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So Fed Up! (My "Late Bloomer" Mid-Life Crisis)



I am feeling about as fed up with things as Ben Bernanke is about the economy I suspect, so last night in a fit of passion, bordering on rage, I did:

1. Shaved off my beard and moustache for the first time since I was 19 (that is a helluva long time ago).

2. Took all my pipes out of their various locations around my home, truck, shed, office, lab, wife's car, garage, and anywhere else I could remember storing some, and then proceeded to put them in a pile on the driveway and stomp on all of them. The breaking of the stems and bowls left a messy rubble. I quit!

3. I took the "pledge" to be a damn tee-totalling abstainer.

4. I took a bottle of my wife's hair dye and proceeded to dye my hair so that the top of my head now looks like a matt of dark brown yarn.

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April Fools!

Yes, I know my "joke" may not have been that surprising, and that the transparency of my "actions" were perhaps obvious falsehoods to you my long-time readers and friends. But, it was the best I could come up with in a moment after realizing on the way into work that it was April Fool's Day. I only remembered after listening to a perfectly deadpan story on NPR that was preposterous BUT delivered in a perfectly normal tone.... that I put it all together about what day it was.

I hope you may have gotten at least a glimmer of a smile from my attempt at a joke.

PipeTobacco