11/18/20-11/20/20
Ok the election is over and we are still in a kind of limbo. Yes all votes must be counted and if Biden is the 46th President, unlike the Democrats who cried, nashed teeth and screamed for four years, I will take whatever result unfolds and move on. Granted Obama was not my choice and I still believed he was in over his head, but he was elected and time goes by fast and we are still here.
Enough politics, I am so election fatigued as well as Covid 19 fatigues. So over the masks thing and yes, I comply as required but my glass still fog up despite my anti fog spray!! Hilton Head has quieted down tourist wise and I am glad the families are gone. I have not see too many people lately but did visit SD in Savannah to watch Hokies football (don’t ask lol) and to help celebrate her birthday as it was a big one for her. I so love spending time with her.
Thanksgiving is coming next week and the holiday season is in full swing. I gave grown more and more sympathetic to Scrooge and the Grinch as the years go by. Isolated down here, I often think holidays past including Thanksgivings at my Aunt Marie’s house and those Christmases my mom would do. Looking back at the 70’s as my golden age as a kid, before college, girlfriends and work. I will be with my ex and the girls next week. When we were married, she took over Thanksgiving after her mom died and my family stopped having it at home and went out to restaurants. She alwas works so hard and it is a shame that a fantastic meal takes days to prepare takes only 600-900 seconds to eat.
As Faust sold his soul, I would in a heartbeat sell mine to be able to go back to say 1976 or so and relive Christmas as it was on Silver Lake Road with Nanny, my aunts, uncles and cousins, Mickey and Faith next door. She went to PS 45 with my mom and were close friends until she died about 6 years ago. We lived next door and how I would love some of her Christmas cookies. She and my mom were Godmothers to my sister and her daughter respectfully, As I write this, so many emotions are coming back and I can’t even get the Devil to take my soul. How sad is that? I have another birthday to remind me of my slow but steady decline and at this point, will probably be alone. I have lost a few friends here who have relocated back to where they came from and most of this year have not been out much.
I stopped going to Cool Cats; just got old and dating down here, forgetaboutit!. I will be going to Savannah during December, as they do Christmas right. Leap year moved my birthday from a Friday to a Sunday so another Saturday I got screwed out of. The weather has cooled a little finally, than God and I may go to Taphouse to watch Clemson administer VT’s weekly beating.
So what’s been going on in school? I have been a permanent sub this semester at the middle school and now been regular facilitator in a class in Chinese. STOP LAUGHING! Actually we lost out teacher, who was on loan, and now the entire class is done on line. I just keep the class in order. 3 classes with a few kids in one, and more in the other two. The last class has the cool jock kids that Stefani knows but I have not told them I am her father. Unfortunately yesterday they were fooling around too much and which will be address tomorrow. Update: Things have smoothed out with me adding to the technology of the class and yesterday the classes were much easier to control.. Not to get into much detail, but now I can see who is on line and follow what is being taught. I told all the kids that there is a new sheriff in town and they’re bring watched and recorded. “Ve have vays of seeing you” (German accent). I will be posting more during the Thanksgiving weekend as I will have the kids next weekend.
God Bless to all and your families.
John Scarso
Hilton Head Island
Yankee in Dixie 