Mark Twain

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."--Mark Twain Our predicted hotter and drier than normal winter continues to be wetter and cooler. It is raining today and is expected to continue to do so throughout the day. I have to work all day, so the weather is not going to bother me. I went out with The Seafood King and Some Guy Named Bob to play golf yesterday. The aforementioned storm was just building so it was cool and windy. My golf game was slightly worse than average and I blame it on the weather. Next week I will have to think up a new excuse. Don't worry, I have a hundred tried and true. I also had to attend a meeting yesterday in the late afternoon. It was one of those things you occasionally have to do that doesn't really provide much in the way of benefit. I sat next to a fellow that I don't know well, but am casually acquainted with. He has always struck me as a guy working way too hard to impress the people he meets. Of course, impressing others is really secondary, what I guess he is really doing is trying to reassure himself that he is okay. Do you know what I mean? For instance, yesterday's meeting was a small group of a dozen or so folks. We sat at a horseshoe-shaped table in a small room, with the presenter at the open end of the horseshoe. When the presenter would make a point, this fellow would blurt out pointless bits of information that didn't add anything, but were supposed to impress, I guess. For instance, when the presenter put up a chart, which included a quote from Mark Twain, this fellow blurted out "Samuel Clemens". He carries photos of his cars and other man toys, that he shows around like I might show photos of the Sneedlets. It just seems odd...and annoying. But that says more about me than him, I suppose. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky