Seniors Rock

In spite of the inclement weather, several of our brave and hardy seniors were here ready to go by 9am. Still got two on the course, the Hudson brothers, Rex and Ken, finishing up the back nine. Leroy Streepy, Morris Cornelius, Clyde Wake, Dave Strange, plus Walt Bowen and Dave Trinkle, both from Plainville and new to the senior league this year - though Walt played in it several years ago. They all tested the wind and the cold and came in happy to find a warm spot. Where's the coffee? I directed them to our near neighbor just over yonder, Stoll's. - by the way, Stoll's Lakeview Restaurant still gives you a free drink with your purchase of a buffet meal when you show them our scorecard. Diane and I had a super meal there after the big too do of getting the Tuesday Men started.

I've updated the list of players in our Senior League. Still hoping to get to the 20 team level.

Kurt Vonnegut passes on. Read and enjoyed his books years ago. Might be worth a second reading. A long and excellent look at his life and work at the NYTimes:

"...His novels — 14 in all — were alternate universes, filled with topsy-turvy images and populated by races of his own creation, like the Tralfamadorians and the Mercurian Harmoniums. He invented phenomena like chrono-synclastic infundibula (places in the universe where all truths fit neatly together) as well as religions, like the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent and Bokononism (based on the books of a black British Episcopalian from Tobago “filled with bittersweet lies,” a narrator says)..."

and later, a forever truth about wars men fight:

"...Mr. Vonnegut shed the label of science-fiction writer with “Slaughterhouse-Five.” It tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, an infantry scout (as Mr. Vonnegut was), who discovers the horror of war. “You know — we’ve had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves,” an English colonel says in the book. “We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. My God, my God — I said to myself, ‘It’s the Children’s Crusade.’ ”..."

Good read. Go see for your self. Wonder what Vonnegut books the library has?