The crossword puzzle is the third thing in the morning paper order. While eating breakfast, the first thing in order is, of course, the comics. That has to be done first. It's so easy to lose the thread of the plot in
Judge Parker since the latest artist draws all the men to look alike and all the women to look alike. If you start missing days it takes a while to catch up. Second are the baseball scores, especially the Angels. Yes, the Angels. See, you haven't been keeping up. They've been doing quite well lately, even with half the team on the disabled list and a roster of unknowns on the field. (There's a lovely singing group called The Anonymous Four. I wonder if they'd mind if the Angels became known as The Anonymous Nine?)
And finally there are the crossword puzzles, which brings us to the point of this ramble. One of the clues this morning was "time period when the meteor hit the earth". Well, I had no idea and the intersecting clues weren't helping. So out came the online puzzle dictionary. The second answer in the list was "Monday". That didn't fit the spaces available but you can see where the sensitive soul might incur a light patina of perspiration. I mean, four days away from now rather than, oh, I don't know, sometime long past, say the Pleistocene Era. Gosh.
No sooner finished breakfast than Herself comes into the room and says "Would you like armageddon?" Sort of takes one's breath away, even for the non-sensitive soul. I can only respond "You mean now? Or can it wait until Monday?" Which confuses her mightily since she was referring to a book about the dreaded former Secretary of State entitled "Armageddon" that she had just heard reviewed well on the radio.
We did get that sorted out. But the years-long feeling of impending doom regarding both church and state, although diminished, does remain.
And how was your morning?
