Neogy Titwhistle

"I could perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principle design was to inform you, and not to amuse you."

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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January 16, 2016

Dammit. in A small but passable life.

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...


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 ...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


December 11, 2015

I dunno. in A small but passable life.

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...


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...


December 02, 2015

Stuck. in A small but passable life.

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...


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...


”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...


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...


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 ...


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...


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...


November 04, 2015

Regret? in A small but passable life.

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...


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...


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 ...


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 ...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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