April 23
"I know nothing"
April 23, 1965
I went babysitting again at Os. Daylight saving time has started. (It's really tomorrow) so it's 3:45 EDT and 2:45 EST. ANYWAY I got $5. Not bad. I read my book and worked on some puzzles. I watched Jackie Gleason, Gilligan, Secret Agent. Gunsmoke, News and Johnny Carson. There were no good movies so I just sat around.
April 23, 2006 (Comment)
Imagine a Saturday night of television that included Jackie Gleason, Gilligan, Secret Agent. Gunsmoke, and Johnny Carson. And to think Newton Minnow thought television was a vast wasteland THEN. I can't imagine what he'd think today.
April 23, 2023
It’s gotten worse. Probably a good thing. I watched way too much TV as a kid. Half of my scrapbook is clippings from TV Guide. In middle school, I saved all the TV Guides, marked up with * on the shows I watched, and the total # of hours on the cover. Mom threw them out, destroying my future donation to the Smithsonian.
April 23, 1997
It is very, very hard to realize all the mistakes you have made in raising your children, but the hardest ones to face are those which were the result of your best intentions.
Why did I write that in the second person?
April 23, 2023
To protect my kids’ privacy, I left about the three paragraphs leading up to this. Nothing special, just another day when I figured out that was I thought was helping was actually not helpful at all. And we all know why I used the second person, right?
April 23, 1998
OK, so much for exorcism by sarcasm. It really doesn’t work - just makes me madder, and makes not a ripple in reality. Today it is going to rain, and hopefully wash out the pollen again. It’s been terrible the last week.
April 23, 2023
Another April 23, another exercise in parental cluelessness.
Current situation, April 23, 2023
Jeez, the tree pollen never stops this year. We had rain yesterday - a real gully washer - and this morning my sinus are flowing like the Mississippi.
The Fawlty Towers dinner last night was a great diversion: ginger beer, rhubarb trifle and dry sherry, among other delights. We interspersed the three courses with three episodes: A Touch of Class, The Psychiatrist, and Communication Problems.
Altogether, now: “I know nothing!”
(Always good to remember.)
Thank you, Ryan. Things are better now - fine, in fact - but it hollowed me out to see the same old stuff on the same day in two consecutive years. Learning is life, right?
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