Cranky Large Medium reading, 29 October

Go away.

How's come you're still around? Well, aren't you special? Don't you have anything better to do than buzz around a poor soul like a mosquito at one's ear? What do I have to do to make you leave? Ah, yes. The reading. Well, then, here you are:

You are plodding and persnickety, obsessing over the minutest of details, and acting only when there is no doubt of the outcome. You may be good with plans, but do much better when following somebody else's. You allow yourself to be bothered by small things, simply because you think they do not suit you. You belong in the company of children, preferably in the out-of-doors or involved in sports.

Are you happy now? Why not? You certainly are better off than these people, who ceased their own buzz and started drawing flies on this date in history: Conradin, King Gustaf V of Sweden, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Paul Painlevé, Peter Twinn, Edmund Calamy the Elder, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, Zoe Akins, Hal Clement, Michel Regnier, Glenn McQueen, Maria Anna Mozart, Woody Herman, Louis B. Mayer, Adolphe Menjou, Harvey Hendrick, Sir Walter Raleigh, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Leon Czolgosz, Joseph Pulitzer, Dwight B. Waldo,

and Howard Duane Allman.

His brother was once married to Cher! And you thought you had it rough. Life is full of dirty tricks.
Happy birthday, anyway.