Now For Something Completely Different
I notice I've been grousing a lot on the old blog lately.  Time - sez I to myself - to write something uplifting, or at least useful.   Vacation time is just around the corner.  So here: Don’t Deny the Devil      There are certain things in the making of recreational choices that color one’s judgment, like a well-tinted pair of sunglasses can make a day look more glamorous than it really is, or a quickly drained dram of tequila can have the same effect on a candidate for social intercourse.         The hint of danger is one of those “certain things.”   Hints of danger have various thresholds for individuals.   Popping one’s ‘chute a thousand feet closer to the ground than usual might hint of danger to a jaded skydiver making the experience beguiling recreation. To the rest of us there are usually less well-defined danger hints.   Just considering that hit of tequila, for instance, puts some people off as being ‘way over the limit, fully into danger.’   Depends on your age sometimes...