Well, It IS A Long Way From His Heart As They Say

My favorite nephews arm- pre whip stitch. Chicks dig scars though don't they? Let's hope that's true anyway.

Wednesday's Digressions

One of the combat patches I'm authorized to wear on my uniform. Cool huh? It's in my top 5 of cool unit patches- with 1 Cavalry Division probably my fave. Click to be enawesome-ated. Simply can't wait until I'm about 90 and I get herded out to the Memorial Day activities swallowed in my baggy desert camouflage uniform that my biceps and chest used to be literally busting out of- and there I sit in my wheelchair looking around sweetly confused at the little kids waving 4X6 inch US flags...

• I hardly ever have dreams about warfare or sex but, when I do they are invariably doozees. Last night I dreamed of prison sex- not sex right after getting out of prison or conjugal visits etc. but, I was in prison and could somehow sneak a woman in every night. It was the same woman every time and I think she was supposed to represent someone famous who was quite pretty. Sometimes she delivered pizza to the prison others she was dressed as a guard or a journalist to get inside. The rub except for the imprisoned part? I was married and the wifey would visit my cell and find the girl every time- then the whole charade would start over.



• Care to psychoanalyse? I'm sure Freud would have a field day.



• I can spell psychoanalyse correctly the first time but, never guard.




• There are 400 known planets outside our solar system.




• NASA is still forging ahead with plans to invade Mars. An independent group has recommended they forgo a return to our moon and concentrate on Mars, asteroids and a few other moons. In a way this is very cool- in a way it demonstrates everything that's wrong with our ability to prioritize. This is actually the definitive picture of that when you think about it really- two very expensive wars, an imploded economy, people falling over dead from diseases that should have been cured years ago, astronomical food and energy prices (when if our heads hadn't been so far up our butts for so long the first would be dirt cheap- the second nearly free.) but, instead they're being told to forgo a trip to the moon and instead go to Mars???




• Oh, they'll only need 3 billion more dollars annually to do it though.




• Grrrrr.




• One thing you may not have thought of though: the trip to Mars with present/envisioned tech will take two years. Because of this and exorbitant costs associated with resupply missions and amount of fuel that could be carried I can assure you if they are thinking straight- no one who goes can ever come back. Resupply missions will be one way with the craft being repurposed by the Martians.


• Barry, the Blogfather sez," I absolutely hate watching news footage of kids getting a vaccine." Interestingly- it warms my heart every time I see a child getting one or I give one myself. It never fails that I don't think something like because of that simple act, that child may live to ripe old age and not die of some miserable, preventable sickness before they even have a chance at life.

I Hope He Passed

because I would not want to live in a world where someone who did something this cool failed.

Tackily Cute

Halloween Missives

• This morning Zac and sister were fighting over a doll she was playing with first when he tried to draw me into their tangled web and officiate the struggle in his favor- of course. Instead I instead told him to,"Leave your sister alone and go play with your monkey." (his favorite toy monkey is what I meant).
• I asked him whether the same monkey was a boy or girl- he replied,"Both".
• A lot of adults are trick or treating these days- not just dressing up in the spirit of things and accompanying their children- They're going door to door and chanting,"Trick or treat smell of my feet..."
• Ridiculous.
• Contains: Milk, Wheat, Soybeans and Peanuts
• Who would have guessed Twix bars are so healthy?
• I heard on the radio before we left that pedestrian strikes by cars go up 25% on Halloween night. As I left work without time to change out of my black scrubs.
• When I was little there used to be a lawyer who lived in a big, fancy house in Decatur TX who would hand out full size candy bars.
• A true American hero.
• God bless that man.
• That house is kind of dump now.
• There was also a little old lady who made those popcorn and caramel balls for everyone. She would still hand stuff out into her 90s.
• Giver her a double helping of blessing God.
• When I was young all the black people lived on the other side of the tracks. Every year my dad would take us over there trick or treating and I don't know why.
• Also, when I was little I made my own costume out of a sheet by draping a sheet over my head and pulling a sweatband down over my head and around my neck to make myself a toilet paper ghost like you make in class. My sister in law failed to see the humor and made me pull it up around my head so the sheet would still stay on but, I wouldn't strangle myself which she was sure would happen somehow. When running from some house we had just pranked it slid down my face and I couldn't see and ran right into a telephone pole.
• It was the first time I was ever knocked smooth out and still remember the gold colored stars (which looked more like lightning) swirling around my head afterwards.
• Spellcheck offers "pranged" as an alternative to pranked.
• I misspelled spellcheck- speelcheeck on the first try.
• One year my oldest and my nephew did Halloween together. That night without securing their bags I told them they'd had enough and went to bed. In the morning I figured out they had eaten after bedtime the equivalent of I'm sure easily 2 pounds of candy. It was something of a self limiting thing though- you would have had to put them at gunpoint to get them to touch any candy after that.
• For a couple of days anyway.

Quotable Notable

If at first you don't succeed- destroy all evidence you ever tried in the first place.