My Next Challenge

I’m thinking about canceling my Everest climb after watching all the recent news.  I feel that my travel agent underplayed the “certain death guaranteed, or deposit returned” part of the contract.   He said, “nah, just wear cleats”. 

A Light In The Dark

When I was a kid, I always had a nightlight on when I was sleeping at home.  If I ever slept over at someone else’s house and asked for a nightlight, I’d be mocked by adults and children alike who assumed that I feared werewolves or other monsters that troll the darkness.  In truth, my concern always was waking disoriented from my typically violent dreams in a state of defensive readiness.  A nightlight sped up my reorientation with the comparative peacefulness of the real world. 

To this day, if I wake without proper muted lighting and then can’t find my glasses, I’m apt to punch a wall or knock over a bedside table. 

On a related note, I am still single.

Pangs

Me: “Is it ‘hunger pangs’ or
‘hunger pains’?”

Them: “What are you talking about?”

Me to myself: “Mankind is doomed.”

Easter Egg Suggestions

For those choosing to follow the traditional Easter celebration of making colored rabbit eggs, please remember to double boil the blue ones, with an extra dip and swirl in the final flush and rinse. If you decide to make colored chicken (or any game hen/range fowl or wood duck) eggs instead, just the normal single boiling will suffice, unless you are making the orange (or green) ones.

My Rep

While it’s true that my reputation precedes me, it’s only by about two minutes; so if you aren’t paying attention, you’ll probably think we arrived together.

Reflections

My Uncle John is my mom’s baby brother, the youngest and last survivor of the siblings, at 76 years old.  John is mentally disabled, and although I’ve known him well my whole life, it’s a new challenge to help him through the final and reflective aging phase of his life.  Every now and then John will say, “I really miss mother and dad and my brother and sisters.”   And I always reply, “I know, John. I do too.  And I think of them together in Heaven, laughing their asses off, and Grandpa’s looking all embarrassed and shaking his head because someone said something that was really inappropriate.”  John always laughs at that, because he knows what I mean, and it gives him comfort,too.

It's Just The Principle; Merchandise

So I get that all the hip kids now refer to stuff that stores and people sell as “merch”, and sure, I guess the abbreviation is cute or whatever.  But when on your website every reference to the products you sell uses the word “merch” like it’s so cool that you’ve saved two freaking syllables in your postings, and that somehow the word “merchandise” is now outdated or meaningless (and just so you know, I really am not that big a fan of the word merchandise; it’s just the principle) I’m afraid that I just can’t allow myself to buy your crap, even with your bullshit “volume merch” discount.