Wednesday's Digressions

Watching a wedding at Scarborough  

The owner of this skunk skin purse  grabbed it and drew it close to her when the bird handler  mentioned the horned owl he was holding specialized in eating skunks.

One of the people in the procession gave Zac this coin.

Falconer gives a young spectator some wisdom

• Lincoln is on pause.
• Days ago in a dream I told friend-girl the melted glass I was eating was fried glass. When I awoke  I was nauseated for hours, my stomach hurt and could smell a burned house odor in the background all day. 
• The change machines at the laundromat take 20 dollar bills I recently learned. Based on the assumption they took only 1s and 5s I have been breaking 20s for months on the way to the laundromat. Laundromat pro tip: Do your laundry in the early evening if you do it on Sundays as you'll hardly ever beat the Mexican ladies to the 25 cent machines in the AM and in the early afternoon the oilfield workers are all there after sleeping off whatever they had been defiling themselves with all weekend.
• Food is criminally expensive these days. No wonder people eat so unhealthily by using dollar menus etc. I make a decent enough living and try to shop smart and all that but it is discouraging when it costs 56 bucks to take 4 bags out of the grocery store and there isn't a single steak in any of said bags.
• Friday 04122013 I saw a guy on 30 during rush hour stop at one the choke points and pick up a busted extension ladder. I am all for recycling and I know he would have made quite a bit off it but holy  frijoles Batman- how many lives did he risk doing that?
• Liam Lynch Dolphin Song

Just A Tuesday

If you don't believe in Bigfoot after seeing this, then you're blind and have definitely drunk too much of The Man's Kool Aid.

The chaparral or roadrunner is one of my favorite birds. A member of the cuckoo family they are predators that kill mice, snakes and lizards and then present them to their girlfriends to show how manly they are.

Zac and a princess play in the mud at Scarborough Faire.

• Medal Of Honor Cat
• Recently I read an article about guys who have lied about military service. They sometimes do this to defraud the government for benefits and sometimes to troll for babes and of course, sometimes it is for both reasons. One guy had a particularly good looking, well adorned uniform on and wasn't out of shape and did not have a goatee etc. He looked at ease in that uniform. I thought, Huh, no wonder he pulled that off for as long as he did. Until  I scrolled down and saw him in a park type setting wearing a boonie hat with the chin strap on! It is weird the things we take note of I suppose but man, there is no way a real vet would have done that- literally Not. In. A. Million. Years.
• There was a story title on a web site I glanced at earlier for an article about a movie star (I think she is anyway) undergoing a root canal. Oh the humanity! Good grief.
• I'm drinking a mix of cranberry and pomegranate juice- with another juice from concentrate. That is what the label says. It is probably just liquidy dregs left over from whatever fruit products they intended to make their real money on by dejuicing.
• I have no idea who Jody Arias is or what she is accused of doing but you cannot turn on any true crime show that they're not talking about her and there is a new headline on every news browser I use every day about her.
• It is hard these days to find any kind of caliber of rounds even nominally associated with a tactical type rifle or pistol.
• I very often misspell these as theses.
• When you hear of a murder-suicide tragedy involving 3 members of the military you can pretty well bet 1 will be female and 2 male. 

Friday's Dispatch

• This may not be an original thought, but I hope our government has the sense to move away from ginormagantuan super carriers and look at smaller heavily armed craft that can get around faster, be more responsive and whose loss won't be entirely devastating to a mission. Very real threats these days are countries we've previously not been very concerned about militarily utilizing drones and sophisticated anti ship missiles.
• Or drones with anti ship missiles.
• Chris Carter has a fear of bees so multiple episodes of The X Files featured bees. They don't scare me much, so those episodes tend to fall a little flat for me.
• Richard Griffiths has died. I know most people associate him with Harry Potter but I thought he stole the show in Naked Gun. He never looked healthy though.
• I have a vague recall of a UK sci fi series involving a guy learning to fly an alien space craft during WWII, travelling through time and space after defecting to the aliens and getting involved in a chase with RAF fighters over Scotland where he crash lands when he returns in the present day The couple of searches I tried were unproductive. Maybe I made all that up.
• Unless they really need my extension I give patients our main number in case they need to followup. My phone can go for days without ringing and I have been there for most of 2 years.
• Multiple patients have asked me out, offered their numbers or asked for mine etc. especially when they realize I'm curious about other cultures and languages. My nursing buddies are surprised when they find I always decline those offers and in one case did not followup with a hottie who wanted to see me after she formally stopped being a patient. I initially said yes telling her I would call and then simply never did. The other nurses knew she was very pretty, would ask for me when she came to the clinic and when she came into my office we would always talk and catch up and laugh. I thought it would be OK in my mind to see her after she was no longer a patient but there was still a hang up somewhere in my moral compass.
• A mighty oak I am.
• When I turn in my notice on my job I'm going to spend one entire day doing nothing but working on this blob.
• Stick it to the man.
• We had planned camping this weekend and it has been all my children have talked about for the past 2 weeks. I had forgotten it would be Easter. I don't know whether to go to my sisters for her big egg hunting deal or head out and go camping and make memories that way. The little ones are only little for so long.
• I heard somebody call another person a douche nozzle the other day. I guess it caught me off guard- I nearly had a seizure from laughing.
• When In Rome The Promise
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  SF 2013 was a booby watchers dream I suppose. Here is a lady uncle Rico obviously got to with his Bust Plus Must supplement.

  
  

  

  Why yes they do have a giant sword embedded in stone there on the grounds- why do you ask?

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  Tattoos were everywhere.

  
  

  

  This Marine had a cammie kilt

  
  

  

  See, I wasn't kidding.

  
  

  

  This girl and a pyrate sat with us while we had lunch. I thought she looked smart, thoughtful, kind and pretty.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Wednesday's Digressions

• Calling pseudo ephedrine non drowsy is like calling Ambien non alertful. I've never done crack so I'll assume that is what it is like. I grind my teeth, talk too much, don't feel like eating, don't sleep well even hours after taking it and when I do I have weird dreams.
• I heard the term European American recently to refer to I assume white people. Good grief.
• Weird: Seeing someone from Congo, Cameroon or Uganda etc on a form refer to themselves as African American.
• Weirder: That term for them makes perfect sense- as the forms question goes. Why does it strike me as odd?
• One of my college history professors had an encyclopedic knowledge of world history. He was also a very good thinker. You know I hate the term but he was probably brilliant. He could relate current events to history and frame any event in whatever context you could ask for. And he was the most boring speaker ever- he literally spoke in an absolute, flat monotone. Today, we would think his lecture was the start of a viral video or as a goof on Ben Stein but no, it was real. Kids would leave his class looking absolutely whipped. They would stumble out looking shell shocked. I think he just didn't know any better.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  This is what you get when you mix a 5 year old, the dessicated cellulosic structure of a  prickly pear pad, a feather, an ink pen cartridge and a pair of scissors.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  I have had a flashback all my adult life of a candy my mom would make when I was a boy. I'm only pretty sure she used dates to make it. It was more or less a goopy paste and it was absolutely delicious.

  
  

  

  When I see these caps my first thought is, I wonder if he was really there? and the second is, Why does he need us to know?

  
  

  

  I tried to catch these pretzels being dragged and jerked through a tree limb but my camera wasn't on the gross mishandling of food setting.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  Why yes, that is a water fountain at Scarborough Faire.

  
  

  

  I wanted to tell Boomer the use of quotation marks to punctuate a word being used facetiously is incorrect but he had swords and battle axes and stuff like that.

• My nursing buddy was out of the office for two days recently. I was literally lost. When somebody said, Whats the matter Kev? You don't seem your normal chipper self. I didn't even bother lying. I told them I don't do very well when she isn't around. Well, it actually came out as, I do better when senora Foofi is here.
• Beastie Boys at their beastlie best- Sabotage live.