Monday's Missives

• Although it has been a while, I have read everything extant written by Julius Caesar. He was a very vivid but simple writer. He gets dinged for being self serving. Pfftht- so what. That is true of all writing by any general I can think of and he is way more interesting (and a better writer) than any I have ever read.
• For always comes out fro first when I am typing.
• Drive was  a surprisingly pretty good movie to me with great music although it had a terrible ending.
• I look forward to the next Judge Dredd movie which is supposed to happen soon.
• MIB is still good. It has aged real well. It will be a classic and people will still be watching it 50 years from now.
• A friendly acquaintance could not use her makeup to look more like a clown if she tried. A better friend should tell her. I wish you could see it- it is the only way you would believe it.
• Often I use pencils to write. Recently, I had been using a mechanical one that I presumed the eraser had been used up on as there was no eraser visible.  I used a broken wooden pencil- just for the eraser. That is- I used it until I looked on the side of the mechanical one and read the instruction, Twist For Eraser.
• Duh.
• Why pencils you ask? They never stop working, they won't burst in your pocket and they write from any angle. Also- I like the sound the lead makes as it scratches along the paper.
• It has been a long time since I built anything.
• It still amazes me that IEDs have not been used more often on US soil.
• I have been stationed at both Fort Jackson and Fort Hood which are named after two of my favorite generals.
• This draft was written in my notebook on 09/06/2013 @2335 in case you are keeping tabs.

Friday's Dispatch

 

• The US produces about a billion pounds of cheese every month.
• Recently a female showed me an incision line from a surgery, Since you know- you are a nurse and all... This is the second time (at least) this has happened to me and I may be forgetting a third.
• Dogs are incredibly expensive to keep.
• Yesterday (today is 04/15/2016) I went to visit a neighbor. As we walked through the breezeway to go up to her place I got a whiff of body odor which I somehow processed correctly I am very sure as not belonging to her. My interpretation: somebody else walked through the same area long enough in time prior to our passing through that we did not see nor hear them yet- they left a fog of stench behind that would gag a maggot on a gut wagon.
• Nasty.
• I went through a war and missed bathing only I think about 4 days and had to walk a couple hundred meters one way often in 120 degree to go wash my butt- but I did it. We can argue about a lot of things in life but there are just some things that civilized folks do and bathing regularly is one of them.
• A nursing buddy spent his formative years helping his dad who worked as a maintenance man on apartments and rental properties. Consequently, he can do just about any home repair you can imagine. I can guess back in the day he considered those times a whippin' but those experiences have paid off in ways he could not have ever guessed they would.
• What an interesting story Edward Lin's life was and how sad it is if spying allegations against him made by the US Navy are true. I mean- he literally butt raped an interesting and inspiring life story.
• Recently (today is 04/22/2016) I read an article about some heinous suicide bomb attack in some desert crap-hole. The tease said something like, Dozens killed and scores injured! When I actually  read the article 24 were killed and 40 injured so yeah, technically they were correct as 12 is a dozen and 20 is a score.

Thursday's Thoughts With Frankie And Johnny

• 03/30/2915 and I'm watching frankie and johhny for the first time. 
• I bet you have to be smarter than anybody gives credit to be a good short order cook.
• Its not the end of the world- one of my favorite sayings. Now that I've seen F And J if you say it to me I'll reply with a sly grin, Oh, I know- I've seen it.
• I loved Marvin Hamlisch when I was a kid.
• I was a weird kid.
• They mention mercurochrome. 
• Frankie just rubbed her hand across the rim of a dirty, nasty trash can in a nasty alley as she threw a coffee cup away- no way a real person would do that.
• I gather women like Nathan Lanes character.
• Nathan Lane ages well.
• There is a Club Med poster on her bathroom door. The medical detachment in my gaurd unit called their area Club Med and decorated it with flamingoes and palm trees.
• The symbolism when theyre making out behind the truck and the guy throws open the door of the truck was oddly ham fisted. 
• Something I read indicated that people of the time thought Pacino and Pfeiffer were too big for their roles.
• Its a nice movie
• The music is great.
• We were a couple before we met.
• Is handball still a thing in prisons?
• I wonder where Frankie's engraved bowling ball is now?
• Why would anyone pretend they were from Altoona?
• Its a potato. Very romantic.
• Aspirations. Have you been shaving again?
• Everything I want is in this room.
• The old trope of watching people across the way in other apartments is old and a trope but strangely effective.
• The end was an absolute trope and perfect.

Wednesday's Digressions

• Only recently I learned Lambo started as a tractor manufactuer. How did I miss that? They still make them and they're really cool looking and supposedly good.
• When I'm President of the World and money is no object I'll absolutely have a Lamborghini tractor to bale hay on my ranch.
• This morning 08/11/2015 I had the best crepes ever at IHOP. It was maybe the second or third time ever I did the, Send my compliments to the chef! thing. No, I didn't literally say that but you get the idea.
• U2 is playing on the overhead- wow, they are awful.
• On the way to work I heard Tupac singing about how he would be, a baller 'til he died.
• Man, would love to hear the music he'd be making now.
• This morning (08/14/2015) in the Walmarts somebody dropped a pallet on the floor. Holy smokes, it sounded like a gunshot for a second. I even got a little sick feeling from an adrenaline dump.
• There are two really pretty ladies working at the McDonalds I sometimes visit.
• Yesterday (08/18/2015) I saw a truck with a logo for a company named Stallion Trucking. The logo had a snorting bull. I wish you could have seen my, Huh?! face. I may have missed something but Stallion doesn't make us think bull- right?
• Cecil the lion made you a moron.

Monday's Missives

• Your unsolicited nursing advice for the day: Most of the time if left alone poison ivy lesions will self resolve. However if the areas are large, continue to spread, have warmth to them and/or are near your eyes, mouth or private parts you should see a doctor.
• It is 0708 on 04/04/2015.
• Today is opening day of Scarborough Fair. They are also having a big deal for Easter at Clark Gardens. There will be a sunrise service at the gardens tomorrow. 
• The sunrise this morning was really pretty- pinks, purples and finally gold. Nice.
• Winona Rider's character in Mr. Deeds mentions falling out of Boo Radley's apple tree and breaking her arm. Boo was a character from To Kill A Mockingbird.
• I have never read that book- should I?
• My guess, and it is baseless really is that it would be whippin' to try and finish.
• Long ago I said I would read War And Peace and have made multiple valiant efforts. I can slog my way through long, dense books but holy smokes- I felt like I had literally been beaten after reading some of it and gave up. People that knew me were surprised and recommended I try again and stick it out. I seem to recall it being recommended to watch one of the movies  based on it and read a Cliff's Notes first before reading the book but knowing all that makes it more of a beating. I feel beat down thinking about it now as I write this.
• Teachers back in my day would call it cheating if you used Cliff's Notes on a reading assignment. Instead, they should have been actively used in the class prior to the assignment if they really wanted the material to be enjoyed, absorbed, understood and retained. 
• It is weird the things we get wrong.

Friday's Dispatch

• I am in Ardmore OK after a road trip across a little of North Texas. It wasn't exactly epic or even all that fun. It was intended to be a longer journey Westward but my back started bothering me, I got lonely and simultaneously I saw an exit I recognized. After lingering a bit in El Norte de Tejas I ended up taking a back road to Ardmore as we all will someday I suppose. In a minute I'll walk to Prairie Kitchen and add to my arteries cumulative destruction.
• They have a big giant omelet there that comes with two sides. My omelet of choice is hamburger and cheddar cheese. For the sides I get hash browns and pancakes. It easily could feed two people. I don't know what it is called. I call it the Big Nasty.
• On the road yesterday I saw a guy walking down the service road parallel to the Interstate. He was wearing a motorcycle helmet that appeared to be painted silver although I couldn't be too sure as I declared judgment to be the better part of valor and steered well clear of him.
• Daisy Gardner is very attractive to me.
• To be more conversational and promote a comfortable environment when speaking to a patient in my office I sometimes recline my chair back a little and adopt a relaxed pose with my hands on the arms of the chair and my legs slightly spread. Recently two different people- one male and one female have checked out my package as I did so.
• The movie What Women Want is way better than I thought it would be which made me like it better than I probably should. It also has some great music.
• When I leave a hotel I always bag trash up in a shopping bag and drop it near the pile of towels I have also made to make the cleaners life easier.
• The cleaner in the motel I am at now is a guy, His name is Bob. He is Indian (the Patel kind).

Something I Have That You Do Not:

an eye tester light box thingy (excuse me for being so technical).