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Mon 02 Oct 2023 10:35:46 PM CDT
Almost done with the hot weather, this weekend could be it. Should be, ole man don't get as much work done in the heat. Mebbe I take some pics of the kitty kat when she get a bit more meat on'er. Skinny kitten, seems healthy, she'll fill out. Sittin' still for a photo another matter. Anyhow October underway. Thu 05 Oct 2023 08:34:33 PM CDT
Best thing about the rain is I can burn stuff. Had some big piles of construction/demolition debris would like to have gone without waiting for spring. Maybe get that done now, cold wet weather be here 'fore you know it. Course a mild wet winter be OK with me, followed by a mild wet summer. Not too wet though. About a fourth of the way through Aztec Blood, nice thing about shorter days is more reading and writing. Spend too much time writin' though. Mon 09 Oct 2023 08:34:33 PM CDT
Gotta get over and look at this. 166K miles, extended cab like I wish one of the ones I have was. Little over a hundred miles away, Jess says let's go tomorrow. If it's clean as it should be at that mileage he got a sale. Tryin' to figure on whether to put a detached garage or a semi-attached one on the west end. Thinking detached, bring the sidewalk in between. Hafta fill another 600 square feet or so, from six inches by the wall over a foot at the outside. Be an excuse to build a retaining wall. And use my cool new toy for the fill. Should be fun, but wet and cold about to come, so probably spring-time.
Sat 14 Oct 2023 09:59:18 PM CDT
They'd done sold the truck. Bummer, but them things don't last long. Other one sat at the dealer, not on the lot, he was drivin' it. He sells portable buildings and carports, all that stuff too. Probably the bigger part of his business. Was thinkin' about puttin' them little carports on the front and back of the trailer out at Fair Oaks, it nice and almost new, be good for when out there and it rainin. Be my luck out there a tornado get it before long. Dunno if havin' my house banged up by one already reduces the probability. Probly not. Had the eclipse, I guess. Couldn't see it from here. News have enough trouble keeping up with the wars, and can't even do more than one at a time, apparently. Since the ongoing Ukraine debacle is getting short shrift these days, and probably the cash flow for the comedian gettin' crimped. Some of the NATO folks about out of stuff to giv'em, and looks like one of their best sources may be about to dry up. Enough of politics stuff. We'll get together mañana por la noch and knock back a few and jaw about it. Anyhow, I mentioned dragging out books after the move and wantin' to revisit the old spy novels. Found an old copy of an early Nick Carter - he about my favorite for six or seven lustrum - and gonna read it again. Reckon he pretty popular to have Wickedpedia articles about a few of his adventures. Not many, less than fifty of several hundred. Still better than most. My copy is the one in the top right, forgot to look at the original print date but reckon it's pretty close to the time it describes - Vietnam in 1964. They were generally reflective of current events, so this'd be around then. Carter revisits Vietnam a few times, at least once after the war is over. That one pretty good, they had some pretty creative writers, some of whom were pretty successful writing mainstream stuff under their own names. Anyhow, gonna take a look at some of those now winter comin' and not outside as much. Of the other covers up there, it's hard to see but the second from left is an Espanol print, in the 1980s style that most of my collection is. It proclaims N3 to be "El agente secreto numer uno". I'll go along with that. My copy says seven million Killmaster books in print, another one apparently from a little later has it at ten million. The Espanol version has him looking kinda Bondish, of course I don't compare the two - the Bond stuff (both books and movies) were totally different animals. The Carter stuff is really good 60s-80s pulp, and a lot more of it. It's all based on reality too, the political climate of the day, the hardware is accurate (Nick taking a ride in an SR-71 does stretch things a bit) but it's well-researched and written by knowledge able writers. I may have mentioned that the late Jerry Ahern contributed a couple, about the time he began writing the Survivalist books. I picked up on that right away. Alright kiddos, all for now. Sat 21 Oct 2023 09:18:26 PM CDT
One thing gotta do is get the Casca books . Got a handful of originals, like the one on the left, from the late '70s and '80s, too much do do didn't even buy'em to read later. Look at the price on the old ones, about $3.50 or so. Don't remember when the prices went nuts, probably the '90s or so. Five or six bucks, I's buyin' two three a week at big Hastings store in Jonesboro. And of course a couple of CDs. Good thing I had a lot of money and not really any expensive habits. Except cars I guess, and cigars and likker. Smoked them fancy seegars in fancy wood boxes and glass or aluminum tubes. Somovum pretty good, but never figgered they that good. Smoked Swisher Sweets and drank Ancient Age then too, along with the high-dollar stuff. Mebbe I didn't have the discerning palate or something. Like my flavored sticks now, kinda like I enjoy nuking some eggrolls and dippin'em in cheddar sauce. Tastes good, and kinda fun, dippin' eggrolls in cheese sauce. Or eatin' ramen. Stuff don't taste good or bad, but interesting. And takin' a cocktail fork and spoolin' the noodles on it is entertaining. Eat veye-inna sausage that way too, but don't tell anybody. Ole lady done caught me doin' that and about ever other weird thang I do. Just laughs like at some of the cat's antics. She a jewel. Anyhow, read the first few years ago, intrigued by the blurb on the first one. And the author. Barry quite a guy, 'course got famous for the Green Beret song, and he one hisself guess he the one to do it. Wonder what he'd think today, how fucked that whole thing was, every which way you look at it. He wounded there in '65 or so, I lost a cousin in '68, he more like a big brother than a cousin, lived close and hung out together. I in junior high and lookin' at bein' there meself afore long, things didn't change. Woulda gone too, even if just not to disappoint Dad, he WWII vet and thought whatever war the government doin' was right. 'course there nothin but the alphabet 'news' and newspapers then, and worse probably a lot of them believed what they was sayin.' Can't bring myself to say much bad about Nixon, he shut it down and saved my ass. Then I up and enlist in the Air Force a couple years after I graduate. Doctrinated us good then, they did. Thought Russians there just waitin' for a chance to nuke us and turn what left into what they had. Them more scared of us, and with good reason. So dunno what Barry thought later, he got shot up in something or other in Guatemala, dunno what he doin there, in '88 or so. Still writing Casca books at the time. At that point things still hadn't got as bad as they are now, that really got goin' about '92 when Slick Willie arrived, been downhill ever since 'cept a short break with Trump. And what they done to him, still doin', don't look good. So yeah, I'd be a draft dodger today. Back then I woulda probly if I knew the truth, but didn'g. Them as was dodgin' and protestin' was doin' it for the wrong reasons, like a blind squirrel findin' an acorn now and then. Anyways, ran across one a while back, re-read the first one, and a couple of later ones. Good stuff, and more than I realized. Since he died in '89 mostovem ghost-written. So was a lot of good stuff. Looks like 56 of them, and still in production with releases as late as 2022. Won't live long enough to finish them for sure, but I won't live to see the trees I'm plantin' grow up. Mebbe they keep my stuff in the family, this place anyway, and the lake would be nice, the younguns like to hunt and fish out there. There a website dedicated to Casca, dunno who runs it. Feller sells books, apparently none being printed now. Noticed someone tried to get a comic up and running some years ago, didn't make it. Bummer, coulda been a good deal. Hate to see the whores get ahold of it. Maybe Arkhaven could take an interest. They'd do it right. Dunno who owns the IP, mebbe Barry's estate or they sold it to someone. Tue Oct 31 2023 09:18:26 PM CDT
That was in the summer. It dead now, but idusabiggun. You can see a bit of a maypop and sumac tree it's close to. Bunch of them too. Had quite a few, comin' up in places been killed off or a building moved. Under the old mobile home sat down the well road for years, finally towed it off to somewhere. Allkindsa stuff, bigole Solanum carolinense come up there, coverin' three-four yards. Never seen one so big. Got plans for it though, soon as the top with all the stickers gone. They perennials like pokesallet so you dig up the roots and movem. That there lantern plant or whatever, ain't the Chinese lantern, fruit looks kinda the same only those turn red, these turn a kinda yeller, brownish maybe, light brownish. Seen'em called ground cherries, but Idunno. Something in the nightshade famly I bleev, and when I's a kid we called'em nightshades. Poison, don't eat'em. Anyhow I get a nice bigun like that like to see it grow up and finish the life cycle thang. Big one like that though, wind gonna get it most of the time. Anyhow it being Halloween figger poison plants be a good thing to talk about. Or Helloween, since they seem to like Halloweenish stuff. First encountered them on a radio show called 'Metal Shop' back whenever, probably late '80s. Come on midnight on Rock 103 outta Memphis. Listened to them most of my life, back to the '70s, come home one day turned in on first thing I heard was about the Skynyrd plane crash. They'd just played the Coliseum in Memphis a couple years before, then did the Liberty Bowl, bleev it Memorial Day. Blue Oyster Cult was one of the openers (main reason I went), Skynyrd was next to last and we left after them as ZZ Top was comin' on. Too late at night and had to get up early. Girl on the radio just about in tears it seemed, so was a lot of folks. Me included. Saw Cult again a year or two later, after Agents of Fortune came out, was in the Coliseum and they had the lasers. Seriously cool, they was in the daytime and outdoors when I seen'em before. So I heerd the Helloween guys talkin' on Metal Shop, said put that on the buy list. Been a fan ever since. That what, about forty years now. It get a bit colder more often I'll be indoors more like it or not, crank summa the good stuff. See just how well insulated the new house is. Know it's tight thermally, that insulation. Like being inside a bit styrofoam ice chest. Favorite Helloween for a while now is their 2018 appearance at Wacken. Runs two and a half hours and no trouble at all to make the time to watch it all. Only thing is, I'm speaker shopping and wonder if I should wait 'til I decide on something and get them in. Wouldn't mind doin' it with these, but not in the budget and I didn't build a place big enough to appreciate them. So probably won't wait, since I can't seem to settle anything. It may indeed be a pair of Klipsch boxes, they got some nice ones in smaller sizes. Dunno about Rock 103, seems it became Rock 102 a while back, haven't listened. Wasn't really the same when Bad Dog left, and probably things were on the decline even them. Thuh Dog was somekinda hilarious though, with this Twilight Phone, probably the best DJ prank show ever. Dunno bout Metal Shop neither, radio ain't where it is any more anyway. Last I heard the Coliseum gonna be tore down for a stadium of some kind. As Jacob McCandles said, times change. All for October, seeya next month. About a half hour from now.  Last updated: Tue 14 Oct 2023 09:28:12 PM CDT : 1698813104 |
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