Cranky Large Medium reading, 9 November

Go away.

Go on. Sally forth. Begone. Why are you still here? Oh, right. You're one of those sorts... well, let me tell you:

You never give up, do you? Others know when to admit defeat, but you'll keep grinding away at that thing long after every rational person is long gone. You're also selfish and secretive, not sharing your plans with anybody. You still manage to gather crowds, probably hoping to see you fail once more. You will have a quiet home life and your spouse will spend long periods of time fascinated by your behavior.

Are you happy, now? No? Why not? You aren't the worst off on the planet, after all. Consider all these folks, who turned to dust on this date in history: Constantine VII, Emperor Gaozong, John Campbell, Henry Cabot Lodge, Ramsay MacDonald, Neville Chamberlain, Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, Charles de Gaulle, Edwin Drake, William Schutz, David Bauer, William Camden, Guillaume Apollinaire, Dylan Thomas, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Paul Sandby, Howard Pyle, Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Victor Sen Yung, Yves Montand, Hugh Paddick, Merlin Santana, Art Carney, Edna May Oliver, Maude Fealy, Fred Haney, Hortense Mancini, Mary Jane Kelly, John N. Mitchell, Ed Bradley,

and Jan Johansson.

Söderhamn eggs is too much?
Happy birthday, anyway.