I may have even brought this up before but this little picture always gives me a weird flashback to an abandoned bait shop that Zac and I explored one time. The weird thing is I have no independent recall none at all of where that place was although we explored it, the grounds and an old truck there for over an hour.

I just saw a picture of Dak Prescott for the first time. I don't know what he thought he looked like but my first thought was , Wow, he looks nothing like I thought he would.

What are you listening to right now?

RL Burnside When My First Wife Left Me

Wednesday's Digressions

• A waitress at my breakfast place tried to steal my change recently. It was so obvious and so clumsy- even the dishwasher backed me up on it by saying to her, Nope- he gave you 13 bucks. For dramatic effect he rolled his eyes and shook his head. He might as well have said, Chick, you are so busted. Weird effect of generally not expecting too much of people is when they do disappoint me- it sometimes seems to hit me hard. I hope it was worth it for her.
• Cops are everywhere and everything is illegal these days.
• Although it did not happen up there I almost always misspell these as theses.
  
• My Asian place is in trouble so they raised their ( already kinda high for what they offer) prices which causes people to stop going which makes them get deeper in trouble...
• Zac has taken an interest in writing.
• Huge shout out to the universe for the coincidental breakdown in my FlexPay account, my son's dental insurance being randomly canceled (which we found out at an appointment) and my being unable to log in to my retirement system and everything else that's happened recently to let me know-  leaving this toxic dump is the correct decision.
• Update to the breakfast place issue. I recently went back in there a few times. Most of the regulars are gone or hardly ever there. One or two of them actually come in and drink coffee- that they brought in from home and don't order any food. I do not know what is going on there but I am oddly glad to know it isn't me.
• PS: Again, I don't think it is just me as that place even has a weird vibe. It feels weirdly tense.
• I think it is cool President Obama made the American bison the nations first national mammal.
  
  

worst prose

While the sentence isn’t really an example of bad writing, it has come to be the poster phrase for an annual contest sponsored by San Jose State University’s English Department. The contest is to write the most deliberately awful prose. Past winners include this sentence by Jim Guigli of Carmichael, California:

“Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you’ve had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean.”

What are you listening to right now?

Slipknot The Blister Exists. Normally, I hate to watch so-called fan-made videos but this is the one I landed on and I watched the whole thing.

What was a magical grown-up moment for you?

For me it was the time the previous resident of a house I lived in told me the cable bill was paid for 6 months and hoped I enjoyed it.

I did.

I never even got a bill on it- as of course his address was long ago changed. Just one day I came home and it no longer worked.


It was bliss while it lasted though.

Interestingly, as an extension of this idea another cool outcome was the fact we were caught without any kind of antenna at all so the television was literally worthless. We brought out board games and played cards. I don't remember how long it lasted but I know we did it several times.

Recently while getting to better know an already friendly aquaintence she said something like I bet your house is so neat and always clean! I was able honestly reply, No, that used to be super true. People commented on it all the time-  but these days it's a wreck. She lit up (and obviously so) and really warmed to me and ended up asking me out.

I don't like acting like a mind reader but I think she determined in those seconds that I needed saving.

Update to the previous points: It is now been months since I wrote those thoughts. I still interact with that person and we've actually had a conversation where she described herself as a rescuer. She topped it off by saying, Yeah, when it comes to guys; let me find out they're a mess- then I'm all about them!

Yes, it felt like a personal assault.

I am in Whistle Hill Downtown Cafe. When I came in I intentionally chose a desolate spot as far away from anyone as I could possibly get. 

Predictably, a a guy came in and sat down at the table next to me in the seat closest and across from me.

Now a couple have come in and sat at the table next to me on the other side.


What in the heck is wrong with people!?

Humans are weird. That is why I am so glad I am from Mars.

Kasabian- Underdog. A favorite song for years.

Thursday's Thoughts- From An OLD Draft

• Most recent compliment by text: "Me and my daughter both think you're hot!" I'm really not sure what I think of that- on many different levels.
• Had to walk out of my favorite place to eat tonight- waited ten minutes and my drink order wasn't even taken. Zac could not understand though and I spent the next twenty trying to explain it to him.
• When I get tore up or my life is upended in one way or another I invariably spend a bunch of time inventorying my life to that point and even write lists out of my strengths and weaknesses and then make a list of things to improve myself and things I want to accomplish. Sometimes I get sick of hearing myself during the process- and that's what makes it work. I'm able to go about my business at some point relatively soon and be a better person for whatever it was that had been tormenting me and literally put it behind me.
• Still surprises me when an elderly person is not ready to accept the death of either themselves or loved ones. I always wonder, where have they been the past 70+ years?
• A recent patient of mine once had coffee with Gutzon Borglum when he was a boy. I wonder if his family knew that and how awesome that is?
• A previous life was rerun in a dream scape the other night. The images all had a 3D quality. Some were based on real favorite pics from that period others were like snapshots of real memories for which I have only recall and no pictures. It was set to a Goo Goo Dolls song.

Just now 1836 on 03/13/2018 I thought of it being Friday and sorta looked forward to 2 days off... it is Tuesday. My brain lied to me to make me feel better.

On the bright side- when the weekend does get here it will be 3 days.

On the downside- every day I work there is like taking a sip of poison.

Thursday's Thoughts

• I have listened to Depeche Mode for at least 35 years.
• There used to be a girl who commented here some and whose blog I read often. She talked about her cat and posted music by Muse. I wonder what happened to her. I never see her posts whenever I go back to the olden days and look through old comments.
• When I was a kid in Decatur we used to camp out in Dr. Cocanhaur's hay barn. We never tore up or stole anything- we just built forts and had a good time. Once a guy came up and looked around and tried to call us out after somebody apparently snitched. We took our chances and lay low until he left.
• Recently I stumbled across an online archived newspaper blurb from the 1970s. It mentioned a reunion for my family and named the people who came from out of town.
• Without a lot of work my truck is getting ready to let me down hard I think. It is about done.
• A weird after effect of all the time I spent in the desert and then the Texas outdoors is I still sweat like mad at the slightest provocation.
• Occasionally there's a big deal made about how back in the day Jessica Walter and Martha Stewart were surprisingly hot. 
• I've got news for you- they're both still hot.
• Sicario is a very good action movie.
• An Army buddy wasn' so sure the Tolkien universe was not real due to its complexity. He could recite passages out of those books. He slept in the bunk above mine. He told me the story of The Hobbit as we were laying down going to sleep at night. It did not happen every night but yeah several nights he told me those stories.
• Interesting side note to that is when I looked him up once one of the first pics I saw on whatever platform he had posted it to was of me in my bunk wrapped in a camo poncho liner.

I'm not sure if his wings were too dried out to be of any use or not. I put him on a tree trunk. He shot up it like a rocket. Godspeed cicada-dude

I did not know who Miss Kay is

but apparently- she knows best.

Monday's Missives

• Two people have died searching for Forrest Fenns treasure. 
• I do not believe there is a treasure to be found. He just strikes me as the type who would find a hoax like that hilarious.
• Interestingly, since I wrote the above posts I have engaged in conversations about that subject. When I heard myself talk about the supposed treasure being a hoax- I was even more convinced of its hoaxiness. 
• Few things are better that a thunderstorm.
• Well OK- there are a lot of things better than thunderstorms but they are nice.
  
• I really like Robert Johnson by the Immortal Lee County Killers.

 

I dig this guy the most. He goes around in his community after and sometimes during storms to unblock drains and culverts Etc.

Wednesday's Digressions

• There is a thing I am about to tell you that if you knew me in real life you simply would not believe to be true. This is so true, it would cause you to doubt everything you thought about not only me but the world in general: I have never seen the movie Taxi Driver. It is true. I have only seen some very short clips and those almost always in connection with another TV show or something. I don't believe I've intentionally even watched an extended clip on YouTube or anything.
• Also, although as I understand it, I actually lived a version of it- I've never also never read the book Lord of the Flies.
• Until I see a picture of him again- I always misremember who Peter Ustinov was.
• I know what the saying, Aim small- miss small means. I absolutely get it but it also kind of doesn't make any sense to me.
• Although in the past I never really snored unless super tired or my allergies are acting up I've recently become inundated with ads for products and services that will help you stop snoring. I just presume that I've started snoring and my phone hears it in the night.
• Maybe it is my FBI guy who monitors my phone is watching out for me though.
• Yesterday I witnessed a co worker pose herself as a physical threat to another co-worker.
• Happens every day in the workplace I suppose but I'm a nurse in a medical clinic- not a janitor in the local MMA training gym.
• A well known politician comes so close to speaking in word salad that I have trouble following what she is saying and understanding her. I don't know if we should blame drugs, mental illness or the Internet.
• I kid- a little but yes, my first thought was she sounded like a reasonably high functioning post closed head injury patient.
• The girl in my donut place correctly put my order in by my first name after only hearing my name once- weeks ago. Honestly, it may have been 6 weeks since she heard the sweet sweet sound of my name.

There is a lot going on there.

Name the location. You might win a million dollars.

Epic nastiness. It was a greasy, crumbly, nasty tasting mess. 

What is the saddest thing you know right now?

Holy heck8n' heck! Where was I going with that!?

In the Shadow of Mordor a pretty good little video I just randomly discovered.

Cicada Killer Wasp

Doing what he does best- killing cicadas.

What are you listening to right now? Wu-Tang Clan has been heavy on I'm my playlists of late.

Material Issue Everything.

There is a maybe a 10 year old girl in the restaurant where I'm at who has black roots that are growing out of her bleach blonde hair that is absolutely fried from being over processed. 

I seem to be missed in my area by the tornado watch but the starlings sure sounded different when they came around to roost.

What is wrong with me? I sound like a grizzled old 1849 prospector.

It is so unbelievably hot and so unbelievably humid, that by the time I got to my car today after work I felt like I was on fire- at the bottom of a lake.

Still my favorite band that I have never seen live and not only that I don't ever remember recognizing an opportunity to see them live- as far as I recall.

How to know you are critically old

When you realized while still young- that all of the Stooges were dead.

Dr. Bronners Magic? Soap

Grasshopper 2008

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• Odd- I like multiple R Kelly songs. I just had no idea who performed them when I heard them in the past. 
• Today is June 10 2019 at 1914 hours and I just learned Walter Mondale is still alive. That is nice to know. I always kind of liked him.
• Weird daydream: I have always wanted to build a bridge. 
• 
  

Storm Clouds Gathering

Headlamp Or Light Saber?

Don't provoke this kid or you may get an answer you don't like.

I had nearly forgotten that this is one of the songs of my youth. Has that ever happened to you? If not let me know when it does.

Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs

Deep-ish Thoughts For The Day- Nearly A Hundred To Be Precise

1. I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.
2. More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
3. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
4. I don’t understand the purpose of the line, “I don’t need to drink to have fun.” Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they’ve invented the lighter?
5. Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
6. That’s enough, Nickelback.
7. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
8. Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the “people you may know” feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?
9. Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.
10. There is a great need for sarcasm font.
11. Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what was going on when I first saw it.
12. I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I’ll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone’s laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I’m still the only one who really, really gets it.
13. How are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
14. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
15. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
16. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.
17. A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.
18. Was learning cursive really necessary?
19. Lol has gone from meaning, “laugh out loud” to “I have nothing else to say”.
20. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
21. Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.
22. My brother’s Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, “Cuz we beat you, and you hate us.” Classy, bro.
23. Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”.
24. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?
25. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
26. Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using ‘as in’ examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss’s last name to an attorney and said “Yes that’s G as in…(10 second lapse)..ummm…Goonies”
27. What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?
28. While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it…thanks Mario Kart.
29. MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
30. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
31. I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.
32. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
33. I would like to officially coin the phrase ‘catching the swine flu’ to be used as a way to make fun of a friend for hooking up with an overweight woman. Example: “Dave caught the swine flu last night.”
34. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
35. Bad decisions make good stories
37. Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier and sluttier every year?
38. If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.
39. Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I’m from, this shouldn’t be a problem….
40. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you’ve made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
41. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blueray? I don’t want to have to restart my collection.
42. There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
43. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
44. “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this ever.
45. I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There’s so much pressure. ‘I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren’t watching this. It’s only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?’
46. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? ), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What’d you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away?
47. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
48. When I meet a new girl, I’m terrified of mentioning something she hasn’t already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.
49. I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it’s on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
50. Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles…
51. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
52. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 times and still not know what time it is.
53. It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.
54. I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
55. Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn’t know what to do with it.
56. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time…
57. My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day “Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?” How do I respond to that?
58. It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.
59.I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.
60. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
61. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.

How To Know You Are In A Job You Hate That Is Probably Killing You

You could honestly say something like, My work week just flies by- but somehow... not in a good way...?

Basically, if on Monday you are already dreading  coming to work the next Monday-you need to find another job.

A Three Stooges episode that I 100% know that I have never seen before- Bride And Gloom.

What I'm listening to right now.

• I went to the dentist today. 
• Mouth is super sore as they worked on some of the same areas they did just a week ago.
• The numbing agents that use today are way better than in the past.
• Oddly voice to text is working better than normal which is really weird as in I can feel no part of my head.
• As I left their office my ear itched- so I stuck my pinky finger in the canal a little bit to scratch it. The inner part of my ear was numb.
• A one time dental hygentist stuck her boob right in my mouth as she reached across me for an instrument. Not only that, as she finished reaching for the nstrument she drug the same boob back across my mouth when she was sitting back down. Plain as day I could feel her nipple.
• I'll never forget that.

• The music of my youth(ish): Whale- Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe...

Monday's Missives

• I just watched another video that showed a gooberhead  wearing a military uniform and begging for money. Of course he had never been in the service and of course the thrust of the video was someone confronting him over lack of said service. That is well and good I suppose but the dude was so mentally challenged- he was obviously mentally challenged. His accoster was going to get his outrage on though.
  
• A nurse in a hospital I know has some kind of mental illness. Report it? I can't prove anything except everytime I hear about something he said I think, That is odd. That is really bizarre... It is never insane or threatening and his speech won't- be slurred or anything. You just think- What an odd thing to say... PS: multiple nurses I know confirm the same weird vibes.
  
• I blame the internets: I no longer get asked as a nurse how to cure a hangover, have more or better sex, have more or better sleep or how to pass a drug test.
  
• An unAmerican female friend recently texted me to ask me out with this message, Hello my dear. How are you? Would like to go to the cinema today?
• How comical. 
• 
• Black Angels Half Believing. 

Get Ready To Have Your Mind Blown

Wednesday's Digressions

• Women with very aggressive personalities tend to have more and thicker hair in places where women would typically not want to have hair.
• An ex girlfriend with otherwise nice legs often missed shaving a small patch of hair in nearly the same place on the back of each leg. It was not horrifically repulsive but yeah- slightly gross when I would take note of it.
• Last night ( today is 08/28/2016) I watched the great movie Time Bandits. Did I know and had just forgotten George Harrison did some of the music for it? It starred the recently deceased Kenny Baker.
• Multiple times a year I have a dream where I navigate a super long trailer house (it is probably 200+ feet long) and encounter people from my past or alternatively- I enter rooms I recognize but people I associate with the room will not be there.
• An ex girlfriend came by last night after getting likkered up with her friend at a bar. She said, Pretty soon I won't be coming around here anymore. I will find somebody else. You don't have a claim on me.
• ® ©
• I just discovered I can do the registered and copyrighted symbols.
• Today I am going to swim, read, watch garbage movies and then- nap.
• That kids is what is known as a good day.

Monday's Missives

• Yesterday I thought about somebody I had not heard from in a long time and today out of the blue they left a comment here.
• Also yesterday I was reminded of the fact I could with just a few more credits have a couple of different associates degrees. Predictably, this morning there were 3 different ads or fake news ads related to higher education or online degrees on my browser. 
• The Internet is listening- always listening. 

  

  Honestly I cannot imagine why anybody would think anybody else would care about their corgi or stick figure family.

• About the cheapest you can buy K Cups is 50 cents a piece. Drink 2 and you could have had better coffee at McDonald's. Drink 3 and you're in the hole.
• I have got to make reservations for vacation.
• In another life for vacation we did not make reservations anywhere for 2 of the nights- we would be gone; trusting to God and luck for a place to crash. One hot, miserable night we camped. On the second we stayed in a dangerous looking motel that smelled of stale urine and despair. Honestly, the woman? behind the counter at first told us she had nothing to rent. She then came out and told us to come back as she, might have something... I think she at first thought we were narcs or at least rubes whose inevitable robbery and murders would get her dump shut down.
• Good times.

  

  I have drunk a lot of coffee in my life but I have never before seen unground beans in factory ground coffee. 

• In the kitchen with Rasta Man. 

Monday's Missives

• At Laquinta last night (today is 02/26/2017) the clerk asked if I want to be on the top floor? causing me to reply, Uh, why would I want that? genuinely puzzled. For him-he will love being on the highest floor. She was right- Zac thought it cool we were on the top floor but I thought it nice she knew that about kids (or even better-she guessed that about him specifically).
• This morning he raced me up to the room after breakfast. I took the elevator- he the stairs. I taught him this trip about always knowing where the stairs and exits are and never use the elevator in a fire. Funny thing about the way kids minds work- he presumed you use the stairs instead of elevator in a fire as the cable would burn and break and as a result the car would come crashing down.
• Interurban Grill in Ardmore is really good but has the typical smaller town Oklahoma restaurant terrible service . The décor is really cool. They have a penny farthing and a rowing skiff that had a sign on the side to the effect of Thames River Rowing Club. I don't know if it is real or not but most of the other decoration seems legit.
• Recently as I was getting to know a woman the subject turned to sex. She said she was not into anything kinky.
• Not my type.
• No, not really true I am not that shallow but it did momentarily and instantly change how I viewed her and cooled the warm thoughts I was developing and sending in her general direction. She even sensed it and asked, I'm sorry, do you think I am boring now?
• At the Lowes across the street there are palletized riding mowers and other implements stacked up and ready to go behind their building just waiting for the next crackhead with a bit of initiative and a truck to come along.
• Still sad- crackhead does not impress spellcheck. It just accepts it as a thing and goes on about its business without offering an alternative.
• Capacity at the pool here is denoted as, " Bathing Load 25 persons."
• Gross.
• I can guess in ways it is harder to keep an indoor pools chemistry balanced and this is only compounded if you have a spa collocated with it. This would be an intuitive observation as I literally have know idea what I am talking about. I could be convinced otherwise- I just guess it to be true as it seems too right.
• If money were no object I would have an indoor pool and spa and also an amazing outdoor pool and spa combo. I would not care anything about the chemistry- of any of it. Since cost is not an object- I would pay somebody to worry about that.
• The idea of taking note of up and coming people and buying associated domain names so that I could in turn sell the name to them when they run for office appeals to me for some reason.
• Zac is in heaven: 2 cool boys just left the pool after playing for 30-40 minutes. A few minutes after they walked out 3 gorgeous girls around his age walked in. He lit up like it was Christmas and is for some odd reason doing all his trick dives...
• Bill Paxton is dead. Game over man! He was raised in the Parker County area and I have heard his family owned Paxton Lumber in Fort Worth. He stole the show in Aliens, Tombstone and Edge Of Tomorrow. Dang, it is sad he is gone. He is another rare celebrity whose death shocked and saddened me.

Monday's Missives

• A favorite persom whom we called uncle (although he was an older cousin) has died. He was the last link of that sort to my childhood- no parents and no aunts and uncles are left. Unusual for me, I always thought in regards to him there would be more time - so I did not make any for him. He and I shared a hotel room at another family members funeral. He thought it was great and wanted to hang out more but we never did. 
• I did not have time for him.
• There has been a fly in my office for the past 2 days (today is 06/25/16). He has earned my grudging respect as he has survived my multiple efforts to murder-squish him.
• Alexander Von Humboldt called coffee "liquid sunshine".
• A neighbor is probably 70 years old and hot. No really- she is good looking and has a kinda rockin' body.
• A woman at the pool just (today is 07/01/2016 @1437) pulled 2 cigarettes out and after placing both in her mouth lit them together and then handed one to her mom.

Lip Read In My Breakfast Place

I hate this effing place.

Bravery

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet, notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
—Thucydides

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The Early Bird May Get The Worm

but the second mouse gets the cheese...

Speckled King Snake

Also called the Salt And Pepper King this highly beficial snake not only eats other snakes it seems to specialize in Copperheads. Interestingly and maybe coincidentally, on the property I caught this one on I have never seen a Copperhead in spite of it being relatively undisturbed and ideal habitat for them. They also eat a lot of mice and rats. It's a pointless shame people would kill such an interesting, harmless and beneficial animal on sight.

Said to me today at work, Please do not leave or you will make me cry.

Overhead In My Asian Dinner Place

My mom got married when she was 13- no wait, yeah she was 13 and my sister was ...

A War Story

• In another life myself and some NCOS were tasked with teaching non combat arms soldiers from other units how to conduct raids and process persons of interest. Although I was not an NCO at the time- I wrote the training plan and also lectured.
• We were also to be like the out of town gangsters who moved into a shaky area in our territory and straightened things out as we represented- The Boss.
• For real- we were supposed to impart leadership, general discipline and personal appearance pride.
• We conducted sessions for two different units (one at our own armory) then we never heard anything else about it.
• But it did have a kinda Der Kommisar! feel to it while it lasted.
• A great- great memory was the time we wrapped up a training session early so we left the host unit.  On the way back to our home unit we stopped and played hooky by watching a movie at Sundance Square.
• We were Texas NG soldiers so there were no shortage of cops and deputies in my unit. A Dallas cop we were with went to jerk his hand out of his jacket pocket to stifle a sneeze in an elevator. When he did so his Beretta .22 fell out and hit the floor. 
• Years later I heard somebody tell the story except by then- the weapon discharged when it hit the floor and blew a hole in the wall of the elevator.
• The weirdest thing is I specifically and vividly remember Dallas cop guy who dropped the weapon even telling us at the time (after admitting that dropping it was a stupid 'croot thing to do) about how the construction of that particular pistol made it ultra safe to drop- and so although he shouldn't have dropped it- there was no way it was going to discharge. 
• One of those guys the last I knew was kinda high on the food chain at Tandy Corp.
• Another is a hospital administrator in Japan.
• The third is a really high placed Colonel in intelligence for the division.
• Fourth guy is/was last I knew a missionary in Honduras or Colombia.
• Me?! 
• I'm still just plain ole Kev.

In another life I had a job building or repairing dams and other conservation structures. It was a great time in my life- literally fantastic. I know that at least a hundred years from now people will be swimming and fishing in some of those lakes I built. It's a cool thought.

The last big job I did was out in West Texas near Winters. Literally every Friday night on the way home I would hear this song. It was great.

It was one of the last, good and simple times of my life.

Thursday's Thoughts

• I just learned JJ Watt is white. 
• If my personal life is ok I can handle a bad work environment.  If my personal life stinks but my job is OK- I will be alright but there is nothing like those moments where the personal and work life are both great.
• And yeah- there is nothing worse than when both your personal and work life suck.
• A coworker should absolutely try her hand at open mic night for stand up comedy. She is hilarious but what stands out to me is how she cracks herself up sometimes. She is literally joyful in those times. It is nice to see.
• Recently I tried to get to know somebody in my organization personally. I knew better- as in I honestly counseled myself regarding the ways it could come back to haunt me in the future. To make a not too long of a story even shorter- I have had to keep emails and texts between us- to show I didn't do anything wrong.
• A while back I heard an emergency vehicle go down Rosedale running the British type pee-poe siren.
• I'm afraid the new Super Troopers movie will be terrible.
• Vacation is less than a month away and I have done nothing towards planning the multi state trip.
• Update: The rental car is laid on and all gear bought. We might get a few clothes- we will see. Otherwise, we are as ready-ish as we will ever be to travel.

Wednesday's Digressions

Dr Pepper in a blue can- eew. That. Is. Not. Right.

• Recently I had a flashback to the time a female asked me out as she knew that I had recently broken up with a long-term girlfriend. To deflect, I told her that right then I really wasn't looking to go out with anybody and that I definitely didn't want anything serious and that I was mostly just after sex-no strings attached SEX. She called my bluff and told me that was fine saying, That's great- me too!
• After recovering from the initial shock I just avoided her and have no independent recall of what happened after that. 
• What a great band: Smithereens. 
• Also, I always thought that was a great band name.
• Recently I looked up a corporal who was one of my Marines in Iraq. Interestingly, he is now an officer. He talked about going to Officer Candidate School when we would jaw-jack back in the day but I presumed it was just talk. I thought he was just bumping his teeth together. Good for him. I'm proud of him.
• I wonder how well Fast Times At Ridgemont High has aged?
• Should that sentence have ended with a period or question mark?
• On reflection it was more of a statement than a query- a period would have been better.

Overheard In My Breakfast Place

See, I'm not a kicker. I'm more of a punter and a choker.

I met the hottest woman today. If you saw her you would say, What?! Kevin-are you crazy!? She looks like a lot lizard. She is literally the trashiest looking woman I've ever seen in my life!
 I would say, I know isn't she amazing?!