly different.

I learned that Ken's Restaurant closed Monday with plans to re-open as a liquor store. Not particularly different in today's society; but, a shock. It's just not right for a Dairy Mart to grow up and become a liquor store.

My doctor's office called during that meal Vickie and I were having tonight at Red's. I thought that was different. The report from my most recent CT Scan indicated no changes, no recurrence of cancer. Not particularly different thankfully. It's a part of life now. Difficult to feel comfortable with and not a welcome guest; but, you make room and you accomodate. It was 2 years ago almost to the day that I finished the radiation treatments following the surgery to remove the cancer. I'm different now - I won't ever be the same; but that's not particularly different.

Alchomania

The election has settled it. Hardeman County has voted to go "wet", as they say, and I'm somewhat baffled at all the excitement over it. Where's the fun in being able to openly buy liquor here at home. No more cat and mouse games for the local youth in dodging the local law officials and no more careful clandestine "spiritual" purchases at area town liquor stores and bars by the cloak and dagger religiously challenged. And what about my own heritage which has been rumored to have had connections to the "bootleg" economics of our earlier 20th century history. Why, I've been known to indulge in economics myself, having majored in the field in college. And what about the lore of past indulgences at "trash hill". It just won't be the same. Oh well, economics always wins out in this life.

I'm considering closing down my blog and reopening as an online liqour store.

But, it seems too serious for me. No amusement value.