#Hello 2017

I posted this same article on my FaceBook page, but not everyone reads it.

It has finally arrived: The year 2017. What ever happened to 2016? It seems the older I get the faster the years go by. Why is that? Everything else seems to slow down, like walking, thinking, talking, eating…

My wife and I spent last night at home. Last year we went out for supper and it was a disaster. We planned to go to the restaurant in the casino and got a huge surprise when we arrived there. The waiting time to get a table was three hours. My wife suggested we go home, get a Pizza out of the freezer and have that for supper. Did not excite me. I wasn’t going to leave 2015 eating Pizza. Instead, we went to Aaltos in the same building. We waited only one hour. I should have taken my wife’s advice to go home. The food from the buffet was mostly cold and what they offered was boring. We walked out with a large bill and unhappy.

The year before, we went to a restaurant near our place for supper and ended up with a terrible cold that lasted most of the winter. We figured they didn’t sterilize their dishes.

So this year we decided to stay home. We bought a couple of lobster tails and a box full of butterflied ‘colossal’ shrimp in garlic. To compliment that we had lettuce, fried rice and peas. My wife drank wine and I drank a bottle of beer. It turned out great and we left the table satisfied, even though the lobster tails were somewhat on the small size and the ‘colossal’ shrimp not as large as advertised. It didn’t matter, they tasted good and we had enough. The best part: No waiting in line to get the food, either.

After supper, we watched three episodes of Season Four of ‘Game of Thrones’ and finished the last fifteen minutes of 2016 watching the CBC channel on TV waiting for twelve o’clock and the new year to arrive. Those last minutes were spoiled listening to a band screaming what is called music these days. I call it noise. At the stroke of midnight, they had fireworks. The government spending our tax dollars, but it was good. We toasted each other with a glass of sherry and then we watched a couple of comedians telling their jokes for 30 minutes and then we went to bed. Boring, I know, but more relaxing and satisfying than the last couple of New Year celebrations.

This morning, when the radio came on (We listen to CBC) we were treated to more screaming ‘music’. We shut off the radio after two songs, that’s all we could stand. Perhaps, some day, music will be music again and not screaming steel guitars and drums and the singers will have pleasant voices and will actually sing beautiful melodies—melodies that soothe and are pleasant and enjoyable. I probably won’t see that in my lifetime. The whole world is crazy. Modern music is only one aspect of that craziness. We can only hope and pray some day humanity will find its way to normalcy and the insanity that seems to have gripped us will be put to rest.

My wish for 2017 is that people begin to realize that hostility, intolerance, and hatred only spawns more of the same. When you live by the sword you die by the sword. Let’s all think PEACE and strive for it.

HAPPY NEW YEAR