Wednesday's Digressions

If you don't like The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension I'm afraid you can't be my special friend anymore.

• What I'm listening to: Stone Sour Made Of Scars.


• An old friend died yesterday at three o'clock in the morning. I wish I'd known him better- we knew each other through mutual acquaintances. Oddly, I've had him on my mind a lot lately. A recent patient collected Dr. Pepper memorabilia and so did he. Also he was real big on all things Irish so he crossed my mind on St. Patrick's day. He was HIV positive for years and sick with AIDS for a while and so I knew he could be in bad shape and really meant to get in touch to see if I could help...


• Good intentions.


• Sadly, people where he worked shunned him and some were openly cruel. He was a good guy- smart, funny, caring and interesting. They didn't know what they were missing by being so ugly. Not that I cared, but people looked down on me for interacting with him when I'd be in his office building conducting business.


• I try not to use any kind of bad language and especially here where it's public and permanent, but the greatest last words ever for a condemned prisoner? "Kiss my ass."- John Wayne Gacy.


• Epic.

I Crack Myself Up Sometimes

If I had a talk show, instead of putting guests on the Hot Seat I'd put them on the Warm Stool. Ha ha.

Monday's Missives

It's funny, this guy is in my living room right now talking to my baby son and playing with him.

• When I hear fire for effect I still feel all warm inside and know things are right with the world (or soon may be).



• Yesterday Zac for some reason carried a washcloth from the car to the store. On the way out he pushed it to my mouth- spitting and sputtering I angrily said,"Why did you do that?!" His reply,"Because I did not want to hear you talk, I don't want you to say any bad words."



• I have garlic growing around my house that's from plants my mom used to cook with when I was a boy.



• Dandelions and cannas- were they rare and harder to grow they'd be expensive and everybody would want one.



• Topdocumentaryfilms.com has hundreds of documentaries and no commercials.



• In that vein: David Attenborough rawks!


• A friend has a nephew named Stetson she spends a lot of time with, of course I would never ever when asking about him call him Resistol, Bowler, Sombrero or Derby


• Or Sir Topem Hat.

Good Night World

Just finished Shallow Hal. What a sweet, funny movie that they'll be watching 50 years from now. It reminded me of my favorite Neil Young song After The Gold Rush and my favorite line from same: "I was thinking about what a friend had said, I was hoping it was a lie."

Good night world. I love you in spite of yourself.

The Sunday Situation Report

A search for "alligator pic" yielded one of my type of woman and one of a dude that's waaaay too ecstatic over catching an alligator gar





• A old friend of mine had legs- not exceptionally long maybe, but very tan. One day she was in the passenger seat of my car with her shoes off and feet up on the dash. As I was driving I noticed a delivery van that was passing suddenly slow and keep pace with my vehicle. I glanced over and there was some creepy lookin' dude staring down at her legs. He looked up at me long enough to get a surprised look on his face then go right back to staring at her lower extremities like he couldn't take his eyes off them. I don't know how he did it without crashing- I had to go back to driving and quit worrying about him.
• Nothing to it I guess, but it was creepy. He was honestly even creepy looking.
• I say dude a lot.
• A woman came into the tire store recently with three English Bulldogs on leashes. One was named Rockefeller, another Bentley and the other for the life of me I can't remember.
• I'm sorry doggy number three.
• If you have the means when your tires are anywhere near needing to be replaced buy an entire set of four and rotate them every 6 to 8 thousand miles then replace those four when it's time. It's a lot safer, they'll last longer and by looking for a sale as they are nearing the end of their life span it will come out cheaper than buying singles in emergencies. I cannot remember the last time I had a flat except for a bad road hazard a few years ago.
• I do this every time I buy a used car.
• Your unsolicited vehicular tip for the day.
• A Marine who had been stationed in California told me tonight their firing ranges would have to shut down for bison that had wandered onto the range.
• Would never have guessed.
• Weirdest thing I've ever seen on a military range? A shootout between game wardens in a pickup and thieves/poachers on motorcycles.
• Honestly.
• Good guys and bad that night didn't know they came closer to dying by our tanks than shooting it out with each other. A tank crew in my company identified the wardens truck as a truck target and had called out,"Gunner! 50 cal truck 600 meters!" and they were just about to fire when a cease fire was called over the radio.
• Took Zac and Chloe fishing yesterday. Chloe caught her first two fish. I had Zac help with the bait by picking worms so I could focus on getting her some fish.
• He was very understanding and even philosophical about it- he said,"I'm the worm and she's the fisher."

What I'm Listening To

Type O Negative: Christian Woman

Type O Negative: Cinnamon Girl

Avril: When You're Gone

Thursday's Thoughts

Begging for a caption (or better- an explanation), but I like this pic for some reason.



• An acquaintance who hugs me every time she sees me wrapped her arms around me this morning and said,"How are you my love?" Now, I finally know how a 5 ft tall 29 year old girl can scare the bejeebers out of me.



• If I have any bejeebers that is.


• Spellcheck hi lite bejeebers- how odd.



• Among other allegations by supporters of Bradley Manning (the kid who leaked the material from SIPRNET to Wikileaks while serving the US Army) is that the blankets issued to him in the brig are "heavy" and give him "carpet burns". I hate to be simplistic and hate even more so to sound like my dad, but maybe just maybe he should have thought about that before he tapped SEND...
• Yes, I know he smuggled the material out on CDs.
  
• The Schiff book on Cleopatra is great- so good I leave it alone when tired because I don't want to miss anything.



• A great video for one of my favorite songs- watch it: Seether Fine Again.