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Nilknarf Daily Haiku The evenings linger and the nights last forever yet our lives so short… |
clouds from my driveway
out the window on I-470 2
Nice day… I got some good sleep anyway. I got a new contour pillow when we were at Sam’s yesterday and I really like it. Just wish that it was longer… my head falls off of it.
Jean was up earlier than I was, 09:00 or something. She went to Manhattan to get her fingers and toes done for her Las Vegas trip & then she had lunch with Moira. She got back home around 17:00.
From the hill 8
I, on the other hand, slept until noon, got up and had breakfast and went to Walgreens to get some prescription refills. I also got a three muscateer candy bar, a small one. Mistake, of course. Two hours later my BS was still 311.
I’m really wanting to go to Joe’s funeral, but I’m having second thoughts… Jean is leaving the next morning for ArKansas and Las Vegas, and I don’t want to mess her up, but I’m pretty sure that she’s not gonna let me go by myself.
I did, however, get Joe’s mothers’ phone number, and I’ll call her tomorrow.
The clouds were about right for a sunset, and we started off about 17:30 to get out to the hill… sunset was 18:03.
From the hill 15
But when I stepped out of the door there was a glorious cloud formation to the west, so I got a few images… then I rolled the window down and got some more while driving on I-470. Yeah, I’m that coordinated.
After that, it was a pretty disappointing sunset… the clouds were mostly in the wrong places.
But the geese were pretty active, although their flight paths were more to the west than usual. Since they seem to just be flying around for exercise (or to show off) I have no idea why that should be. They’re all local flocks, I’m sure.
We stopped and got a sandwich at Jimmy Johns’ on the way back… wasn’t very good, but adequate. I’d willingly drive ten more miles and get a Subway.
If you watch commercial TV… there’s an ad on for people who owe the IRS money, and these folks negotiate with the IRS for you, and it shows people saying, “I owed the IRS $52,000 and only had to pay $8,000!” and I wanna say, “yeah, and you owe me $44,000, tax dodger!”
Several commercials have the same effect on me, but I won’t go into details, it would get boring.
I think that I’m ready to declare that I’m completely recovered from my November-January illness… I’m really feeling pretty good.
From the hill 16
“Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.” – Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
Thanx for being here… all these years!!!!
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