Peter Vipulis - Posted - 02/29/2020:  04:20:52

I made a visit to the cemetery where grandma had the recipe engraved on her stone.

She didn't trust cloud computing

OM45GE - Posted - 02/29/2020:  05:48:50

, probably because she thought it referred to actual clouds.

She couldn’t understand

chuckv97 - Posted - 02/29/2020:  06:54:58

why Windows were assigned numbers.

Granny became very suspicious

Bill Rogers - Posted - 02/29/2020:  14:23:11

of anyone she thought might want to deep-six her recipe.



Meanwhile, taking a slow boat (or any transport) to China right now is probably a bad idea, because

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 02/29/2020:  16:52:44

the health insurance would be a fortune.

I turned left towards Australia

Bill Rogers - Posted - 02/29/2020:  20:15:39

trusting I can avoid the fires.

So where in the world

chuckv97 - Posted - 02/29/2020:  20:38:21

can I die in peace without anxiety over plagues, pandemics, earthquakes, being burned alive, or drowning?

Pierre, South Dakota sounds appealing

5B-Ranch - Posted - 03/01/2020:  00:08:37

,do they have volcano I can't remember.

Hopefully

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 03/01/2020:  12:36:36

they can finish my little shack on Easter Island.

Getting excited for VirginGalatica space flight

Bill Rogers - Posted - 03/01/2020:  17:46:09

to where, though, is the question.



Pierre, btw, lies in a bend of the Missouri River, which means

Edited by - Bill Rogers on 03/01/2020 17:46:53

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 03/01/2020:  18:17:01

you might be snorkeling to open your fridge sometime.

But if the volcano

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/01/2020:  18:37:28

is non-existent, all’s well that ends well.

Life on the bald prairie

Bill Rogers - Posted - 03/01/2020:  21:49:35

can lead to a serious case of monotony.

A highway trip can lead you through a lot of poke-and-plumb towns,* which



*poke your head out the window, and you’re plumb out of town

OM45GE - Posted - 03/02/2020:  03:23:46

have their own special sort of charm.

Personally, I prefer

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/02/2020:  08:56:43

a town with a bar room and a pool table.

If they roll up the sidewalks at dusk

Bill Rogers - Posted - 03/02/2020:  11:30:47

there’s a road trip in the offing if you seek entertainment.

That may mean

OM45GE - Posted - 03/02/2020:  11:57:48

calling for an Uber unless you plan to drive home under the influence.

That is incredibly stupid

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/02/2020:  11:59:50

although a common occurrence in bygone years.

Route 66 in Missouri used to be called “The Highway of Blood”

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 03/02/2020:  12:22:41

and that would scare any tourist.

I've never seen a tumbleweed

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/02/2020:  13:37:51

that I didn’t like is a corollary on the Roger Wills quote.

Sorry, but my brain synapses are misfiring again

OM45GE - Posted - 03/02/2020:  15:47:26

and I don’t know how to stop them.

I actually sort of

Bill Rogers - Posted - 03/02/2020:  20:51:43

overdosed with neurons.

Maybe I need some

OM45GE - Posted - 03/03/2020:  03:40:25

more Scotch.

That might calm

5B-Ranch - Posted - 03/03/2020:  06:39:30

the storms of my everlasting anxiety.

Being up to arse in alligators

OM45GE - Posted - 03/03/2020:  07:03:15

I obviously lost sight of my original objective.

Surprisingly, it was not

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/03/2020:  08:31:29

to drain the swamp.

I merely set out to

OM45GE - Posted - 03/03/2020:  10:41:49

check my crawdad traps.

The next thing I knew

Bill Rogers - Posted - 03/03/2020:  12:36:56

someone appeared with a guitar, singing “You get a line and I’ll get a pole.....”

I didn’t have my banjo with me, but

OM45GE - Posted - 03/03/2020:  15:16:22

I was content to just listen because he was quite god.

In fact, he was so good

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/03/2020:  15:31:00

that John Lomax IV came by with his portable recorder.



He then made him sign a copywrite waiver

Edited by - chuckv97 on 03/03/2020 15:31:23

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 03/03/2020:  17:05:14

put he didnt have a pen. He looked around briefly in the marsh he was so anxious.

He threw the paper into water and

Bill Rogers - Posted - 03/03/2020:  19:17:03

stalked away muttering.

So this adventure in impromptu field recording

5B-Ranch - Posted - 03/04/2020:  02:07:08

was a learning experience.

Reminds me of the time

OM45GE - Posted - 03/04/2020:  03:23:10

I tried to use a bedsheet to parachute off the roof.

It went well at first, but

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 03/04/2020:  05:59:53

it was a seventeen story building.

Turning was awkward

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/04/2020:  06:56:48

and the flock of pigeons didn’t help matters any.

Luckily for me a wind shear

OM45GE - Posted - 03/04/2020:  11:51:58

swept me up the building and deposited me neatly on the roof.

it was at that moment that I realized

Bill Rogers - Posted - 03/04/2020:  11:57:38

there was a good reason for stairs and elevators.

So I took the latter back down to the first floor, where

OM45GE - Posted - 03/04/2020:  12:01:19

the building management presented me with a large invoice for unauthorized used of the roof.

I started to protest

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/04/2020:  12:18:21

then thought better of it and offered them a free ticket to my next dare-devil show.

Little did they know

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 03/04/2020:  14:14:06

they'd be seated where I'd be jumping over them in a Monster Truck.

I went as fast as I could

OM45GE - Posted - 03/04/2020:  14:47:39

but had badly miscalculated the angle of the ramp.

As soon as I

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 03/04/2020:  15:47:09

slammed the horn people scattered. Strangely I made the jump.

When I stopped, they all came running at me

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/04/2020:  15:51:20

with hatchets in hand demanding a refund.

Good thing I’d brought along my bear spray

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 03/04/2020:  16:21:53

because they brought bears too, grizzlies.

I shouted, "Can we talk this over?!"

5B-Ranch - Posted - 03/04/2020:  16:34:27

The crowd wasn't having any of my excuses.

Being lame off course

roxygrl - Posted - 03/04/2020:  16:43:51

my golf ball made a hole in one..
later back at the club house..

5B-Ranch - Posted - 03/04/2020:  16:48:23

I ordered a club sandwich and a glass of Chardonnay.

Nothing like

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/04/2020:  16:51:40

a solid 18 holes after a high speed car chase.

Oral Roberts couldn’t play golf cuz