no business like show business

I lost my 2-S in September of 1967 after failing to graduate.  In September of 1969 I was driving my Corvair down I-57 to begin my two years of CO mopping the floors of Herrin Hospital. I got my first physical notice to appear in Chicago sometime in the winter of 1967, and my notice to appear in Champaign (which meant you showed up in downtown Champaign to board a bus to Chicago) in the spring of 1968, whereupon I moved to Berkeley.  I got my notice to appear in Berkeley around September of 1968 whereupon I moved back to Champaign. It was winter of 1968 when I decided to stand my ground and flunk my physical, and failed to flunk.  After that came my draft notice (I still have it somewhere in my archives, and it does indeed contain that line Greetings, Your Friends and neighbors...)  Shortly after that I filed for my CO, and then got my cancellation of induction, and then appeared for my CO hearings which I passed and by the fall of 1969 I took up the mop.

I didn't get to San Francisco much when I lived in Berkeley.  That whole summer of love thing was fading and becoming a bit gritty.  But if you had nothing to do of an evening you could hitchhike to San Francisco and rely upon being picked up by a Volkswagen bus, and, per proper hippie etiquette, they would be obliged to get you high, and after your visit to city by the bay you could return the same way and get high again.  

I had thought that Old Dog had enlisted much later than 1968,  He must have been a strapping lad, and it seems to me the war was still going on and this was before the lottery, so what was the story of his enlistment?

I am surprised that Old Dog had lived that long in that apartment.  Well whenever I think something has been five years ago it always turns out to be at least ten.  Kind of poignant noticing something just as one is moving out.

For a variety of reasons copying and pasting does not always work.  I generally test mine before posting.  And if you click on that paper clip blogger will let you insert in a form where the reader merely has to click on it instead of the laborious process of copying and pasting.  Like so:  https://www.axios.com/white-replacement-theory-gains-ground-among-gop-b171e37d-3f27-43f2-bc25-a084c9fe7aad.html  I don't know why DeSantis kissing Trump's butt would be of interest to anybody, and like I said, it was something anybody that reads a newspaper would know of.  Now if DeSantis said Trump is a big fat liar, that would be a story.  

The world in general is considered overpopulated in the sense that eventually there will not be enough food for everybody.  The US not so much.  If you get out and about you see that the country is just not that crowded.  But you have to get out and about.

Ran into a problem in my baking.  That big tin is so thick that my wee muffins get burnt on the bottom while appearing perfectly fine on top.  Also ran out of those little paper things.  My panel of experts has since informed me that I can just grease the muffin holes and the muffins will pop out cleanly.  I will be trying that today on the milquetoast non jalapeno muffins.

Our Marina City open mic night was a big success. 

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I had been practicing that Brussels sprouts thing for two weeks before the show until there didn't appear to be anything funny about it, and nobody laughed through the first paragraph, but the laughs began at the second and kept on coming.  There's no business like show business.