Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Intersect...making lines meet for over 50 years.

This week, life had a mind of it's own.

There is a surreal comfort for me in timing things...
everyday things that I do--?
To know how long a thing takes--exists?
From my front door to Starbucks  7minutes 21seconds.
Shit-shower-shave  22minutes 31 seconds.
Door to door to meet my buddy for lunch 41minutes 38seconds.
Average time to detail clean the house 4 hours 31 minutes 19 seconds.
I use my chronographs constantly.
One of the highlights of today will be timing
my wife's visit to the dentist?
I understand the strangeness of this.
We can find comfort in the most unusual of pursuits.

the first thing a new boss needs to do
is piss off his 2.8 million employee's.
Trump-imposes-freeze-on-federal-hiring
What could possibly go wrong?


I have a new guitar student?
Hard to tell tho---with millennial's.
I've had several say they want lessons
 but then,they never actually show,
at the appointed time?
Theoretically I have once again two guitar students?
Neither of which may show up for lessons
on a normal basis??
Hard to tell if I am still teaching?
I suppose I am???

OK----
So this is kind of awesome--and hysterical to watch...
A scientist built a robot orangutan that used a saw
on a tree branch...
A real Orangutan not only learned how to saw by
watching it---
but apparently tried to beat the robot ape,
 at what it thought, 
was a sawing competition???

The Tamiya 1988, Porsche Turbo, 1:24 model
is completed.
I really enjoyed building this rather simple model.
It appears awesome when displayed.
I made one mistake, touching the roof with a bit of
taillight lens paint unknowingly on my fingers?
Well--there must always be one flaw eh?

The full story on me and this vehicle is:
Approximately 18 years ago while living in coastal Georgia,
I spotted an identical vehicle to my 1:24 model parked at
one of those really shady, side of the highway, 
used car lots..priced at $12,000.
I must have stopped a dozen time to peer in the 
windows.
I took my wife by one weekend to look at this car 
I was just insane over...
Wisely pointing out that the Porsche without a doubt needed
much mechanical work as well as a new set of it's required hand made tires,
and that it was probably seized by customs from a drug dealer?
My wife's impeccable logic won and I passed on buying it....
The next and probably last model of the winter is:

Streaming on Netflix..
Excellent so far....

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

So...ancient lesbian nuns run the future

A week so very confusing ?

Our own propaganda is our deadliest enemy,
 stuff bout how Merica' is #1
We desperately need real economic solutions.
The first step is to be honest about ourselves.

I remain practicing several hours a day,
building set lists--
attempting to refine my playing...


Nowhere left to run away to the final days of the circus
My life long pal Bill and I spoke of how
we saw Ringling Brothers circus in NYC when we were 5 years old.

I began construction of the Tamiya, 1988, Porsche turbo model..
I've completed the chassis and wheels,
The body and interior is merely test fitted in these 
photographs.
It is a cheap and beautiful if simple model--
the body is awesomely pre-finished in silver-
but---
I repainted the body screaming red to copy the
Turbo that I almost but didn't buy--
seemed a shame but--had to make it...
match the vehicle i passed on purchasing so cheap.
 This is, after all,
 the philosophical basis of my vehicle model making?

Friday night--we went out to a nice, little, joint
only 5 blocks away and saw Jimmie Dale Gilmore Live!
He was awesome!
Jimmie Dale is not only a great singer songwriter...
(and still going strong at 71)
He played "Smokey" the pacifist,
in the Big Lebowski..the mark it zero scene
Being a Reverend in the Church of the Dude--
 it was a doubly awesome night for me!
We got to pet his dogs!

i have this OVERWHELMING urge to stand in the
alley at the rear of our lot...
and work my way to the front property line..
cleaning, repairing, painting, organizing---
EVERYFUCKINGTHING!
At times I get overwhelmed by
the desire to do this...
I realize that if i undertake this type of project,
there is nothing I can do to insure the work i do
lasts?
I realize that as soon as i complete this mission,
life will require me to return to the alley and start 
all over again?