• Happy Birthday Beth!
• Andy is not joining me on my trip east. School schedule conflict.
• You’d think that the serious painkiller that they gave me for my toothache would also take care of my headache, but it’s not. Go figure.
• Dennis is in Florida with Gail and Robert. Have a great time my friend!
• I talked to Robert yesterday. I wish they were still local.
• I saw Joe’s new GF yesterday. Talked to her too. Wow.
• We’ll do dinner in Santa Fe on Monday and I will test her and see if I can make Joe squirm a bit.
• I was looking forward to the drive east with Andy but now I have to search out some audio books to entertain me both ways.
• Thinking of doing backroads on one leg of the journey. Kansas and Iowa are both nice states off the main highways.
• Better food too.
• NCIS reruns. Always a good watch no matter how old or how many times you’ve seen it. So few shows have that staying power.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too much, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late , get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We’ve added years to life, not life to years.  ~ George Carlin

httpv://youtu.be/bve6r9MybJM

This stuff is amazing.

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A couple of days ago one of my my teeth started to hurt. Bad. Loss of sleep bad. Tuesday night had me pounding down aspirin, Tylenol and fine whiskey to keep me from taking a pair of vise grips to the offending tusk. Being the big brave guy that I am, I hoped and prayed that the nerve would die and keep me from having to go to the dentist since I hate going to dentists. 

Today I went to the dentist but not to that sick bastard I used to visit. This dentist is a kinder, gentler type of dentist. Kinda like a hippie, pot smoking dentist that uses a calm voice and even tones to keep me from squeezing his testicles to liquid flesh as he probes my mouth with his instruments of torture.

The upshot of today’s visit is that I’m having 3 teeth pulled on Tuesday at about $300 per unit. Whatever happened to the time where you go in, he looks and makes tsk-tsk noises and just pulls the rotten crap outta your mouth? He gave me the usually lecture about my oral care, which I expected BTW, and then proceeded to tell me about my sleep apnea. Huh? He told me about how bad I snore. Me? Not according to Nina, who should know. And of course you can’t see any medical professional these days without the subject of my weight coming into play, but then I knew that was coming too. I should’ve liquified his balls for that one, just to keep in practice. Got some good drugs now though. I no longer hurt and I will sleep tonight.

I know, you all are in envy of me and my life.

Sometimes my greatest daily accomplishment is just keeping my mouth shut.

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11:25 is when she lands. Trouble is I have previous plans in the morning. Pilates, breakfast, driving somewhere . . . . doing . . . something with . . . Erin or Tori. I guess I’ll take Erin and bring her with me to Pilates and then see if I can squeeze Nina into my schedule after Pilates.

I’m sure that Erin would love lunch at the big Burger King.

Strange day yesterday. Poaching busts in the area with the game cops meeting here in the parking lot. Erin has a tendency to get paper cuts. I told her to stay away from knives. I’m contemplating a no check policy here. I know that at my bank if you have a checking account, you get a debit card. By not taking checks it will force them to use the debit card and eliminate the bounced check issue.

I’m thinking of taking my small trailer in when I head east at the end of the month. Still some stuff I want from ML’s place.

The police department in the small hill country town of Fredericksburg , TX who reported finding a man’s body last Saturday in the early evening in the Pedernales River near the state highway-87 bridge. The dead man’s name would not be released until this family had been notified.

The victim apparently drowned due to excessive beer consumption while visiting “someone” in Kerrville . He was wearing black fishnet stockings, 4 inch spiked heels, a red garter belt, a pink G-string, purple lipstick, dazzle dust on his eyelids, 2 1/2 inch false eyelashes and an Obama T-shirt.

The police removed the Obama T-shirt to spare his family any unnecessary embarrassment.

I wake up this morning to a couple state pickup trucks in my lot. Start my bath, take a leak, start my coffee and look out the window and see more state pickup trucks. Enviro people? Cops? Are they going to grade my parking lot?

I get dressed and wander out while my tub is filling. Everyone’s carrying sidearm. Must be cops but the vehicles aren’t right. “Good morning.” Scared the crap outta them, one even had his gun out and I’m sure if he fired he’d have hit one of his buddies.

Livestock and Fish and Game officers in some sort of joint operation decided that my parking lot was the perfect place to meet. Stupid people. One person from the village that would see them as the drive to work and the jungle drums start beating.

LE is always welcome on my place. I’ve told them before that they’re free to use the back area for meets, but they insist on doing things in plain view. It’s like they want the locals to be warned.

Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.

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Everyone remember to change your clocks? Spring forward, fall back. I forgot! I wish NM would join AZ in dumping this time change crap.

Erin

Should I pick her up?  Should I have Tori pick her up? Too early to make decisions. Last week we went hiking together, but she decided to wade in the waterfall and I had to drive a half naked kid home covered up only a towel. I wonder how that would have played out if the cops pulled me over for something.

Dennis

I heard from Dennis last night. He was parked at a hotel in Lexington KY for the night. He got the new iPhone 5 and loves it. He’s learning the thing slowly, but for a former luddite he’s doing great. He’s blogging about his trip. Owns a Macbook Pro. Once a luddite turns, they turn hard!

Nina

She still hasn’t returned home to me. We talk almost daily, but I can’t seem to talk sense into her. NINA!  Come home!

Over dramatic? Probably. She’s seen ML and she wants to come home to NM and to be here by Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, Thanksgiving here will be a non-event. The meal will either be at Arrow’s Ridge or picked up from there. It will be just Nina and Tori, and we all know how much ML loves Tori.

I’ll visit her when I’m in for Thanksgiving and tell her what the new rules will be IF she is allowed back. I doubt she’ll like them.

I freaking knew this would happen.

Weather

It’s been very nice here lately, but the weatherliars are predicting a turn for the worse. Possible snow and rain and cold and wind and pestilence and plaque. Gotta cover all bases when you’re a weatherliar. The only things they didn’t cover was sunny and warm, so I guess I’ll dress for them.

Weather edit!

Crap, it’s clouding up. I hate when you can’t count on things being the way they should! Weatherliars are always wrong, or at least mostly wrong. It sucks when the nail this shit.

General

Well, I’ve had my coffee and a tiny breakfast burrito and since I’ve started typing this I’ve made the decision that Tori is waiting to hear. I’ll tell her in person, later.

I’m going to Santa Fe  to run some errands as soon as Sh’s caretaker gets here. I need some RidX and drain cleaner and of course I always enjoy a visit to a big box home improvement store. Doesn’t everyone?

I keep thinking of the new iPad and I think I need to check it out at the Apple store to make a decision whether I need one or not. I’m thinking of waiting since I really don’t need a new toy . . . . . yet.

Oh well, I’m tired of trying to think of things to write here, so . . .

Guns don’t kill people, people that can’t fight kill people.