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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...
Back to reading.
Today is a perfect Fall day in the Ozark’s. It is sixty degrees outside and has been a drizzling, overcast day. I’ve finished reading two books: “The Selected Works of T.S. Spivit” by Reif Larse...
1180 miles East.
I had a window seat. But it was cloudy Thursday afternoon when the plane boarded. Rows twenty-five and higher boarded via the back stairs, up between the engines. When I got to my seat I found a ...
New baby girl!
As of October 6th there is a new member of the family. Isabelle Rose arrived at 5lb. 15ozs. That’s daughter number two for my youngest niece. There are two more babies due to arrive before this ...
Leftovers and news.
I snuck off a call to my sis-in-law last evening after Mom left to go play cards. My little brother is alright. It was just his thyroid acting up. It was chest pains several years ago that led to...
Lawyer stuff is done.
I had a good night at Rummikub Tuesday night. I won. It was a good game. The last day of September and the first day of October were both 106 degrees, one degree off the record high for both day...
Heading East.
Since last I wrote, I’m still sitting here. I did manage to go to the pool for a couple of hours right before sunset last evening. The thermometer in the shade said it was 105 degrees. I was able...
Old school.
It started raining last evening and the temperature dropped enough that we opened the windows last night. Haven’t really done much for however many days since I have done something. I’m still si...
Rummikub night.
Since yesterday evening was Rummikub night at 6pm and it was a cloudy afternoon only in the mid-nineties, I decided to go over to the pool for a couple of hours beforehand and then shower before ...
Desert rain.
At about bedtime last night the rain started. I love the smell of desert rain. It’s not going to cool things off by much. The forecast calls for below normal temperatures for the next week even t...
1180 miles West.
First thing I want to do is thank everybody for the notes of condolence left on my last entry. There really are good people hanging around this small space on the interwebs. A phone call from my...
The call.
Daughter just brought her phone upstairs and told me to call her grandmother. I called. Mom couldn’t talk. My Sis-in-law got on the line. My sister had died quietly. I’ll call Mom tomorrow. R.I...
Deathwatch.
Mom called last night. She wasn’t crying this time. My little Sis is now at ‘home’ in hospice care. She insisted that the feeding tube be removed before she left the hospital. She is surrounded ...
Accomplishments?
I guess you could say they’re accomplishments. I finished reading “Exposing Lies of the Empire” by Andre Vltchek. 800 pages that took just shy of three weeks to read. The author is amazing. I f...
A done deal.
No phone call yet. When I do get a call I hope it’s just an update. Daughter, finally, on her third try, made it completely through the line and the process at the license bureau. The van is now ...
Really bad news.
There was a phone call with Mom Tuesday evening. My Sis has been in and out of the hospital since starting her second round of chemotherapy. Complications of one sort or another. Now she has had ...
A walk!
Sunday morning upon awakening I fired up the laptop to see how Ronda’s fight went the night before. Yep, she knocked her opponent out in 34 SECONDS! She said she’d do it and she did. 12-0 right n...
Busy, kinda.
I know I’ve said I won’t talk about politics, but come on! Seventeen republican morons now in the race. And that fucking scumbag Trump leading in the polls? And Clinton obviously a corporate shi...
Overrated.
Another week has passed. A week in which I never changed out of this T-shirt and sweatpants. A week in which I never donned socks, shoes, or even my flip-flops. A week in which I never went outsi...
Too much time?
Friday the daughter and I went for a grocery run. We went by the credit union first and then to the square so I could drop off the last book. Daughter had her grocery list and I had a few craving...
Number crunching.
Last Saturday the daughter and I made a trip to Crackerville North, to her mother’s house. It was nice to be in the van on the highway again, even though I was in the passenger seat and the A/C i...
