My Day Started

with Jesus and Mary Chain. How did yours start?

Chinese Product Translation Foibles are Funny

• Function number of: 20 - 30 item
• Outdoor project: camping, hiking
• Shovel function: vertefeuille configuration
• A shovel with you ,just as a loyal Tibetan Mastiff protecting you at your side.
• We hope our product can solve the critical problem for everybody, keep people safe, and bring good lucky to people!

Monday's Missives

Retarded

• I go and explore our world with my children so we have the experience together, get some exercise and so someday they will return to those places and find themselves, me and us- maybe even long after I'm gone.
• Pedernales Falls is on the list to hit this summer (2014). Turner Falls is on the list always as it is accessible and pretty cheap.
• For most of my adult life I've gone to TF at least a few times a year.
• Supposedly way back in the day it was the last place you would take a family as it was a biker haven. It may be an urban legend but I have heard multiple times from people contemporary to me they had been told the same from people in the generation before us and I have heard the same.

  

  I like that design.  It could not be more simple, efficient nor more different than what we picture as a chair. I bet it is comfortable. I wanted to sit in it.

• I just tried to watch a documentary about Jimi Hendrix. Within 5 seconds some guy that didn't sound like he knew what he was talking about referred to Jimi as, The most important guitar player in the 20th century and then later said, He pushed the envelope... Groan.
  
• The Beemer is going to my eldest. It isn't like a valued old pickup or sports car we would like to keep in the family. It is more like something I hope doesn't become an albatross around his neck. If I hear it is causing him to much grief and breaking him financially I'll sneak over and burn it to the ground.
• Anyway, it goes into the shop today (07/11/2014) to get in shape. I'll find the title tomorrow.

  

  Her is a seepy concert goer.

  
  
  
  
  

  

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• When FGs dumb cat comes skulking around I'm always guarding my coffee against him drinking it. Its a weird holdover  from a dog I had who would risk life and limb to drink my coffee. He would act totally disinterested until I left the room then on returning I would find him nose deep in my cup happily slurping away. He was a blue heeler.
• I gave him away to friends who had cows and 88 acres and he got to ride in the back of pickups every day. He must have thought it heaven. As far as I know he is still alive but would be 10 or 11 years old.
• "Here, have a picture of my butt" The last text message I sent.

• Beaver catching fail.

Thursday's Thoughts

It. Was. Then. I. Knew. I. Had. The. Power.

• Here, read about Kennewick Man 
• When a terror group kills somebody by cutting their head off calling it an execution connotes legitimacy to the group- just call it a murder.
• You know, when you think about it- we are all half centaur.
  
  
  
  

  

  I found this pic in the parking lot. It fascinates me for some reason. If you know her tell her I still have the pic and would like for her or her people to have it back.

• Yesterday I cleaned the Keurig with vinegar. As evidenced by my sore throat and bubble guts after my coffee this morning- some of the vinegar got left in the machine.
• Rodeo clowns should carry tazers.
• Ferguson police now wear body cameras. It took riots, millions of dollars in riot damage and costs for policing protests to force something the cops themselves if they were thinking straight would have demanded- years ago. There will come a time when cops won't sign on to a department that doesn't provide body cams (or they will buy their own) and shortly after that time their use will be as common as badges and almost mandatory. Regardless, not having the body cams will be correctly viewed as the liability it is.
  

  

  Frame #134 will be debated for a long time. Is it genuine or a guy in a homeless person suit?

  
  
• We ate at Blue Mesa yesterday (08/31/2014). I had no idea how much it would cost when we left the house. The following thoughts occurred to me after I entered the building. The restrooms are nice. The frosted glass doors have a W for women and M for men in the etching. Whoa, that mirror is a work of art. It couldn't have cost anything less than a grand. The sinks are cool. Yeah all this is nice, very ni... Uh-oh. Crap- the paper towels aren't in a dispenser. They are just lying on the counter top. That is a dead give away the place is expensive.
• It wasn't terrible though- 20 bucks for 12 and up for the buffet.
• Altatac always has an item or two that is sooo cheap it must be a loss leader to get their foot in your door. Said items will be so cheap you'll assume the site is a scam but they are legit. I bought a backpack from them for slightly less than half price advertised on other sites.

  

  A motor vehicle accident waiting for a place to happen- without the bozo being all over the road texting. He is not in the far left hand side of that lane as he just executed a lane change- he was literally all over the road. Retarded.

Wednesday's Digressions

Yes, that is a picture of a Russian surgeon performing an appendectomy on himself- why do you ask?

• I keep seeing Craigslist ads that say to the effect, "Barn find! 1970 Camaro!" and there will be a picture of a multicolored stack of holed through rusty debris and shattered glass that may or may not be a Camaro and in fact may or may not be a car. I always doubt it was even found in a building but regardless- that isn't a barn found car. A barn find means it was driven into the building and left. The condition may have degraded- dry rot, surface rust and mouse nests etc. but the impression should be and it might even take a bit of imagination is you squirt a little Marvels Mystery Oil in the cylinders, put a hot battery on her and some fresh gas in the tank, air up the tires and after a couple hours tinkering- you drive away.
• A kid from Padre Island was killed in Gaza. He was in the Golani Brigade. What a wild world we live in.
• Phillip Seymour Hoffman supposedly failed to take an accountant's advice to provide for his children with a trust fund saying he didn't want them to turn into, " trust fund kids." Maybe he was saying what he thought he was supposed to say. If everything in the world is all or nothing it would be just as easy if in his shoes say,  I don't want a trust fund for my children as I do not mind the thought of them being homeless and having to sell their bodies for food.
• The nurse practitioner in my doctor's office is smart, to the point and a practical thinker- I like that. The NP at my children's first pediatrician's office was known for people refusing to bring their children to see the actual doc, they would wait for work-ins to see the ANP and walk past the physician.
• Unsolicited career path advice: you could do a lot worse than mid level medicine such as becoming a nurse practitioner after a few years as an RN.
• The 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat will come with 2 sets of keys- one allows the possessor to access 707 horsepower the other a measly 500+. 
• I have  lump in my throat and butterflies in my stomach just reading that.
• Here, be titillated , disgusted or inspired by a story of conjoined twins finding love with one man

Monday's Missives

This may have been the first time my children were refreshed by a fresh picked wild plum.

• FG gets mad because she says everybody down here says she has green or hazel eyes . She said she had not even heard of hazel eyes before. She is adamant her eyes are blue. Its OK babe- its all good, cuz we totally see colors different down here- in fact, when we see one we don't like- we just make up another name for it.
• We went to Coyote Drive In in Funkytown last night (06/14/2014). Verdict: it was OK. Way too many people were there who were oblivious to general polite behavior and are not familiar with drive in etiquette in particular. There is too much ambient light around there although the full moon itself didn't help any either. There was intermittent blowing of train horns from a nearby track and light from an adjacent stadium and twice  helicopters made a lazy loop nearby to check out the screen. The food was very good. I had a pizza that was as good as any pretty good pizza I have ever had. We watched Maleficent and Edge Of Tomorrow although it took about 10 to maybe 15 minutes for me to figure out exactly how each would play out.
  
  
  

  

  The lighting terrible but I like the slightly 3D quality to this flower pic.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  FG thought this looked like a bird of paradise. Although there is such a thing this is not a BOP flower. I just thought it interesting her mind went there.

• If you clean out the lint trap on a dryer halfway through a dryer cycle, of course there will be less lint on your clothes but they also seem to dry faster- how/why?
• On Earth Day my hot nursing buddy and I went out to purview and snag some swag from vendors. As I took note of a Tarrant County Sheriff's deputy eye raping my buddy I turned to her and glanced back to him. When I did he shot me the angriest look of absolute disgust I ever seen. I said, Uh, good morning. How are you?  a little shocked at his very  blatant and obvious eye rapiness and taken aback at his looking at me like his fantasies had turned to my early demise at his hands. I then looked  looked down at their swag. He jerked some piece of crap I had picked up out of my hands and said, You don't get nothing- you called me man! I said, That's not what I said and turned to walk away and ignored him as he tried to call me back. He heard what he wanted to hear to have an excuse to shoot me down in front of his new found fantasy masturbation visual. The worst thing about this? Tell me he doesn't do the same on the street to get to taze or rough people up. Well, you can tell me but I won't believe it and you and I both know it is true.
• Another related thought: I know it is a tired old saw but he was literally hiding behind his badge and gun. That stupid looking bucket of pus wouldn't so much as give me a dirty look out of the uniform. What a punk.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Applebees in Weatherford is unbelievably bad. It stinks like a slaughterhouse or a poorly run nursing home or a slaughterhouse operating in the back of a poorly run nursing home and the service and food is sooo bad we could literally hear nothing but complaints to the manager and servers from other tables yesterday (06/14/2014). The food was only barely edible and I would have walked out after the first bite if we weren't literally starving. This is the second time the visit played out the exact same way. Two strikes and you're out.
• Recently FG's mom reported to her on my activity outside the home home one day she had witnessed. It was no big deal but I didn't like it. What have I got hide you ask? Well, nothing- that is exactly why I didn't like It. I don't need to be monitored, therefore it perturbs me a bit.