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I Am Being Tested, Once Again. So What Else is New?
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I am writing this lament lying on a mattress 6 inches off the floor. I am typing on Jane’s laptop with its chiclet keys which suck. The Gates gadjet rests on a Casablanca ceiling fan box, the fan itself, recently installed, is blowing air about my buttocks. Things have not gone well. The paint job […]
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Several Different Things to Say, All Mist in My mind
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Jane is in a giddy or happy mood today as she is finishing off packing last minute items before we move next week. We will load her van with the necessaries of a vital trip — cpu, monitor, printer, essential files, cameras, lighting fixtures taken down only to be put up again, the GPS, “Trixie,” […]
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Several More Observations About Vegas
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I will need to sequester a small portion of my pension check for playing the slots as I enjoyed losing $20 here, $20 there. In fact, I found it kind of meditatively soothing as I won a little and then lost it, or bells went off and I hit a small “fortune” and then I […]
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Post Impressions of Vegas
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When I look into the street across the way and the rest of this decrepit neighborhood, I realize the gross differences between the two realities I have experienced as of late — here I feel kind of dirty and beaten down by the “neighbors” and the shabbiness of the blocks. In Vegas I felt returned to […]