Wednesday's Digressions

• Alger Texas Alexander was a Texas blues musician from Jewett . A cousin of Lightning Hopkins he was known for free rhythm singing making him notoriously hard to play for. He spent some time in prison for murder of his wife. He died of syphilis at 53 in Houston. Frisco Train Blues.
• At work I joked that I would love to take some of the ginger ale I was offered but some horrible person had stolen my disposable plate, cups and plastic ware I had stashed in a cabinet. I thought I knew my audience. I was proven wrong when the next day somebody came into my office while I was with a patient and said This is from ___________ and dropped a bag of the same type stuff in my sink and walked out. Good grief. 
• It is a burden, I tell ya.
• The wind chimes sound really, extra beautiful tonight.
• You appreciate the little things after dealing with horrible, horrible people.
• I cancelled a day off new years eve so my nursing buddy could have it so she could use her VIP tickets for a show.
• Recently a couple of women have been very pushy about trying to get me to have sex with them.
• Hot apple cider- my drink of choice at this moment (12/27/2012 @1831).
• A defect in our legal system: Jail house snitch testimony. You'll put another human away forever (or actually kill them) on the word of a person whom a cop would literally not trust to hear out trying to talk his way out of a traffic ticket?! That literally makes no sense.
• I saw a mid 40s to early 50s couple in a restaurant recently. They had orange tans. She wore an Ed Hardy T and one of those rhinestone cross Bedazzled caps. He wore an Affliction T and had spiked hair. They both wore jeans with designs stitched in and the knees fashionably torn.
• 12/21/2012 was not the end of the world- that will come when I correctly spell restaurant on the first try. 
• Lucky you- I didn't get it right then either.