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Visiting graves.
Yesterday morning while be-bopping around the interwebs I stumbled upon a website, findagrave.com. I took the bait. The first data field I filled in was for my paternal grandfather. And within a ...
Greatest show on Earth!
A shitshow that is. The thing I’m amazed about is that no one seems to realize that there are no “best” friends of neither him nor her coming to the defense of character. There are spouses and ch...
Pondering, again.
The weather has finally turned Fall-like. The first day of Fall was a ninety degree day. Now it has cooled off into seventy degree days. And the nights are now cooling off. The last several morni...
September 18, 2008. Eight years.
Yesterday marked the eighth anniversary of this current bout of unemployment. Eight years since the factory closed and I clocked out for the last time. The plan was to max out the twenty-six week...
A rough week.
It’s been a rough week. A year ago September 5th was when my little sis died. She’s been in my thoughts quite a bit. So, I’ve tried to keep busy. A week ago, Saturday before last, I found an ema...
That plan, again.
Liam Dog and I were up earlier than usual yesterday, before 9am. I put on a pot of coffee and got dressed in street clothes, getting ready to actually go somewhere. After one cup of coffee we too...
Finished the book.
After I posted the last entry I realized that I’d forgotten about Tuesday, when the youngsters took me out to eat for my birthday at our favorite hometown barbeque place. Delicious. I finished t...
New show.
This feels strange to be scribbling an entry at nearly 11pm but if I turn on the laptop in the morning I usually end up wasting the whole day by not being able to turn it off. Anyway, last Friday...
Testing mental acuity.
Sunday night I set the alarm clock in my head and went to bed at the usual midnight. 7:32am I was awake. It seems as if the mental acuity is off a couple of minutes, but still functional. I got u...
I found this amusing.
Just the three of us.
Tomorrow morning marks a week that we’ve been left at home. We as in Liam Dog, Asscat, and I. The youngsters took off last Friday morning for a week or so in Colorado. They are on a mission. Les...
Three months now.
I really need to stop thinking about this upcoming election. An election with the two worst candidates in American history can have no good outcome. The weather continues to be hot and humid. T...
Welfare for grocery stores?
Let’s throw some truth out there. Total SNAP benefits in 2014 were $74.1 billion, benefiting some 46.6 million people with an average of $125.35 for each person per month. Never mind the people w...
Still alive.
What I would really like is to step outside into fifty degree weather. It has been six months since I’ve experienced that. I miss it. It has been very hot and humid here. Today may be the first o...
Still reading.
All is quiet here in this, the second whitest city of its size in the USA. Cops haven’t shot any unarmed people here in a couple of years. And that poor guy lived, rolling away in a wheelchair wi...
Storm is a brewing.
I tried to get an early start again yesterday but failed. I mean 8:30am wasn’t too late but I was trying for 7am. I went down and put on a pot of coffee and fed Asscat. When Liam Dog and I went o...
Such is life.
I decided to try something different today. Yesterday I didn’t roll out of bed until noon. So pathetic. There was no need for that twelve hours of sack time. I wasn’t finished with my ‘morning’ c...
Daydreaming.
I did get the front lawn mowed Wednesday. And then it started storming and raining which has continued since. Four days now, off and on. 1.17 inches in the last seven days. The back yard. The cle...
Settled routine?
I’m still reading the summary of philosophy book. It’s amazing to realize that most thinkers had the whole thing figured out long before the big three Abrahamic religions were fabricated basicall...
Stupid humans?
The number one google search in Great Britain the day after the vote was “What is the EU?”. Stupid humans. It took me three evenings to watch the thirteen episodes of season four of “Orange is t...
A brave new world?
There hasn’t been anything going on around here. It’s been hot and humid. Unusually hot. Liam Dog and I did manage two long walks. One on the 8th to the library to pick up the latest book, “End o...
R.I.P. USA
So, that’s where we are? A choice between a rich racist dumbass or a warmongering corporate whore? And just a reminder: 14 POINTS OF FASCISM Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism ...
A mission.
Liam Dog and I finally got out for a much needed walk yesterday. It was a short one, but nice. When we returned I got to work on the mower. I couldn’t find the roll of bailing wire so I found an ...
Mr. Handyman.
Liam Dog and I managed to get up and moving a lot earlier than usual this morning- 9am! We went downstairs and I put on a pot of coffee and put the pork roast in the crockpot. I did it my sis-in-...
Last day of May.
“He (Plato) concludes that as a species of image-maker the sophist belongs to those who deal in semblances. Their forte is in the construction of contradictions which, they freely admit, are inte...
