Gary: “I’ve worked nine of the last ten days. I’m taking the afternoon off.” Garbage Disposal Unit: “Today is a good day to spring a leak.”
Thoughts
February 6, 2021
Any day that starts with bacon has to be good… I start every day with bacon.
February 5, 2021
Today is a triple espresso + Mountain Dew type of day…
January 11, 2021
So Grammarly tells me it detected a new tone in my writing last week — ‘negative.’ Now I need to get started on ‘sarcastic’ and ‘antagonistic.’
February 6, 2020
That moment when … You go for a pee and after struggling for several moments you realize your boxers are on back to front.
July 7, 2019
For the Conspiracy Theorists – I recently showed Ginger the Tony Christie ‘Walk like a panther’ video on YouTube… a few days later it turned up in my suggested listening on Spotify … cue the ‘Twilight Zone’ music.Video: 4:44
December 31, 2018
My 2018 Top 100 on Spotify; it’s a tad eclectic. Brit Pop, Bluegrass, College Rock, Electro Pop, Folk, Jazz, Prog Rock, and Soul. One-minute read
June 24, 2018
Maybe I should stop taking pictures for a couple of years — That way I might be able to clear the backlog.
March 29, 2018
Following a successful field test with our old lounging hammock, I decided I could afford to buy a light-weight backpacking hammock, tarp, and under-quilt …
Four hours later the dishwasher died and we were mopping up a quarter inch of water from the kitchen floor.
February 13, 2018
The Unknown Joys of Cartography. Several years ago we made a map … One-minute read
January 27, 2018
That moment when a sharp pain in the groin wakes you in the middle of the night … And, upon investigation one discovers a cat’s claw (attached to a cat) embedded in one’s scrotum.
I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.
December 31, 2017
The “I can’t give a f**k” is strong in this one. — The struggle is real.
October 8, 2017
Connections and Degrees of Separation – You may have heard of the idea that all the people on Earth are six or fewer steps away from each other in a human chain of contacts. The “Six degrees of separation” theory, In June this year, I discovered I was three steps away from Che Guevara. Three-minute read, 3 pictures
August 10, 2017
Earlier this evening. New definition of incongruous. Brit driving an Impala through the Ozarks while loudly singing along with 1970s Canterbury prog. rock. #caravan #cunningstunts
August 29, 2015
That confusing moment … when driving home from Sedalia today I wondered when I was going to catch sight of the sea.
January 12, 2014
Musing on music to listen to, I remembered a haunting piece from the movie 2001. Lots of reading later I found it. (Music track on You Tube)
December 21, 2013
I may need more coffee… It just took me several seconds to realize the reason I couldn’t get my tee shirt on was because I had put my arm through the neck hole.
December 18, 2013
In the UK chimneys are swept from the bottom up. I might have expected things to be different in the Ozarks…
[Today I swept Tom & Rebbie’s chimney. Tom had an operation on his back a short while ago and doesn’t need to be climbing on roofs.]
September 16, 2013
It’s magic how much cleaner the house is now the adults outnumber the children. If we outnumbered the kittehs it’d be almost spotless.
September 7, 2013
I attended an ‘Active Shooter’ training session at church a couple of days ago, I think this should be filed under ‘Things I didn’t expect to learn/discuss at church’.