Monday's Missives

I have no idea where this picture came from. It was just in my gallery. I know I've never seen it before.

• Im tempted to say, The South Korean, Japanese,  American and all other non crazy governments need to work together to ensure the next time the North Koreans test a missile over another nations sovereign territory- that missile is shot down. Then once the missile is shot down we don't brag about it- we don't even say a word Best Korea would know what happened. What do we do if we miss? We hint that we shot it down and leave it at that.
• I know- big problems with that kind of thinking but it feels good to think that way and oddly it even feels right from a military standpoint and sounds correct ( although the intel Best Korea would gather from our inevitable miss of trying to take a missile down might be a bigger deal to them and our other potential enemies).

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  First Payday bar I ate in my life. Verdict: super good. Sweet and salty and chewy and crunchy- what's not to like?

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  That is one lame contest.

• I have about 4 days worth of beard now, have not been sleeping well and I am incredibly stressed out- consequently I look easily 10 years older than my biological age.

  

  Not a terrible product but some of them always have a slightly stale edge to them. An old friends family used to make fried pork skins  themselves. They were legendary and supposedly delicious but I always missed having any.

• Today two of my patients burst into tears as soon as they entered my office.
• Well, to be completely truthful- one of them was already crying when she walked in.
• Holy smokes, I just finished the voice to text bullet point before last by saying, over!
• The bacon on my loaded baked potato from Flames Seafood this evening was great. Easily some of the best I've ever had in my life. Not top five but definitely top 10.
• One of those stories that are somebody else's but it is just so cool- it makes you wish it were your own: a friend saw Willie Dixon at a blues festival in California. He took his program up to Willie and ask him to sign it. Somebody in the line hollered out, Make it out to Rocco! So Willie wrote something like, "To Rocco- Best Wishes!" or whatever. My friend's name is not Rocco and as a bonus-he had no idea who the guy was in the crowd that hollered that out. It was just some random guy. Willie died just a few years later.

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  Never forget the great gasoline crisis of 2017. I had to buy premium at slightly elevated prices. The horror. The horror. #covfefe

Monday's Missives

V8 juice another one of those products that I see it in the store and I just say, Man, that sounds sooooooo good right now. I buy a six-pack or 8 pack or however they come, then I'll drink those like they are about to be banned. Then a year or two later the process repeats. Interestingly enough- I've never drunk a Bloody Mary in my entire life.

• So I bump into this kid who is the son of an old long ago long deceased friend. Later I saw him again and he mentions that his mom had asked about me which made me look her up online- as we all are wont to do. No, here is actually where it gets weird. I put her name in with my friends last name-even though they were never- as far as I know actually married. I do know she carried his name. None of the results that I found matched her. The weird thing is though, when I tapped image search all of the people pictured bore at least a passing and in one or two cases- a striking resemblance to her.
• The internets is the devil.

  

  The weirdest/grossest thing is that the No Personal Food sign in big block letters is absolutely necessary. Gag.

• Baker's ribs is off probation. I've been back two or three times now and it's back to being pretty good.
• Weird thing about that place though- they give you barbecue sauce with your baked potato.
  
• Recently somebody I know counseled me to try pot for my chronic pain issues. My mind was actually blown when I found out that they themselves partake.
• I stay in enough trouble on my own without any help from you. Thank you very much.
• There is no way that mosquitoes will not be an absolute plague in Houston in the spring of 2018.

I'm lying in bed drinking black coffee listening to Squeeze perform Black Coffee in Bed

The moon is so bright- it is keeping me awake.
# can you die from lack of sleep?

From The Detritus Of My Youth

Another favorite comic.

Thursday's Thoughts

• So it is over with FG. She has already moved- I have no idea where she even lives.
• Dang, that was a good one.
• I have memories that will last me a lifetime.
• It has been months since I've been camping. When the crowds were reasonable it was too unbelievably hot . When the temperature was nice- everything was too crowded.
• Getting in the habit of going to bed nearly as soon as I get home. I'll never go straight to sleep though- I'll read for hours
• I am reading a fantastic book titled 1491.
• Super duper cute neighbor left her boyfriend recently. I doubt he saw it coming. I could literally see it coming from a mile away. 
• No woman ever spent a minute in a tanning bed or a hour in the gym and/or drops 20 pounds for her present boyfriend.
• Arthritis is beginning to affect the first knuckle of my thumb and the first knuckle of my index finger of my right hand. It has been in the first knuckle of my pinky finger on the same hand for a while but the other two knuckles are also starting to stay sore all the time now.
• Did I know but somehow forget that the writer of one of my favorite songs, Come Monday is Jimmy Buffett?!
• I nearly fell out of my chair when I read that he wrote that song earlier this evening.
• Today is August 1st 2017.

Wednesday's Digressions

Somebody asked about the airplane above a restaurant from back in the day. This may be a re-post but here is one of a few old ones I know of. It is on Montgomery in Fort Worth.

Something I had never considered until recently when prompted by something I read and could not tell you exactly why it is true but I know it is- if you want to understand the term," production values" watch Desparado and then El Mariachi (or vice versa I suppose)

The Barbecue and music at Hard Eight BBQ were great last night (10/25/2014). The calendar had Terri Bruce as the artist- I cannot confirm or deny. If it is her I'll watch for her.

As long as it is fresh I always like the last of an urn of tea rather than the top part.

Primitive savages. One thing that always stands out when I see terrible people doing terrible things like this- how do enough people not think this could be me to make things like this not happen?  Let he who is without sin, be the first to pick up a piece of cable to whip another human being with I always say. Anyway, homes- you're next, bet on it friend.

I cannot state why but I have been won over by Lana Del Ray. Honestly- I don't know why, I just love her music and think it subtly great.

Motley Crue for back in the day must have been very well produced and engineered. Their music still sounds really clean.

Oddly, I have never been to the Abilene TX Zoo in spite of the fact of living so close for a year I did most of my shopping there and having family in the area all my life.

Some of the Zoo York graphic tees are really cool and like a lot of big name stuff are very well made but man, they could leave off the dumb Zoo York name.

An old friend had a dog named Wolfie whom the legend told was found by deer hunters as a wolf pup with others in a den near Sonora with it's dead mother nearby. The hunters split them up and took them home to raise. By the time I saw him he was old and moth eaten. He would lie by the fire and sleep for hours and be stiff when he awoke. He would hobble over to you for a back rub and ear scratch. When you finished he would lick your hand once and stagger away. I never believed he was a wolf until years later I saw a pic of a red wolf and read about their historic range. The picture I saw looked exactly like Wolfie- not a fair representation of the species. I am sorry I doubted you Wolf  (pronounced Woof in the vernacular of my white trash Texas species) and I still miss you.

Good Grief

what do the toads around here eat? Is there a power plant nearby I don't know about?

Bands I Have Seen

Bush has long been a favorite band. Hard in places and soft in others- just a really good rock band. I used hear them often on 94.5 The EDGE.

 Fun fact about me: I've actually touched Gavin Rossdale's nipple.

 He was running down the alleyway that's in front of the stage where the cables go and technicians can access the sound booth and the stage. He was high-fiving everybody and as he went by I reached out to high-five him. After initially going for my hand he stepped in closer and dropped his hand down to high-five my girlfriend. My hand was left out and it rubbed across his chest- touching his sweaty, erect nipple.

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Monday's Missives

My pharmacy has been in business for over 100 years. A couple of the pharmacists have been there for thirty or forty years each.

• At Olive Garden it took over 10 minutes for us to get a drink ordered this evening 08/05/2017. We were actually just about ready to give up and walk out. I had already given Zac the option of picking another place.
• I've long known about a server there that would always stink. He smelled absolutely foul. His was a stench that just followed him around.
• Tonight I didn't see Mr. Stinky but I smelled him. Every once in a while out of the corner of my eye I might see a server pass by but I wouldn't think anything about it until I caught a whiff of that smell.
• Dang dude. I mean-dang.

  

  I suppose it was inevitable but when I was a young man and I lived for bird hunting you would have been hard-pressed to convince me that there would ever been a time it could cost fifty bucks a day to shoot doves. I have shot tons of those things and never paid a nickel to do it.

• I l9ve the band Clutch.
• What is up with spellcheck when it offers no alternative to l9ve?
• I meant to say love...
• Back to the Olive Garden subject: due to the fact I never full on saw that dude tonight I initially thought it might be me being stanky and caught myself sniffing my armpits like a psychopath.
• The portobello mushroom ravioli was pretty good though.
• I got home from work in record time tonight- 30 minutes. 
• I've never done heroin but the feeling I get when I am able to beat a massive traffic jam by getting off on an exit ramp just in time is what I imagine it to feel like.

  

  I've made some half-hearted efforts to see Donny Edwards but his shows always sell out real quick.