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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Feb 22, 2019 - 06:02pm PT
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The proud new wheels '98 Caprice Classic copasetic color scheme, junkyard door and straightened frame Why haven't I done this before?
Why didn't I beg and whine about how we can't circle the dwain?
Why didn't I think to open a thread describing how I stretch
a paultry (&meager for 5) remittance, that falls to after the 27 , into a luxury filled life of plenty?
why don't I do it?
ok ok
I hear yeah,
I know place & time
and all that
Good to the last drop?
I had left a poor me rant,
I deleted it.
The Wife made me,
& there is that I have that
not a small thing to have
& have it to do too!
I look at my blessings
celebrate that the glass is glass!
No longer a waxed paper cup
from the shelter or worse.
I have what I have
make do the best that I can
I do pretty good really
All things considered
I'm white in a house on a street
Had been somethin'else, middle of a dead orchard
there is beauty in my neighbor's yards
as well as chocking smoke
it is what it is
It is all good
The Wife made me,
and there is that I have that too!
I look at my blessings
I celebrate that the glass is glass!
not a waxed paper cup from the shelter.
I have what I have
I make do the best that I can
I do pretty good really
All things considered
I'm white in a house on a street
there is beauty in my neighbor's yards as well as chocking smoke
it is what it is
It is all good
These are lean times, with thick impenetrable costs there are things going on - debts building. We mostly, keep the heat turned off too; burn fallen sticks & branches in a broken, broke-windowed electric fired pellet stove that I lite by hand.
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I add this for now to be sure to explain WHY I HAVE ADDED THE ART ,
I HAVE A LEAKY ROOF over a leaky slab & An indoor private SHjTTER, NOT SO MUCH FOR THE ARTIST WHO IS TO PROUD & NOT A QUITTER.
The Wise Woman's art, support her, buy her work it's art
Jewelry at http://www.TalismanToo.Etsy.com
Chalkbags at http://www.ClimbAddictDesigns.Etsy.com
She Has Silver - Pay the extra for the Silver!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 22, 2019 - 06:59pm PT
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GNome
Karen K was very friendly
Her roommate was the runner up in the 1977 Miss Connecticut show
She was very friendly too
Karen had a real nice Corvette that she never drove
bB
Don't think I had heard the Plastic Geeezus since about 1962 or so
Bless you son
You have proabably sinned
Anyway
The good news is, re: my colonoscopy
The tissue samples removed from the colonoscopy were evaluated by a pathologist and revealed lymphoid aggregate tissue. Lymphoid aggregate tissue is entirely benign (non-cancerous) tissue. It is recommended that you have a repeat procedure in 5 years for continued polyp surveillance. Stay on a high fiber diet.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 22, 2019 - 07:13pm PT
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Diagnosis no worry sused its just a sist
That is the good news that is great to hear
Polypod drolypid and surveyed sent packing good riddance!
Hey I was feeling sorry for myself hold down the fort while I tidy up around the Taco stand...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 22, 2019 - 07:20pm PT
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I find that jewelry site serendipitous
I was looking
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 22, 2019 - 08:08pm PT
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ok all poor me ranting deleted
the stones that Happie wraps are sweet, she has an eye for what I like.
Her skills are improving
her light touch appreciated, I can't buy anything but would.
There is a sad/funny story about a stiff loop amethyst pendant I bought.
It is all wrong in the way it lies not a choker but not long enough. She usually wears it once a year to remind me to never get her anything without her approval 1st
So the old starlet neighbor had a 'Vet that she held?
there is a Connecticut corvette concourse, I haven't gone in past the public viewing area.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2019 - 05:42am PT
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Glad to know your polyp status, zBrown.
Notify us of a change in status.
Please.
Who would you rather be: a Beatle or a Rolling Stone? [Click to View YouTube Video]
Get hot, get too close to the flame
Wild, open space
Talk like an open book
Sign me up
Got no time to take a picture
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I wish I was a flatfish
Swimmin' in the deep blue sea
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2019 - 06:03am PT
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Offering condolenzes to Monkee fans.
Mohair Baba Jumped the Gun
(The Monkees Meet The Blues Brothers)
Me and my monkee
Were walking south on NORTH
I wasn't lost and nor was he,
We were positive it was FOURTH
A guy and his monkee
Walk into Brennan's
Turns out it had moved
And this was the Timed Release Center
All of the people in there
Were watching their watches
So not one of them noticed us
Except for The Penguin
[aka the ruler of the NORTH]
Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration
Took her time but she came to our rescue
She said when the smoke cleared
That she had woken up all Torked off
And that now she felt ten pounds lighter
Thanks to us
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2019 - 08:27am PT
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Possibly my worst viewwing experience.[Click to View YouTube Video]
"First rule of hunting, we don't talk about it."--Captain Machine Gun
Let us prey.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2019 - 08:38am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2019 - 09:52am PT
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*fluff*
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 23, 2019 - 10:32am PT
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I PROBABLY would rather be Ry Cooder if I had to choose.
He knows how to rag up, bang and play.
And of course he wrote the riff to Honky Tonk Women.
Not to mention, he could get just about anybody through feelin' bad.ftRMqJaAFyI]
[Click to View YouTube Video]
BTW and was free and clean after 18 years without a test.
Eat that high fiber stuff, my friends.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 23, 2019 - 10:43am PT
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See that and raise one dog!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2019 - 10:53am PT
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Is There A Spell-Checker For Emojis?
Halley Kahoutek Hale-Bopp send Holiday Greetings
to all of their clients in the X/S Galaxy
Memo from Forever 21 System home office to those affected by the following:
Justice Joann Kirkland's Torrid Back Room Shoes
has been purchased by Starbucks/In-n-Out-n-Amazon.
This means many of you are due to be unemployed, possibly by next month.
People, get ready.
Blame the emojis for dumbing down language,
(yet, in so doing, they help to bring us closer
in a way that a child could understand)
but this has nothing to do with them.
We know what you're thinking, too, and it's not that.
"Crazy old man," that's what you're thinking.
And I'm all, "Not my house?
Get the hell out before I call the cops!
Wait! How did I get here?"
There is no cross-traffic
And I can sneak across the four lanes.
It's four a.m. in the fourth safest city in the world
You may have even been here at this same time of the morning
In the same location earlier in your life
Or you may come here later in your life
Or even later in another life
Or I might, too -- who knows
"Hey, this is not my house at all.
Where's Mother?"
Well on the curb, having made the jay-walk,
I have a feeling that in spite of the empty-appearing street
And sidewalk and parking lots and well-lit areas
Someone is watching me.
I just know it and there's no need to think
--But I collect myself
And we walk away all casual
With no looking over our shoulders.
It's a no-brainer.
If whoever is watching sees us
He may recognize that we are the same
And this is something that would tend to call attention to us
--Not that jay-walking at four a.m. is exactly stealth behavior.
It is always a crossroads in time somewhere
And today, right now, there is a traffic light
Which will never change but continue blinking amber
As I stand here on the corner of Body and Mind.
Blinking blinking blinking
Thinking and winking my lids to the beat of the light
I begin to feel solid but still very slight
And I step across boldly even though it's not right
And I care not if they're watching
And disappear in the night.
At my age, I still think that there is an audience for my actions,
When they mostly all left the theater over fifty years ago.
I've been giving performances to myself and I must be good at it
Because I've never had any complaints from him.
It's a good thing I don't have to wind the iPhone.
He'd forget to do it half the time.
I reappear in the wink of my eye
Right here and now,
But there are eyes on me.
They are predatory and I am just prey.
All men are prey.
What makes men pray?
The fact that they realize they are not hunters.
They are food for greater beasts.
Ape-man is designed so, or has evolved so.
My pupils dilate and I stare like an idiot
At every movement that I detect with them.
Color is secondary to movement.
This, and the fact that I have no claws,
My teeth are tiny and my jaws are relatively weak,
Coupled with being unable to fly,
To run very fast or far,
To swim at more than a crawl,
And climbing away from danger? HAH!
I am old and weak, now, as well...
Might as well face it, I'm someone's food.
And I'm not half as clever as I think I am.
I'm toast. I'm gonna be leftovers.
Might as well face it.
Might as well face it...
Hmmm...
Might as well stop running scared,
Turn around and stand my ground,
And face what's there or not there.
It's what Gunny tried to tell us in Boot.
He would tell us that he earned his meager pay
By getting us to become killers,
Making us into machines that killed
And made no bones about it.
"YOU! Jagov! What did I just tell you?"
"Kill or be killed, Drill Sergeant."
"That's right. And you will ALWAYS be watching for what, Private Numbnuts?"
"Movement, Drill Sergeant."
"What about color, Private Major?"
"What color, Sergeant? How high?"
"Christ. I could be just as well off trying to turn my wife into Jane Russell
As trying to turn you apes into killers."
But he did and I have killed...
And killed and killed and killed.
And the only thing I have to show for it is my life.
And a stack of vintage Clint Eastwood VHS tapes
And one of Full Metal Jacket.
We seem disinterested with my past now.
Blink
It is because there is no one there.
Blink
Am I in denial?
Blink
I answer myself, "Yes -- or at least I believed I was.
Blink
"It was all a show of bravado.
Blink
"I am, like you others out there watching (can't fool me) just a scared little kid.
Blink
"And there are no heroes unless we save ourselves."
Blink blink blink
And the Nile keeps on talking, but you never hear a word it says
Because by now you are light years away,
A bit wiser and a lot older.
And as you wake from your nap,
blinking blinking blinking
You look around and start thinking,
Or think that you are thinking,
"This is not my house."
And then cry out, "Where is Mother?!"
--mfm
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2019 - 11:45am PT
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Oh, Mr. Interlocuter, can U hear me now?
Pretty loud costumes...
A skunk, a doe, a duck, and a giraffe walk into a b'ar,
but they all excuse themselves and the b'ar is not offended.
Everyone goes on about their business.
So they all eventually walk into a saloon, the same one, as it turns out,
or this wouldn't be much of a story, and lots less funny.
They all recognize each other from the incident with the b'ar,
so they all sit at one table together.
As they order drinks, the bartender asks, “Who’s paying for these?”
The skunk says, “Don’t look at me, I’ve only got one scent.”
The doe replies, “Not me, I haven’t had a buck in years!”
The duck answers, “Sorry, I only have one bill on me.”
Finally, the giraffe chimes in, “Don’t worry guys, the high balls are on me.”
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2019 - 05:49pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2019 - 07:45pm PT
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