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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...
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...
