fun

where'd it go?  is it the fact that i'm getting older...has it drifted away in this new - maybe not so new - pc world or has it just slunk 'round a rock like a feral cat?  we used to have so much fun - a magician "in the round" at an eight adult dinner party - four of us, on a freezing january day, mooning the federal agents flying over us as we shot ducks on the chesapeake bay...fun, man, fun.  fun went away some years ago - maybe just took some time off, but everything seems somehow more sober now.  i'll give you an example of the pc business that so confused me it took all the fun out of catching them, and they are a fun, beautiful fish to catch and to eat.  i'm talking about dolphin.  that's what we used to call them, then they became dorado for some reason, now they're mahi mahi, just to separate them from the proper, air breathing lot.  for christ's sake...who can keep track.  one thing sally and i had fun with the other day was shooting dice at the local casino.  years ago she and i and my friend harry, a cop, went over to atlantic city one evening.  sally hadn't played the table games too much so we started with craps, won and went on to blackjack, won and went on to baccarat.  won there too.  as the sun came up behind us, traveling home on the ac expressway at "cop speed", sally in the front seat on my lap singing with me at the top of our lungs to rock tunes on the radio...hurling the thousands we'd won all over the place 'til we came up on a toll booth and harry told us to cool it...that was fun.  anyway,  we'd played blackjack the other day and, typical of these non-fun times, were down to our last $200.  i said let's go...sally said no, let's go to the craps table.  so we did - and won $1590 in twenty minutes.  a glimmer of fun.  and that's it, i guess.  fun has become a glimmer, fading as it ages in the speed of today's world, the hurly-burly of life.  too bad.  we could use more of it, don't you think?