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.
January 10, 2004 - 11:40 p.m.
I have not been good about updating this year. I'm more concerned with the quality than the quantity of the entries. I guess that isn't the best way to sell my diary, it is like calling your merchandise crap.
In any event I now have two cold days to write about. The temperature has actually gotten down to the single digits. I always enjoy that, I get to wear my warm clothing. I still haven't taken out my warmest sweater. I don't really need that unless I plan on spending lots of time outside.
Yesterday I went to hear Ruth Gerson at the Sidewalk Cafι. She's playing every Friday in January and if I have nothing else to do I'll see her every week. It took are a long time to warm up it was so cold outside and so were her guitar strings. She was also a bit lightheaded from a couple of glasses of wine. None of which kept her from putting on a great show and doing my request, Roof Jumping.
On the way home I did something I never do, I took the 14A bus to the subway station. It saved me about a ten minute walk. I'd usually just walk it but it was cold enough that the warm bus was too inviting.
I pretty much wasted most of today. I should have done my laundry but I never got around to it. I'll have to do it tomorrow. Clean clothes is becoming an issue.
Here's a grammar question for you. Grammar check doesn't like that last sentence, it thinks that the plural noun "clean clothes" needs the plural verbare. In my mind I'm thinking of clean clothes as a singular issue. I know whatever I say that Carey will tell me I'm wrong.
I talked to Carey today on the phone, always a highlight of my day. She got my Festivus present today. I still have to get most other people's mailed. I am so bad.
Tonight I went to see Andrew Vladeck. This was a cheap convenient show. He was playing at Pete's Candy Store, a bar in Williamsburg. It takes me less than 20 minutes to get there and the show is free, they don't even pass around the tip jar. Andrew was fun as usual. I always like going to shows where the performers know me. I don't get a kiss from him like I do from Ruth though J
I got home early which is good. I have to take my mother to her friend's funeral tomorrow morning. She's taking it very well after the initial shock. I was making jokes with my mother today that I would never think of making with someone outside my family. We have always joked about death.
Tomorrow I'll tell you about the funeral and doing my laundry. I can see you just shiver with anticip ation.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Horvendile January 10, 2004
