I’ve spent thirty years as an airborne infantryman, I’m a combat veteran, Jumpmaster, Pathfinder, with a CIB and I just woke from a dream where I was fighting a losing battle with a set of mini blinds to get them to hang straight.

🙄

My son spent his birthday today laid up with a 101-102 degree fever. Not COVID, we tested first thing this morning, but he’s pretty sick just the same. Seems to be some respiratory bug, cough, body aches, congestion.

He’s in a good mood despite it all, he’s a resilient fellow.

Perhaps I am indeed becoming an old man. I am spending my Friday night reading about Nazi Germany and drinking tea… and I wear readers… #readgoodbooks #dontrepeathistory

I’m fascinated with the @historyhit Shackleton expedition. It’s pretty very super cool.

It’s 30 degrees and snowing. In Texas.

Time to find some nice documentaries and settle in.

I guess since I’ve given up jumping out of airplanes, I’m going to need a new brutally fast motorcycle…

We are limited animals, with unlimited horizons.

E Becker.

It’s rough out there this morning, don’t drive angry.

I really hate being sick.

The one upside is that I usually catch up on my reading, and I’m doing that in spades right now.

#covid19 #omicron

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. —Bertrand Russell

Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting. —Haruki Murakami

I finished “The Road not Taken” by Max Boot last night. I started this book last year sometime, it’s very good, highly recommended, review to follow soon enough.

It led me to “The Corrosion of Conservatism” by the same author, and that is also a very interesting read…

What an odd batch of days we’ve had here lately.

At some point, a string of odd days becomes common enough to be the new normal, and they are no longer odd.

I wonder if we’ve reached that yet…

My dog is the strangest animal on the planet. Literally.

I’m watching Matrix Revolutions.

And I’m leaning pretty strongly toward liking it…

Lamb on the grill, black-eyed peas prepped, and potatoes coming along. We deferred NYD dinner for 24 hours since it was Saturday and all…

That wind is no joke outside right now. Got my PTSD from February kicking…

There is only one breakfast appropriate for the 26th of December in Texas. #tamalesandeggs