Future Missives

Is it the wheelie bars or roll cage that attracts me more to this car?

It certainly isn't the chicks you would have to fend off with a stick

• A clerk in a convenience store I was in the other day had OZZY spelled out across the knuckles of his right hand.
• Fantasy sports is a 1.2 billion dollar enterprise and rapidly growing- how very odd.
• I just heard the neighbors screaming at each other. They do that a lot. That nearly has to escalate to physical violence- right?
• Relationship pro tip: If out of the blue your significant other starts using mints or gum, is never without it, oddly makes a big deal about it and as a bonus, she asks you to pick it up for her she is either drinking, smoking or screwing around on you (maybe all three). I think they ask you to pick some up for them just to be more awful but I'm not sure.

  

  1957 Ford- one of the ugliest trucks ever made. There are relatively few of them as nobody cared to keep them up and/or restore them through the years

• Recently the Pope defrocked 400 priests for sex abuse. My first thoughts: How incontrovertible must those cases have been? I mean my God- was there video evidence in all 400 cases?  Literally the tip of the iceberg. We'll never know the truth. The Catholic priesthood system is not only not Biblical, it is one designed to fail as it defies logic- literally all we know about human sexuality and interpersonal and societal relationships. You would not expect those dynamics to work in any situation outside of a religious context.
• A couple of days ago I inadvertently stumbled upon a page of reviews for my children's daycare as I looked up the phone number. All the reviews were negative and I can say with confidence they were all fake. On two of the concerns the truth is the place is very strong in those two supposed fail areas. Even if a person hated the place, if they were honest they would absolutely have to give them those. The claims were such egregious lies that I assume they were made by a rival daycare who obviously didn't know the inner workings of ours but wanted to play on parents worst fears.
• One of my offspring is outside playing. The other is on the couch with me watching some inane Disney show. FG is napping and as the above pics suggest I'm unsuccessfully looking for a new car.
• Today 01/18/2014 as I write this it is 1512 hours on a Saturday. I want to remind you I love you world wherever you are. I hope you and I are still around when this posts and all is as well as you could hope. Five years ago today things could have been better and that was all my fault. Things could have been worse and that is because of the grace of God and the goodness of people who love me more than I deserve.
• Signed Past Kevin
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Mondays Mostly Musical Missives With A Mass Media Misgiving

• There was a television going in my patients room the night Drew Peterson was arrested for the murder of his wife. The news came out early, was pervasive and was the top story literally until I walked out the door. Nearly everyone I've spoken to since has mentioned the case.



• Why? Who cares besides family, friends etc.? And if they do- again, why?



• Earlier my son was listening to Ozzy Ozbornes Crazy Train. Yesterday when working on the neighbors riding mower her son was listening to Iron Man.



• There's hope for this world after all.



• Never understood why Bush was never more popular than they were or why the wave they were on crested in the 90s and they sort of tailed off. Even stranger (to me at least) they were from England but, never were very popular there. They broke up in 2002 but, Gavin Rossdale has been hinting at a reunion.



• Just picture my old butt waving a cigarette lighter to Glycerine and jumping around to Machinehead.



• Probably don't want to picture it too long though.



• Chevelle is one of my all time favorite bands but, oddly I don't own a single cd of theirs or have any of their music on my laptop.



• Hank Williams, Ralph Stanley, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and Bill Monroe all stop me dead in my tracks whenever I hear anything of theirs and when I'm in the mood and put their music on I don't do or think about anything else.



• A cousin to Lester Flatt was one of my professors in college.



• One of the best live shows I've ever been to is still Meatloafs. He did songs from both Bat Outta Hell and Bad Attitude.



• Meatloaf was born and raised in Dallas TX but, oddly was and is still way more popular in England.
• No, he didn't play Lumpy on Leave It To beaver.



• I have at least 10 musical instrument in my house and I can't play a single one though I'll randomly pick one up occasionally and mess around with it.



• Was pretty good at the trombone in school though and keep daring myself to take it back up.



• Craig's Music in Weatherford TX is about 12 minutes from my house, has some great live music acts very often and I never been and I don't know why.



• I know someone whose servers at their job has over 250,000 songs on it for consumption by employees. Another guy has over 3000 full length movies on his.



• Didn't know there were that many of either anywhere.



• Actually I did of course but, man that would be cool to have access to that kind of free, safe music and movies.


• Some music that I like but, a little goes a long way with me: Bluegrass, Techno and just a little Hip Hop.
• Synthesizer by Electronic Six- still such a great techno song don't care when it gets lodged in my brain for hours on end.
• My neighbor was in a band with Roy Orbisons son Wes Orbison but, he died before they could take off with it- one more reason his death was so sad.
• Toadies: great rock music by Texans who lost themselves somewhere- terrible after their comeback, sorry to say.
• Dred Zeppelin: Led Zep songs to a reggae beat sung by an Elvis impersonator- genius.
• Fats Domino singing Blueberry Hill and Ain't That a Shame. BB King Singing The Thrill Is Gone and Hank Williams The Lost Highway all make my hair stand on end like no other and I'll let you guess which is the most nearly autobiographical.