Monday's Missives

• A smokin' hot friendly aquaintance has recently gone from often being tired and slightly withdrawn to being bright and bubbly and acting a little more flirty with me. A day or two ago another friend said to her as I walked into the room, Don't worry. The next time he texts you- we will send him a picture of you and Kevin together and say, Don't worry. I think I will get along fine without you!  Yesterday she received flowers. I can be a little slow on the uptake but suddenly it all became perfectly clear- her husband has jumped the fence.
• The flowers looked like a funeral arrangement. That numbskull.
• It was raining this morning.
• It is a sad day when the American voter has the 2 options he or she has today. Really, that is all I have to say about the subject of Election 2016- Beyond The Octagon!
• There is a small bag of Everlasting Gobstoppers on my desk. Cool- I have never had those before.
• Even cooler- there are S'mores and banana split flavored Dum-Dums although my favorite Dum-Dums flavor as of this writing is cotton candy.
• The only question I asked when I first encountered sweet potato fries and then at some later time was offered sweet potato chips was, What took so long for you to come into my life!?
• I met another person who was an interpreter for several years with US Army units in Afghanistan. We laughed and told stories like it was old home week.

Thursday's Thoughts

• This morning (02/10/2016) on NPR Sam Baker said after a dramatic musical bump to the effect, Bernie Sanders convincingly beat Hilary Rodham Clinton in the New Hampshire primary. This was followed by a Bernie Sanders sound bite from the primary. A moment later Baker said something like, Finally, on the other side Donald Trump won the nomination. and then nothing- no sound bite or quote from Trump. You could practically hear Baker's eyes rolling.
• You would have to very intellectually dishonest to not see NPR's left leaning.
• I personally know 2 different people who only voted for David Walker for sheriff as he door knocked their homes and spoke to them while campaigning. One of them was thinking about another guy as he had heard something good about him and the other did not care at all about the sheriff's office (although he felt highly invested in other positions and was a well informed voter).
• The snails have made my aquarium water so clear it is almost distracting.
• If cost was no object what is the one thing you would leave as a legacy, that thing your descendants would rememember for generations? For me it would  be to have an amazing library of rare, old, autographed or otherwise worthwhile books. This might even include a Guiness book of World Records collection of autographed works.
• Isn't there a guy/group who own a Bible signed by tons of famous people including multiple Presidents and astronauts?
• A suicide bomb truck AKA vehicle borne IED destroyed by Javelin missile.
• I have books autographed by David Mcolluch, Nguyen Cao Ky and another Vietnamese general whose name I don't recall at the moment. Why the Vietnamese authors you ask? One of my friends is a part of the once South Vietnamese military now a resident of the US underworld Vietnam dudes who personally know Vietnamese authors club.
• Yeah- it is a thing. Look it up.

Wednesday's Digressions/Draft Clean Up

• Two angry looking and one concerned looking black talking head on CNN are trying to out outrage each other in destroying Donald Trump. The angry ones are foaming at the mouth. 
• Lulz.
• Trump is in many ways for conservatives what President Obama was for uninformed liberals and nobody on either side quite knows what to with that fact and it scares them.
• If you want to learn women think makes them tick, pick up an issue of Cosmo in your doctor's office.
• It is 0820 and I have already waxed my truck, cleaned the windows, did a fair job of cleaning of the whole house and did the laundry. If I do nothing else but sleep and read for the rest of the weekend it will still be marked a success in the chore column.
• Mike Huckabee was wrong in the debate on literally everything he said about the B52 bomber. Look the piece up if you want but just presume when he says a date or number it is incorrect and where he makes a statement the truth is the opposite and regardless, even if true- it doesn't mean what he thinks it means.
• It is kind of an inane truism but I sort of like the saying, If you are not part of the solution- you are part of the problem.
• KEGL needs to embrace the fact they're a classic rock station and roll with it.
• It is going to be 104 degrees today with a heat factor of death by fire.
• Kill me.