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One more step.
Mom’s doctor appointment Thursday afternoon was a bust. He was the referral from the GP so the next step in the process, I guess. He was a ‘rods, screws, and pins’ surgeon. Mom has two cracked ve...
Sorting out.
I’ve got the kitchen sorted out and stocked up for at least a week or two. I renewed my Arizona ID card and library card. When I was at the library today I perused the used books for sale shelve...
1180 miles West, again.
4pm. 74 degrees here. 28 degrees back home. Daughter hasn’t called yet. Probably because she knows I’ll laugh at her. Anyway, the flight was good. Only a half hour late landing. The plane had to ...
Perfect timing.
6:36am. 26 degrees with a wind chill of 17 degrees here. 50 degrees there. Everything is on track, so far. Yesterday morning I walked to the library. There was a thin glaze of ice on the sidewalk...
Getting 'er done!
Okay, okay, okay. Yesterday was a productive day. I got everything picked up, packed up, and piled up. I got my carry-on packed. I may need to re-pack it to make sure there is nothing extra in th...
So what.
10am. 13 degrees here, 52 degrees there. Three more days here. I haven’t gotten anything done except sit here and think about all I need to do. I called Mom last evening to tell her when my fligh...
No motivation.
Well, I guess it’s something to look forward to. It is 21 degrees here with a wind chill of 7 degrees and snowing a bit at 10:39am. It is 52 degrees with a high of 68 degrees predicted in the des...
Dammit.
Daughter returned from her Mum’s yesterday saying her Grandma had called. I was to call her back. I tried her cell phone. Got shunted to voicemail. Called her house phone. She said she’d just g...
Just like every day.
I’m losing track of time or losing my mind or maybe a little bit of both. I know things are written down as they occur, here and elsewhere, but I’ve never gone back to look. So it was last night ...
I got nothing.
After my coffee this morning and finishing the last book- “The Great Divide” by Joseph Stiglitz I thought it would be a good idea to take advantage of the weather. I got dressed for the first ti...
A sad day.
Saturday morning I woke up to the smell of coffee. It was 9am. I went downstairs and found Daughter sitting at the dining table going through her receipts. I castigated her for sitting in the glo...
Somewhat busy.
Friday the washer and dryer were installed on the back porch. The set is a matching Frigidaire set. No fancy electronics, just the old fashioned buttons and knobs. Daughter helped me carry them i...
A new year?
Well, well, well. The human species survived another of its self proclaimed ‘years’. Me? Since I’m on Level 57 I don’t really give a shit. Just another day. Just another year. Daughter and her b...
Pratfall.
It finally stopped raining. In about forty-eight hours we received about eight inches of rain. But luckily the wet part of the cold air system that dumped frozen precipitation on Texas and Oklaho...
Picking scabs, again.
I woke up to rain and thunder yesterday morning. It is still raining and thundering today. Over an inch of rain has already fallen. Christmas was good here. There was a good dinner and good comp...
I dunno.
We’ll add five more afternoons for the walks for Liam Dog and I since my last entry. There has been beautiful weather. Warm and dry. This morning I woke up to overcast skies. But it is warm. I f...
Out & about!
I actually got out of this chair. For the last four afternoons in a row Liam Dog and I went out for a long walk. There were sunny skies and it was in the fifties. Nice. We walked this way and the...
Stuck.
Thanksgiving was good. It was the daughter’s first time to cook the bird. It turned out great. She also cooked a ham in the crockpot. And everything else was homemade by her and her mother. I mad...
Squirrel door.
Odd coincidence on the interwebs today. Two different over the road trucking vlogs I follow on the youtube posted today from Amarillo. Well, one was heading East from, but the other drove right t...
Enculturation
”you don’t pour my cereal” Definition: You don’t know me, you don’t know what I do, you haven’t lived my life, you don’t know my struggles nor trials and tribulations http://www.urbandictionary.c...
Nap time?
I finished reading “Escape Velocity” by Charles Portis. It was a collection of various writings. Good stuff. I’m trying to give up the chocolate puffed rice cereal (generic Coca Krispies) for br...
Rusting away?
I’ve finished reading “Seeing” by Jose Saramago and “The Robber Bride” by Margaret Atwood. There is a subplot in “Seeing” that was made into a movie. I wish the main plot would’ve been made into ...
Rambling on?
I started reading science fiction about fifty years ago. For the longest time I had always thought that things should be better on this planet than what reality was showing. And then I learned ab...
Let's add this.
First I’ll add an addendum to my last entry: It was rather odd that I stumbled across that interview last evening. I don’t think it’ll be aired for the mainstream media. It’s probably not anythi...
Regret?
Yeah, I’m regretting not going for the thru-hike now. Every morning I take my first cup of coffee and go out to the front porch with Liam Dog I think what a great morning in the woods it’d be. Oh...
