Sunday - November 10, 2013

yay peiper yay christopher

It’s been a really rough couple of months for me, what with one thing and another. So many things have been demanding of my time.

So I’d really like to thank Peiper, and Christopher, for keeping the posts coming while I’ve been inattentive.

Course, I can make excuses. Lyme Disease, writer’s block, wife got laid off, trying to quite smoking again after falling off the wagon a couple months back after 3/4 of a year quit, just sick and tired of my side losing at politics. Too much bowling. And just tired of the whole stinking mess. Finding out the other week that US Senators consider me a Domestic Enemy was about the last straw. Watching our pResident play his weekly game of “watch me piss off the patriots and conservatives” hasn’t helped a jot.

The point is, these two guys have really been carrying this blog while I’ve been a schlep and not posting.

And I really, really appreciate it.

In another 5 days I run down to the Bahamas for a week or so, so I won’t be able to post a thing then. In the meantime, I don’t know what I’ll manage to post. With her out of work, around every minute of every day, it doesn’t seem like I can put the time in to surf the net like I used to. Always seems to be ten or twenty things that I have to do right now instead. Not sure what I’ll post either. Here ya go: I had my first taste of real Kobe beef tonight. Texas raised, Japan finished, reimported. Really fatty stuff, tasted almost like a beef sausage. Interesting. She didn’t like hers at all. Now that’s exciting content, what? On the other hand, it was the greatest birthday sushi meal I’ve ever had, and for once I’m actually full. Which is rather hard to do with sushi and sashimi.

What, I’m going to write about politics? Can’t stand it. It’s either more of the same, as our exalted Emperor circumvents the Constitution yet again ... or it’s woo-hoo, the chickens are coming home to roost, told ya so, while the nation falls apart. I tired of both, and sickened by both. Personally, at this point I want a blood purge, a Tea Party driven anti-commie/anti-loonie Kristallnacht the likes the world has never seen. By the millions, if not the hundreds of thousands. A reckoning of knives. And that’s about the only way left that I can see will bring about a cure. Which makes the cure pretty freakin sick, and worse in many ways than the disease. But still. So you can see why I try to walk away from it. That isn’t the way. Patience is ... I should live so long.

Arrgh. Probably the lack of nicotine talking. Hey, it’s better now than 2 days ago, when I wanted to put on a hockey mask and take a chainsaw to the world.

3-4 weeks on 1-3 lights a day, now it’s been 6 days without a single puff. I’m not exactly a happy camper. Patches take the edge off some, but make it hard to sleep, even if I take them off. I guess it’s hardest because I’m not really so sure that I want to quit. When I have 2 or 3 smokes a day they’re really satisfying. Hell, I get high for a couple minutes. Even if they’re lights, even if I only smoke half of one. But I can’t breathe. COPD. And it’s instantly worse when I smoke. Tired of using the inhalers, the sinus sprays, the pills. Quit or die I guess ... so I can live without a bit of satisfaction. Actually, I haven’t used any of that medication in nearly two weeks. Hardly need it if I hardly smoke, and don’t need it at all if I don’t. So let me use my last functional brain cell and say .. WELL, DUH. Too bad the other dysfunctional cells think about lighting up about 3000 times a day.

Yesterday, darling N from days of yore put some more pictures up on Facebook of all of us fencers back in our undergraduate days. Sigh. We were all so young. So strong. So thin. So richly coiffed. So frisky. Crap. Damn. So unbelievably frisky. Where does it all go? By the time you read this tomorrow, I’ll be 53. Fat, bald, bifocals, grey, knees hurt in the morning, foot hurts at night, hand hurts in the morning, ribs hurt when I sleep, maybe arthritis, no strength, no energy, no stamina ... aww shit. Once upon a time I could reach out and hit you in the face mask with a sabre blade from 8 feet away so fast you didn’t even know it was coming. All you’d see is the sparks and feel the whack. Now? There are days when I really, really want an afternoon nap. Crivens. Age sux. Oh, and I’m half deaf too.

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