Monday's Missives

• Steve N Seagulls cover Dios Holy Diver
• Bacon Cheeseburger and fries with Hawaiian Punch- its whats for breakfast (11/11/2015). The spicy ketchup from Whataburger is really good.
• My patients who are heroin addicts and happen to be black almost inevitably mispronounce heroin as, hair-ron.
• I am still trying to work my way through all Michael Crichton's books. Andromeda Strain was real enjoyable but I just couldn't get into Terminal Man.
• When Veteran's Day rolls around I get real uncomfortable in anticipation of the attention I'll get as people thank me for my service.
• Woman With Whom I Have Lately Been Spending Time With A.K.A. WWWIHLBSTW and my ex wife are the two people I Email more frequently than anybody else so they default to the top two positions when I begin to compose an Email. Recently, I accidentally clicked on my ex wife's address, told her I was bored and lonely and then promptly asked her out to dinner. No, I didn't hit send- I caught it time (barely) but holy smokes! Can you imagine?
• Yeah, my husband in law would have really thought was funny. He would have just laughed and laughed...
• Among a lot of the pics emerging of Syrian refugees crowding around the borders of the European nations they are attempting to enter all you see are military age males (MAMs). Huh. I am not saying they are all part of terror sleeper cells and I am freely admitting I do not know enough to know exactly what is going on but there is a rat in that woodpile somewhere.

Monday's Missives

• It's pouring out and thundering.
• A worn out cheap Roundtree And York cotton sweater and Tazmanian Devil sleeping pants.
• What I'm wearing.
• Coffee.
• What I'm drinking.
• Lunch? Baby carrots with avocado ranch dressing.
• Rainy days with rolling thunder are still the only days when even though I won't admit I get lonely, it would be nice if I don't have to have someone to hang out with to have someone to hang out with.
• Did that make sense?
• Still can't get UB40's cover of Red Red Wine out of my mind and I'm about to go crazy- it's been days now.
• Help.
• From an old draft posted 09/27/2013.

Bobs Nameplate

When my eldest was little at church camp he was  asked his name. He replied, Bob. It stuck and followed him through years of annual participation.

Monday's Missives

• Recently, after she used a few key words and phrases; I pictured a server at a cafe drinking beer from a Solo cup while standing in a cow pasture swinging her string top over head while screaming, Yeeeehawww!
• Although I don't know exactly where that thought came from- I bet it has happened.
• This morning at a traffic light I saw a woman in scrubs picking her teeth with her ridiculously long purple nails. Then she oddly ran the first 2 fingers of her right hand in and out of her mouth. She then poured a bottle of cough syrup into a soda and then turned down into the hospital district.
• Yesterday I read a story about a person who killed themselves. People kept coming back to the idea she had sooo much to live for, she seemed happy etc. The article showed multiple pics of the person. She was one of saddest looking people I have ever seen. She was carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders and her family and friends obviously could not see that.
• Today 09/06/2018 I bumped into an old friendly aquaintence.  She had put back on a couple of pounds after a misguided period of being way too scrawny. She looked amazing. The first thing I did? Checked out her new and improved cleavage. She saw it and looked disappointed. I was ashamed.
• This morning 9/7/2018 I awoke from from a dream related to a great time in my life. When I was young I worked building and repairing water control structures- dams and levees. I was offered a job building a new lake near Winters TX. Coincidentally, a family member was selling a conversion van. I lived in the van right on the job site which was situated on a large ranch. It may seem weird but it was one of the best times I've ever had in my life. I hung with my friends, operated heavy equipment and got paid well to not have a care in the world. I even ran free electricity off the dog house (storage building) for a fan and TV.
• Interesting PS: since the feds were paying there was a minimum scale we were supposed to be paid. Being as we were severely underpaid before the start of that job- we all got a big jump in pay. I don't recall for sure but I kinda think it must have been at least a couple of bucks an hour more.
• It has never occurred to me to lick my fingers while thumbing through the pages of a book or other paperwork.
• No- I have never even tested the water and gave it a try once.