The Cajun Navy stepped up, revealing the real America that the media doesn’t tell us about- wrong ‘meme,’ whatever that word means.

I was never that clear on it. Steely Dan had a distinct voice- meme, message, whatever, but that is gone this morning since half of them- Walter Becker, 67- are now dead.

I was going to write about North Korean nukes this morning, but my comrades Arrias and Marlow seem to have covered the politics of it all pretty well. This is a big deal and a tough problem that we have avoided for the 40 years I have been in the Korean affairs business. I think it might be ironic to get fried by the family franchise in Pyongyang after all these years.

It is also Labor Day, and have already been in tears this morning as Joanna the Polish Lifeguard opened the pool for the last time of the Regular Season. Ironworker Tony was out, too, as one of the Pool Support Group. He wanted to ensure she got coffee. I beat him to it- I got her a travel mug and a chicken wrap for breakfast. I feel for the kids out there over the years who have sat, mostly unbothered, by the residents of Big Pink for ten hours each day.

Life changes after this last pool day. Now there will be time to go to the farm, start to sort out life after a career, contemplate the fact that half of Steely Dan is dead (and at my age!) and how things go forward from here.

Life is sure is strange as heck, isn’t it? I guess we just have to step up and do it like we always did. It ain’t forever, is it, though it certainly beckons. I am going to listen to the album “Aja” and some of the tunes that defined my life this afternoon. Why not? Step up. If there is life, why not live it?

– Vic

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