Also it sounds like John Stamos and the Beach Boys (what's left of them anyway) are playing golf course out by @snowcraig2.0 ahead of their concert tonight.
Random Thoughts 18: The Year of Fire
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This has been 100% my experience...for the last decade. I guess having a voice creates job security.
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Number 17 has absolutely been my life the last few days (but on the receiving end). And it makes me lose my train of thought. Frustrating.
My dad used to tell me that you choose your friends but not your family. His way of saying I didn't have to hang out with family and relatives once I was grown up. Also his way of justifying not speaking to his brother for decades. And I mostly did not do much family interaction until I got older and nieces were sort of grown up. Still, I do have to avoid politics with the kids but not with my sister. Sis is sort of a disfranchised fiscal conservative old school GOPer. The kids are generally okay but super religious and way paranoid and bigoted about anything "gay". Even mystifies my sis a little that her kids are so touchy about it.
Man, not cool and 100% ********. Little older than 9-10 but I took a fastball in the face in Little League and badly broke my nose. Rick, the pitcher, felt bad about it decades later when we talked about it during a class reunion. Was 100% accidental, no ballfield lights, getting dark and playing with a somewhat dirty ball. Imagine if he had been told to throw at me?
Likely "disappoint" but not shock. A lot of those bastards should not be allowed anywhere near a position of authority or influence with kids.
I've been told that RUM BROOKLYN is in the house!!
So I was re-reading Stephen King's The Stand. In the book there is a character named Glen Bateman who is an old retired professor of sociology. Other characters regularly call him "old man" and "baldy". He is plagued by pretty bad arthritis. He was played in the 1994 mini-series by an 80 year old Ray Walston. So the day after my 57th birthday, I am on about page 1,000 of this 1,100 page novel and his character says something to the effect of, "I'm way too old for this, I'm 57."
WTF?!
You can tell the book was written by a much younger Stephen King than he is today if he paints a 57 year old as some decrepit old man........At least that is what I tell myself...
I looked it up and King would have been 31 when The Stand was originally published in 1978.
WTF?!
You can tell the book was written by a much younger Stephen King than he is today if he paints a 57 year old as some decrepit old man........At least that is what I tell myself...
I looked it up and King would have been 31 when The Stand was originally published in 1978.
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Big thunder boomer just rattled the windows in the house. Lazy boy Boxster notes laptop on his lap is plugged into wall charger. Unplugs laptop. 
Was out at Big Creek this morning for about 2 to 2.5 hours, fishing from shore. Out of the four of us fishing, one of us caught a sunny. It was warm, it was muggy, glad there was a stiff breeze for the last hour or so. And even though I didn't catch the sunny, I did enjoy myself.
Husband has a softball regional semi to call tonight at WDM Valley this evening. Hopefully the humidity calms down a bit before that.
Husband has a softball regional semi to call tonight at WDM Valley this evening. Hopefully the humidity calms down a bit before that.
I'm at a small town bar. They have a tobacco license, $10 a pack
I'm at a small town bar. They have a tobacco license, $10 a pack
That would be an average price in MN (had to look out of curiosity). We have a high tax on it of $3/pack, NE is only 64 cents.
Man, there are too many “princesses” among middle school to young women. Growing up there was some drama but snide remarks to random strangers and chewing out their parents in public just didn’t occur. If it did, the parents squashed it quickly. Not anymore.
I also thought things were fast paced on the coast, service out here makes me long for Iowa. Sometimes you gotta leave to appreciate where you are from.
I also thought things were fast paced on the coast, service out here makes me long for Iowa. Sometimes you gotta leave to appreciate where you are from.
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