I told my 1st wife last night that I had spoken on the telephone earlier in the evening with my Key West friend Jim Hendrick, who was at a party for him arranged by some of his friends. There were a lot of people there, including people from the mainland. Jim is not doing well, medically. His time left in this life seems short. When he told me I'm still a dirty old man, I chuckled, said I had started that rumor, and I'm still trying to get a PhD in women, and have yet to get there. I said I wish when the mother ship comes to fetch him, I can get on it with him. Really? Jim said. Yes, I said. You have had a really interesting life, and seem to have had a lot of fun, whereas I cannot say my life has been a lot of fun, but it has been interesting.
I told my 1st wife that I deduced years ago that Jim is a reincarnated Buddhist high lama; I could see it in the laid-back way he responded to life's unexpected bumps in the road. However, sometimes he got riled up over things I did, and I kept reminding him to lay low when he was upset and to respond after he had cooled down. Easy advice to give, not easy to do.
I also told my 1st wife that when a pretty younger woman had asked me yesterday morning how I was doing? I chuckled, said, it's way too early in the day to ask me that question. Ask me about 11 p.m. tonight, when I know how the day went. She chuckled and went on her way, as I said I may be the last of my kind. My 1st wife, chuckled, said that might be true.
She asked if I have any plans, or hopes, for how my remaining days will go? I said I have none. I have no clue what lies ahead, and it has been my experience that it doesn't matter what I want, experiences are arranged for me to have, and I try to give my best effort. That's my life. Doing my best each day. She said that is sad. I said, Jesus said to take no thought for tomorrow, for each day has enough trouble of its own. She agreed. I said, and there is that saying, "We plan, God laughs!" She chuckled, said that's true, too. And, still, she hopes my remaining days will be to my liking. Me, too. I hope the same for her. Yet, life has its own agenda, and as President Trump often says, we'll see.
I met my 1st wife in college. Yesterday, one of my college fraternity brothers, who went on to become a physician, put this on his Facebook timeline:
Thomas Graves is feeling curious.
May 22
real technological possibility that has existed for decades for a magnetic-levitation craft which utilizes the Earth's magnetic fields, modified by internal computerized functions, to traverse our atmosphere and near-space for some time. MagLev is now used in surface transportation like trains with success. It seems to me that using magnetic levitation. Using the awesome strength of our awesome polar magnetic fields, COMBINED WITH today's huge computer capacity we SHOULD be able to accomplish this kind of flight. Have you seen those spinning toy levitating magnets? They WORK!
I am such a critic of the economics associated with the emergence of new technologies, ESPECIALLY those which challenge such e$tabli$hed corporate giant$ as the petroleum indu$try , it leads me again to 'Follow the Money."
I am such a critic of the economics associated with the emergence of new technologies, ESPECIALLY those which challenge such e$tabli$hed corporate giant$ as the petroleum indu$try , it leads me again to 'Follow the Money."
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