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A Brush With Fame

At DFW airport I happened to drop my paper below eye level at the same time as the guy across from me allowing eye contact. I rubbed my eyes, took a drink, whatever before raising my newspaper up to start reading again.

I got a strange feeling I knew the guy-a teacher? Maybe a manager somewhere so I knew the face well enough without interacting with the person much? An Army officer from an old unit?

I dropped the paper again to try to sort out the mystery. He looked so familiar and when our eyes met he smiled from ear to ear and gave me a look that made me think he was enjoying toying with me. The paper went back up.

As I dropped the paper again to try and get a handle on who the guy was two guys came up to him with bottles from their micro brewery and said,   Mister Harris, I'm so and so and this is blah-blah,would you mind autographing some bottles from our brewery?

Franco Harris played 13 years in the NFL as a running back most notably with the Steelers. He was teamed with the legendary Rocky Bleier

He always refers to that time as the day he flew on the same plane as Kevin.

I Have No Idea

who this woman is or why her picture is on my computer- weird thing about the internet.

Monday's Missives

• Thanks to Don and RPM for the reminder- RC Cola was the off brand soda I was thinking of that we drunk as a kid when we were even poorer than usual. It was a nickel and maybe a full dime cheaper than Coke or DP. We would sit on the step to Ray's in Decatur and drink them and turn the bottles back in so we didn't even pay the deposit. 
• Thug friends once involved me in petty larceny there. When I wasn't around they stole a case of bottles and involved me in selling them back to Ray. I hated them for that.
• Only one of those guys are still alive.
  
• A lime green Aventador would be my Red Barchetta in the post driver controlled car world.

  

  
  Me: check this out I got got it in change from a Coke machine. She: good for you Kevin you got a quarter. No it's a Susan B Anthony dollar- look. Me: Have you never seen a Susan B. Anthony dollar? She: It was made in 1980. That was 5 years before I was born...

• Although I hear the name from time to time- I have no idea who Dennis Prager is. Recently though, I got stuck watching a woman speaker in an ad for whatever he was selling while waiting for a Youtube video. It was related to abortion and Planned Parenthood. Literally everything she said was either a lie, irrelevant or did not mean what they thought it meant.

  

  Breakfast of champions.

• Clowns may not be creepiest figure at a party.

Monday's Missives

• The question was asked when talking about steroids in pro baseball,"What if it were Nolan Ryan we're talking about?" The point being if you thought all the users are scum.
• Interestingly, if talking about football the numbers may not be all that high in my opinion but, in baseball the holy hand wringing- especially say- 10 or more years ago is very, very naive- I guarantee you essentially 100% used steroids at some point.
• I hardly ever get naive or guarantee correct the first time.
• My patient died this morning before I got to them. It's a relief sometimes when that happens- like cutting class- I break out a movie, a book, go for ride or whatever, kind of fun- playing hooky. But, I always at some point in that day think of the family and hope they are OK even though I never met them or their loved one.
• The best nursing facility I've been in with easily the best nursing, rehab and dietary department etc. was a dump- literally a dangerous looking place in a bad neighborhood. The one which has easily the most beautiful facility I've ever been in in North Texas always has such a blase' attitude toward their patients when I go in, it very much borders on neglect.
• I gave Zac a piece of peach to take his sister when I made his this morning. After he gave it to her he smiled real big and said," Are you happy sister?"
• My sister is wanting to organize a regular family reunion- I hope she pulls it off- they can be fun and important. When we had them in the past we did them at the Wise County Posse Grounds in Decatur TX which was cool since a lot of the family has or had roots there and the counties reunion fair is there annually anyway.
• Sad, how often we think about reunions at of course- funerals and every time we say we need to get together... there are fewer and fewer people you call family to pull together. I do like though that there would be people from all sides of the families- in laws and outlaws etc. who would feel perfectly welcome to come if we can pull it off.
• Supposedly, if I laid out my political beliefs for you and you were an expert in political labeling you'd stamp me a Libertarian.
• Although I'd have to ask,"Is there a such thing as a qualified Libertarian?"
• Anybody who doesn't see a bias in the main news outlets toward a liberal political view seems dishonest to me. If I could honestly call myself liberal in my political thinking my response to the accusation would be along the lines of,"Of course it would seem that way if nothing else- we're right."
• A standout example on this subject: recently a guy defended his family against a burglar with a baseball bat- his aluminum ally I remember very well it being called because I simply could not check the news without hearing about one aspect or another of that story. The homeowner broke the burglars jaw and he was found in a storage shed nearby.
• You would have never heard a thing about it from any of those sources if it was a pistol he used- and have to know I'm right.