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Abraham Lincoln's 200th birfdé...

the Great Emancipator & Preserver of

the UNION woulda been two hundred years

old Aday. But he woulda been more noted

for walkin' around with a derringer ball

in his cranium. {i do not make light of

such things, having visited the GARFIELD

haus in Ohio & recently, Ford's theatre}

Modern Economyx: the next stimulus can't

come too soon for me...i wasted the one

from GEORGE [also a Suspender of habeus

corpus] on Necessaries!?! Over=more, i

werk at a job with two (2) shovels and

it's a Green Job to boot. Steel=toed.

Acause i woulda coulda shoulda clasped

a situation in Life more akin to the

robber=barons of Industry, i empathise

completely with the lady who just made

eight (8) babies. Them is the future.

Barack will have a fine time setting the

balances right and the pendulæ motioning

toward centre. [some can only Rise.]

Weathre: it's a fierce Wind which is fixt

from the Heavens on the eastwise land,

after destroying too much & too many in

the SOONER STATE. Perhaps the breath of

Jah has poured out upon us to correct our

strides forward. What i know is that the

berds don't favour Flying against it!

{in a few dés, there will be crocuses

peeking out for the Sparrows & Squirls

to dine on} Buddhists have the tendency

to let aer pass thru 'em... *whoosh*

Amor: Saterdé will be the feast of that

Saint who perisht in a flail of Arrows.

In his Remembrance, i will hold my candy

chocolates from each of my Sisters TO

each & all my mistresses & girl=friends.

i bet the Mail is good on that Day...

~randomlySentimentle~slac~

karp

Sunday, February 8th,°9...
Well, that was quite the toe=tappin'
touchdown last week, wasn't it? It
was the only play i really saw. But
it made us Champions yet again. The
latest cold snap has abated; it was
nearly temperate today as i made a
long circuit south of my hill. A few
people came through the Park as i was
there...the old neighbourhood looks
much the same. [when was i last there?
November maybe?] And altho the snow
and ice are melting & sublimating, it
is a muddy mess underfoot where the
earth is AND the paved parts are salty
and gritty and grey. Six more weeks!

Mondé, February Ninth,°9...

in the self=same

week in which i met a quorum

of cats on the way home from werk, the

schnay has nearly completely vanisht.

The berds are much Happy of the warmth.

{the sun=shine is more heartening than

the ambient temperature.} Meanwhile, i

am much Agrieved of the summer suffers

in AUSTRALIA. Nature can be cruel and

heartless to her inhabiteurs. i Pray

it gets no worse down=under. ~slac~

rung

Friday, January 30th, +9...

Where does the continuum go? There's

gonna be some kinda big game on SunDay

already again once. i may watch it in

bits & pieces Acause the PRESIDENT is

a schteelers fan. Mondé will mark a firm

hash=mark for the Colonel; it's a numbre

of decades between two (2) and nineteen

(19) which he's been gracing the Earth.

{somewhere in the OT it is said,"The day

of a person's birth is not notable, but

the day of their demise is of report."}

The PATRIARCH=in=law [babaloo] had his

celebration Yesterdé...so i owe him a

Happy Happy message. id est, i shoulda

coulda woulda oughten to have done some

thing Nice for him while he was Visiting

just last week=end! He'll forgif me of

it anaconda i am an embryonic up=schtart

AND he, like the Colonel, is a Pillar of

the Fambly. {Mothers form us into Hearts

and souls; Dads fill in the bones & guts}

What? me? parentheticle? Parish the thot.

PUNXSATAWNEY! i need a check=spell even

for that werd, and i was AT the Liberry

even to=day. ~muchly-dutchly~slac~

cots

Monday, January 26th, °°9...

MAISY had the good plan to come and

visit the Walley with her hubby on

the weekend of ROBBIE BURN's birfdé,

and, for the most part, the plan did

not go agley. There was a meeting of

Camp Counselors at the downtown brewery

Saterdé night...but they also got to

see plenty of me and the CAT fambly.

MAISY and her man took me out to Our

favourite nearby schteakhaus Friday

[yes~i had the schteak] AND to brunch

at Our best GREEK diner down=the=hill

on Sundé. They took CAT and the kids to

lunch at a long=time fambly café on

Saterdé, while i was werking. [yes~it's

been chilly in the boof.] All=in=all

a perfectly nice Confluence to upcatch

on evything in a brief week=end! Am i

writing in complete sentences? Maybe.

Oh! And they retourned Home by way of

MAISY's native city, where she first

met her husband as a teenager. (18,

and not at all far back in Memory!)

The ENGINEER is setlling into werk in

HOUSTON with his best bud from ATLANTA.

It's warmer there, i am sure, and my

brudda is probly Ecstatic of that.

{i neglected to write about the coyote

we saw while he was so recently here}

Who else had haggis 'cos i didn't...

~half=scot slac~

join

Tuèsdé, January 20th, +9...

i shall fondly regret, someday, that i did

not join three million (3,000,000) people

in the cold capital for the Installation of

the fo'ty=fo'th President. But i can tell

all my friends that i had the ring=side seat

via that tele=video thang. Thanx, C-Span.

i was very happy to see my Acquaintances upon

that dais...Jimmy Carter & Joan Mondale,

whose hands i have shaken, and Bill Clinton

who spoke for his wife this past Year at a

local college. {they must be Americans 'cos

they schtill Love to live here} *choke*

As for the remainder of the GATHERINGness,

i join in their Joy of the wondrous moment.

They is my bruddas & sistas, all one percent

of them...witnessing dreamlike History.

Amorro will be Bright i am certain, after

the gracious Partay. Peaceful transition,

and VOTE in the next elect~slac~

plot

"plot"
And yet, and yet. The cold bears
down and the schnow is coming.
Days to accomplish, nights to rest~
What else is there?

"The souls of the just are in the

hand of God, and no torment

shall touch them..."

It was a cold & snowy day. Dan &

Eva & Janice drove me to the plot.

She was lowered by two very nice

gentlemen...one Hispanic and one

Bosnian. I was glad to meet them.

^reposited from and5^

The engineer and i just barrel=aced thru Pennsy

from WEST to EAST today. I, for my part, drove

thru four (4) tunnels! WE spent this past week=end

with our KENTUCKY cousins; and just afore that,

WE visited Ron & Alan in CAROLINA...and toured

anothre famous author's home. It was a long

circuit, this southern sojourn of the second sons,

but Glorious and Wonderful all=to. I'll write more

about it as i complace myself of the epic retourn.

PRAY, dear friends, for CAT's patriarch who is

struggling mightily at the big hospital with many

ailments. WE love him so... [1-23-°7]

Bueño Dìaz de Los Padres, evybody! Dads

are wonderful to have around the House,

Xpecially iffen they Paid for it. [the Haus]

My Pop continues to molecularly reassemble

betwixt the STRAITS OF HORMUZ and the

AMAZON DELTA...with scant atomic visits

land=wise thru evaporation & condensation.

But i know Xactly where the old Salt's bride

is Reclining...i'll see 'em bof in rapture.

^six months ago, in jernal=land^

Thursday, January 15th, °9...modern=day:

this month, afore the fantasticle inauguration,

i am in the mind of memories. G knows who

we are, and if we remember Ours AND G

remembers us...then all will come right in

the after=here. It's a pleasurable thot!

The shepherd boy DAVID wrote all about it.

Of his twenty=third psong, i am apt to

condense: "...I shall never want...I fear

nothing...My cup is over=filled...I will live

in that house for All my Days." The King

and throne thing would come much later...

Friday, January 16th, zed9...sometimes you

land on the run=way, sometimes you ditch in

the Hudson and all hands are Saved. This was

a New Year, New York miracle and a brightshine

of good news in a season of bad news coverage.

There was anothre pilot recently who crasht a

perfectly fine small jet for his own bad Purpose.

Perhaps he had been reading too much recently

of all the Financial bail=outs & decided to stage

a real and personal bail=out of his own. It was

a small mistake to get caught trying to do it!

BERNIE MADOFF should only have it so rough.

One thing or anothre~i prefer the good news.

~cold=snap surviving~slac~

shin

Cat brang some people by to look over the haus...
Contractors who would retrofit the shack at good
cost for fair flip. {i had my chance to learn this art
in the eighties from Kay & Ron, but opted for bingo
and concerts instead. Self=Kick} Nice people.
^reposited from 2°°6, merely three (3) Years ago^
{i wouldn't be in the Hausing market aday on dare}









Tuesday, January 13th, +9...the engineer is making good use of his Walley library=card; he gets to sit in a BIG room, fastly InterWebbing on his top=lap. Plus+, they have a real papre Dictionary there, in case he has to look up a schtrange werd. *Leaf*

He treated us this morning to the #2 breakfast at our favourite Diner...he had bacon & i had sausage. It's quite amazing we get along these days, 'cos we had Epic fights when we were schnotters! The sun is holding for the Visit, but very, very cold CANADIEN aer is coming to slam us. i am schtill consuming the meats that Kay sent for the Holydés...and so, have not put up a Wintre soop. But like my presence in the new Glow neighbourhood, i'll get there soon enuf. Appreciata, flowre=sun, for making it possible for Andrea & Vince to find me! It's my ancient ninja training which taught me to hide in plain sight. Veritas. ~until=the=next~slac~