Cranky Large Medium reading, 13 December

Go away.

Aren't you gone, yet? Why not? Someone steal your shoes? Those rocks on the path can't be that hard on your pitiful nekkid tootsies, can they? Oh, right. You just left your shoes by the gate, when you came asking for... refresh my memory again? Ah. A reading. Well, then, here you are:

You are brash and impetuous, make snap decisions and act upon them without consideration. You have the fear and "respect" of all around you, and they ask your opinion whenever they think you want them to. You are always the center of a crowd, and your home life is not ever going to be quiet.

Are you happy, now? Of course not. But at least you ought to recognize you're better off than these famous people, all of whom, on this date in history, went tootsies up: Pope Callixtus II, Frederick II, Mahmud I, Johannes Trithemius, Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, François Viète, Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Ányos Jedlik, Woldemar Voigt, Fritz Pregl, Thomas A. Watson, Victor Grignard, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Abraham Wald, Maimonides, Herman of Alaska, Samuel Johnson, Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi aka Donatello (not the turtle), Charles de La Fosse, Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses, John Raymond Hubbell, Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham, Timothy Jordan II, Tim Moore, Spencer Williams, Jr., Jon Hall, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Andre Rodgers, Lamar Hunt, Samuel Gompers, Irma Grese, Josef Kramer, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Stanley Tookie Williams, Raymond A. Spruance,

and Zal Yanovsky.

Not magic. And not very nice, either.
Happy birthday, anyway.