Whistlin Mark Smith

 I almost forgot about today's meeting. I actually read the email reminding everybody about today's meeting but what I misread was that it was sent yesterday and I thought it was sent today talking about a meeting tomorrow. Luckily I went back and actually checked the dates and found out for sure it was today. I seriously for a while actually thought about going in person because it's in the building just straight down the street from where I live about 40 blocks or maybe 50, but I realized that I just really couldn't do it. I felt miserable still and knew that I would be copied my head off by the time I got there on public transit and through the meeting and nobody would appreciate it really so I took the zoom cop out. It's really kind of easy to get addicted to zooming into meetings being there but not being there at the same time kind of existential kind of Zen. I had ordered a lunch earlier in the month when they are asking for people to let them know if you would be in person so they could order enough lunch boxes I said I would be there but then I got sick. I kind of felt bad but after all it's just a sandwich and whatever Delta's in the Box usually from Zupas. Usually a good lunch just don't like the old days when there's an actual hot lunch catered those were great. I miss the good old days. Anyway about quarter after 12:00 12:20 I started trying to get into the meeting it's always a challenge for me. I'm always amazed when the whole thing works. I click buttons here and there I'm not really knowing what I'm doing and like I said always amazed when all the sudden people start asking if I can hear them. I was greeted by a question when I finally got my zoom identification taken care of and all that kind of stuff they wanted to know why my email name was Meadowlark mark. I was pleased to relate the story, I think I have it written here in the blog somewhere thousands of pages back, but my good friend Al named to me Meadowlark mark because I whistled everywhere I went. I really like the Acoustics of the building we worked in. From then on I've liked the name and it felt natural when it came time to doing a email name. The rest as they say is history.

Somewhere along the line I'm not sure if it was the late '60s somewhere in the 70s I heard a a song: I was Kaiser Bill's Batman. This song is by whistling Jack Smith in the song stuck with me so much that I seem to whistle at every chance I got everywhere I went anytime I got a chance. I'd like to think I'm a great Whistler but I'm no Jack Smith. I Whistle for my own pleasure everyone should. If you ever get a chance search I was Kaiser Bill's Batman, on the internet and play one of the videos you'll be pleased that you did