Veni Vidi Vino

What's funniest about Wikipedia having this on the "Veni, Vidi,
Vici" entry is that when I was IN Latin class, I didn't smoke
Marlboros, I smoked Camels. I wonder if we ever noticed
this was on the cigarettes... probably not. We were so
busy being awesome. 

I took Latin for 4 years in high school. Taking Latin at my high school automatically put you in Latin Club. Try bragging about being in  Latin Club?

Except, really, it was awesome and my friends and I mostly just smoked cigarettes and talked about boys and then everyone copied my homework. I was a good friend.

Why am I telling you this? Because my friend from High School posted fake-latin on her Facebook page and it made me think of Veni, Vidi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered). Let's all thank Julius Caesar for that catchy and inspiring phrase. And for salads. I imagine he had something to do with that. Damn, I love croutons.

Player Piano

"That man's got a lot of get up and go," said Anita. 

"He fills me full of lie down and die," said Paul.  --Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut

 I decided this year (and likely beyond) to read all of Kurt Vonnegut Jr's books in the order they were written. I own most of them already and have read many of them, but this seems like an interesting experiment.

The first book, Player Piano, was published in 1952 and takes place in the future (which I'm sure is somewhere around 1980 or so) and shows the problems society faces when industry replaces human productivity. How people are happiest when they're able to produce and engage and set their own course for their lives.

Season's Greetings

I am me.

I don't know how old I was, but I do remember that realization that "I am me." As in a unique "me" that is separate from "you." That the voice in my head was MY inner thoughts.

And my mind was blown.

I'm on the left.  1979-ish. Pretty blown away by that marshmallow.