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calendar   Tuesday - September 10, 2013

woman driver?  No. Just one old male goat who can’t get the hang of it.

I’ll concede that the alternative is not great but trust me.  Old age sucks.
Even when health is pretty damn good, it isn’t.  There’s always something hidden away someplace inside us just waiting to do us in and prove how defenseless we really are.  Especially when we see our contemporaries drop like flies and worse yet when some are a few years younger. 

Now that’s a weird way, different for sure, to bring up the subject of insomnia and a good read.

One of the lesser curses of age is insomnia.  I say lesser because lets face it, on a scale of any measure it isn’t as bad as some of the other (many) aches and problems.  And I’ve been cursed with it for a very long time.
The solution that works quite well can not be used every night, although I’ve done it from time to time.  Which then makes things worse. Bah.
That’s isn’t at all what I wanted to write.  It’s this.

Thanks to insomnia I read a lot.  And lately I’ve been reading a first time novel by Chris Pavone, a book called The XPATS.
I woke up around 3am this morning, too late to take a sleeping pill and anyway, I need to be awake for some work due to take place today. So I came downstairs in the 3am chill, went into our unheated freezing kitchen, (haven’t turned on the storage heater in there yet) made a cup of hot chocolate with a good dash of Baileys Irish Cream and went back to bed with drink and the book mentioned above.  It’s a page turner.

Along about 5am or maybe it was 6, I came across this passage in the book and knew I had to share it with BMEWS readers.
While BMEWS is an American site, we get viewers from all over the world and many from this side of the globe, that is, UK and across the channel. So what follows might be of more interest to Europeans and Brits.  Well not quite.

From XPATS: By Chris Pavone

Kate looked out the window into the darkness of the Ardennes where the World Wars had been fought, hand to hand bloody.  The Battle of the Bulge, the biggest and deadliest of WWII.
That was sixty something years ago.  And now?
Now there wasn’t even a border between Germany and France and Belgium and Luxembourg.  All that carnage over sovereignty and integrity of borders, and now you didn’t even need to show a passport to travel from Allied to Axis.

General George S. Patton is buried in Luxembourg.  Along with five thousand other American soldiers.

I didn’t know he was buried there.  But I can tell you where he was born.
He was born in San Gabriel, Calif., raised there when that place was still wide open.  I lived in San Gabriel for a time and liked it very much.
It’s where I met my wife about 44 years ago. 
It’s also a place where (at least when we lived there) not one single street was named after Patton, not one statue erected in his honor, and not once in all the time I lived there did I ever hear anyone say anything about a famous native son.  I haven’t any idea if there are any schools named after him.

This is a pretty interesting site, it’s in the Calif. desert. 

http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/feb/stories/paton.html

It has been a lifetime since I’ve been in the San Gabriel, Alhambra part of Calif.  I have been told by some friends that it is no longer recognizable as an American town.  Mostly Asian and mostly from Viet Nam, signs in their language everywhere.  Why not?  Others do that too.  I’ve also been told it isn’t the friendly open place it was in my day.

Good grief .... while backing the car out of our narrow 80 yr old garage, I managed to rip the side mirror off the left side of the car.

DAMN IT!

That’s 2wice I have done that. 


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