Cranky Large Medium reading, 2 January

Go away.

Why are you still here? The party's over, and has been for at least... a few hours. Go. Now. And yet you stand there in front of me as though you expect something more of me. Oh. Right. You want a reading. And then you will leave? Wonderful. Here you are:

Your obsession with your family is bordering on scary. Your need to succeed for their sake will drive you further down the highway to the nut house, but they'll probably get a lot out of it in the long haul. Because of this, many people will strive to become your friends and family, so you will never be alone. Let that keep you awake at night.

Are you happy, now? Of course not. Not now, not ever. But you should be. After all, at least you're able to function, as opposed to these people, who, on this date in history, ceased entirely to operate: James Longstreet, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, James Dooley, Marguerite "Dixy Lee" Ray, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., George Airy, John Obadiah Westwood, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, David Perkins, Sabine Baring-Gould, Frank Muir, Patrick O'Brian, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, George MacDonald Fraser, Jacopo Carucci aka Pontormo, Domenico Zipoli, Károly Goldmark, Mischa Levitzki, Errol Garner, Randy Craig Wolfe aka Randy California, Nat Adderley, Emil Jannings, Dick Powell, John Elmer "Jack" Carson, Alan Hale Jr., Una Merkel, Nancy Kelly, Lynn Cartwright, Bill Veeck, Don Massengale, Dan Shaver, Gerry Staley, Willard Maas, Dick Emery,

and Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter.

Sunshine hurts my eyes.
Happy birthday, anyway.