It's Patriots Day

This is Patriots Day, April 18th 2021.  Last night I believe was Paul Revere's midnight ride.  It's also the day the tea party got started in 2009 with their "taxed enough already" slogan.  If they stick by their normal schedule the Boston marithon will be run tomorrow.  I haven't heard.  Outwardly things are looking pretty good.  Everything is opening back up including theaters and sports arenas.  Dodger stadium opened on April 9th.  According to Sixty Minutes the economy is set to take off in a recovery like we haven't seen since the nineties.  There is only a miniscule change something could go wrong.  The Republicans want something to go wrong to scuttle the recovery by denying vaccinations to people and refusing to be vaccinated themselves and telling others not to be vaccinated and cutting off money for vaccinations.  Nearly half the republicans in congress have not been vaccinated.  Outwardly things are looking pretty good.  It's been a month or so since they have opened up things around here and allow some visitors and allow you to take short trips, like to the store.  Chris has resumed his trips to the bikini bar.  But with all of this positive stuff inwardly I am suffering from some sort of clinical depression.  I worry about my health all the time.  A million things could go wrong.  I want Dr Messina to try a different anti-depressant drug on me and he refuses to do it saying I don't need it and I'm doing fine the way I am.  I think I am a better judge of the fact that I'm not doing fine.  My sense of disorganization has only gotten worse.  As a prime example of that - this is the first blog post I have done in the month of April.

Leo Laporte had a guest on about space travel and notibly landing astronauts on the moon by 2024 and putting a 25 passenger space ship in orbit around the moon in 2023.  They want to charge civilians to take a ride to the moon to say they have been in orbit.  That's safer than landing.  They didn't discuss landing men on Mars in this outing.  Space X got the lunar landing contract because apparently they were the only bidder.  Boeing bowed out at the last minute.  Of course there is talk now that there is water on the moon.  That could really alter the picture of colonization if it's true.