Monday's Missives

• Recently (today is 12/08/2016) while watching some war pron about the siege of Aleppo I thought, Right about then is when I would have a headache, backache and my feet would be hurting... That is how you know you are getting old. Ten years ago I would have daydreamed about getting into the same fight with those guys. Today I know were I there right now- I would want a pain pill, a nice cup of hot chocolate and a nap.
• There was another dead person on the road on I30 on my way to work recently. They were I think within 100 feet of the last I saw but I do not know if there is low income housing on one side or the other or if it was a coincidence or what. I have never seen anyone cross near there.
• Yesterday I saw 2 guys pulled over by DPS. Approximately a quarter of a mile down the road there was an Chevy Avalanche pulled well off the road with it's flashers on. It had impossibly dark tinted windows. Although it was different types of vehicles the 2 other times- this is the third time I have seen this happen on 30- no way it was a coincidence. I can guess the Avalanche driver set the drivers of the pick up for some type of drug buy and that is where the bust went down man.
• Yesterday (today is 12/15/2016) a supervisor who is actually from another department sought my input about the use of and placement of some new equipment. It was an impromptu heads up- not an an official meeting of the minds. He happens to be a guy. Although I do not remember exactly what I was saying it involved (legitimately) the insertion of the tip of a piece of equipment into another. I said, So yeah, I needed to put the tip of it in there- just the tip... Whereupon he started grinning like a possum eating a dead cat. Seeing this I hammed it up and said, Oh yeaaaah- baby let me put the tip in- just the tip. Come on baby- I love you... We both burst out laughing. I had to dive into an empty office to compose myself. When I stepped back out he was was leaning against the wall. His papers were lying on the floor where they had fallen and tears were streaming down his face.
• 85- our combined ages. 300- number of college credit hours we likely have between us.

Friday's Dispatch

• It is Good Friday and I'm watching Tora Tora Tora- what a good war movie. It reminds me of the Americans contemporary to the time who referred to the Japanese attack as dastardly and cowardly etc. More correct adjectives would have been brilliant and audacious.
• When I was little boy I saw an ad in an aviation magazine listing for sale some of the AT 6 Texans that had been vis modded to look like Zeros for the film. I begged my dad to buy one promising him I would pay him back when I grew up.
• Vis  modded- visually modified.
• Friend-girl's cat just got tangled up in a Wal Mart bag. I waved her off from helping him so he could figure it out himself. When it looked like he wouldn't be able to do it I said, Here, I'll help him. I then bent down, turned my rear end to him and made a fart sound with my mouth about the time she was taking a sip of her coffee. She sprayed coffee everywhere inhaling some and started choking and laughing. Before the scene was over with she had her head in the sink laughing and trying to catch her breath.
• You. Are. Ridiculous! Her estimation of me.
• The Catholic church spends 150 billion dollars a year in this country alone, mostly on their hospitals and 1 in 6 admissions are to a Catholic owned hospital. The people waving signs around, screaming about getting religion out of their health care or whatever don't know what they're talking about. We would all be in trouble if they got their wish.
• Tora Tora Tora is very good- very accurate historically but it is a little ponderous.
• One of my friends when I was a kid only had one finger on his left hand, one big, short finger right where the 2 middle fingers should have been and another friend was born without thumbs.
• An old friend was notified by his trucking company he needed a drug test. He dropped by a clinic another friend nursed at to do the test. She called him to come back after he left telling him the test was positive for I think cocaine. Knowing that was impossible he went right back and did another and passed. He had literally never even tried pot- he didn't even drink. What if she hadn't known him? That was the only reason she called, otherwise she wasn't even supposed to tell him one way or the other- she was just supposed to report the results to the company. He could have been ruined.
• I read an article this morning about an Air Force officer being relieved of command for failing to meet physical requirements by having a waist measurement 2 inches larger than allowed, or in other words- an amount he could shake off by running 2 extra miles and forgoing sugar for a week. I'm sorry, I don't care what anybody thinks or says, there is a rat in that woodpile somewhere.
• Green Jello Little Pig, Little Pig.
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