Amok Time

Why is it that male creatures that are 40ish and beyond in convertibles feel that stop signs are not meant for the them? Last week it was green car guy and yesterday it was silver car guy. Neither the same guy nor the same car, are the dealerships telling them this? Was there an article in GQ or Men’s Vogue that I missed? Is it posted on some Man website? Embroidered on the waistband of man panties?  Where do they get this idea from? Could it be the way they are instructed to drive in Italy, Eastern Europe and they assume here?  Women in convertibles stop. We want to be looked at. We want to give you a good look at us. We are not saying we are aloof and beyond your reach. We are saying we are fun, wild and whooooot!!  My dad had a convertible once. He did NOT drive like that.

I must say that once in a while it is good to eat a cherished bowl of cereal of your childhood. At Halloween we have Count Chocula and Frankenberry here but a few moments ago I treated myself to Cocoa Puffs, Little round balls of crunchy, chocolaty, yumminess. I am thinking Captain Crunch tomorrow.

Did everyone see the line up in the sky last night? The moon, Venus and Aldebaran, I have never heard of this star Aldebaran; It I the eye of the bull of the constellation Taurus, Also known as Alpha Tauri, 65 light years away. Aldebaran is Arabic and translates “the follower”. It is 44.2 times the diameter of the sun. That is huge!! If you follow the three stars that make up Orion’s belt from left to right the first star you see after the belts third star is Aldebaran. It is an orange star. On an episode of Star Trek  Dr. McCoy says Spock is "as tight-lipped as an Aldebaran shellmouth” The episode is called  “Amok Time”.

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