I do not have a million dollars to give away. I also do not care for hypothetical, silly questions, with absolutely no relation, to things I can, or cannot do.
I have better things to do with my thinking.
Like, where are my keys?
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Life Strategies
Right now, motorcycles, booze, and shooting pool at the local bar. Oh, and staying away from the news as much as I can.
The Felonious Orange is such an idiotic jackass, a back street level grifter, who made the big time, who somehow has won over the less capable of rational thought, in droves. So much so, they not only tolerate his antics, and his crimes, but in some weird way they worship the frigging idiot.
So yeah, I need distraction, to avoid the Great Distraction, that is this so called presidency. It’s either that, or I’m headed for the Great Depression, not the economic sort, but that may yet happen too. The Great Distraction, all the bullshit we see the Orange Felonious doing/saying, is simply a smoke screen to cover up the behind the scenes super grifting, the overwhelming assault on immigrants/brown people by the Nazi-fied ICE types, him doing his best to pretend he’s a tough guy, and the simultaneous dismantling of our democracy. Never, has this country been as low as it has stooped, at this moment in time.
I need distractions.
An old musician friend/accomplice of mine stopped by on his bike yesterday. I rolled mine out and we went for a ride. Wound up stopping at an old bar, that the band we used to play in was pretty much a house band at. We played that place a LOT. Kept butts out of the seats and on the dancing floor we did.
There weren’t many people there, but in conversation we mentioned we used to play here quite a bit, and some patrons remembered us! One guy actually ran home, and grabbed an old picture of us playing, and brought it back to show us. Talk about a Glory Days* moment. A pleasant distraction.
Good distractions, to avoid the Great Distraction, and the pilfering of our country, are fine by me. I highly recommend you find some good distractions too, while we see how this ride we are on pans out. With any luck the snarling, red hat, nimrod base, may go woke, or implode, or something.
* Song, Glory Days, The Boss, otherwise known as Bruce Springsteen.
I Know This One
Cribbage. It requires thought, a bit of skill, a bit of strategy, and a fair bit of luck. It’s a great game.
My great uncle Leo, may he R.I.P. was a POW in WW II. He learned the game from the Brits he was with in the concentration camp. He taught me how to play when I was kid.
Back when I was doing a lot of deep river diving, it required wearing a computer to keep up with your down time/depth/and nitrogen saturation. You spend much time down there and you have to decompress. When you time it right you can decompress sitting in the boat. But if you spend too much time down there, then you have to decompress hanging off your line in 10 feet of water, until the computer tells you you can go to the boat. I tried to not to get to that point, but there were a few times I had to be punished hanging from my line at 10′ for 20-30 minutes.
I hired a couple boat tenders over the years. They had to pull the bags in, sort the shells, and prep gear for the next dive. They also had to learn how to play cribbage. My decompression downtime in the boat, was hot and boring as hell. So, I started bringing a cribbage board and a deck of cards to pass the time. By the time I’d have lunch, and play a few games of cribbage, the computer would let me make another dive. I don’t do the deeper river diving anymore, I work the lake these days. No worries of decompression in water less than 32 feet. The deeper river shells are poorer quality, and the buyers prefer the lake shell, and I don’t miss the river digging. So, I’m fine with that. I haven’t got to go diving yet this year dammit. I came down with a retracted eardrum in the spring, and can’t get in the water till it recovers. Yeah, I’d never heard of it either!
I still get my cribbage fix though. There’s a site called Cribbage JD. It’s the best cribbage game I’ve found online. I’ve got it on my phone, so anytime I’m waiting for the wife in the store, or at the Dr. office, or have a few minutes of time, I’m playing cribbage.
Anybody that wants their butt kicked at cribbage, let me know 😉
One of my old boat tender guys, went on to become a math teacher. He used cribbage to teach kids how to do quick math in your head. Sadly he passed away a couple years back. There a moment one day, when he said to me, “have you ever noticed the beauty in the numbers with this game?” I kind of looked at him funny, and replied “no, not really.” I was more strategy focused, and didn’t see what he meant. It was maybe a year ago, it hit me. I finally saw what he meant. I wish I could tell him that…
Music?
Rock. Classic Rock. Southern Rock. If it rocks, I probably like it.
Unless it’s Punk Rock. Nope. Music should go places. Take me somewhere, then move me someplace else, then bring me back again. Repetitive riffs/lyrics that just pound, pound, pound, over and over again, bore me.
Don’t care much for the way rock music has trended since the 80’s. I can appreciate the technical aspect of the tapping thing, but the guitar tone took a huge hit to make that trend possible. It’s been digitized, pedal-ized, effect laden, saturated with some of the absolute worst sound I’ve ever heard, just so those guys can pull off those fancy pants licks. I can’t get past the tone, to really like what they do. It’s horrible. Yes, I’m the dreaded, Tube Amp Tone Snob! Shoot me.
Don’t get me started on rap. If guitar tone has been dumped in the shitter, and it has, the insidious digital noises rap uses, combined with an endless, repetitive, mono tonal, “beat,” absolutely drives me up the wall. I’m talking, if you want my bank codes, my children, the clothes on my back, or want everything thing in this world I may know, put me in a room with loud rap, and I’ll sign the paperwork in less than 5 minutes. I can’t get past the, “what passes for music,” to be able to even attempt to appreciate what they are saying. Maybe it’s got something going for it there, but I’ll never know. I’d be institutionalized, if I had to listen to that endless repetitive beat for very long. Nope, can’t do it. It ain’t worth the straight jacket. My health matters.
I love music. I have a musical brain. It loves music. It loves to listen, it loves to play. I’m a musical creature. But I certainly have limits to what I can appreciate, in music.
Probably just another old man yelling at clouds…
Just Three?
Well, the Lord of the Rings trilogy knocks out three in one fell swoop.
Catch 22, is one that had a long lasting impact on me.
Read a lot when I was a kid. I was a voracious reader, couldn’t get enough. My neighbors were an old couple, and the woman had a huge collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs books. I was able to borrow them 3-4 at a time and I read through them like a wildfire through dry tinder. Tarzan, Pellucidar, John Carter of Mars (all of these are series of books, not just one,) and many more. I read through them all, probably three times at least.
Read a lot of Stephen King, and Koontz books too. So many…
Last, but not least, for lack of anything new within my grasp to read, I read the Bible. If there’s anything in this world, that can change the lives of many people, it is this book. Nope, I didn’t become a slobbering, delusional, believer. This book made me realize, it’s all bullshit. For the book when you read it, differs greatly from the stories you hear at the pulpit. It’s an excellent sleight of hand, the way a preacher can take vile acts of rape, murder of innocents and children, incest, demands of obedience or else, mass killings on a global scale, an idiotic timeline of creation, the horrid tale of Job among other things, and then mangle it all into some sweet syrupy, children’s tale of love and happiness? And, oh by the way, “we need money!” Take all of that, then add it to the “what they say vs. what they actually do,” pile. (Yeah, you know what I’m talking about,) things start adding up in a negative way. Pay attention. Do the math. Take your time.
I don’t read as much anymore. Life changes when you have adulting to do. Long weary days of work, and the often unwilling indulgence, in many daily necessities, doesn’t exactly induce a huge desire to read at the end of the day. But I do remember being lost in so many books, with great appreciation.
I hope you do too.
Leader or Follower?
I’m a doer. You can get the hell out of the way, or you can help.
10 YEARS…
Probably dead, or in a Felonious Orange prison. The king you see, does not like non boot lickers, and non knee benders. I just don’t have it in me to be an ass kissing sycophant. Integrity, it won’t buy you a cup of coffee, but I sleep well at night.
Eventually they will get around to guys like me. Lots of immigrants and brown people to go yet, then lots of gays/trans to go after. Quite a few judges, honorable generals, good prosecutors, etc, to dislodge/repatriate. But the jack boots will get around to me sooner or later.
This post is about 50% tongue in cheek, 25% I really hope I’m wrong, and the other 25% has already cleaned the guns.
Easy
That an orange tinted, lying, thieving, raping, convicted felon, con man, does not a good POTUS make.
Movies and TV Series
I’ve watched more than 5 times? Hate to admit it, but Star Trek ToS. I watched the hell out of that show when I was a kid. At least 5 times through. I still watch it lol. Pluto has it’s own Star Trek channel, and it’s a free app. When I’m surfing, and all of my TV options are things I have no interest in, or have seen already, I tend to drift to Pluto. Star Trek, MST 3K, Tosh.0, Gunsmoke/westerns, a live comedy channel, Dr. Who, if all I could get was Pluto for entertainment, life wouldn’t be all that bad.
Lord of the Rings. I read the trilogy as a kid, amazing story that stands the test of time. What surprised me with the movies was, the accuracy. So many movies lose the gist of the book that spawned them, and leave out important details, or add unnecessary fluff. Not the case with this one. I’m always amazed how well the movies followed the books with this series.
Another childhood show I had to have gone through at least 5 times, Gilligan’s Island. When I got home from school, Gilligan’s Island came on, immediately followed by Star Trek ToS. So I had a TV afternoon escape thing, right after school. Still had plenty of time to go outside and do kid stuff, and get my homework done after supper.
Another childhood show y’all, The Munsters. Yep, I still watch that one too, from time to time.
Alien. The first one. Had to have seen that 5 times. Also Predator. Both good movies. Oh, The Riddick series of movies. Good shit right there.
One of the best movies I have seen in a while, I caught just recently. The Gorge. Saw it a couple weeks back, I’m jonesing to watch that again, I don’t know yet if it will meet the 5 times category, but it might. If you have not seen it, and you like a good story with plenty of action and a wee bit of a love tale, I recommend it highly.
There’s more I’m sure that haven’t come to mind as I write this. Soon as I hit “publish,” I’ll remember. 😉
People?
Musicians, motorcycle riders, old divers like me, and anyone with the same particular political opinions, and general outlook on life.
You don’t usually find all of that in one package. But I can make do with the right general mix.
Also, my WP blog friends figure into my acceptable friends niche. You know who you are. 😉 If distance was not an obstacle, we’d be hanging, riding, drinking, enjoying good food, and each others company. I often think there should be such a thing as a WP convention, held around the states, at different places, and dates.
We’d probably to be able to catch each other sooner or later…
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