Monday's Missives

Great value in a down bag. 

• Clean shaven or with a full on beard I look OK I guess but with just a few days growth I look like a haggard derelict and easily 10 years older.
• We lost a fantastic employee and I a personal work buddy last week and my heart is broken. 
• I did not even like saying that out loud  to you my Internet friend. It kinda tore at my heart strings a little to hear me say it.

  

  Terrible location for restaraunt. If people are heading home to Weatherford from the lakes most will either be ready to just get home so they will fly by this place without stopping. Others will have already eaten in Mineral Wells. Also, it won't do great as a lunch place as it is too far to drive from places of work and is on a road without great amounts of random daytime traffic. As a bonus- it is difficult to access from the opposite side of the road.

• Yesterday 07/23/2017 I saw a hugely fat woman at LMWSP rub her right hand through her left armpit and then sniff it for all she was worth.
• Gag me with a wooden spoon- that was an epically nasty sight!
  
• A friend is so much smarter than everybody around him that 100% of the people I know that he knows (myself included- most of all) have a story about him making them feel dumber than a bag of hammers.
• It has been years since I had a dip of stuff but randomly I will think, Man- a dip of Copenhagen sounds soooo good right now... It is a such a powerful thought when it happens- I have been tempted to get out in the middle of the night and buy some.

  

  I would have guessed this sign to be made of metal or at least wood as opposed to this dense foam.



• An ad caught my eye a minute ago for a canoe that had been owned by a Rockefeller. It had sold for over 8000 dollars.
• Another canoe related thought: Preparation H was mentioned as a product I might be interested in inside another ad. Coincidence or did the Internet know roids are a common problem with canoe/kayaking and I have written about roids on my blog in the past!?
• Gotta be true right?
• The Internet is listening- always listening...

Reminisence

Remember those days... Playing with mercury in class, lawn darts, candy cigarettes, the U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, the Johnny Reb 30-inch authentic Civil War cannon...

Monday's Missives

• This evening (today is 06/29/2016) on the way home from work I saw a lady hanging onto a post that supports a guardrail on I30. She was leaning impossibly out toward the Interstate. She was absolutely hammered. If she is still alive; I hope in the morning she reconsiders her life choices- all of them.
• Yesterday I saw a guy broke down on the side of the same Interstate. Today he was broken down again within 5 miles of where he was yesterday. That sucks. I hope tomorrow is a better day for him.
• Day before yesterday a patient informed me he has become homeless. I handed him a few bucks and wished him the best. He nearly started bawling.
• My last girlfriend is sitting maybe 15 feet away from me in a lounger by the pool. We are good- there is no hate but it is a sort of two ships passing in the night thing. Just some weeks ago there was  time together- some plans; now she has her crowd over there. I have you dear reader.
• There has been a lot of reality for me in the past few days.
• She just glanced over her shoulder and smiled at me.
• I am listening to The Melvins on Pandora. They are the only band I can think of off the top of my head I would like to own everything they have ever done. INXS, Joy Division and New Order are others.
• Former GF and her friend are taking selfies together and laughing too hard at each others lame jokes. She is trying to make me jealous. It isn't working.
• OK- I give up- I'm going in hot.... If I don't come out alive- tell ma I loved her and I died a hero.
• Gov't Mule covers Etta James I'd Rather Go Blind

More Flowers

Wednesday's Digressions

• While I am still a sexual tyrannosaurus- I no longer (or hardly ever) dream about sex.
• Among a certain circle at work we tell each other that we love the other person often. There is something in our free but reasonably judicious use of the phrase that compels me. 
• I can turn green with envy when I see a pic of a soldier or see one in public. Honestly- I get sick to my stomach sometimes.
• What a gift to serve this country and get paid for it- that concept still blows my mind.
• That was the one thing I was going to start what I finished and I did not get to finish.
• My truck transmission stalled so bad leaving a green light on the way home this 06/12/2018 evening that when it finally kicked in - I thought I'd been rear ended.
• Torque converter failing sounds familiar.
• Longest time without a cel phone? Over 3 years. My children's flesh mother could reach me immediately for emergencies- but (except for office hours) I wasn't going to be the one to answer. It was heaven.
• Another cel related thought: I will contemplate it but on this first reflection- I think I have had in my life an oddly low number of cel phones for somebody my age who was also a reasonably early adopter.
• I have never been to a Subway drive through. No never- not in my life. For that matter- I am only reasonably sure they exist and could not tell you where a drive through Subway is located.
• The preceding is in spite of the fact I eat at Subway(s) multple times a month.
• The more I think about it; some do have drive through- right?
• I literally Love The Tragically Hip.

Ages Old Draft Clean Up Post

Grandfather and grandmother. Maybe the reason blues music is so ingrained in my soul- honestly. I mean really, if just looking at them doesn't just put a beat-down on you, I don't know what would. She looks like a harder, more beaten version of my mom and I would know those hands anywhere.

• Occasionally in my hospice nursing when I'm relieving another nurse she'll say something like, Oh, I've heard so much about you! and want to draw out report and visit and obviously try to figure out what makes me tick.
• I don't fall for it anymore- they are trying to steal my Mojo.
• Hospice nursing is the best nursing ever for the simple, relatively ego less exchange of teaching between nurses to improve patient care- hands down, no discussion. It's one aspect that would make it hard to leave if the time came.
• The adolescent deer is still living near the pond. If the water holds I will put a mineral block out to keep it going until the acorns and pecans make. There is a little browse and will be plenty if we get a little more rain which will come. Then we'll get sick of all the rain...
• It's the reddest white tail deer I've ever seen with an unbelievably long tail.
• My teenager bumped the thermostat down so low the other night Zac woke up crying and felt cold as a dead person. My back was aching and I had to get in the tub to get the knots out.
• I still love Pinky And The Brain and The Animaniacs.
• Remember Rudedog?
• The other day it crossed my mind and 15 minutes later on the way to town saw a pickup I'd never seen before with RUDEDOG in vinyl letters across the back window.
• In nursing homes they always have Bob Hope, Randolph Scott, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello and John Wayne movies with titles like Road To Bali, Rio Bravo, Stagecoach, The Fighting Seabees and Africa Screams always among them. Twenty to Forty years from now it will be Pretty In Pink, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Red Dawn and Young Guns.
• Interesting to come back and see this one- I haven't done hospice in years. We'll see where we are at when it publishes.

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