Keep the heart racing

I think I may require a bit more stimulation than is normal.  Or perhaps I am the normal one and the reset of the world is being entirely too passive.  Perhaps it is related to my work.











Work pays the bills and is stimulating on occasion but also quite depressing.  I am a claims manager and an attorney.  I deal in death and destruction.  We might insure the drunk  who mows down a pedestrian.  We might insure a fancy ceramic barrel table that someone decides to place in their shower.  Their husband somehow falls on it and bleeds to death.   Five hundred cases in my inventory. These claims are resolved through negotiations or court. 


What we cannot do is reverse time and make that injury or death go away. 




The lesson from all of this:  enjoy your life, it may be shorter than you anticipate. 





















My need for stimulation was recently sated. 

It ain't over till it's over but now it is over

I am a fan of Philosophy.  Yogi Berra has some great thoughts.  One of my favorites, "when you come to a fork in the road, take it."  RIP Yogi

1. “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
2. “It’s deja vu all over again.”
3. “I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.”
4. “Never answer an anonymous letter.”
5. “We made too many wrong mistakes.”
6. “You can observe a lot by watching.”
7. “The future ain’t what it used to be.”
8. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
9. “It gets late early out here.”
10. “If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”
11. “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
12. “Pair up in threes.”
13. “Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.”
14. “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
15. “All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”
16. “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
17. “Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.”
18. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”
19. “I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
20. “I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.”

21. “I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.”
22. “I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.”
23. “I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
24. “In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”
25. “I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”
26. “I never said most of the things I said.”
27. “It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”
28. “I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”
29. “I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.”
30. “So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.”
31. “Take it with a grin of salt.”
32. (On the 1973 Mets) “We were overwhelming underdogs.”
33. “The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”
34. “You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
35. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

Wondering minds and writing

Slows down and organizes my wondering mind.  The process of inputting and coming up with a finished sentence or paragraph is cathartic.