Nothin’ like a nice soft slab of cement to break your fall!
Nice Soft Slab of Cement
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Golden Gardens Olympic Mountains
These are the lyrics to Brendan’s Death Song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Someone posted the song to Facebook and it seemed to resonate as I feel surrounded by death recently, two long time customers (both had been with us close to a decade), both nice people, and my Mother passed a couple of years ago and my Father still alive at 88 doesn’t want to be.
If I die before I get it done,
will you decide.
I’ll take my words and turn them into sounds,
it will survive.
Because a long time ago,
I knew not to deprive.
It’s safe out there and now you’re everywhere,
just like the sky.
And you are love,
you are the love supreme,
you are the rye.
And when you hear this,
You know its your jam,
It’s your goodbye.
(Chorus)
Like I said you know I’m almost dead,
you know I’m almost gone.
And when the drummer drums,
its gonna play my song,
to carry me along.
Like I said you know I’m almost dead,
You know I’m almost gone.
And when the boatman comes to ferry me away,
to where we all belong.
We your cost,
when we were feeling lost,
it’s just the time.
Kateri cried,
the day her lover died,
she recognized.
Because ya gave her,
a life of real love,
it’s no surprise.
The night’s are long,
but the years are short,
when you’re alive.
Way back when,
will never be again,
it was a time.
It’s gonna catch you,
so glad I met you,
to walk a line.
(Chorus)
Like I said you know I’m almost dead,
you know I’m almost gone.
And when the drummer drums,
he’s gonna play my song,
to carry me along.
Like I said you know I’m almost dead,
You know I’m almost gone.
And when the boatman comes to ferry me away,
to where we all belong.
Come get me
Hey!
Hey!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Like I said you know I’m almost dead,
you know I’m almost gone.
And when the drummer drums,
its gonna play my song,
to carry me along.
Like I said you know I’m almost dead,
You know I’m almost gone.
And when the boatman comes to ferry me away,
to where we all belong.
Let me live, so when it’s time to die,
Even the Reaper cries.
Let me die, so when it’s time to live,
Another sun will rise.
I said yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
I said yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Like I said you know I’m almost dead,
you know I’m almost gone.
(I said yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)
And when the drummer drums,
its gonna play my song,
to carry me along.
(I said yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)
Like I said you know I’m almost dead,
You know I’m almost gone.
(I said yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)
And when the boatman comes to ferry me away,
to where we all belong.
(I said yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)
Like I said you know I’m almost dead,
you know I’m almost gone.
Like I said you know I’m almost dead,
you know I’m almost gone.
Like I said you know I’m almost dead,
you know I’m almost gone.
73 Degrees
It is a comfortable 73°F so far today, a far cry from yesterdays blazing 92°F. I could sleep now except I’ve got work to do.
Size 14 – Claire Danes Poster
If you get, “The video does not exist”, the video DOES exist, You Tube is just being flaky. Here, I’ll put up yet a third URL hopefully YouTube won’t flake out on this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qI7Sylns1_g
Thunder
There is a distant lightning storm, hearing rolling thunder periodically. With this hot weather expected lightning in the evening, instead we’re getting it in the morning.
Freeze Pops
In this heat, I’ve been sucking down freeze-pops like there is no tomorrow. I don’t know how healthy that is. I’ve got no idea what goes into those things. Sometimes I can’t even identify what flavor they are supposed to be. What flavor is this? Green. But they’re cold which right now is a good thing.
Too Hot Inside
Too hot inside. My neighbors solution? Just move all the furniture outside.
Keys
Acts 8:37 King James Version (KJV)
37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Our Daily Bread had a whole page of Acts to read today but I felt it all came down to this one verse. And that which I’ve underlined is a key that opens many doors.
Can’t Stop Going Backwards Turned into another “Stranded” Dream
I’ve never trusted ASB brakes. I call them Anti-Stop Breaks. For the masses I think they are the right thing because the masses instinct is to push the brake pedal through the floor and lock up all four tires and slide until the car either runs out of momentum or crashes, often the latter. I’ve had skid pad training, and not only do I know how to find the spot just on the edge of losing traction and adjust to maintain it, for me it is the natural reaction. Personally, I think instead of ABS breaks everyone should be required to undergo this training. All that said, I have a deep distrust in the things and that distrust in part probably comes from having worked with computers for more than 35 years. Computers crash, cars crash, put them together and you have crash2. Seems like a bad idea.
I just woke out of a dream where my car would not allow me to apply the brakes when going backward. In the dream, I went backwards for several miles without killing anyone or running into anything and ran out of momentum somehow ending up on a public walkway in the Seattle Centre. (I spelled “centre” the British way because otherwise this stupid British English spell checker in Firefox bitches).
After finally coming to a stop, I got out of my car and walked about fifty foot away from it. This was about all the time it took for Seattle Center to have it towed. They told me it was at a lot a couple of blocks away. I walked to that lot, they told me they didn’t have my car. I walked back to the center, the guy told me he had told his brother to have it towed, so God only knows where my car is. At that point I decided to call the police and report it stolen. This is the point where I woke up, if you can call my current state awake.