Sorry I Doubted You James

Oh, about a month or so ago, we had visitors and one of those visitors was a 3 year-old nephew named James (Hi James.) One of the things we had to amuse said 3 year-old was a book about airplanes. It wasn’t just any ol’ static book about airplanes, it came with little cardboard replicas of planes that needed to be put together and had the advantage of being capable of flight. Not real aerodynamic flight mind you, but by brute force. Each plane replica had a small notch on the bottom of the “fuselage” that you hooked the rubber band of the included primitive slingshot thingie into and then pulled back as far as your mighty 3 year-old arms would go before letting loose launching the plane into the wild blue yonder.

James and uncle Brian spent a few enjoyable hours over the course of a couple of evenings “flying” planes in the back yard. One evening James launched the B-2 bomber with a mighty tug and it soared off in the direction of our mimosa tree and I didn’t see it come back down. He said it was stuck in the tree. I couldn’t see it, so I figured it had come down in the neighbor’s yard. James insisted that he could see it and wanted me to go up and get it. I just knew it wasn’t there, so told him I would get it, but I couldn’t, because I didn’t have a tall enough ladder.

Tonight as I walked underneath the mimosa tree on the way to the shed to get out the lawn mower and leaf blower so Donna and I could do a little lawn maintenance, I looked down on the ground and this is what I saw:

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Christmas In October

Yesterday while on our morning break walk, with me wearing my new V-neck T-shirt birthday present, I mentioned that I had an idea of what I wanted for Christmas. A new pair of hiking boots. My old faithful pair of Hi-Tec’s were starting to look a little ratty and the soles were getting kind of worn down. I figured new boots were the perfect gift, something that I didn’t really need, but wanted and are reasonably priced (unlike most things that make my usual Christmas list.)

This morning Donna asked if there was any place locally that I might be able to buy those hiking boots. I told her possibly Academy Sports over in Augusta. She then asked, “Do you want to go over and see?” It took a couple of seconds before I finally realized she was offering not to just look, but let me buy some.

My mom didn’t raise no fool (I left home too early), so I said,”You know, there is a place here in Aiken that sells Merrell shoes, they might have something.” Not too much later I was the proud new owner of a pair of size 11 Moab Mid GORE-TEX XCR in Dark Earth.

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Why?

Why won’t my DVD player remember where I stopped watching the disc?

Why is the intro Universal theme music at the DVD start up so much louder that the one before each episode of Law & Order?

Why does the control panel in Windows almost always open up as large icons as I like, but will randomly appear in the detail view?

Why when renaming a file in an Windows file explorer will the file jump to the bottom of the list instead of staying put?

Why can’t I get into writing on this blog?

And now for something I don’t need to ask why about:
A coalition of medical marijuana advocates came out Tuesday against a California ballot initiative that would legalize the drug for recreational use and tax its sales.

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I For One Welcome Our New Alien Overlords

On Sunday a story broke that the UN had appointed Earth’s Ambassador to Extraterrestrials. On Monday morning in Washington, DC, several former US military officers confirmed in a press conference that they had witnessed UFOs tampering with US nuclear missile control sites. Then yesterday the Earth’s Ambassador to Extraterrestrials story was shown to be false. But they’re not fooling me, they are just trying to cover up a announcement that escaped before it was supposed to.

I think aliens are already here living among us and the world’s governments know it. They also know if word got out before the human population is properly indoctrinated panic would ensue and Hollywood is doing it’s level best to get us used to sharing our world. Why else remake that campy 80’s TV show V? Or remake a classic sci-fi movie like the Day The Earth Stood Still?

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I Am Brian’s Arthritic Spine

Had my follow up with the ortho guy today, his diagnosis, Lumbar Spine Arthritis, otherwise know as you are getting old and things are wearing out.

Seeing as my pain level is not that bad and so far the problem hasn’t prevented me doing anything, we are going with option #1 physical therapy. I have an appointment in a couple weeks where I’ll probably get some exercises to try and maybe a heat treatment.

Option #2 is to get steroid shots right in the ol’ spine itself. He said this can be very beneficial, but I’m holding that treatment in reserve for hopefully much later on when physical therapy and OTC pain pills can’t keep up. Option #3 is surgery and I’m going to have to wait until I am somewhat debilitated before that is even a consideration.

All those years of Mom yelling at me to sit up straight. If I had only listened…

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Happy Birthday

Google – 12
Avril Lavigne – 26
Gwyneth Paltrow – 38
Me – 55
Don Cornelius – 74
Jayne Meadows – 90

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