Monday's Missives

• 100% of the people from Africa I have occasion to deal with at work pronounce Tanzania as TanZainiah and not Tanzah- neeyah. Consequently, I say it the first way which sounds more correct to my ears making me sound to an American either pretentious or like an idiot- depending on my audience.
   
• Recently I bumped into an old Army buddy. He wants to get together for drinks to tell war stories. I should probably get pre paid legal and start an Uber account.
  
• My eyebrows get old man bushy real quick.
• If you date younger women they generally will not care about gray chest hair, head hair, face hair or whatever but yeah- you better get your stuff under control if you got bushy old man gray eyebrows.
  
• Bennie and the Jets has been playing in a loop in my brain for several days or even a few weeks now.
  
• Recently, I interacted with a worker in a business in what I thought was just a generally friendly manner. I am very sure he thought I was flirting with him.
• Bonus information- he's 16 years old.
• Bear commented here that I should give those Ayn Rand books a try on audiobook in spite of the fact that reading them in print nearly killed me. For some reason I get that but can't explain why. I may give it a try.
  

  

  Wave of garbage coming across the lake caused by heavy rainfall further up stream. It has come from the creek that feeds the lake. It's a little hard to tell maybe but where I'm at it's barely raining but it was pouring up stream. I had never seen that happen before.

• An old girlfriend flashback just hit me recently. While hanging out I sat up from the couch to put a remote on the coffee table. As I did so she jumped on me causing me to fall backwards pinning my right arm under my back. She straddled me and pushed down on my shoulders. I told her she was going to have to let me up- it was hurting me. She actually pushed down harder. She then let out kind of one of those evil madman laughs saying, Muwahaha- Now you know what it's like for us women! She wouldn't let me up until I begged her.
• Just driving by her old place makes me feel weird.
• 93 lbs- her weight in case you were wondering.

What are you listening to right now?

Puff Daddy It's All About The Benjamins.

Monday's Missives

• On my commute I see 2 different vehicles that have some permutation of John Galt for the license plate. As I understand it there is a 92% chance a guy who would have that type of plate and I would probably have some common philosophical ground yet there is a 9000% chance I would dislike a guy who felt he had to have that plate.
• Years ago I tried reading the book that character's name came from. It was terrible. It is causing me to feel tired just thinking about it.
• My voice recognition has stopped working. That stinks bigger than I thought it would.
• I love the show Time Team.
• If I were famous, unless directly involved in a conversation on social media - I would have one of those filters that doesn't send the post for a specified time. 
• It could wait 10 minutes.
• I need to get my DNA test done.
• I no longer have any black friends.
• Recently in a friendly manner I asked a fellow nurse to lunch. She accepted and I think took it as being asked out. What made me think she thought that? She blushed and smiled so big I was afraid her face might break and she got gushy. She is either into me (or at least thinking about being that way) embarrassed I'm into her or she is way too into chicken shawarma.
• I didn't realize how much Charlie and Eddie Murphy sounded alike until I heard clips of Eddie hosting SNL.
• It is very hard for me to read fiction.
• The attack by the Saudi pilot here was inevitable.  
• Well you make me nervous.

Friday's Dispatch

• 3: the number of women who as of this writing (09/24/2015) have angrily stomped out of my place after I refused to put out to them. I know what you're thinking- What, are are afraid of a little? or if you're from Jersey you might even go so far as to say, Whatsamatta wid yuze? You some sort of fag or somethin'? As in a lot of conversations it might be illuminating to ask, What if the shoe was on the other foot?
• Anyway, one literally said, That. Is. The. Only. Reason. I. Came. Here!
• Kelsey Gets A Pretty Dress
• You can take the girl out of Northside (or the trailer park, or the hood or... you get the idea) but you can't take the Northside out of the girl.
• Recently I met up with FG in a common area near our apartments. I was a wearing a mustard yellow  long sleeve Henley, plaid sleeping shorts and fuzzy slippers. She was wearing a hoodie, long basketball shorts and flip flops. We evidentally felt super conspicuous when we bumped into neighbors that were not dressed like bums as she had to insure they understood she was only dressed that way as a defense against mosquitos and still be reasonably cool. I had to say something like, Personally, I don't normally dress like a crazy homeless person; but today- I just do not care.
• Last night (today is 05/12/2016) I started watching Support Your Local Sheriff again. It made Walter Brennan and Jack Elam be two of my favorite actors even as a little boy.
• Recently the news has been about the 3 car thieves who drown in Florida while some law enforcement officers were nearby. There has been outrage because they were black and under 20 years old. My first thoughts about why the police were not so quick to dive into 15 feet of water were, Uh. Alligators, Florida, Felons, Dark, Florida, Flesh eating bacteria, Dark, Could drown, Florida, Snakes, Not trained for water rescue, Florida...

Drive Time Talking Points

• I really like the NPR science shows in the afternoon although when they take calls it wears me smooth out. The callers all want to show how very smart they are.
• Talk radio shows call-in days may be worse though as they are venting and attempting to show how very well informed and clever they are.
• Recently I had Nolan Ryan on my mind and practiced my imitation of that twang of his while getting dressed for work. Within 30 minutes of getting in the car The Ticket was playing sound bites of him talking, goofing on him a bit.
• I've heard multiple conservatives railing about water saving measures as though that is the first step toward the government marching us off to the gas chambers if we roll over on the issue. They talked about personal rights, lawn health and oddly predicted the demise of landscaping businesses. That literally makes no sense- for every one that would go out of business (although there is no reason even one would) ten more would sprout up started by guys who had sense enough to market less thirsty plants and landscaping techniques.
• The plan one city started was projected to save as I recall, 40 million gallons a day.
• Russ Martin's show is crude yes- but man it is funny. I saw a guy one day next to me busting out repeatedly- he must have been listening to the show.
• Although I like WRR I'm rarely into classical except after evening clinic it is sometimes nice to open the sunroof and turn up some Pachelbel. They're also really good about playing music by lesser known  composers and giving some interesting ad hoc history lessons.
• I'm sure it happens in every market but it is interesting the number of people in our area who were born and raised here and have been on the air since forever.
• Now, I know this stupid computer is randomly moving where I'm typing up into another thought and it isn't me accidentally moving the cursor or hitting an insert key or something. It isn't clear to me if that is supposed to soothe me or infuriate me even more.
• I miss G Gordon Liddy's show. It was very interesting, informative, educational and funny.
• Within limits money spent on your car audio/video isn't wasted. The Beemer is the first car I've had in a while with a stock system. My next vehicle will have a top drawer system and I will choose the components and do the install.
• One of the black radio stations does a thing called Mad Minute where somebody is set up and the DJs along with the other person calls them and uses some outrage to make them mad. The results are recorded then played during the morning drive. It is uncomfortable if nothing else but often funny. It is a wonder one of the victims hasn't stroked out.
  

Wednesday's Digressions

Fellow citizen- when people cannot understand what you are saying to them just say to yourself, It is not that persons fault I am super high. Also- pull up your britches young man.

It looks like I'm about to touch weens with a gigantically hung tree-man while wearing a Batman cowl.

• Recently I listened to some modern hip-hop on the way home. I listened to it for at least 20 minutes. Not because it was good- but because it was so spectacularly bad it was interesting. It was just a bunch of sound effects like bleeps  and bloops and people talking like they have a closed head injury.
• Semi related thought: within a day or two of that I also listen to some country. What made me land there is that I was in the mood for rock and that is what I thought I heard on the dial so I stopped. I specifically thought it was a song that I liked by group I recognized-  Royal Blood? But no, it was some kind of bad country. 

  

  There have have always been a ton of buzzards around Weatherford.

• Don mentioned posts that end up here for just a short while and then I take them down. Sometimes they were posted years ago just for me to see how I felt about them. Other times my understanding of facts changed. Other times I realized that there was more to the story that I wanted  to say- so I shelved it intending to post it again later.

  

  Ewwww Oatmilk?!

• There are a couple of businesses local to me that I mostly only do business with because they have hired a special needs person or at least someone whom another business might not of hired for that position regardless. I often drive out of my way to patronize them. 
• Update: that same business has a new employee that seems like they might be a slightly on the special side.
• No matter who you are or where you are- if you're the one with the say, give people a chance. Treat them the way you would want to be treated. Treat them the way you would want somebody to treat your childyour sister your brother...

  

  Nursing seminar swag

• Lately I have been thinking about people from the time I lived in Tennessee- a lot. Interesting thing to come from said mental exercises: I am surprised at the number of close friends from those days that I have no independent recall of how we met. They were just part of my entire life there and seem to have always been that way.
• Anna Nalick  Breathe. I've always liked this song but had never noticed the Fort Bliss reference until this morning (01/08/2020). Also, I had no idea that lady was so pretty.

  

  Good grief! Really?!

What are you listening to right now?

Somali Yacht Club Up In The Sky

Bumper Sticker Madness

Idea from Ms Obi one