"Endless offerings at the public library just published"

 The Endless Possibilities of Local Libraries was just published in Literary Yard.

Click here

https://literaryyard.com/2022/03/09/the-endless-offerings-at-the-public-library/

I am very happy about this. 

Sent announcements to a bunch of friends and relatives including David Robertson, formerly of Pennypack Trust, but now living in Fort Collins, Colorado.

He and wife Mary just moved into a continuing care unit.

I was so bummed out about this, I called up Scott, who had been over earlier and given me 8 exercises to do for my bad back.

The mail just arrived. Am sure Dante doesn't appreciate driving his jeep in the slush, since it had snowed earlier today.

I had been upstairs reading in bed after my Muesli breakfast.

ENDURANCE by cosmonaut Scott Kelly was one of the best books I have ever read. His life was in danger so many times and he was also in terrible pain, undreamt of by us mere mortals. 

In the epilogue he thanked his co writer who was extremely helpful.

He also mentioned a couple of things:

He loves the feel of water. He and Amiko have a swimming pool in the back yard.

Oh, I thought, can they afford it?

Silly me.

Also he appreciates the whole family sitting down for a meal. He is at the head of the table.

I will show his picture at the end of this blog.

First though, how about a poem?

RESPONSIBILITES OF BEING AN ADULT PERSON

Bringing in the mail, then washing my hands 5 minutes

in the kitchen sink

Tossing the mail on the floor to sort out

Loans? Mortgages? Half a dozen want -

what else? - money.

Shall I be Warren Buffet and give it all away?

That white-haired gent

while Putin the unmentionable

turns Russia into the Gestapo.

From Wiki

Scott Joseph Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American engineer, retired astronaut, and naval aviator. A veteran of four space flights, Kelly commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on Expeditions 26, 45, and 46.

Kelly's first spaceflight was as pilot of Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-103 in December 1999. This was the third servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, and lasted for just under eight days.^[4] Kelly's second spaceflight was as mission commander of STS-118, a 12-day Space Shuttle mission to the ISS in August 2007.^[5] Kelly's third spaceflight was as a crewmember on Expedition 25/26 on the ISS. He arrived at the ISS aboard Soyuz TMA-01M on 9 October 2010, and served as a flight engineer until he took over command of the station on 25 November 2010 at the start of Expedition 26.^[6][7][8] Expedition 26 ended on 16 March 2011 with the departure of Soyuz TMA-01M.^[9]

In November 2012, Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko were selected for a year-long mission to the ISS.^[10][11] Their year in space began with the launch of Soyuz TMA-16M on March 27, 2015, and they remained on the station for Expeditions 43, 44, 45, and 46. The mission ended on March 1, 2016, with the departure of Soyuz TMA-18M from the station.^[12][13]

Kelly retired from NASA in April 1, 2016.^[14] His identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, is also a retired astronaut, and the junior U.S. senator from Arizona.^[15][16]

BY MY CALCULATIONS, SCOTT IS 58 years old.