(photo is representational only, not from author's actual home, for God's sake!)

It's May 1st and I understand that Fidel Castro, like a groundhog on Feb. 2nd, failed to appear as promised. I suspect he's long dead and they're keeping it a secret as long as possible.

In more local news, a couple of morons are here to re-install our home theatre system. They were supposed to be here yesterday but of course failed to appear. They can't seem to speak, won't make eye contact with me. It was only when I pointed out that the TV needed to be lifted onto a shelf that I heard some noises come from one of them.

Later... all done now. They actually did rather a good job and even had some wires left over. Most efficient! Everything sounds new. They offered to replace all our remote controls with one big one but I demured. It's only been 6 years, we're still learning how to work the 6 we have.