Wisdom Of A Chupacabra

If you don't carry something worthwhile to read while using the bathroom, you'll flush away a college degree away over a lifetime.

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..."

Wednesday Digressions

• “This is our 16th year, and I wish I had a big piece of wood to knock on right now, but we have not had an incident."
• A monster truck racing promoter said this the day before he was run over and killed at a Madison Wisconsin show.
• "Jack devises a plan to keep the nation safe from the latest terrorist threat"- the plot for hour 1-2 pm for this season of the show 24.
• The same as every other episode.
• A Jack Bauer joke: Jack Bauer's favorite color is severe terror alert red. His second favorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.
  
• Another: Jack Bauer is the leading cause of death in Middle Eastern men.
  
• Well, one more: Upon hearing that he was played by Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Bauer killed Sutherland. Jack Bauer gets played by no man.
  
• Don't understand why a computer operates so slooooowly if it's been on for extended time periods or why it takes so long to be operational when it first starts up- it's not like there's vacuum tubes in there warming up.
• People are crazy.
• Now that I'm back in the habit of reading again I don't know how I let myself get away from it- I hope the weather allows a trip to half price books tomorrow. My favorite bookstore was in Fort Worth on Rufe Snow- lots of up to date history, bestsellers and DIY books and alway less than half price. It converted to a romance novel only bookstore- from front to back, tens of thousands of them.
• No, not kidding.