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Another year gone.
The year in summary form. No airline flights. Two 3200 mile road trips. One west and north, the other east. Months upon months sitting in my chair under the A/C and reading. More than a few month...
It finally happened.
My ten year old laptop (or software?) gave out. I did a restart for an AVG update and when it got finished my password login wouldn’t work. I’m locked out of my own machine. Technology sucks. Now...
Still treading water.
I finished reading “419” by Will Ferguson. A nice little novel. I guess it would fall under the “suspense” sub-genre. Not something I’d normally pick up and read, but it was the next in my pile b...
Just ask the question!
Just one question. Probably the only question the 180 million people who didn’t vote for the dumbass want to know. I can picture it. A room full of reporters. Some of them on air live or online l...
A new mantra.
I finished reading “The Reckoning” by John Grisham yesterday. A nice little twist at the end of the story. That’s 24 books read for the year, so far. Today, after my morning coffee, I headed out ...
Getting caught up?
Anyway. It’s been three weeks since I’ve felt like scribbling. It’s been three weeks since we’ve been back in the desert. We left the Ozark’s on October 10. We drove to Oklahoma City. We had dinn...
Captain Trips?
Daughter slept most of the day Saturday. In the evening we went out for a walk on the city’s Greenway Trail. An hour or so into the walk Daughter started feeling puny. We turned around and headed...
Finally made it.
We spent one last night in the far northern Texas Panhandle and then packed up the car, filled the gas tank and headed east to Oklahoma City. We got there without incident, checked in and unloade...
On the road, again.
I’m currently ensconced in a La Quinta in the far northern Panhandle of Texas surrounded by wind turbines. Mom has spent the last two nights staying with her oldest granddaughter and her family i...
Ready to go, again.
I’ve got the alarm set for 6am tomorrow. I hope I wake up before it starts going off. I’ll put on a pot of coffee and start loading the car and getting all the outside stuff put inside. I think i...
Exactly one decade.
That’s right. Exactly ten years to the day since the factory closed and I’ve been unemployed. No big deal. I don’t miss it at all. Tomorrow it is supposed to cool off to the high nineties for a ...
Unexpected rant.
Friday and Saturday it was too hot to go to the pool. Yeah, 111 degrees. I did manage to make it this morning. By noon it was 100 degrees and I’d had enough. When it is this hot I wear my sea str...
People of walmart.
A very decent day. Midnight to 8am, sleep. 8am to 10am, coffee and more novel reading. 10am to noon, walking in the pool. Noon to 12:30pm, shower and a quick lunch. 12:45pm to 2:30pm, hanging aro...
A dreaded anniversary.
I made it through today. Mom didn’t mention the obvious and neither did I. Life goes on.
Barefoot in hell.
I can’t really remember the last time I’ve scribbled an entry. But I have kept up with remembering the books I’ve read since the last time I’ve scribbled in here. Book #16 for the year was “The ...
More weather.
Thunderstorms with buckets of rain last night. 1.22 inches right here. 3 ½ inches in one hour over in Tempe. This morning at 8am it was only 80 degrees. By the time I got to the pool at 10:15am ...
A little bit of weather.
Last week was weather. Another all time high set for a day in 1995. Another day tying a record. Now twenty-one days this year over 110 degrees. A new record set for all time overnight high temp- ...
Still holed up.
I finished reading “Love In The Ruins” by Percy Walker. It was published in 1971 but could have been written this year. It was that prescient. It took me two full weeks to read it. It was book nu...
A little warm?
It was 115 degrees yesterday setting a new record high for the day by one degree. Today it was 116 degrees tying the high record for the day. Tomorrow is a forecast 115 degrees. The overnight low...
Too complicated?
I finished reading “The Doomsday Machine” by Daniel Ellsburg today. A good, but scary read. If you are a person that worries about small things in life this book will cure you of that annoyance. ...
Kids vs. cops!
I did make it to the grocery store on Sunday. I had a list and a fistful of coupons. Monday we were out early. First stop was the insurance office. Everything was quick and easy. Old car policy ...
Done with that bullshit task!
I finished reading “Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury. It was the last book in the pile by my chair. I had ordered three books from the library. Thursday I went to go pick up two ...
Looking up words.
One year ago yesterday here was a record high temperature of 118 degrees. Yesterday? Only 103 degrees. Supposed to be 108 today. Evil spawn. Look up each word. Decide then if it is applicable to...
Snafu.
I think it was Friday. Thursday? Anyway, an unusual day had occurred. A high temp of 82 degrees, a little bit of rain, and 88% humidity. That was our monsoon. Yesterday and today it was once aga...
Back to normal?
As we say in the real world, Drumpf got played like the dumbass he is. But this is Bizarro World now. Enough said. I can’t really remember the last time I scribbled in here. Maybe a week or so a...
