A Prediction

As far as in our lifetimes are concerned there will always be fossil fuels. Coming very soon though there will be cost effective, clean, cheap fuels to replace them. Whatever comes around, it will be so cheap due to low production costs and competition it will make the good old days of cheap gasoline look like highway robbery.

Craigslist Craziness

MUSTANG GT 5.0 1991 90k - $2650 (H.E.B)

Reply to: sale-qgvxd-11717] Date: 2009-05-15, 2:02AM CDT


I finally got me a hot rod to build a couple years back, been workin on it little at a time. Now my soon to be x-wife is trying to take it. Our divorce wont be final for a few weeks. Hell will freeze before she gets it so im letting it go cheap just to spit her. SHHHHHH dont tell. Iv got around 6 thousand in the car and it drives great interior needs couple of window motors but other than that its not bad. Its white with silver pony wheels. I can go on and on and on about the engine mods and the drive train but it would just be easier to call me.(817)-841-0100 my name is Chance and i say this with all seriousness, that the first one who looks at this car will ask me if im stupid as they drive it away please no low ballen BULL #$%@ if your close with my price we can talk iv got clear title in hand. Call any time Cell # (817)-&&^ !@#$


Location: H.E.B
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Does Anything About This Label Jump Out At You?

Click to enlarge

Wednesday's Digressions

USMC CPL Burness Britt wounded in Helmand Province. Shrapnel from an IED severed an artery in his neck. He has a long road ahead of him, but he lived. AP photo

• I bumped into a woman today with whom I share multiple of just a few degrees of separation. Among others I worked for years with her father and an old friend used to date her. All I could think of while we chatted was, Holy smokes- she looks just like her dad and frog tongue! after what my bud had said about the way she kissed.



• I took my eldest to his Army training recently. We had dinner afterwards and made each other laugh. It's oddly OK when you talk about things with an adult son that you know may help save his life and end the lives of others. It was a little weird though, when we laughed after I told him about the gruesome (but nonetheless interesting/dramatic) deaths of some insurgents killed by my unit.



• When you find yourself at the intersection of 281 and 57 in Stephenville Texas (as we all will at some time or another in life's journey) stop at the Hard Eight BBQ place. When you do, have one of their 2 inch thick pork chops and when they say,"Can I dip it in butter for you? say Why, yes please- I thought you'd never ask.



• Then the next time the universe brings you there, have a chopped sandwich on a sourdough jalapeno roll. Then, place what falls out of the sandwich onto the butcher paper into a bowl of beans from the 5 gallon cauldron that you help yourself from. Scatter some cheese and onions across the top and think of me.



• My son's choir will be having a performance in a fancy place this weekend.



• A family member's military job requires a clearance of above top secret. He goes places for short periods of time and can't tell his immediate family where he's going. Based on: what I surmised as his honest denial when I asked if it was a common country in the region for our guys to go, a country he admitted in another conversation using as a jumping off point to get to the country he works, the language he's recently been studying and my limited knowledge of world events- it just hit me on the drive home last night where's he's been going. Mmmmm- very interesting. Ah, this is either going to be big news someday- or no news at all.



• I know it's shamelessly anthemic, but if you missed this as part of your youth and hear this song today and would not trade all those years to have experienced those days- well, there's no hope for you.

Tuesday's Thoughts

• A favorite German word: wolkenkratzer. It means skyscraper, but literally translates into cloud scratcher.






• Zac is going shopping today for himself for the first time using cash and gift cards he scored for Xmas.






• People misunderstand what war may mean to an economy. By it's very nature it's destructive and not a positive thing. Regardless, it takes a huge one to really lift a large population's economy and then what? What about when that war ends? What about the resources wasted?






• Taco Cabana: it's what's for lunch.






• I have a ton of 35 mm camera bodies, lenses and other accessories I need to sell off although I have no idea what market there may be for them now.






• Noel Fielding is Vlad the impaler in this must see music video.

Monday's Missives

Hey now- Jennifer Tilly. 53 years old and she gets better looking each year. Can you imagine what she'll look like at 153?











• The next time you're in combat and nothing is going your way- your weapon jams, the radio won't work, the enemy is getting on your nerves and you get that sinking feeling where you know your blood sugar is about to crater- take my advice, find some cover and break out some MREs. Then, look for whatever cake you can find, squirt a tube of peanut butter on it, mix cocoa powder to a pudding consistency and place it on top, do the same with a creamer packet, then sprinkle instant coffee across the top of that then sprinkle a French vanilla cappuccino packet across the whole shebang.








• Then throw the entire mess away.








• I kid- it's delicious, nutritious and will keep you going for hours.








• A couple of weeks ago on NPR I heard them talking about how awful Nickelback is then oddly, as the report faded out they played one of the only good songs they do. About two days later on another station I heard them talking about software that blocks to your computer even a reference to Nickelback. It's called Nickelblock.








• I've never talked about Nickelback so such in my life.








• I feel dirty.








• Feeling sniffly the other night I drank Theraflu. First of all- as good as the concept is and effective as it can be, that stuff is nasty. Secondly- I went to bed with my favorite lounge pants on and awoke in the morning naked, having no recall of taking them off.








• Hank Williams Lost Highway

2012 Is Here- Ready Or Not

• Moamar Khadaffi simply had to be ready in some way to die, what with him being a despotic, international pariah who had lost control of his country. My guess is he'd come to terms with the idea of a Hellfire or Brimstone missile incinerating him or a 500 lb laser guided bomb disintegrating him- not being slapped around, pistol whipped, having a stick crammed up his backside and then being shot in the head and chest by a mob.


• When a bad US politician dies I hate to say it, but if I feel anything, I feel relieved.


• A couple of days ago samples were played of music of all different types from all different eras on the radio. It seemed to go on for 5 minutes or more. I didn't know what it was all about until they mentioned it was samples of music from musicians who died this year.


• It shouldn't be as surprising as some thought that Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning as opposed to a heroin overdose. She had quit the heroin and needed something to dull the pain- and fill the holes. Alcohol is more socially acceptable and since a little probably helped fill some of the holes...


• I can't say that I've made any new friends this year although I guess there are quite a few friendly acquaintances.


• Christopher Hitchens died this year and I have no idea who he was, but it's kind of a big thing he's gone.


• We dropped Iraq like a bad habit and expanded ops in Afghanistan this year- we are weird.


• Although, yes I know- Iraq leadership wanted us gone- ready or not.


• I love my job and feel lucky to have gotten it.


• I've never made a new years resolution although I might make a few this year. They almost always always fail though don't they?


• David Arquette has achieved a year of sobriety. I was really worried about him.


• When a year ends we always think of the deaths and disaster incurred in the previous year. I don't know why we let tragedy and loss define us like that, but with a couple of different searches I couldn't find a compiliation of good news from 2011 to put up.


• I hope you have a great year.


• Chris Thomas King Hard Time Killing Floor Blues