Monday's Missives

• Although it has been a while, I have read everything extant written by Julius Caesar. He was a very vivid but simple writer. He gets dinged for being self serving. Pfftht- so what. That is true of all writing by any general I can think of and he is way more interesting (and a better writer) than any I have ever read.
• For always comes out fro first when I am typing.
• Drive was  a surprisingly pretty good movie to me with great music although it had a terrible ending.
• I look forward to the next Judge Dredd movie which is supposed to happen soon.
• MIB is still good. It has aged real well. It will be a classic and people will still be watching it 50 years from now.
• A friendly acquaintance could not use her makeup to look more like a clown if she tried. A better friend should tell her. I wish you could see it- it is the only way you would believe it.
• Often I use pencils to write. Recently, I had been using a mechanical one that I presumed the eraser had been used up on as there was no eraser visible.  I used a broken wooden pencil- just for the eraser. That is- I used it until I looked on the side of the mechanical one and read the instruction, Twist For Eraser.
• Duh.
• Why pencils you ask? They never stop working, they won't burst in your pocket and they write from any angle. Also- I like the sound the lead makes as it scratches along the paper.
• It has been a long time since I built anything.
• It still amazes me that IEDs have not been used more often on US soil.
• I have been stationed at both Fort Jackson and Fort Hood which are named after two of my favorite generals.
• This draft was written in my notebook on 09/06/2013 @2335 in case you are keeping tabs.