Category Archives: Ramblings
Payback’s a bitch…oh…wait…that’s not right…
I live and work in a very large metro area…the Dallas area in point of fact. Locally known as the “Metroplex”, or in our more irritable moments, the “Metromess”. With more than 100,000 new folks a year moving to the … Continue reading
No, we are not. Not. A. Single. One.
She froze like deer in the headlights as I approached. Panic, fear, and a paralyzing indecision were clear in her eyes, overwhelming reason and any possible call to action her brain might conjure up. I owned this woman at this … Continue reading
Tools
I didn’t need one last week. See, it’s simply a tool…kind of a “jack of all trades” tool…like a Crescent Wrench…used for a lot of things it can “competently” do…but there’s better tools for the specific job. Now, it’s a … Continue reading
Making the world a weirder place
2/19/2018: Pretty certain he’d worked out that the logistics of TXDOT deploying stop cables at my command were at best, *improbable*. Continue reading
Mis-firings…
1/23/2018: Great. Cheating on my diet, naked, with no icing and no flavor. Continue reading
Damn rabid weasels…
Hang with me…there’s weasels… So I had to vote today…last day of early voting here in Texas and I’m working the election Tuesday…and as I walked in…I was still undecided on the presidential candidates. Every last one of them has … Continue reading
Mmmm…munchies.
Stumbling in after a hard, late run I joined the wife in the living room watching the late news. I kissed her, grabbed handful of snack crackers out of the bag on the coffee table, and popped one in my … Continue reading
You have NO idea…
While I was cleaning out the wife’s old car and putting the junk in the new one…I reached under the driver’s seat and…pulled out a coil of rope with a block and tackle and pulleys…small, elaborate thing…1/4″ line…and hooks…I’d never … Continue reading
A Wonderful Life
June 6, 2012
One moment there, the next he was gone
His shell now empty, his spirit free to carry on. Continue reading
Scars on top of scars…
“You’ve paid some dues in your life, haven’t you?” He was just trying to make conversation, but it still was a bit awkward. After all, I was laying face down on a table and he was carving on my butt … Continue reading
