Mondays Missives

• Although I've lost touch with him I had a good friend once who was from Nigeria. His first job in the US was sacking groceries, he should be through with medical school in about 1 year. Amazing. I told him once when we were talking about our dreams I wanted to run a roadside snake farm. He would write after he left for medical school and say"My friend, I wish you the best on your snake farm endeavour and look forward to visiting."
• I sometimes wonder what people think about me if they read my profile on here or what they may think they know about me from the pictures I post as much as the posts themselves.
• I think true respect for other peoples feelings, beliefs and rights are few and far between. If this is true, is that a recent development or have we always been that way?
• The best car I've ever owned was a 20 year old Mercedes. As I recall I invested about 5000 dollars in it and would have trusted it to go anywhere comfortably and safely. It was one of the best riding cars I've ever been in and would have driven it until the wheels fell off, the only thing that changed my mind about that was the cow that thought it would be cute to trot out in the road and stop in front of me on a dark night on a lonely back road.
• A good riding car that surprised me was the Chevy Avalanche I test drove once. Not enough could be said for how good it handled, the comfort, how well it was laid out etc. The only problem and it was a big problem was it was woefully underpowered, so much so it just seemed to lumber around when you pressed the accelerator. How could that happen in today's world? How could a computer model not identify that before it ever made it to production? Every single article I've read on the vehicle since has mentioned this as being a deal breaker of a problem.
• My dream car is still a Hummer and I'm sure I'll have one some day. Gasoline may be worth more than gold and I'll have to fight an army of mutants who drive home built battle wagons and ride around the desert swinging chains with grappling hooks over their head to get fuel for it- but, I'll have one.
• The baby has walking around playing his harmonica- for the past hour.
• My eyebrow has started to twitch.