One year ago today: June 8, 2025,in the upper left.
Five years ago today: June 8, 2021, Squat-a in Guat-a.
Nine years ago today: June 8, 2017, I was 21.
Random years ago today: June 8, 2008, that Seminole chief.
The guitarist canceled until Wednesday. His unreliable vehicle situation means I’ll likely make a decision to go over there. After all, his girlfriend has moved out. He’s mentioned he’s living in a single-wide. All I need for rehearsal is a small amp, which I have. Over time, he sends me more tunes, which means he lands on some I’ve played before. Like any prehistoric musician he knows I’ll favor the ones I recognize, know, or have played before. Today’s batch included “Next Broken Heart” and “If You Got The Money”. That means we have enough to play out, what we don’t have is enough mileage on playing this as a duo.
It was still a fun morning, as I wound up at the office of my real estate lady, who has more smarts than the rest of this city put together. We were chatting an hour, the main conclusion is that China is likely to implode. She sees it as a national wrong path they’ve taken, I see it as a major character defect. That is, when you copycat everything, you have missed making the mistakes the originator had to. And, of course she gets a beautiful set of matching spice boxes. She loves them and she has not even seen the Fake boxes yet.
Then the Reb called. I’ve got to get up there soon but there is no window before August that we will both be in town. Some good news is my doggie has passed his blood tests. A small tumor in his mouth has posed no danger for years. The doggie and I have a favorite pastime, kind of like sitting on the sofa and thinking. As much as possible. No TV, no radio, just sitting.
We had time to chat, things are slowly looking up. It has been roughly since August last year, and certainly since November, I’ve told how the brakes got put on all extra spending. Now as we emerge from that, it’s into a world of tripled prices. I still hold back on repairing the KIA transmission and she reports her A/C is acting up. Can’t have that in a Tennessee summertime. Do I wait until I see it, or step in now? You know the answer, and my KIA can wait.
Ugh, yellow home mold.
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As noted, Ricko and I have enough material to gig, what’s needed is management to trim it back to what we can present the soonest and most effectively. Make that 15 tunes each, so we don’t play repeats every time. I still don’t know where some of his choices come from, but always wait to see how he plays them. I was going to burn him a CD of the tunes we’ve played, that is, the ones we can each sing. Turns out my best app will not run on a 64-bit computer and the damn install is a millennial link to a sales site that won’t easily delete.
Another thorn for me is the utility bill. It’s the electric that has ballooned. It is a screwy system whereby the city and commercial power are two different entities that appear on one bill. However, as long as the bill matches weather patterns, I’ve learned not to try making sense of them. For example of my $480 electric bill this year to date, $295 of it was that cold snap of last winter, something like a 15 year record. In a sense, I was spared the worst because I was gone for all of February and half of March. But while I was here, I ran the overhead heater in the comfort range 24/7. Just to spite some people I grew up with, possibly.
I knew I’ve be away so I hit the breakers for everything except the fridge. That’s how I know it costs $1.82 per day to run that appliance. A bargain by any standard. That heater is a different matter, because I need to install a second heater of slightly more capacity in the kitchen. I shivered through this time, but that was a most unusual circumstance. That heater cost $4.12 per day. Which beats the hell out of chopping wood, mind you.
The next few months are going to be hell on a lot of folks. I stopped for some basics at the grocery story, cost me $57. From the China conversation this morning, I think my friend is right about a major recession. The Hormuz blockade affects most of the world other than America. If they can’t get oil, they can’t buy things. And America is a huge exporter. Her prediction is a mass worldwide recession. I’m not so sure, it’s not like Iran is the only place to buy oil.
The entire British attack submarine fleet is out of commission. This surprises few, since that outfit went woke there is nobody left who knows how to maintain the things. You can’t vote a nuclear reactor to do your bidding. Last I heard, the Prince of Wales, their only aircraft carrier, had the Russians dying of laughter when it had to ask Norway to repair the thing. The Ruskies know anybody with any brains cleared out of England many elections ago.
What other news interests me? Pennsylvania may require smart glasses to display a recording light. Mexico passes a law forbidding employers to contact employees at home. The WHO has spent $6.3 million dollars over each ebola death.
