Book #1

June 27, 1959

I was born on Saturday June 27, 1959, at 6:30pm. The reason why I was born at 6:30pm is because I like to watch the national evening news to see what is going on around the nation and the world.

What I don’t like is what happens here in Orlando Florida sometimes. Depending on the weather, especially when we get our first rainstorm of the season, the local TV affiliates for ABC, NBC & CBS will highjack the channel and run their 6:00pm broadcast into 6:30 and beyond. It’s like nobody has ever seen rain in their life, and they must introduce us to each and every single drop that falls.

And, what really gives me a case of the “RED” ass is, two of the local network affiliates have sister stations where they could go on with the weather forecast, (which is usually NOT happening in my neighborhood anyway) and let New York and the network broadcast the evening news and tell me about what is happening around the rest of the nation and the world.

So, our story begins on the night of June 26, 20 something? Either 2024 or 2025? Or is it 2026? I always have to either look at a calendar or calculate it in my head. Let’s see, I was born in 1959 so in January of 1960 I was still zero years old. So, every January I’m in sync with the current year until June 27th when I am one number higher than the current year. Therefore, the night before I turned 65 years old would be June 26, 2024. So, our story begins that night when I went to bed thinking that when I woke up, I would be old enough to begin my retirement.

I woke up, but it wasn’t 2024.