Mercy! Mercy! That Dang Nabed PERCY!

Chinese Underwear

Chinese Underwear

Today I think I will go cut some wood. The Church has some property that was hit by a recent wind storm and there are trees and branches down everywhere. I still haven’t finished cutting my wood for the winter and have been procrastinating.

Yesterday I went to Gander Mountain to purchase a magazine for my rifle. The place was packed. You had to have a number to get waited on. Had to wait for over an hour then to be told they didn’t have any…that I needed to go on line. The gun business is not suffering from any economic woes. I must have seen twenty sold as I waited to get served.

Some of this stuff we are importing from China is semi-lethal. I told you I had been suffering from the hives and the location of the rash was around my thighs and genitals. We narrowed it down to some Haynes boxer shorts that I got in a 3-Pack for Christmas. At first I thought washing would do the trick but that didn’t work either. The symptoms returned when I wore a pair yesterday even though they had been washed two times. Those suckers went in the garbage. The Chinese don’t get quality control and if they don’t get a handle on it their exports are going to suffer a serious blow. Already I look for the made in China logo and avoid it wherever possible.

Other than that Christmas went well and was a very jolly time of the year. I am reading the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series and enjoying it. One of the Central Characters is Elizabeth Salander, a female who is four eleven and weighs 90 lbs. She is a security investigator. Anyway she writes security reports on people and doesn’t use euphemisms. For some reason I have always liked reports that followed the thread of facts to the exclusion of any attempt at providing verbal softening or spin. I don’t write this way because I know it doesn’t fly well in the world at large but I find a character that writes and thinks in this manner to be a very interesting one. This, in addition to the fact, that the book has two central characters has perked my curiosity.

I probably should be cleaning up my upcoming class, The Exploratory Writing Workshop but Think I will just tidy up a bit and make the major revisions as a matter of course once the class starts. That I will dial things back a bit for the next two weeks and refill the pitcher with some new and interesting things