Mondays Missives

• In spite of being an avid observer, very amateur photographer of and general lover of wildlife and any show covering them oddly, the subject of oceanic aquatic life holds no interest for me.
• On another blog Jarhead (I think it was) mentioned his prejudice towards fat people and cigarette smokers in that he automatically assumes them to be of lower than average intelligence. I have to admit I feel the same way and have contemplated the possible meanings of this thought for awhile.
• My son and nephew kept replaying a Korn song for the soundtrack to their Wii game- now I can't get that stinking thing out of my mind.
• I love having kids around and it would suit me just fine if the house was full of them.
• This post has been scheduled for quite some time. Is Hamageddon over? Is anyone left alive to read this?

Monday's Missives

• While looking for a movie on .99 cent day I saw that guy Toby Keiths movie Beer For My Horses on the rack.
• Instant deflation.
• Everybody loves the patriotic songs of both he and Lee Greenwood.
• Except the troops.
• I promise you.
• Bought the little ones a ginormagantuan, megalithic Little Tikes playground set with 2 slides a tunnel and plenty of climbing features.
• Hero.
• Zac is unsure of the big slide still.
• Never knew any of my great grandparents.
• I would be a garbage man and ride on the back of the truck and pick up the trash in a minute.
• In fact- it's still a back burner type goal I truly intend to make happen when the time is right.

Friday's Dispatch

• While I'll admit I can get as cranky as anyone else, overall I'm pretty calm- often too much so for my own good I'm sometimes reminded but, few thing in this world could make me ##^&&%%$#! madder than the above. Crazy, makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.


• Baby played with the water hose and a spray nozzle by himself for the first time today and watered the yard real well while getting himself wet. I sat on the porch in my rocker and watched.


• Contentment:" 1.the state of being contented; satisfaction; ease of mind.
  2.Archaic. the act of making contentedly satisfied."


• Not working as much as I'd like- will have to find something else if it doesn't pick back up.


• Great thing about my profession.


• I don't know what they think of it now but, there are a few nurses who went into nursing largely due to my influence although of course they had thought about it before on their own. I might have given that final push. There are few things that made me feel as good as seeing them out in their practice making a good living.


• Going to buy new tools for a brake job on the turd bomb. Tired of trudging back and forth digging through stuff for tools I then don't find because they were lost long ago. This time I'm going to take care of them and keep them in one accessible spot.


• Whatever.
• My oldest patient now was 4 weeks short of 101 years old.
• My youngest: 4 weeks short of 6 months.

Post Storm Post

• It's 053 and 15 seconds as I write this in my notebook.
• Home computer knocked out by storm so I'm at the library with people looking at Hot Or Not and Bootycall.com while wearing mismatched military uniforms or unintentionally retro clothing.
• Somebody stinks.
• The guy next to me thinks he smells good- it's just strong. Where did you find Hai Karate anyway, dude?
• For better or worse my life is half over at best.
• I'm OK with that.
• Zac went to sleep with me last night. I was about to put a shirt on to sleep in and changed my mind so he could feel the skin of my chest against his cheek when I carried him to his own bed.
• He smiled when I said,"Daddy's got you." even though he was dead asleep.
• I went out on the back porch on the way to the car to get my notebook and the kitten my teenage son rescued was way too quiet in his box inside the dog kennel I put him in for protection.
• My heart sank.
• "Ah man." I said out loud which caused her to stir around.
• There was a toad sitting beside the kennel that looked ready to explode from gorging on June bugs. He didn't move an inch- just impassively watched me walk by.
• It was sprinkling.
• I turned the hall light on to look in on my daughter. Pink bedspread, pink flowers in a brown vase with pink polka dots and to top everything off a closet full of pink clothes.
• She likes pink.
• She got into trouble and had to go to bed early last night.
• Not without screaming, crying and kicking first.
• She is a monster but, looks angelic sleeping.
• I returned a movie borrowed from my son that he had rented himself.
• How did that happen?
• Yesterday he was colicky at 3 AM and he and I went to 7-11 got coffee and drove around until dawn in the Camaro I drove in college and then I got ready for work.
• Is that the craziest part of our story? Or yesterday when your 2 year old brother handed me tools while saying,"I halper!" when I was doing a brake job on the car bought for you?

Max The Phantom Viagra Ad Emailin' Dude Says:

"Push your banger up inside lady- you body could be the best love machine girl ever imagined" Thanks for your concern and as always keepin it classy but, I think I'll pass.

Monday's Missives

Barney Oldfield 1917 in the Golden Sub car.

• Let's talk about going to the moon, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto- wherever when we can watch The President give an address in the Rose Garden without police and ambulance sirens screaming in the background.
• Every single time.
• Although crime rates there are at a 20 year low, violent crimes occur at three times the national average in our nations capitol.
• Instead, city and state governments across the country and world in fact should be clambering for information on how to make a city so safe and attractive to visitors.
• Instead, ask a resident of the area or someone familiar with travel there about sight seeing and the first thing they will say is,"Well, don't go anywhere after dark...".
• Last seasons hailstorms continue to claim victims: my ornamental plum is about to succumb to it's wounds after all this time and effort to save it.
• My baby son was recently taught how to operate a very realistic semi auto style toy pistol. I Could not be more disappointed or fearful.
• My family was so lucky for so many years- tragedies and heartbreaks yes but, few and far between I think. My childrens great grandmother has died now after a fall which was contributory to her death and I'm afraid the hits are going to just keep coming for awhile.

Mondays Missives

my cubicle in the Al Anbar office. Click to enlarge

• My house sets only about 12 miles from the weather station for my area so reports are generally dead on- as in when the weather says a cold front will move through at around noon- you could set your watch by that.








• I've scared a couple of people with stories of the horrors I was associated with in Iraq and this is part of the reason some of my closest friends haven't heard the worst.








• We called being there being Downrange.








• I don't understand how an author/historian could ever attempt to alter history to bend to their views. For instance, just this morning on the histroy channel site there was a sentence that read to the effect regarding the Battle Of The Bulge: "Nazi atrocities abounded during this period including the murder of 72 American prisoners of war at Malmedy." I don't know where to start with this statement but, the Malmedy Massacre as it has become known as far as I know is now regarded by every historian on both sides as a horrible, unfortuante event that started with the shooting of a few escaping prisoners which devolved into a mass escape attempt by the Americans who believed they were being executed without cause. The shooting of an escaping POW was both legal and engaged in by all parties 100% of the time. Early in the war though the Germans were known for their magnanimity in dealing with
  American casualties and prisoners which surprised and often had a deep impact on US GIs because of the German reputation for fierceness in battle. The German forces would often be the first to broker battlefield deals to allow casualty collection and body removal- even when they had the upper hand. Medics would report their surprise they could move through a hail of fire as if they were invisible- they were simply not being targeted by the German soldiers. One incident which did work toward changing the way Germans acted on the battlefield though was the murder of two German medics who had commandeered an American jeep and were rushing a wounded German and American soldier back to their field hospital. The American soldiers shot both of the medics and dumped the wounded German in a ditch to die. The term "Nazi soldiers" is also perjorative and a bit misleading- it was a political party that until late in the war most soldiers were prohibited from belonging.





• Contiue to be curious about the controversy surrounding President Obamas color. He is half white and was not exactly raised in the ghetto.





• I think it would be easy to perceive that he will be able to do nothing right because so much is expected of him and he has so many problems to deal with but, I think the truth will be unless he really steps on something he will be viewed as if he could do no wrong.





• When I first got out on my own I think it was generally accepted it was cheaper to eat well and healthy than not- I believe the opposite is true today.