Welcome to #Checkin for Thursday, August 29th, 2024!

Why howdy there #Checkin people, it’s me, Rod. I’ll be here for the next week.

My mom was born 100 years ago yesterday. She's been gone just a little over a decade now, and I swear she decided to get out before she turned 90. She was like that. Stubborn. Willful.
I've been thinking about the time she went on strike. Mom, who became Rosie the Riveter fresh out of high school. During the war, she worked in the armory, making bombs and testing machine guns. She married my dad, who she met at 17, as soon as the war was over. What was she, 21?
By 1960 she'd probably had all she could take. Can't say that I blame her. I mean how many kids is a woman supposed to ride herd on each morning anyway? My older sister freaked out, but the rest of us coped.

Mom! Where's our breakfast?
Make your own damned breakfast.
But what about lunch?!
Make your own damned lunch.

So we did. Because we all have choices. We make decisions. So we had cold cereal for breakfast. No big deal. In a little assembly line we younger kids made PBJs for school, though my older sister was appalled, and insisted on lunch money. It was also the day I tripped and dropped my lunchpail, breaking my thermos. I can still recall the sound the glass made sloshing around inside the milk. Probably never forget.

On another note, Val and I celebrated our wedding anniversary this weekend. We made a spontaneous run up to Downtown Disney (in Anaheim CA) for shopping and dinner. We had fun. We HAVE fun. We laugh a lot. It's a good life. With cats. When it comes to choices and decisions, she's the best one I ever made.

How about you? Made any good ones lately?
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