A Monkee song you don't normally hear:


It's goin' down.

53 years ago, I watched history on a little 13" b&w t.v. in the manager's office at the McDonald's where I worked.


Yep, I'm that old.

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Today at lunch, I saw a lady eating pizza with a knife and fork.

I started to laugh, then had a flashback to fourth grade, when I had a teacher who did the same thing.

What goes around, comes around.

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Right about the time I returned home from my little walk in the rain yesterday, it really started coming down.

Think buckets.

After an hour or so it let up, so I got in my car and drove across town.

When I started back for home, here it came again.

Coming down so hard I had to pull over because I couldn't see more than 20 feet in front of me.

After 15 minutes or so it finally slowed to a drizzle, leaving me to navigate flash-flooded streets.

A short drive turned into an odyssey.

45 minutes later I arrived safely at home once more.

I remembered thinking that I had originally wanted to do something different hours earlier.

And then I thought of the old Irish saying:

Be careful what you wish for - you just might get it.

Today I see we received between 5 to 6 inches of rain in a couple of hours.

Since we had been close to a drought here it was, in hindsight, much appreciated.

Today, the grass is even green again.

A nice little adventure to get there, though.

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It's been raining all day today.

It started yesterday evening, so technically it's been raining for 36 hours.

We started yesterday below average for rainfall this month and last I checked we have had 1 1/2 inches so far.

The rain is expected to continue until tomorrow morning.

Looking out of my front window, I can see the grass is turning from brown to green again.

It's a nice warm rain with no lightning, so I'll do something I rarely get to do any more.

I'm going for a walk.

Having an electric car sounds nice.

But

If you want me to buy one, build one that charges itself...

like a regular car battery does.

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What's your Kryptonite?

Mine has always been a brunette with blue eyes.

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Just getting ready to sit down to dinner and the drunks across the street have started (early) screaming at one another.

Dinner & a show -

right outside my window.

Sometimes I want to hear the slower, bluesier version.


Not today.

We are in a slight drought here.

The grass is brown.

If I see one more careless smoker toss their finished butt in the grass,

I will bitch slap them like Will Smith at the Oscars.