Mondays Missives

• "Thanks for being so nice to my mom and making a great burger." What her daughter said to me when she came up and hugged me the other day after I cooked out.
• Dateline did a story on a Denton TX cops murdered wife. The description said, "the forgotten murder..." Was it ever- I'd never even heard of the case. One thing that kept popping up was," not enough evidence, says prosecutors office." If it were you or me (assuming you're not a cop) they would have brought back hanging for the death penalty for us.
• My eldest has enlisted in the Army as an infantryman with Ranger option. I guess he didn't stand a chance being raised by me, his grandad and uncles. No, I wasn't a Ranger, but was combat arms (reconnaissance specialist) instead of just about any job in the Army which my scores would have allowed.
• We fed pizza to the ducks at Sunshine Lake yesterday. We brought chicken lunch meat but tossed it where mammalian life could find it later. It would have seemed an atrocity to feed a bird to another bird.
• I have never seen Footloose and that random thought about me is unlikely to change. For people who like it I would have assumed it to be a timeless classic. For people not interested for the past 30 years it seems unlikely a remake would change their minds- two reasons the recent remake seems odd to me.
• I think I may quit drinking coffee.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Monday's Missives

• We did not get to stay long at Spark In The Park this year. The first band was Josh Weathers. Man, he sounded good during his solo warm-up. The sound was clean and loud for the venue without overwhelming. They did I'll Fly Away early on which is not unusual in Texas for a band that does not hate Jesus. I am nearly certain I heard Willie do it once.
• However, I did not know it was gonna be all Jesus all the time.
• 15 minutes was plenty (or 30-whatever it was). Nobody is more down with Jesus than me but that was not what I was there for and as a bonus- leaving got us out of the insane heat and humidity.
  
  
  
  
• I saw a ridiculous road rage incident this evening on the way home. It was between a lady who if she was not 60 she was 70 and a male. She would not let him over and was on the phone in that, I am turning and leaning away from you simultaneously in an exaggerated manner- so you can see I am actively ignoring you...
• It just made me think she was positioning herself for an easy head shot when he finally snapped.
• Instead of road rage that incident was more of what mom would have called, A good old fashioned pissin' contest.
• Funny thing about those things though- nobody really ever wins and the consequences of them can be dire.
• I just saw a trailer for Blade Runner 2045. It did not spark an interest at all which I found both odd and surprising.