My Town- Weatherford TX A Review Pt 1

Caption read, Texas Farmer Weatherford 1939. He looks like he was made from the dirt. I bet that dried out old man could work circles around you or I.



• Bakers Ribs: Very, very good with consistent quality of everything they serve. I think they've broken themselves of the habit, but they used to burn you with poor cuts when you did takeout. I've never eaten one, but their fried pies are supposed to be tumultuous.




• Home Depot V Lowes: HD used to be the place to be now some of their formerly best employees are burned out and avoid helping people at times. None of Lowes people seem all that knowledgeable though. So it's a tossup with HD probably edging out Lowes. Anyway, Lowes is too bright and shiny for me to be buying hardware from.




• Simms: During a remodel I broke into some wiring that I knew to be wrong and I was also 99.5% sure I knew the correct way to do it. I had already decided to use Simms so I called and asked, the dude said,"Ha! If you don't know that- you don't need to do the work." I called HD the guy confirmed my suspicions and gave me a couple of pointers and wished me well. The next day I went into Simms to buy some parts. The goob behind the counter in the back looked at me like I was retarded, literally rolled his eyes at me when I interrupted some meeting he was having and said,"Can I help you with something? Ah, no thanks dude- I'll go to Home Depot."




• I spent 35,000 dollars at Home Depot that year alone.




• Downtown Cafe: Wide range of food and everything is good and cheap. Service and food always a little better when the manager's motorcycle with the impossibly high ape hanger bars is parked on the sidewalk. At lunch and breakfast rush it's always crazy and can get hot and loud so I go later in morning or after lunch hour. Years ago it was a pharmacy and supposedly the pharmacist killed himself in the basement and so still haunts the place. He's never bothered me though. Look up at the ceiling for the coolest ceiling fans you'll ever see.




• Davis City Pharmacy: The only game in town as far as I'm concerned. Not in a hurry- tell them so and come back later and next time you'll be worthy of getting bumped ahead in front of hundreds of orders just because you say you need it and will wait. I've never had them mess up a prescription. They've been in business 100 years or something like that.




• Denny's: A Denny's should be a Denny's, but ours is always a little cleaner and quieter than others I've been in and the food quality is very consistent. Oddly, they've had chronic A/C problems since forever and it can flat burn you out in there at times.




• Import Auto Masters: I would not let anyone else work on my import cars. I've had them correctly charge me 25% more than an initial estimate from another shop because cheaper repairs would compromise durability of the repair and ride quality and not charge me anything when the car would barely pull itself into the shop and a bad gas cap was freaking the computer out.




• Parks: Long history of mismanagement, but they're plentiful with lots of activities. There's even a free water park that's very nice. We have a brand new softball complex that is gorgeous.




• Cops: Plentiful, polite and professional. Due to my job, the fact I drive too fast and mutual friends I've had to interact with them a lot through the years. Occasionally, they get a little speed trap-ish with their motorcycle units, but really- I think they could be a lot worse.




• Traffic: Oh my God- kill me.

KIA SEAL Had Texas Ties

Matt Mills 35 a 14 year SEAL died in the Chinook crash in Afghanistan this past weekend. He leaves behind 3 children and a wife. He attended Arlington schools growing up and still has family in the area.

Monday's Missives

• As a person is dying they often experience a burst of energy called a rally. This is because at a certain point after the person stops eating the fats stored around the liver are broken down and circulated as a type of sugar.







• My camera has been on loan. I need to get it back and start recording mine and Zac's adventures again.







• I love spring- not too hot, everything is green. It feels like anything could be possible and energises me like few things in this world.







• Filth, stink and dirt. The first things that crossed my mind when I thought about Iraq today.







• Yes, I know- cradle of this and accomplished that... I've read as much as anyone about the place.







• Reese's Peanut Butter Cups- one of natures most perfect foods.

Caturday Thoughts

• I'll look up something in the dictionary if I don't know what it means, but will almost always try to put it the back of my mind to try and first figure it out by context first.



• My best friend and I have knowledge that counterweights the other based on experience, training and education. We hardly ever argue, even in a good natured way over our individual knowledge base- an answer to the other's question is as good as gold. We've never discussed this, but I know he's feel the same.



• Last phone call I received: "Kevin there's a snake in my house. Can you go do something about it?" One day my luck will run out and I'll get a call like that and grab a handful of black mamba some idiot collector let loose...



• Liam Neeson is almost always better as a strong character actor rather than lead.



• "Dad, want to swim over there and talk to those girls?" And then later as he drug a girl over to the side of the pool as she clung to her floaty, "I had to bring her over here to the side- she was getting water in her mouth."



• Two different people visiting other states have called me to report rain or in one case text me pictures of same.

Friday's Dispatch

In later life Emil Sitka would perform at weddings by saying, "Hold hands you lovebirds!" That. Is. Pretty. Cool.

• Impressionist does Shakespeare in 25 celebrity voices.


• Headlines are the billions of dollars, tonnage of food and the nations participating in relief efforts in East Africa. All associated articles should all be titled, Prolonging The Agony- A Lesson In Futility.


• Information here at War Is Boring related to the ATF operation to allow weapons to be transported out of the US to Mexico to track them and build cases against weapons smugglers. One of those weapons has now been linked to the murder of the former Chihuahua State AGs brother. I've said it when I mentioned this before, but man- some ideas should just sound so bad that they never take wings.


• I'm tired of my aquarium and intend to pawn it off on my friend when he gets back from vacation.


• Do Over- the title of the newest reality show where contestants plead their case to get a do-over for their lives biggest mistakes and disappointments.


• I made that up, but it will happen.


• I have autographed copies of books by Nguyen Cao Ky and Lam Quang Thi.

Wednesday's Digressions

My idea of a Hey Now. Dana Delaney.








• The Nixons- Sister.




• I think we all know we weren't made to be alone. Something that has interested me on this subject though is how especially true this is for males. As a hospice nurse I can assure you it's nothing for even the elderly female to outlive her husband by ten or twenty years- you rarely see a male do the same. The male by all accounts can be doing well until his wife expires and then he will die six months or a year after his wife. This is one of those non scientific observations I can say all hospice nurses have noted and I've never heard one argue the fact.




• Hospice nearly always comes out hopsice the first time.




• If living in an apartment I would definitely pay that extra fifteen bucks a month or whatever it costs to have covered parking.




• In the right place and from the right distance a garbage truck dropping a dumpster sounds like a VBIED going off at a distance. I was never hit by one, but heard and saw a lot- why I take note of the similarity in sound I suppose.

Monday's Missives

• Some time ago after a bunch of bills, having to buy a car, my contract work slowing down a little and a move etc. I found myself standing in a grocery store with my son having to decide between which was the cheapest of products, what would feed us best and the longest and tell him he couldn't have anything extra he asked for- I was ashamed. But really, I knew it would be very temporary and things could have been way worse. The first thing I thought was, there are people who have to make these decisions every day and not only those, but do I pay this bill or that? Do I eat or buy my medicine?



• I'm OK with being bald, but would like to have had great hair, I think it helps you a lot socially.



• Goatee, soul patch, Fu Manchu, chin beard and shaved in the middle mustache with two ends left (whatever that is called): different permutations of facial hair I've had through the years.



• The Crystal Method Keep Hope Alive.