It was my 75th birthday and gosh did I have a great day. I'll go so far as to say that the entire day was perfect except for the Maple Leafs last evening whom I watched for five minutes and then turned off. The organizers of the speaking event at the church showed a Documentary about Uniroyal Chemical in Elmira and then I answered questions regarding the issues, the disappointments and the few successes. I estimate that there were perhaps sixty people present and their questions and concerns were impressive. I would suggest that many in attendance had their eyes opened regarding how our various governments operate and do their best to talk the talk while being completely immobile. Walk the walk is simply not on the to do list of almost all our levels of government if there is any way whatsoever to avoid it.
After the talk and question and answer session at the Church I came home, had lunch and went out to my next engagement which was a crokinole session with a friend. That also went perfect as despite what I expected to be inattention on my part as I revelled in a surprise home visit of my daughter, combined with the high of the morning's talk/discussion, combined with hitting what I view as a watershed birthday (75) turned out to be one of my better days behind the crokinole cue. Then as a bonus we played two games of "fingers" crokinole whereby we set the cues down and hit the buttons with our fingers only. That too went well for a fellow who basically hasn't played fingers regularly in over fourty years .
My son and daughter-in-law came over for dinner and the evening was wonderful. You know there are times when this getting older really isn't that bad. Of course all is subject to a combination of good luck and good management health wise and often good luck trumps good management.
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