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This was 2024 as played by David L Lewis

These were the Three Goals from my December 31 2023 Blog

and How I Score the Results:

2024 GOAL #1

   Stay out of hospital! This should be easier than it sounds, unless I’m unlucky enough to get one of them diseases touted in TV ads. Turns out in-home Hospice gives you just enough really kool meds and loving care to keep a fellow at home.

RESULT:
   Did it! For first time since 1995 went a full calendar year without going to any hospital for any reason! Yes, there were multiple times when I could have justified such. But, as predicted, Hospice care kept me home, especially that new drug they gave me which cannot here be named. For this we all must thank the two nurses named Jennifer in my life (you know who you are).

2024 GOAL #2
   Reach 3,000 Solitaire matches on my computer! This, of course, is solely because we old folk have to keep our brain alert. It is definitely Not because I am some kind of Obsessive Compulsive Player.

RESULT:
   Came up just a little short. Didn’t realize how many games that meant; and did lose a lot of time with all those problems related to not going to hospitals.

2024 GOAL #3
   Continue writing my inane ramblings; although less often -- I’m running out of anything to say. Only started writing to find out what I think; now it’s more a matter of finding out if I’m still thinking at all. As youngest son Benjamin put it, am I still me?

RESULT:

   Good news is I’m (probably) still me. Bad news is that I realized one fine day I just didn’t have anything more to say worth the effort. For the record I have made a few folks mad with my YouTube comments, so there’s that for my scorecard.

This Is What I’m Proposing For 2025:

#1) Not watch ‘News’ until there is some, if ever. Now-a-days the game goes too quickly, has no obvious rules, and nobody seems to know who the players are or care what the score really is. This is Not how we learned to watch the game called News in olden days.

#2) Watch YouTube while laying in bed playing solitaire. I often wonder what my father would think of me sitting here, attached to nothing, having access to all the world’s knowledge, music, beauty and ugliness; and sometimes even actual News. And, as I tell the nurses, I do good if I don’t do anything! Calmly choosing what to watch helps a lot in keeping out of hospitals. Truth be told there is nothing else I have to do.

So, Babe, how’s my score so far? Am I still me?

theDaddy!

Post-game Analysis: I have long held to a personal theory that people all have a varying predestined capacity for the good – both immediately viable and unknown in one’s lifetime. People, by my theory, play the game called life until they reach that capacity. By this theory I have not expended all that much good in my world, and expect to be playing the game for a while yet – I’ll try to keep score at home.