Monday's Missives

• A bias I have: all things being equal if a person is a smoker I automatically assume them to be weaker and less intelligent than I would have otherwise given them credit for- I've even tried to educate myself away from the idea but, it just seems to get more reinforced.




• Maybe that's why it's a bias?




• I love butter and sour cream on appropriate food but, find anything more than a speck of either by themselves nauseating.




• The baby has started tattling on his older sibling and bossing them around.




• He calls brother brother and sister sissy unless he's scolding them, then he uses their first and middle names.




• My oldest named his show pig Pinky Tuscadaro.




• I love the smell of the coconut oil in Hawaiian Tropic lotion.




• Love it.




• Almost through with Undaunted Courage by Ambrose about the Lewis and Clark expedition and that bums me.




• Haven't been to a yard sale in years but, want to go soon to try and stock up on books- a very hit and miss prospect with my tastes but, I have hit big in the past.




• All my books I collected over the years were lost in a house fire a few years ago and I'm just now willing to start over.




• When clearing an Army installation the joke when asked for documentation or some piece of equipment you haven't seen in months is,"Oh, it was lost in the fire or it went down with that supply bird."




• I was joking with a civilian I hit it off well with when clearing FT Hood and pulled one of them and she said,"Oh, I've heard about that- don't worry about it then."




• I'm still signed for an M240B machine gun that for which I know I never got the hand receipt back and I don't know who may have (or may not!) turned it back in to supply. The last I heard it was loaned out to another platoon. Still waiting for a refund to be denied by the IRS with a letter stating- "Our records indicate there is the matter of a 14,000 dollar machinegun that must be resolved. Until then your paychecks will be garnished..."