26 Jly 2018

JUST A LITTLE hung over here after OFFICIAL staff function celebrating entry 500. Now 501 begins as we march steadfastly and purposefully towards 1000. Odds are it WILL HAPPEN …

The media circus has gone from the 3-ring variety of 19th & 20th century now to the ‘multi-venue theater’ of the absurd.

Think like Cinemark 16 theaters many showing movies, selling popcorn & sugar-loaded ‘big chokes’ 24/7 to feed those so starved.

The masses seem to be gobbling it up.

Or perhaps it is my imagination. I mean how could one see, count or observe those of us that are shutting down and tuning out all of that garbage ?

I perused the news as I often do prior to putting fingers to keyboard and truly and honestly I did not know NOR could I decide to stick my finger as far down my throat as I could or just start drinking myself to Oblivion as in IDaho or is it in IowA ? Either one is bad news.

I see the little creep will be returning to talk about the Walking Dead for season 9. Is THAT still even on? What kind of walking deadbeat is actually WATCHING ? So old.

Do you or I care what Prince Harry & Princess Sparkle Markle are up to OR ANY of the royals for that matter? Let them go on vacation in peace. Better still, ride into the sunset.

After the quick scan of ‘stories’ and advertisements, I am beginning, just BEGINNING to think THEN realize that the number of people living here on this PLANET but WITHOUT a LIFE must be STAGGERING.

For instance, Let President Trump do his job. The MAJORITY of the People elected him just like the process was designed to do. The media FREAKS whose undergarments continue to be in a wad due to the embarrassment of ‘missing the call’ are going to be as unrelenting as the Walking Dead. They are just going to keep coming & coming & coming up with more dirty garbage.

CORRECTION:

I have erroneously mentioned the name of Matthew Pearl’s previous book as ‘The Bookaneer.’ This is wrong. The title is ‘The Last Bookaneer’ so I stand corrected on that. I HATE to have errors lurking. BTW I started it the day after finishing the Hubble biography as I told someone I was going to take a couple days off from reading.

LIAR !

OK. So shoot me.

But it sounded so good and started with a bang I am now ‘into it.’ OK, 14 pages worth. I need to get thru the first 100 pages or so to get the pace.

I had a very difficult night sleeping. I went to bed early and everything was cool. The ac was running well and I fell asleep on top of the sheets as I often do.

TMI … por favor

Well, it got too cool as it does and as I tried the slip under the sheets, the slippery, satin jobbers got stuck or hung-up not allowing me to do so on the first, second or even third attempt. I got angry and muttered an expletive something like ‘Mother of Pearl’ losing both my temper and composure and then having trouble falling back to sleep.

So I read for a bit, said prayers and when I finally did fall back to sleep, guess what ? Bad dream.

This cycle REPEATED 2-3 MORE times and then I overslept hurrying to turn everything off at 6:18.

DREADFUL, just dreadful.

SO WHAT’S THE MORAL OR REST OF THE STORY ?

IDK. You’ve been visiting here over 500 times, what do YOU THINK?

I KNOW, how about ‘Thou Shalt NOT anger’ OR ‘Keep thy composure’ or ‘maintain thy temper.’

Just pick one & run with it.

I was listening to local baseball team last night on radio as long as I could. This year YOUR Tx Rangers can be located somewhere between pathetic and pitiful. I was thinking right now one of thee most difficult jobs on the planet has to be a Ranger announcer. The night before they we up 10-2 over Oakland and ended up losing 11-10 in extra innings.

I mean I just might have to dial back in the Down East Wood Duck aka the DEWDs (pronounced ‘dudes’). Hilarious. Go Woodies !!

I got to go.

Time for the second afternoon dip. Then to the garage aka Studio I for some heavy painting. Got some bases to finish up.

Had a good ride this morning. A slight distance measuring malfunction as I reset the trip monitor late but I had LOTS of time and figured it out. I was 2.8k (off) into the ride when I got it going and will not do THAT again. A fast ride and off tomorrow and same distance Saturday morning and the long killer ride on Monday for the next REAL test.

Big day tomorrow with errands running around. The printer, the rental property, some supplies but not many. Some reading, painting, splash time.

This may do it for the dog days of July.

The next time we get together look for the dog days of August IOW kind of more of the same but different.