Beautiful day for a walk -

The sun is shining, it's 80 degrees with low humidity.

Trees are in colorful bloom.

I even saw a couple of ladies sunning in their yards.

I barely broke a sweat -

mainly from wearing a cap so my bald head wouldn't burn.

Too bad the rain will come Saturday and drop the temperature back into the 50s by Sunday.

Ya just gotta enjoy it while ya got it.

~

At the old job I recently retired from, I worked mostly alone in a huge building.

Occasionally my boss would come looking for me -

or as I put it, tried to scare the crap outta me.

Usually I could hear someone enter the building because of the quiet atmosphere.

But when I was working on something that made noise as I did it,

that's when the boss loved to walk up behind and yell my name,

so that he could laugh when I jumped.

After a while, I plotted my revenge.

The first time I crept up behind him and lightly touched the nape of his neck.

He yelled and was not happy.

I laughed.

The second time, some weeks before I retired, I got right up behind him and whispered his name in his ear.

He screamed like a little girl and it took him several minutes to get his breath back.

I laughed until tears came from my eyes.

He never tried to scare me again -

in fact, he thereafter loudly announced his presence when I was busy.

Don't mess with someone who has seen as many horror movies as I have.

I got out of bed at 5:40am and went into my bathroom,

where I heard loud music coming from downstairs somewhere.

I then woke up and realized I had to pee.

~

It's sad when you lose another friend -

not through death, but through the indifference that time apart creates.

Once you were like brothers, or lovers and you swore it would last forever,

but time has a way of blurring relationships.

When you're younger and more passionate,

you swear things will never change between you.

As the old saying goes:

'Man plans and God laughs'.

Very few last to stay close.

Time, experience and life changes often erase those ties we once held.

I understand,

but still it hurts my heart.

Life goes on.

~

Happy Easter!

I got nothin' but a beer and a shot...

and too much time on my hands.

~

The original ad:

Yesterday I wore a tee shirt and shorts for my daily walk.

Today I will wear long johns under my sweats.

Yesterday I took my extra 3 blankets off my bed to sleep comfortably.

Tonight they will go back on the bed.

There's a good reason this time of year is called spring.

~

Your computer can be a great place to find old/lost friends.

There are websites that specialize in doing searches for people,

but a lot of them charge you for doing it for you.

I have found social media a good place to search for folks.

It's usually free and less time consuming.

I have found a lot of people I knew years ago on Facebook alone.

It can be a nice thing to find someone you haven't heard from for years.

Catching up with them can be wonderful.

You can also find out things about them from conversation and looking at their media posts you didn't want to know.

'Johnnie' might have been your best bud.

He might have had long hair, smoked dope and participated in all of those protests with you.

But today, he could be a flag waving, ultra conservative guy who calls you an idiot if you don't agree with him.

I have also found that older, divorced or widowed women, especially those who wouldn't give you the time of day in your younger years,

can be quite aggressive about hooking up with you.

Always try to see a photo of people, male or female.

A guy might have once been an Adonis, or a woman a goddess in their younger days,

but father time can be cruel to us all -

I myself have become half bald, have bags under my eyes, wrinkles and, even though I work out every day,

do not have the svelte body I had in my youth.

Be prepared for a bit of a shock at what you may see.

Understand something -

one of the main reasons people turn bitter about life is what time has done to them.

A cynic is most times a romantic whose ideals have been crushed.

So if you're looking for that old buddy or lost love,

remember the old saying:

Be careful what you wish for...

you just might get it.

~

For my fellow procrastinators:

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

~ Mark Twain