Written at sea some time ago.

As I sit here my ship mate is making something good to eat out of some kind of a roast that I personally would use to resole a pair of army boots with. Some guys really have the knack of cooking like that.

I am a pretty good peasant food cook myself and can cook up a pretty good Sunday dinner if I decide to but this guy cooking now is kind of special. He has the ability to take an old boot and turn it into something totally delicious.

The roast in question was pretty tough so he sliced it up and decided to make cheese steaks out of it. All in all it’s a pretty damned good idea for an inexpensive roast. Personally I would have slow cooked it but that is just me. Cheese steaks are great.

I should pay a little more attention to this guy and maybe if I did I would eat a little better at home.

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I just read where the Cajun Navy has been getting shot at in Texas.

The Cajun Navy is just a bunch of decent guys that take their own small boats out at their own expense and rescue people during times of flooding. This is actually America doing what it does best at grass roots level. Members report being shot at and an attempt made to steal their boat.

Quick fix. Issue each boat a National Guardsman with an M-249 and orders to return fire and establish superior firepower.

I figure that whatever thug is up to trying to injure a volunteer first responder is going to probably decide to find a new line of work after his little two shots from a pimpy little .32 is returned with, say a belt’s worth of .556 NATO as a warning.

Of course if the little thug stops a couple of rounds that’s a pretty good deal, too. It takes him out of the equation right then and there. If the hits are fatal he’s out of the equation permanently.

I have no problem with a first responder returning fire out of self-defense. 

Self-defense is a God-given right.

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So you are taking a two year old godson out with you.

 You have him by the hand and someone you have not seen in about 40 years or so recognizes you and asks if it’s your grandson.

Now there is no way in hell I can let that one slide. To let an opportunity like that slide would be a pretty sad state of affairs.

You put on kind of a sheepish embarrassed look. “It’s actually my son.”

“What!! Your SON?! Really?’ is the likely reply.

“Yeah, well that’s the way things go,” I’d reply. “You know how life is full of little surprises. There was this bachelor party a while back and I hadn’t been out drinking in years and forgot my limit. Then someone brought out the blow and I haven’t had any of that in decades. Things started to get out of hand then.”

Then I’d continue. “We started doing as few lines off of the stripper’s ass and I guess she had some kind of daddy issues and a thing for older men. Anyway things got a little strange and one thing led to another and I found out I am now a father.”

By now they are probably totally agape.

“After the boy was born his mother went back to the drug scene so I had the state give me custody. It’s worked out pretty well, actually. I gave up drinking and smoking so I can be around longer to raise him.”

You can bet the farm that a wild story like that is going to get around.

You may sit back and wait until the next reunion and know good and well that you are going to be met with a lot of questions. Of course the fun doesn't stop here.

"What? What son?" I reply. "I don't have any children. Someone must have mistaken me for someone else."

THEN you sit back because someone is going to look foolish. 

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It is time for me to get back in the swing of things.

Life has gotten too busy for me and I have not made a decent post in some time. I also have some other stuff to catch up with. I won't go into it here.

Then there are other issues I won't post here. Work and my very personal life do not reach the blog and for good reason.

You never embarrass your spouse or your employer publicly. It is simply bad juju. Between the blog and Facebook one has to be at least a little discreet.

The guy that got shot in the crotch with the non lethal rounds the other day after he booted a grenade back at the police is a classic example. He posted not only the story but his wounds on Facebook and was promptly arrested. He made it simply TOO easy for the police and in a way forced the police to arrest him.

Most likely they cops thought that the pain and suffering was enough and it would have ended there but the jerk just had to post it and forced the police to arrest him.

Same goes for another guy I know that ran his keyboard and badmouthed his employer. He got canned and rightly so.

Anyway I suppose in the near future I will find some time to sit down and make a few decent posts.






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Prius drivers check in.

If you drive a Prius check this out.


This is something I have wondered about for some time. I had heard that making hybrid cars required rare metals.

While I have nothing to say either way about these cars, I don't really care for the holier than though attitude some of the drivers cop over them.



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Apply anywhere bull$hit.

And I do have a lot of it.

My favorite use for it is to try and make someone feel good about themselves.

If they want to feel bad about themselves it is their business. I can help them with that, too.


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I am getting ready to tell someone off and it won’t be pretty.

This person is fueling the hate with character assassination by blaming the problems we have on the very people that have served us to quell the hate.

I have seen too much character assassination in my time and it is -bullshit. For example the gay community owes the Chick-Fil-A people one hell of an apology for what they did to that business a while back.

Simply because the people running it are Christian and espouse Christian values and were not going to go along with gay marriage the gay community labeled them as homophobic. This is even though Chick-Fil-A’s published mission statement specifically included fair treatment for people no matter of race, color, religion or sexual orientation.

They have also opened their restaurants during times of bad weather and sheltered and fed travelers at no cost. Sounds pretty generous to me. They didn't ask about someone's sexuality, they just fed and sheltered them.

Sometime around then I got a few potshots taken at me because I said that I didn’t believe the government should be in the marriage business. That is something that should be left to the churches. I believe government should allow civil unions to any two people that want one.

However, the twisted little bastard tried to logic that because I was opposed to government issued marriage for ANYONE including gays that I had to be homophobic. What bullshit!

While I am certainly not a believer in white supremacy, I have a pretty hard time with the fact that everyone BUT whites can have a pride organization. Yet a white pride organization is racist. Things are truly two faced.

The truth is the left WANTS to keep us apart. They WANT to keep us fighting among ourselves and they don’t care over what. They will do what it takes to create disharmony and fighting.

I do not want to play that game but if I am forced to I will not be kind.

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I just saw where the BLM people want whites to will their homes to black or brown people that have been in generational poverty.

First of all I read what they wrote and it sounds like not only poor, uneducated English but a total lack of understanding of home ownership. I am beginning to realize that the BLM people are probably not really representative of successful blacks. They represent the unsuccessful portion of the race. The successful people buy their own stuff and take care of it.

The generational poor are not going to be lifted out of poverty by being given a nice home in a good neighborhood. The truth is that poor people have poor ways to begin with. If they are given a nice home then inside a couple of years it will become an eyesore. Most poor people do not understand maintenance. It is a big part of the cycle of poverty. Poor people generally do not know how to take care of things.

The lawn will go un-mowed, the house will go unpainted, the woodwork will rot and things will get just plain tumbledown. In time the roof will leak and the place will become uninhabitable.

In the meantime there will have been money for smokes, drugs, booze, spinners and fancy duds and other frivolities as the house falls apart.

Of course, the neighbors are going to be the ones to suffer as they will lose a lot of property value as the house in question deteriorates.

I suppose if I had lousy neighbors it would be a cool way of getting even with them, though. Fortunately I am blessed with good neighbors so it makes no sense to pass the home on to someone that has lived in generational poverty.

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I just saw where the Black Lives Matter people

 are asking whites that have nobody special to will their homes to a brown family.

Now why would I will my home to ANYBODY that can’t afford it in the first place, regardless of what color they are. I happen to like my neighbors. They don’t deserve to have me replaced by someone that can’t afford to keep the property up.

If you can’t afford the property to begin with it’s pretty likely you can’t afford to maintain it. If you can’t afford to maintain it then it will go straight to hell and lower my neighbor’s property value.

Someone once said to me that ‘poor people have poor ways’ and I do believe they are correct. Giving someone a nice home that they couldn’t otherwise afford is really doing nobody any favors. They will let it go straight to hell.

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An interesting picture that shows us we live in curious times.

I wonder what the deal is here.

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busy today

Sorry


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Someone just said something funny about the SPLC

I pointed out that they ought to be on their own list of hate groups and someone else said that because they are the monitor of hate groups and belong on their own list they are a self-licking ice cream cone.

Pretty good analogy.




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I just read where the NAACP stuck its head into the business of the Atlanta Falcons

 by demanding that they sign Colin Kaepernick.

The NAACP has no business telling an NFL team who to or who to not sign a contract with. It’s pretty presumptuous and it will be interesting to see what Atlanta does.

Hopefully they will tell the NAACP to shove it and then turn to its players and tell them that any of them that take a knee during the National Anthem can find work elsewhere.

I have posted before that the NAACP has out served its usefulness years ago and ought to be disbanded.  Conduct like this proves it.

I have spent my life sharing the beliefs of Dr. King and the belief that people ought to be judged strictly by the content of their character. The way things have seemed to go the past few years make me wonder if it wasn’t a waste.

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One of the hardest things to get out of a car guy is to find one that will do what YOU want him to do with it and not what HE wants to do with it.

I have been told (and believe) that this holds double for motorcycles.

I have been watching a friend trying to get his motorcycle painted. He does not want anything done to it except he wants it a different color than it is. It’s really quite simple but the guy running the paint shop doesn’t seem to understand that the simple process is to take the various motorcycle assemblies and spray them. That’s all. He doesn’t have to do any more or any less.

Yet the guy can’t seem to understand that my friend does not want flames, pin stripes and all the rest of the fancy hoo-ha that the man is capable of. My friend doesn’t want flames painted on the gas tank or fancy detailing on the fenders. He just wants the assemblies painted a certain shade of blue. That’s all.

I suggested to him he tell the prospective painter that he take the bike to a shop that does collision repairs because they seem to understand the concept of making something look like an original.

When I have any work done on my vehicle I take it to a mechanic shop. I know a couple of ‘car guys’ that will do me a lot of favors but I can’t seem to get car guys to understand the word ‘stock’. They all seem to want to do something to my pickup, even if it is something like put in a little hotter spark plug or something.

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I tend to read in surges. I’ll beat a subject to death.

Several years ago I read a few books about the French Foreign Legion and put the books up. Since I have mentioned the Legion a couple of times in some other works I broke a couple of the books out and skimmed them.

While neither of the two authors made careers out of the Legion, one served out his full term and the other deserted. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out which of the two were the most successful in the Legion. It also is pretty easy to figure out who was the better man.

Both men served in the famed 2^nd Regiment of Foreign Parachutists, otherwise known as 2eme Regiment Etranger de Parachutiste or the 2e REP. This means both served pretty much in the same outfit. It is not an apples/oranges comparison.

One guy put a lot of effort into doing well, the other simply felt sorry for himself and sluffed off.

The guy that sat down, realized he had gotten into more than he wanted, accepted it and toughed it out probably is doing well because he has integrity and is willing to work.

No telling what happened to the screw-off.

What interests me is that this seems like just another case of getting out of something just what you put into it.

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We are rapidly coming to post 3000 and a crossroads

I am seriously thinking of turning this into something that is not daily as I feel I jumped the shark years ago.

On the other hand I have done this as an effort for me to vent and stay sane.

It has actually been a pretty good discipline for me and I may continue simply for that reason.

Time will tell and we shall see what we shall see.



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Things are cyclic and today is a part of the cycle.

I am at a crossroads and am wondering what to do when I retire which could now pretty much be anytime although I will procrastinate retirement for as long as I can.

It is always a good idea to be ready to make your next move and now it is time for me to plan the sequence of events that will set me up for retirement. That is because it could happen in a heartbeat.

Be prepared.





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I feel tired this morning for reasons I won't get into.

There are times that getting decent sleep sucks.

The night before a lot of things I can't seem to doze off easily. I often reach for the bottle but have stopped doing that as of late.

I have to do something today and will be tired.

That sucks.

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One of the things I have been watching the Left do is call Trump a racist and a sexist.

Sexists do not enable a woman to become the first woman to build a skyscraper in NYC.

Racists do not hire black females to be the CEO of one of their companies.

I seriously wish the left would start telling the truth for a change.

They just hate him because they hate him and don't have the balls to admit it so they have to come up with lame excuses.








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I don't deal with terrorists or procrastinators

Gearing up to go back to work is a nuisance because people do not learn. It is like people are untrainable. In a couple of weeks someone will piss me off with stupidity and procrastination.

My schedule is that I leave for work at early Tuesday morning and I return 22 days later, on a Wednesday evening. It is pretty much clockwork and the day before I leave, Monday, is for getting grub and tying up loose ends.

Yet there are a few people that insist on calling me on Monday to do something for them. You can predict this with almost 100% regularity.

Often the very people that call me on Monday have been told daily that if they have any business to conduct they should get it done by the weekend. Of course, few people do this and then wonder why I act the way I do.

Gearing up is essential for the lifestyle. Without it I will have no income and poverty sucks.

I do not really like living this way but if I do not put my foot down then nothing will ever get done.

What a spin on the recent right wing rally that had been attacked by a mad motorist.

They are attributing it to the fact that it was a right wing rally.

It seems that they have not decided to lay the blame on the Leftist that was driving the car.

This kind of spin is clearly a bit part of the Fake News that President Trump tweets about.

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How come most of the guys that call Melania Trump names are

generally married to butt ugly women that never finished high school?

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I saw this on Facebook. Some guy called Mrs. Trump a mail order tramp and commented she speaks English with an accent.

He had a picture of himself with his wife so I could see what his other half looks like. It really wasn't too pretty and she didn't have the aura of being a PhD.

I was ready to light him up hard but I didn't. 

I suggested he post a newer picture of his wife that has been taken since she lost all that weight, opened her own business, finished college and learned to speak five languages....You know, like Melania Trump did.

I didn't expect an answer and didn't get one but I have been around long enough to know that there was a lot of stuttering and stammering on the other end.

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Maybe more later today. 




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Got booted out of the rack to help a friend today

after being up late all night watching a movie with another friend.

The friend that woke me wanted me to simply be a witness because he was having petty legal problems. It makes sense to CYA with a witness.




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Here ya go.

Someone asked me about this so I wrote about it.



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Lousy night's sleep last night

Because I was up too damned late Tuesday. I must be getting old because it took me too long to recover.

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Anger, depression and alcohol is a bad combination. 

I must be getting smarter these days because I don't reach for the alcohol as fast as I used to when when I do I use a lot less.

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A few days ago I decided to smoke my middle of the year cigarette. I was planning on one either Memorial Day or 4 July but things came up.  

I decided to couple it with a 24 ounce beer and found it to be a delightful buzz. 

Enter patience. You have to wait for a real long period before you try it again to get the same result.

Much of what addiction is about is trying to get the same feeling you did the first time you did something, be it alcohol, drugs, tobacco or even and orgasm.

If I am going to be able to get the same feeling I am going to have to wait for about 6 months to try it again.

A couple beers and a Camel might be a pretty good birthday present come November.



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My ISP is acting up.

I hate when that happens.

Last night it ran poorly and today is is either in or out.

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Yesterday someone called me a t the last minute and asked for an airport pickup which I did. 

I wish I had more notice, though because a midnight airport run really screws up the schedule for the next day.



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A day of hauling stuff down back.

The lot line between my place and the neighbors is a useless hill.

By mutual agreement we let it go to weeds. Every few years it's chainsaw madness time and everything 1.5 inches or bigger gets hacked down and dragged into the woods to rot.

It has been several years and I spent the other day getting torn up by brambles and tearing the hill up. Now I am hauling the stuff down back. It's going to be an all day chore because there is a lot of it. 

I hate this kind of work



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Here ya go.

Long read but you might like it.

It is about a very frustrating visit home shortly after I got out of the army.



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What a pain in the ass!

A day of chain saw madness and cleaning up the lot line.

The other project is coming along.



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Today is going to be an interesting day

I am helping a neighbor get a camper/trailer ready to move out of the campground he has it parked at.

He got kicked out and I know what happened. He was accused of something he didn't do by someone that wanted his site.

Some of those camp sites are just nasty places full of sleazy politics and back biting.

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In other news my wig arrived and I think I am going to get my new driver's license picture taken in drag.

Why not? Time to hop on the band wagon



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Chipping away at another project.

Maybe soon a decent post.



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Been busy with another project today

Which will eventually become a seperate blog.


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I got (kinda) caught up

I am responsible for two homes and one of them has an HOA to deal with. 

It is a long story but I had to do some emergency gardening to get them off of my back.

I won't lie. If I ran the HOA I would be mad at me too.

Now at my residence I gotta mow the lawn 


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Almost missed a day

But I didn't.



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