Friday's Dispatch

I was curious enough about this fixture to document it and did so fairly recently (it is 09/30/2014) but if my life depended on it I could not tell you where it is. What a drag it is getting old as my buddy Mick would say.

• I am still troubled by the fact we're losing a generation of males to watching sports and playing video games and as far as I can tell there are only about 9 other people who have wised up enough in this country to get what I mean when I say that.
• Today I underwent a procedure that had as a post instruction: "Do not shower or bathe for 24 hours". It is about 95% psychological but I am itching, feel nasty and think I smell BO. Why/how is that possible? If I know it is all in my head, how can it still be bothering me? It isn't something you would point out to me that I would be willing to argue about- I know physiologically I'm fine- I don't reek but I feel gross. 

  

  The old don't even think about sitting here trick eh?

• Recently my eldest son came by my house to show me his new truck and meet my girlfriend. I don't know how it came to be any part of that sentence would ever be true but there it is in black and white. 
• Life happens and time is relentless. 
• I am 6 years older than him: the last thing FG said about my son before the Sandman took her away from me that night.
• There is a video going around of victims of a supposed chemical weapon attack perpetrated by the Syrian government. The news is reporting it as, appearing to be genuine... I caught parts of three broadcasts that said something to that effect but none of them showed it. That struck me as odd but I didn't dig for the truth as I had my fill of awful for the day. Quite by accident a few days later I caught the video on the yoochoobs. It is not only fake- it is a bad, clumsy fake but it serves everybody involved purposes too well I suppose.
• Judging by Wendy Davis' bumper stickers a lot of people dig her although I'm not sure why- she stands and reads a phone book better than anybody? If experience and especially morals really, really matter like people wring their hands over in this country; I don't know who the evil of two lessers are- she or Abbott.

  

  FG and I sneaked into an old building on the square in Weatherford America

• Axe Cop- what I'm watching.
• A news break has just informed me a big controversy at Brigham Young University is a ban on beards. Brigham himself was known to rock a beard as I recall.
• Whether it is incarceration, execution, detention, entitlements... you name it, if the government has to apply a euphemism to it to make it more palatable to the peasants, we should probably at least question it.
• Regardless of the music type I like a prominent, clean and sometimes technical bass guitar driving things. That said here, listen to my favorite Joy Division song. New Dawn Fades
  

  

  This was found during my scooter search. I almost don't know where to start but I'll give it a go. OK homes- you made Miley Cyrus'  signature thing look more ridiculous. When people look to buy a bike it is, even if they are serious, sort of a daydream thing- they need to be able to imagine themselves riding the scooter. That is hard to do with you giving them a thumbs up with your tongue flopping out your mouth while wearing a wife beater shirt.

Monday's Missives

The splendor that is Chandor Gardens

One of my favorite effects there

Hobbits are real

It has wings and flies- must be some kind of bird

A flower

Inside the mens room. OMG- I just realized-  I took a camera into the mens room. Good grief

• CI Roller Dude reminded me of something today. He talked about the rank of specialist in the US Army. Believe me, there is nothing like it- it is the best rank in the world. You've been around long enough to be making OK money. Not a lot is expected of you, but you do get to teach some classes and lead small patrols etc. Probably most importantly you know how to get your work done to keep the Man off your back and you know enough about how The Machine works to insure that those of lower ranks than you get to do more than their fair share.
• My National Guard scout platoon years was an amazing moment in time. We stayed pretty close to 100% strength. We were nearly all prior service and those who were guard only had been together for years and were squared away (multiple of those guys had literally been together since elementary school). 70% or more of us had college. I would have gone into battle with those guys anywhere- against anybody. They were also the funniest group of people I've ever been around in my life. I cannot bump into any of those guys who don't say,"Man, I miss the old scout platoon."
• Although I could absolutely live in a hotel I never or rarely sleep well the first night in a hotel room.
• High quality fruit cake doesn't seem that bad to me and regardless they sell it by the tons each year- a whole bunch of people are eating it, then joking about how terrible it is and how they would never touch the stuff.
• I'm nicely sleepy. It feels good.
• The Twilight movies are truly awful.
• You wouldn't recognize beauty if it was outside in the parking lot waiting to give you hepatitis- what Will Ferrell's SNL character just said.
• I could do a very funny and some might say accurate impersonation of an old platoon commander. It was hilarious- it would literally put guys on the floor breathless and send Mt. Dew spraying every time. It was also very cruel.