Reminders

Reminders
2109, uh OK Morton{my robot’s name is Morton} thanks for reminding me of the date. I’ve long since lost most of my cognitive skills. My parents and their parents being aware that they had born stupid or inept children sent us to parochial schools where we would be instructed instead of how to think. OK, OK Morton I’ll put on some pants before I go down town, sheesh what a nag. Morton keeps me aware of all the necessary daily skills and tasks. I do however have an uncle, somehow also named Morton. Uncle Mort being the drunk maverick in the family taught me a cool thing. He showed me something I wasn’t taught in school. He showed me where the On-Off switch on everything in the house is, including Morton my robot.



Matching socks, why's that Mort?

Hand made taffy, dentists best friend

Making Taffy

When I was a little kid(1950) we lived on a farm outside of Spokane.

We had just returned from two years in Germany.

My father was tired of civil service, took a job driving hack nights to supplement the farm income.

By this time there were 11 of us kids and mom had him take one of us into town for a couple of days.

There were was Kress drug store next to the cab office.

In the window was one of those perpetual motion taffy pulling machines.

I quite literally would stand there for hours watching the motion trying to internalize that machine.

One night the druggist came out and handed me a piece.

A performance which was repeated every time I went to town.

Take that taffy, put it in your cheek like Walt Garrison pinching snuff and you're good for an hour.

That lump in my cheek got me in more trouble in school.

Took a lot of abuse from teachers .

My obstinance gave them fits.

Fast forward 58 years, sans teeth, pull out the dentures , pop in taffy and drive my wife nuts.

Little boys don't truly grow all the way up, Evahh

Snake skin boots YeeHa

There are a lot of variables here



What snake?

What continent?

Who referees such a ludicrous bout?

Is it a female Kangaroo.

What is the terrain?

If the bout were up a tree, you can guess the rest.

Would the kangaroo be alone, or in a group? Sort of a Kang-bang.

Rocky terrain favors the snake.

What if the Vegas odds are fixed?

What if it's dark or raining?

How about in June, the snake would be in hibernation, fight called.

I met a nurse in Darwin June 1959, she was real snake, she could take anyone anything.



You guessed it.

I just find it impossible to give a straight answer.

Single malt Scotch based life forms

This subject brings to the top the age old attempt by humans to give some meaning or sense of how we(all) of the earth was derived.

For some, if we find other life forms it’d reinforce their beliefs in their particular deity.

For others it would spawn another bouquet of fancy and fantasy which is probably the prime features of man kind.

Our ability to pick up a grain of rice and puzzle it into 10s of thousands of other items and yet no quite understand it.

It would be interesting to see which team would catch the ball(other forms of life) and in what direction they ran, before discovering they were running with empty arms. Probably the most aggressive side, the one least equipped to carry the knowledge.

Oh well

Good going Plinky

Ya caught me in a sober moment.

'TURBO ASSEMBLER by Borland' was a helpful read

I needed to know and write "Assembly", so as to understand the higher languages such as "Ansi C", "C++", "Visual Basic", and Yes "Java" for all you Java Freaks. How's that for mundane Monday?

Tee Hee Titter smirk smirk smirk.

If I could be in any band, I'd join The Band

The Band (Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel) were perfect

My task would be to leave my instruments home

Don’t sing no matter how moved I might be

And

Be sweet and tender with the leftover groupies

Pink Floyd: Reflections and Echoes

A 2 disc history of the Floyd from roughly 1967 through their Live 8 performance.. Could have had a little more music. Could have had a little more actual interview, instead of audio gleaned from already produced radio. Perhaps that is what passes for video journalism. But oh well I'm not in the producing business. My Pink Floyd music and video libraries are quite full enough that if I have any complaints... Gee just switch off and do something else.





I do have a very small life, eh wot!?