Random thoughts from the moose cave.

my big noisy truck takes about 33 cents a mile to go. (just in gas, mind you)

and I'm 20 miles from town. I gotta make my trips count...

and my brakes started chirping, gonna hafta slap a set of brake pads on it.

bad brakes suck too. Especially when you can't change the break pads yourself.

33 cents a mile. How much is the norm?

35 mpg would net you 10 cents a mile...

but I can pull a car trailer, or a batch of scrap.

I gotta have a truck, I use it to make money.

I've got a honda prelude out back that will get 35mpg, and be rocket fast.

It needs a new head and the timing parts replaced. about $500 for me to do it.

one of these days...

gotcha.

The Honda sounds sweet. One day for sure.

soon. my finances should start improving, the number of productive hours per week has trebled. and the weather is getting better, although I needa go get some kindling and start the stove, we are going below freezing tonight.

had my tuna sammich. gonna go hook up the tire machine and do some dismounting. If I feel ok, then Ima fire up the stove and hunt for dead wires on goldie.

we'll see...

Sounds productive. I am thinking about cleaning the kitchen.

Thinking about it.

I am a bit unmotivated this week. Seriously hit the skids. All of that smiling and helping folks on Saturday and Sunday apparently depleted me of any gumption for this week. kidding. mostly.

I understand, I don't miss doing a show every week.

I rarely have to produce a happy face when I don't wanna anymore...

go do your washing up and I will check back on you.

I still hafta haul some water iff'n I want a shower tonight...

Full moon tomorrow - don't forget to go out and howwwwwwwwwwwwwl !

full moon kinda stuff is going on, too.

me and smoky were watching hot in cleveland (valerie B...) and my sis called. I started to tell her I would call her back in ten minutes (this is the only show I watch, ever) but I heard tears.

I immediately assumed idiot boy was back in town, but no...

no bruises or blood. someone she looked up to a lot that we both worked with years back has died from cancer. and she just found out...

I offered to shave and clean up and take her to the funeral (she would not make it without someone to lean on) but it is a private family affair to happen tomorrow in Oklahoma.

not gonna crash it, nor travel to indian land at this point.

I sent her the two obits I found, and told her to call me tomorrow if she wants to go to the burial mass they are holding locally. (I hope not, I hate mass)

gonna go sing to my coyote, he's a long ways off tonight. Ima see if I can howl and draw him in...

rain and thunder moving in. gonna hafta stay up for a bit and make sure my buckets are kosher.

think Ima take a shower and shave just in case I get invited to mass tomorrow...

not gonna be in any shape for mass.

we have snow now. and it's time to dump the buckets...

did you stay up a bit too late?

I've had better nights...

gotta hurry up and get ok. I need a valve stem, and I left a whole box of them at the salvage last time I did a tire. meant to just leave them 10 or 12 and take the rest home. the joys of living with a fuzzy brain. at least I remember where I left them.

doh...

I was up before noon...

barely. and I went to bed at midnite, but sleep came later than that. not sure how long I lay there awake. oh well.

gonna go get my car dolly straightened out and return home with it. no receiver hitch yet, still hafta take it off my old truck, but this one has a bumper hitch, and the dolly weighs nothing unloaded.

this is the nice day sammiched between yucky ones, so I gotta get a move on.

I finished fixing the tire for snowplow guy last night, mostly to balance out karma for Morgan and his calling out a butler to change his flat.

no wind and sunny, I gotta go outside and get busy...

Hi

yes, and having noodles.

how's by you?

made me laugh.

I'm not. Either.

I'm alright. Meandering.

have a happy day.

Ima scoot on over before the boys leave. fridays are close early days a lot of times over there...

go repurpose something whydon'tcha...

alrighty.

enjoyed the afternoon, just hanging out and listening to my friend tell stories. several other old guys stopped by while we were hunting for the spread-bore adapter plate that he knew he had somewheres.

once you get 3 or more old guys together, story telling inevitable occurs soon afterwards. (almost immediately if there are beers or cigars involved)

and I got an exhaust manifold for the 4x4 so's I can make some cash this weekend. we're low again. still. whatever...

sunny and warm, with birds singing and chirping everywhere. got a cardinal outside the computer window even now...