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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...
The car lives on.
The car was finished at the mechanic’s Friday morning. $904 to replace a $30 thermostat. That was why the dash warning light was on. And I learned a few things while talking to the mechanic when ...
Life is not that complicated?
I had my little space put back together in an hour or so after we got back Friday. Mom piddled and fussed and fidgeted all day Saturday and Sunday. I went out first thing Saturday morning and fi...
Day 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20.
Before we left Bend we found a Columbia Sportswear outlet having a clearance sale in a big tent outside the store. We dove into the racks. Mom found a real nice pink fleece jacket for $20. I foun...
Day fifteen.
We turned right at Newport, OR. Highway 20 led east across the state. We drove across I-5. We drove across the Willamette river. We drove over the Cascades. We drove across the Pacific Crest Trai...
Day fourteen.
The drive up Highway 101 from Crescent City to Newport was beautiful and just as I remember from the first time I traveled that road forty-five years ago. After we checked into another La Quinta...
Day twelve and thirteen.
We were packed up and on the road at 7:15am. We were hoping to beat the rush hour traffic. We headed north on 280 and then 19th street through downtown San Francisco which then turned into Highwa...
Day ten and eleven.
I had planned on Highway 1 from Morro Bay to Monterey but it was closed to thru traffic until sometime in September. The only option to see it was to drive up to the closure, backtrack back down ...
Day eight and nine.
We checked out of the motel in Thousand Oaks/Newbury at 10am. A pleasant four hour drive brought us to the next motel in Morro Bay. Emma Pennyworth (the GPS) only got lost once, in Lompoc. We wer...
