Monday's Missives

• Today I drove through Pecos and Midland which are some of the areas most heavily affected by the most recent oil boom. Crazy- literally nuts. If you have read about it or kept up with the news or whatever and think you have an idea of what it is like out there, trust me you do not.
• Sorry, unsure of when last point happened- spring 2019?
• There are a lot more black people in every entertainment medium we consume. That is great. It is especially cool that they are getting more roles in horror movies without being a red shirt.
• I have no idea who Tyler Perry is.
• Recently I realised I have had sex with 2 more people than I usually count in my life total. One was the third and the other came much later- third from last.
• Hilarious to me: Buffalo Hump's name was foisted on him by white people as his actual name meaning, Erection That Wont Go Away freaked them out too much.
• Strange thing about having coffee essentially every morning for the past 30 years or so is even if I drink a energy drink and my teeth are literally grinding- I just don't feel right if I don't then also have a coffee before starting my work day.
• I just tried to buy a picture frame at Michaels online. I say try -because the site was so slow to load , so hard to navigate, it was so hung up on needing to know my local store location and was just basically so terrible- I just got off of it. 
• Weird, they made it too hard for me to give them my money.

Thursday's Thoughts

The woman reclining in the boat is Kay Laurell. She was a Vaudeville performer and actor of the silent film era. Months after this picture was made she would be dead of what was first reported as pneumonia. We now know she died in childbirth.





• The power went out this afternoon as I started getting supper ready to cook.
• Had to go get takeout.
• Heartbreaking.
• How do you survive power outage in Texas heat? Go outside and play in the sprinkler.
• Saw a Marine at dinner tonight and as usual picked up his tab without letting him know who took care of it. Interestingly, I could tell from the conversation I overheard the woman he was with was a date and not a spouse and she was obviously impressed.
• You're welcome staff sergeant.

Mud Dauber Nest

Letter Found

on Dangerfield Newby's body after the Harper's Ferry raid.

BRENTVILLE, August 16, 1859.
Dear Husband.
I want you to buy me as soon as possible for if you do not get me somebody else will. The servants are very disagreeable. They do all that they can to set my mistress against me. Dear Husband you are not the trouble I see these last two years. It has been like a troubled dream to me. It is said that the Master is in want of monney. If so I know not what time he may sell me. Then all my bright hopes of the future are blasted. For there has been one bright hope to cheer me in all my troubles, that is to be with you. For if I thought I should never see you on this earth, life would have no charm for me. Do all you can for me which I have no doubt you will. I want to see you so much. The children are all well. The baby cannot walk yet. The baby can step around any thing by holding on to it, very much like Agnes. I must bring my letter to close as I have no news to write. You must write soon and say when you think you can come

Your affectionate Wife
HARRIET NEWBY.

Monday's Missives

• I once saw somebody with the name Corvette. 
• Parenting pro tip: give your child a name that if against all your good efforts- they still go into stripping or otherwise selling their body-they cannot blame you when they have to give up as they can't figure out a good stripper or street name.
• PS: trust them to develop a good personality without having a name you consider to be cool and that they will never hear the end of for the rest of their life.

  

  My neighbor left her keys in the door one night.

• It is 0513 on 05/18/2017 and there is not one single caffeinated beverage in my place.
• It is very difficult for me go to sleep if I am hungry. Also, if I eat a small amount prior to bed to not be hungry I will very often awaken starving in the middle of night.
• Recently a friend sent me a picture of herself from near the Hollywood sign.

  

  Today's (05/19/2017) volunteer to be the sheet covered corpse in the middle of the road.
• My shoulder is toast. Just testing it yesterday for range of motion and crepitation has me in so much pain- it is part of the reason I awoke at 4 o'clock this morning.
• That and being super hungry.
• A friend has cancer of the esophagus and has recently been told he is a poor candidate for surgery as he would be unlikely to survive it.
• Kevin's shoulder hurts and he is hungry.

Monday's Missives

• My nursing buddy asked me to walk out with her as she left for lunch to save her space by parking my truck sideways where we parked adjacent to each other this morning, then she wanted me to come out when she returned and move so she had her space back.
• Crazy.
• Today is Wednesday but I awoke thinking it was Thursday and I only had to plow through one more day before a much needed break.
• Bad.
• At lunch I discovered I had accidentally bought alphabet vegetable soup. That made my day! I mean yay! Alphabet soup, sharp cheddar cheese and Ritz crackers- a combo made in heaven!
• Good.
• Reading the directions which recommended 2 to 3 minutes I set the microwave for 2.5 minutes. I returned 3.5 minutes later to find my soup had exploded all over the interior of the 'wave. It looked like a crime scene from a psychotic version of a Veggie Tales movie. I spent 15 minutes cleaning the mess up.
• Awful.
• Lunch then consisted of half a pound of cheddar cheese and Ritz crackers washed down with my tears.
• Pathetic.

Sense:

This picture doesn't make any.