I know it has been a week since my last post, but it has not been in vain. We’re in our fifth day of record-warm temperatures around here; it has been unusually spring-like, and we’ve been taking advantage of it to do some serious work at the parsonage. Remember the parsonage? Others and I have been rebuilding a rotten porch from the ground up, and I’ve not forgotten how so many of you made it possible. I will try to update more frequently this week, though. A lot is going to happen this year; the future is going to be interesting.
128 responses to “Where Most Accidents Happen”
Good we’re on a new run. Here’s a site re Luchow’s restaurant, mentioned at the end of “Next.” It was the devil to find.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCchow%27s
Peace,
Even people from the end of the world as we know it, Louisiana swamps, had heard of Luchows. Or one of us had but I knew who H. L. Mencken was too.
Discovered I am drinking something I do not like that tastes awful. That sounds like addiction to me. Now to get off the stuff. Diet Coke.
Wait, at first I thought those accidents involved pregnancy.
Any news regarding the “After Dark” book?
“…the future is going to be interesting.” — JJ
And being the skeptic that I am when I delay breakfast, of course I first thought of the supposedly Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times!”
I’d better go eat something now.
We did not have record warm temperatures and we did not get that messy ice storm. We might get something today, but traffic is light due to the holiday, so I’m not going to sweat it. The weather this weekend was great for walking as there was very little wind. I got out about 10:00 AM on Sunday (went to church Saturday night) and was able to go 13.1 miles. I would like to try to walk 26.2 on April 1st as there is a race in West Lafayette, IN then. I guess that I will be April’s fool. 2 years ago the temperature was about 19° at the start and last year the temperature was 35-45°, but the wind gusted to 60 MPH and blew over the porta-potties. It takes me a LONG time to finish, but because it’s only a one mile loop, there are always other people on the course to encourage me, including my younger brother.
TIP BlogSpot: Sometimes Melcher is tasteless. Peace,
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
What? Just sometimes?
Warmed up here. Still dealing with poor Trigger. It is not going to end well.
Going through piles and piles, throwing away and cleaning. Paying lost bills lost in shuffle. Staying home awhile is beneficial.
Going to buy right kinds of picture hooks and start hanging stuff in kitchen on walls.
Still warm here. No records, but warm. Summer is just fine for me.
God bless us every one. God bless the USA.
My garden pet helpers made chicken veggie pasta and a great salad. We all sat out on new stone patio and enjoyed lunch with 61 degree weather and sun. Watched birds and cats.
Jimmy, I somehow missed the above strip the first time around. I just spent five minutes trying to imagine HOW a finger could be broken in a toilet seat…
Smigz, the only speculation I have is that A & J don’t have the household rule about Arlo always putting the seat down after using the toilet. The habit of folding the seat down, combined with late night sleepiness and hurrying could cause a finger to get caught between the seat and the porcelain.
Never broke finger that way but walked straight into wall in dark hallway and broke artificial nail and finger. Same reasons David gave.
Have fallen into toilet more than once because someone didn’t put seat back down. Men could go back to peeing off the porch. Like their ancestors.
Been lurking, just not talkative.
“…the future is going to be interesting.” — JJ
Be vigilant, the Queen of Hearts is lurking in the shadows.
Do you mean this one, the fury and temper, yelling “Off with his head?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Hearts_(Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland)
Jackie, that’s what I thought too. But Sand used lurking twice. Reading between too many lines, are the shadows real, staged, literary, or… electronic? Self-referential, Sand?
Jimmy hope those two separate thoughts stay separated. Accidents in the home, and work on the parsonage, I mean. Glad you all found an opportunity. Hope progress is as you’ve envisioned.
May your days worked safely count always increase.
Steve, I realize you’re on a circuit, but my first read was, “well if you go 13.1, turn around and it’ll be a marathon when you get back.” That’s what a good friend had done training to prepare for Marine Corps. He had heard horror tales of diet privates, so would run suburban cross-country style 32 blocks, forcing him to do 4 miles total to get home, and rest.
RIP, Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon.
Doubly sad that he will likely one day be known as “the last American to walk on the moon”.
Hello Ghost. My employee and good friend was married to the Air Force commander of their astronaut corps. I remember quite well their termination of that program and what it did to him. We all knew it was forever.
I came to write, the AM radio station I mentioned still uses vinyl. Or has bad digital recordings. The DJ just ran the needle across Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville.
Found your note, GR6, just ahead of the top of the hour news that gave his own voice on just that point.
2017 may continue an established trend that has no sunset. We can focus on the celebration of a life well lived. And what it has made possible for lives yet to be lived.
As the news goes on, I’m reminded to point out: the Rev. King speech I was thinking of yesterday was in Oslo, next day, in the Auditorium of the University of Oslo, 11 DEC 1964, titled The Quest for Peace and Justice. Still a good read.
Jackie:
Consider guying a low-milage previously owned truck;
all the government fees have been paid. (I have been reading ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves’.)
The other option is buy Trigger from the Insurance Co. if it is at all driveable, or could be
easily made driveable, and have a local “shadetree” “bodyman” put on a box from the
salvage yard. Of course if the rear axle is bent or shifted that may not be feasible.
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I wish I had gotten a second opinion on my old truck that the body shop said was not worth
fixing – I could/would have spent $10k to fix it, and would have been $5K ahead.
And still had the truck I really liked.
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GM Debbe where ever you are.
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Prayers to all that need them.
Back in the ‘Space Race’ days people were saying “we should give the money to the poor.”
But without that race we would not have the advances in medicine and sciences and technology
that we have – for better or worse (mostly better in my opinion).
The poor would be no better off, nor the rest of society.
He is aluminum. Shade trees don’t do. Trigger will be totalled at about $30,000. I have $20,000 in him paid out already. I owe $30,000.
The $20,000 is gone I am afraid. It takes a lot of damage to total a truck that expensive. They found body damage.
Morphy,
The shadows in the Yaroslavskiy railway station were real.
That is the reason I went with a 2014 Ford. I looked at the 15 and thought about the repair of that aluminum body along with a few other issues (like the Eco Boost engine that shuts off every time you stop at a light) made my decision. That and I don’t recommend buying the first year of anything. The 14 was the last of the run and hopefully they got most of the bugs out of it. I feel bad for you and all your problems with Trigger. May they at least find the idiot responsible and prosecute them. Getting hit by people with no insurance sucks and if you have Allstate you will be screwed. They are among the least honest companies out there. USAA is not much better.