Friday's Dispatch

Great idea! Because yeah- I do not know about you but I do love a 2 ounce, frozen, metallic and pointed projectile smashing against my teeth when I sip a nice whiskey...

• For somebody who's does not drive for a living- I seem drive a lot of miles every year.
• Camaro or Mustang? Which model of that choice? 
• A war story: want to know the best thing about Iraq? BLTs baby. I made BLTs there that were epic. I'm talking about half pound of bacon, 2 kinds of cheese, great tomatoes and sliced onion. For days on end I would eat them twice a day- once at mid rats and again at breakfast.
• Dang- those things made it all worth it.
• I have already started dreading  our work Xmas party.
• Kill me.
• This song has been a favorite for over twice as long as I am old. Does she that make sense? 
• Also a bummer thought- there is no way I can double my age again and see if it is still a favorite. 
• I'll be long dead by then.

Monday's Missives

What your bring home from dads to moms loot looks like if you are my kid.

• I love coffee.

  

  I asked for potatoes to be placed on my tacquito...

• It will be good to have another dog- sometime in the distant future.
• PS: In case you are wondering- the tomato tacquito was not terrible. I would never intentionally order it again but yeah- it was better than being poked in the eye with a stick.
  

  

  One of the den mother types at work has started making me lunch from her home dinner leftovers.
   She tells stories from her homelife where she relates something she said to her husband the evening before. Said related story will involve something hilarious I did or said at work that day. Part of the punchline will involve her saying something like, I could tell by the look on his face he didnt get it it because he doesn't know this place! Something tells me she misinterprets his looks and gets it alright- and he would illustrate that point by throat-punching me with very little provocation.

• If I'm stressed out- in the morning I will often have a lot of eye boogers- when I normally don't really have any at all.

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  What you see on the backside of the door coming out of the men's restroom at a restaurant I went to in Fort Worth recently. Yes, I had a mild heart attack but that was nothing compared to the chest pain the nauseating food that was awaiting me caused.

• Proof of civilizing affect of women: recently a blob of crud stuck on the inside wall of my tub gave me a startle as it appeared very convincingly like a gecko. This (days later) morning before I got in, it happened again- causing me to scratch Gary Gecko off with my thumbnail before crawling in for a nice soak. It never even occurred to me to clean the tub.
• Gross. Not a chance I would try that nonsense were there a woman in the picture. 

  

  When I first started coming to Sunshine Lake 20 years ago this platform was comparatively barely tilting over into the water.

• Zac could eat gravy every meal of the day I think.
  
• When I was a kid I genuinely  loved British comedies. I loved them more than I should though, as my watching them got on my dad's nerves. I can't understand a word they're saying! He would say. It made me feel superior to him. 
• Maybe that is a bit much- feel more sophisticated than him might be a better term.
• He has been dead now for nearly 40 years.

Thursday's Thoughts

• An old Army friend while I was in Germany had a partial dental plate and if he was out working on a vehicle in the cold weather his jaw would start hurting so he would have to go inside and as he would say, Warm my teeth up.
• I don't know what reminded me of him but something caused me to look him up. Funny thing is while I was looking him up I did an image search. The very first result was a house that I know he is not lived in for 30 plus years- and I found no pictures of him.
• Bonus: oddly, the house- aside from the front door being painted looks exactly the same as I remember 30 years ago when I left my contact information in the screen doors jam. 
• When I started college I moved nearly 600 miles from Texas to Tennessee and ended up living within a very short drive of his house.
  
• My nursing buddy next door call me to her office to get a cockroach out of it the other day. That thing was a monster- it was literally ridiculous. Oddly it was so big I could smell it- if that makes any sense?! I took it outside and threw it out. When I did it took off flying and its wings fluttered like a buzzard's. Nasty
  
• The environmental people have been going around our facility and vacuuming mosquitoes out of the air with a backpack mounted vacuum. 
• They look like Ghostbusters.
• The environmental people -not the mosquitoes.

Wisdom Of a Chupacabra #456

My guess is you would have to look long and hard to find somebody who regretted they stopped drinking but you couldn't swing a dead cat around over your head a couple of times in any crowd without it hitting a dozen people who wish they'd never started.

                       el chupacabra original truism

Wednesday's Digressions

It was skin test training day for a new employee and I was the guinea pig 

• Recently I  visited one of our nation states great parks. While there, I walked out onto the end of a fishing pier and leaned against the railing whereupon said railing groaned, creaked and flexed an easy 6-8 inches outward. I presumed the whole thing was going over and I was about to get wet- ready or not. This was soooo true I did what every red blooded American would have done- I threw the hand holding my cell phone up in the air and hoped for the best. In the end disaster was averted but that railing was screwed up.  I reported it by attaching a pic and sending an email to the only name I knew in that park.  For some reason I regreted it immediately and I am still full of dread as I presume it will come back to haunt me in some way.
• I am not sure what to make of that last sentence.
• Honestly- why?
• Update: The ranger emailed me back to thank me me and assure me the railing would be fixed. I'm now only slightly less sure reporting that issue will come back to haunt me. There is is still a little ball  of dread in my stomach. 

  

  This appeared on my desk one day then disapeared some time later just as mysteriously.

• At KBobs in Raton around Christmas time I had some of the best catfish I have had in my life. It was top 10 I would say- 15 at worst.

  

  Years ago my nursing buddy bought a big 50 count bucket of these pens for 3.99. They were in top 20 of pens I have used in my life. This is the lone holdout. It feels cheap to hand but you forgive it as it writes so great.

• I have not been to Red Lobster in years. I don't even remember what I used to order there.
• My roommate in college and I would destroy buffets- just demolish them. We were pigs. We hung out a little after I left that school then we just lost touch. I even travelled from Texas back to Tennessee a couple of times to see he and his wife but yeah- we just lost touch.
• We took an epic road trip for spring break. We drove his Buick Regal from Tennessee to New Orleans to Galveston and then up to my house in Decatur. It was a great time. Easily top 5 week of all weeks in my life. I still think about it at least once a year.
• He is the still probably the best combination of fun, smart and kind person I have ever known- great guy. 
• I am a better person because of him.

Monday's Missives

• This morning (today is 02/10/2017) I saw a guy in traffic with his phone mounted near his door. The screen was plainly visible to me as he Facetimed with some ugly fat lady as he sort of watched the road out of the corner of his eye. He had his cab light on so he could be seen by her.
• Although I did not do so, the temptation was to  pull over in front of him and do a nice brake check- thereby insuring my cozy retirement.
• Anyway- he was willing to risk his life and ours to talk to some fat, ugly chick as he hurtled down the road at 70 MPH.
• Odd: another pickup had a logo on the door that said, "Fiesta" and had a picture of a parrrot and no contact information or even a hint as to why the truck and said logo existed.
• There should be a mandatory minimum for education for a person considering running for Congress. At a minimum it should be a Bachelor's degree and although we could argue the point- we should give bonus credit for it to be a law degree.
• Game of Thrones is getting real with the torture scenes of Theon Greyjoy. Yes- I just started the third season.
• Whoa- I had no idea there was so much graphic ghey seks in that show.
• A couple of years ago I saw 3 female little people in Weatherford. One was white, one black and one Hispanic. The white and Hispanic were gorgeous.  They were all dressed to the nines (whatever that means). They were so overdressed and it was so unusual to see three little people together like that I presumed that as they walked into a store they were catalog models and were there for an advertising shoot (which would be super cool if a store did that) but I have since seen them around together (at least 2 together at a time) dressed down and eating at CiCis or shopping at the WalMarts.