Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: Sunday Sunday Sunday.....

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Sunday Sunday Sunday.....

Montmorency cherry juice acquired. Carboys scrubbed. Hydrometer found. RedStar Champagne yeast in the fridge. Sugar should be here by days end.

I figure to bring 'er to life by tomorrow, and be bottling in a month or two.  As my 21% Jewish blood would say.... L'chaim! 

Also done today, application to join the local shooting club.   I was a member for years and years, years ago.  Lost touch when I forgot to re-up one year, and that was the year everyone lost their crap and decided they HAD to be a gun owner ASAP.

That application involved a briefing, and a two hour walking tour of the ranges.  I did it... mostly.  With a cane.  No less than six people asked me if I was okay, and the old guy giving the tour offered me a gator to ride in several times.  He looked mighty worried, I tell you.   Not worried enough to fetch me a beer when I asked, but otherwise concerned.

Anywho, I'll be a member again in about three weeks.  No letting it slide this time!  The club only accepts new members on four mornings thru the year now.

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"