With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
2002-02-22 - 1:34 a.m.
I'm probably too tired to do justice to this entry but by tomorrow I'll have forgotten too much, it's always a tradeoff.
The day started off with my hearing about an injustice being done, Carey didn't get the job she wanted at Brookes. The world would be much better if they let me make all the important decisions.
I had to get to school early today because on Thursdays I have office hours. I'm giving a test on Monday so I thought someone might actually show up. No one did. That did give me more time to talk to Carey and Leah. . While playing online then I found a page about Freedomland, one of my favorite early childhood memories. Pete Kennedy remembers it fondly too.
Class went off OK though we didn't get to review as much for the test as I wanted. I hope they do well. I'm going to have a busy weekend making it up. I haven't made up a calculus test in years. I'll have to start from scratch. I'd rather make it too easy and too short than too long or too hard.
I raced home from school to see my father in the hospital. He was sleeping most of the time but I got to talk to my sister Alison for a bit. They are talking about moving my father back to Parker Rehab but I'd rather he stayed in LIJ till they find out what is wrong with him.
I went from the hospital back to the City via the LIRR. Pal Shazar for Jules Shear, her ex.
I was glad to see that Pal still remembered me, I haven't seen her since she moved to California, a couple of years ago. I found out that the show that I was told was snowed out last year wasn't, she performed. I made all that effort to get there to be told the show was cancelled and it wasn't. If I had hung around I'd have seen her.
Tonight was the first time I've seen Pal with a band. I've only seen her as a solo before performing in folk venues but at heart she was always a rocker. Her band was great and I thought that the drummer looked sort of familiar. He was, it was Dan Hickey from TMBG.
She had some new songs, which were great, and I signed up for her mailing list so I won't miss her next time she is around.
I had never seen Jules before; he puts on a good show. You might have heard about him as the founder of the MTV unplugged series. He is someone who has worked with everyone; he's a musician's musician. I have never seen anyone play the guitar like he does. He plays it lefty with the strings set up as on a righty guitar. That wasn't what got me though, Hendrix did that. He only uses the thumb of his right hand. He either made bar chords or just held one string at a time. That is a style I've never seen before. I wonder if it came out of some disability, perhaps he can't use his fingers on his right hand with enough precision. If anyone has heard of this style or knows the explanation let me know.
When I got home I made plans with Gella to see Kat in Beethoven's 9th tomorrow. That should be fun. I'll be getting home pretty late so I might not update next till Saturday morning.
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