Who is Boss Henry?

From my journals, dated 25 Feb 00:

(As a side note, I do think that some of the "evidence" was planted, especially around the time of Boss Henry's short-lived reign.)

Now, it's almost 8 years later, and I'm reading this, and the paragraphs before and after (none of which mention Boss Henry again), and I'm wondering what I was thinking. And I'm not coming up with any real good answers. Which means one of two things:

1. I was smarter then, and 8 years on should count myself lucky to remember my own name and pray I don't end up in the Alzheimer's ward.

or

2. I am smarter now, as I was mis-guided and mis-directed in late February 2000.

Neither is a particularly attractive choice, since ultimately it leads to an admission of being stupider at one point or another--then or now.


Earlier than year, 24 Jan 00, I wrote:

The duplicitous nature of your own emotions can devastate a person.

And later that year, 5 Apr 00:

Soundless, the owl swooped, snatching a rat. This, under sunlight. Wolves howled. Dogs pawed nervously on the ground or at their doors. The expected solar eclipse never came.