Monday's Missives

Another one on the list: the mighty VMAX. With updates it has been in production since 1985 and was unchanged for I think 18  of those years. It is so beautiful and powerful you hardly ever seen them customized or built up- why would you?

• Helmet cam footage of Firefight in Kunduz Afghanistan.
• One of the most overrated instruments of war- the AK47. One of the most underrated: the RPG.
• This morning I read 2 different articles dissecting stories from Chris Kyle's book to prove military types are deranged, murderous sociopaths. Funny, what stuck out to me- they oddly believed everything he said in the book. Needed: a study of gullibility and believing everything you read and the resulting bad/wrong conclusions that can result.
  
  
  

  

  My new Moab hikers

• I have to suppress a gag when somebody sticks their filthy hands into a bag of whatever they're eating and pulling one out offer it to me. We flat know better than that.
• I know I wrote about it but not If it posted yet or not- when President Obama said, If Americans like their plans they can keep the one they have. he was lying and he knew he was lying and I said so to FG when we saw him say it.
• Here, have some creepy North Korean tykes playing the guitar.
• The surest way to get women to throw themselves at you: let it be known you don't want to have sex until you're married. Literally- they see it as a personal challenge and try to wear you down and get your pants on the floor.
• FG has informed me she is going home for a few days as she needs to, Think about things. 
• What could possibly go wrong with that for me?

  

  Easy there tiger. Go back to huffin' your glue. That was insensitive and uncharacteristic of me- I'm sorry for every bad thing that ever happened to you.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  Lots of shoddy construction techniques and materials and misguided ideas around Holland's Lake. 

  
  

  

  Odd- was lying in the middle of Town Creek. I just realized: I picked it up putting my prints all over it.

  
  

  

  A brown ooze coming from the ground. Red oxide from a highly mineralized seep spring or poop?