4/15/2011

OK, so Wednesday my Amazing Ken Doll (Amazon Kindle for those with attention spans as short as mine... ooh, look! A dog with a puffy tail!) arrived already loaded with several books. One of those books is “World War Z, An Oral History of the Zombie War” by Max Brooks. I got tucked into that right away. Good book. I'm about ¼ of the way through it already. I expect that I'll be spending less time surfing the TV channels and more time reading now. We'll see. I also bought quite a few books and stories by H. P. Lovecraft because... well, I don't really know all that much about his works and want to read them. I remember mentioning Cthulhu the other day but not in what context. I suppose I could go look. Hang on. OK, so the context was basically what I just now said. I thought so. Anyhoo, HPL wrote some stories based in the fictional town of Arkham Massachusetts. In this town there is a university, Miskatonic University to be exact. I am now an alumnus of Miskatonic University and will have the diploma to prove it soon. Yep, right there in the records of good old MU is my name in the class of 1927 with a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy. I was going to get a Medieval Metaphysics degree, but there are too many of them already clogging up the job market. I mean, there are just so many necromancer jobs to go around people. So, there’s that. Oh, also on Wednesday, that being my sister’s birthday, mom and I went to Granbury to have dinner with her. We met her and a bunch of her friends at this barbecue joint in Acton Texas, just outside of Granbury. (I suppose Acton could be considered a suburb of Granbury if Juan is willing to consider Granbury an “Urb.”) One of the other guests was the Sheriff of Nottingham... er, I mean Hood County. No really, the actual, honest to goodness, elected official, The Sheriff of Hood County. I've met him before, come to think of it, at this very same BBQ joint, and he’s always stern and steely-eyed. As we were leaving to go back home, mom said, “That sheriff seems so laid back.” I had to contradict her and say that he always seems uptight and on edge to me. My new theory is he gives me a “visual pat down” every time we meet and knows I'm carrying. I think that is why I always get the “Stink Eye” from him. Oh well, what are you going to do? Woo hoo! I just got a text from John saying the carburetors are on their way! I'm going to assume he meant the carburetors for Lil' Wiggly and wasn't bragging about some other carburetors for some other project. Yeah, it has to be Lil' Wiggly's carburetors. So I guess we’ll spend tomorrow at the shop prepping Lil' Wiggly and the Super Hot Rod A-14 for mating. Oh boy, I can hardly wait! Tee hee, I'm as happy as a little girl! AND NOW IS ZE TIME ON SPROCKETS VEN VE DANCE!