Saturday

Today is Saturday, the first day of the long Memorial Day weekend. I am really glad that I am not committed to go anywhere because the weather is really crappy.

A few decades ago along with a few friends we rented a summer house at Lake Hopatcong in New Jersey. We did this for quite a few years. All winter long we were looking forward to going out and spend our weekends there. Actually it was always very pleasant.

Our seasons started with the Memorial Day weekend. Every single year we went out there at the time and spent the weekend wondering if we would freeze to death there or just go home early. Never ever had nice weather this early. But since it was paid for, we were with good friends we all stuck it out and went home at the end of the weekend.

Actually later on conditions always improved and we forgave Mother Nature but we never ever forgot the cool Memorial Day weekends. That is why we never ever made any plans to go anywhere this early in the season. I am not a gambling man so I will not gamble with the weather.

On the other hand people are so desperately fed up with winter that they really do not care about the possibilities they just want to get away and kind of unofficially start the summer season.

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On another totally different subject, this today is the 300th article since starting this blog on October 3, 2009. What a different world it was then and how much happened since I started writing. How different everything looked then and how much happened since. Back then we lived in an ignorant bliss, with not a care in the world.

And then slowly our world changed and brought us misery. It was pain and hope and then pain and hope again. At the end there is no us anymore only me.

Life is a very interesting game. Nobody knows what the future holds and nobody is really prepared for it.

I like to write this little thing here. I can really open my heart to an extent and at the end it makes me feel good.