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In the anti-Christian world that we now live in, the academicians made a noisy point of replacing the Christian temporal markers BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini) that we used to use to define historical dates.\u00a0 At first, they replaced them with BCE (Before Christian Era) and CE (Christian Era) but still not satisfied with any relationship to Jesus remaining, they repurposed the acronyms into Before Common Era and Common Era.\u00a0 Well, the enemies of God could be expected to do no less.<\/p>\n

But maybe soon we\u2019ll be back to BC and AD.\u00a0 But the underlying time markers will stand for Before COVID and After the Destruction.\u00a0 After all, historians of the future will decide that western civilization\u2019s self-immolation reached its climax with the decision to wreck the industrial, commercial and social basis of the western world for the sake of running the COVID play book the way they did.<\/p>\n

But in my own humble way I am also embarking on a new epoch.\u00a0 The divisions will be designated BP and AP, Before Puppy and After Puppy.\u00a0 In the waning days of the BP era, I have before me a solid week when Camera Girl will still be at my beck and call.\u00a0 After that I\u2019ll be abandoned to my fate, left to fend for myself and survive on any scraps that the very important canine deigns to leave in her bowl.\u00a0 I\u2019ll probably lose my spot on the couch and be forced to sleep in the shed or the garage.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be kept around as a maintenance man or security guard for the estate.\u00a0 My main employment will probably be sanitation worker armed with a shovel and a pail.\u00a0 How the mighty hath fallen.<\/p>\n

But this week is my last hurrah.\u00a0 Yesterday the kids and grandkids were over and I incinerated the burgers and dogs and the kids went into the already very cold pool water one last time and played some wiffle ball and shot some pool.\u00a0 And we all ate too much ice cream and drank too much lemonade one last time before they settled into school.<\/p>\n

So now I can relax and enjoy the unseasonably hot weather and rearrange my priorities in preparation for the rest of the year.\u00a0 And hopefully I come up with an efficient and productive schedule for myself.\u00a0 It\u2019s badly needed.\u00a0 I am a disorganized man.<\/p>\n

But even if I don\u2019t completely revolutionize my schedule into a perfection of photog-ergic productivity, I intend to finish this week with the satisfaction of having done whatever I do or don\u2019t do on my own terms.\u00a0 For the next few days, I\u2019m the master of my soul and the captain of my destiny.\u00a0 Or something that sounds like that.<\/p>\n

So, if I end up wasting the time and achieving nothing and leaving myself in an awful spot, I have no one to blame but myself.\u00a0 And to my mind that is exactly what I want.\u00a0 I will have clear cause and effect relationship between what I do and what ends up happening to me.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I will have established my own example of free will at work in the world.\u00a0 A perfect laboratory of volition.\u00a0 The immovable object (me) meeting the irresistible force (the full catastrophe that is my life).\u00a0 It\u2019ll be my own damn fault.\u00a0 What man could ask for more than that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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