A quest for sanity.....

T’is the quietest of Sunday mornings as I sit here watching the computer clock tick off the seconds as they pass.....reminds me of all the clocks counting down the seconds until the turn of the century ten years ago...
There were some who swore the world was coming to an end, that the millenia somehow marked the end of humankind on this spinning blue ball we’re riding....
I saw a scientific article (not that I have any great faith in science) that the deep-space camera had revealed a large number of earthlike planets in our expanding view of the universe.....English is such an imprecise language...
one of the articles I read said that we have a lot more universes than we ever imagined....I suspect that’s a case of good, better, ‘n best where something is good but better is gooder ‘n best is goodest ‘n it don’t get any better than that.....ah well, the hunt for superlatives is a never-ending quest....
We are inundated with superlatives on the telly ‘n the ‘net...we have a plentitude of magnificence in the tawdry world of advertising where ‘nothing was ever as great as the product of the moment but we’re coming out with a new and improved version of it tomorrow.....Once upon a time in the long, long ago (well, maybe not that long ago) there was a bar, a saloon really, out on Franklin Blvd in south Sacramento called ‘Club Four’...I don’t know that the name had any great significance but I imagine it had some....at least, to the owner....I’ve forgotten his name altho’ at the time I considered him t’be a friend ‘n we had many long ‘n serious discussions about his hometown of Chicago ‘n the relative merits of beer.... particularly Chicago brews versus California brews..... He was fond of the heavier brews of Chicago (higher alcohol content) and he seven percent beer shipped to him from a back home relative....if the bar was empty during one of our conversations, he would go into the back room ‘n return with uncapped bottles of seven percent Stroh’s beer from Chi-town....but I digress (not unusual) as I was talking about tomorrow....there was a huge banner hanging over the bar at the Club Four that read, “Free beer tomorrow!”.....’n of course, tomorrow is always tomorrow ‘n you can’t ever get there from here.....I’m just sayin’.......