How DO You Do?

Wow, I've go this tune running through my head this morning and, I'm tellin' you, mes amis, it's running hard and strong. I've never been a Country and Western music fan but man 'o' man I loved this baby.

Did you know? It was written by poet, cartoonist and children's book author Shel Silverstein. In fact he and Cash performed it together on Cash's TV show.

Ten and I took a drive down to Caroline's Cannabis yesterday. Beautiful drive – a good way to blow off the myriad frustrations of the day. I only mention it BUT moving cross country involves jumping through five bazillion frustrating hoops – getting new insurance for yourself and your car, getting a new driver's licence (buying a gun is easier and no insurance needed!), opening a new bank account and adjusting to us Masshole drivers – that's just for starters.

Just FYI, from the Violence Policy Center:

Motor vehicle deaths are on a steady decline nationwide, thanks to decades of applying proven public health-based injury prevention strategies to reduce death and injury. Meanwhile, gun deaths continue unabated. Guns remain the only consumer products not regulated for health and safety in the United States.

Meanwhile, back on the road to Caroline's, we passed a sign for the Museum of Work and Culture. What's IN that museum?! Biz World's very first cubicle farm? Vintage water coolers? Is there a special gallery dedicated to Florsheim's and flats?

Nope.

The Museum of Work & Culture shares the stories of the men, women, and children who came to find a better life in Rhode Island’s mill towns in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

OK. Sounds like a field trip that  every elementary school kid suffers through. The history of New England's textile mills is way fascinating to yurs truly but it'd take special kind of charisma to make this relatable to a pack of nine year olds.

We also saw a sign for an Italian restaurant by the name of Chateau. Emmmmm. Chateau is the French word for castle. Castello is the Italian word for a mega posh pile of bricks and stone. Is this French/Italian fusion food? Are the owners not actually Italian. Do they believe, marketing-wise, Chateau's a better name?

I'm, I believe understandably, disinclined to try the joint out.

Scusami, I think I need to go sing some Fulsom Prison Blues now. It's gonna be a Johnny Cash kind of a day.