Wouldn't ya know

First I go off complaining about my blog disappearing for a little while and then I abandon it my-own-self for nearly a week.

Which in it's self is not too unusual.....I'm often at a loss for coherent thought and am likely to become so engrossed in the antics of others that I forget to let fingers do the walking.....but am never short of breath to talk your ear off in person. I'll often catch my wife rolling her eyes as I go on, and on, and on, and on....kinda like that rabbit with his stupid drum.

Anyhooooo......not so much going on around here. I did a little treasure hunting last friday and spent the weekend trying to separate the dross from the glitter. I hauled some metal for underpinning of the ol' Grumps rental trailer up to Carnesville so the Son and his wife could put it up for him to replace the tattered vinyl that had been there.

Folks....take it from me....vinyl underpinning may look good when first installed, but will lose to a weedeater every time.

For that kind deed I reaped the benefit of the excess metal that he'd ordered. Almost enough to underpin my storage and shop building completely. That's good. I did however learn that bending over and getting up and down does not come as easily as once they did. Forty pounds of excess belly will do that to you.

But I am making headway on my diet. The wife bought me a new set of digital bathroom scales to let me see how much weight I'm not losing. Just Damn.

The politicians are as venal and stupid as ever......I don't even want to think of that much.

I seem to recall that during my brief attendance at Dacula Elementary and High School back during the dark ages the Darwin Theory was brought up and we learned that mankind had steadily evolved from out of the primordial muck and was surely headed for great things......why, we might even venture off this rock and go visit some of our celestial neighbors, setting foot on that big wedge of green cheese we see in the sky at night sometimes.

The men in my basic training unit back in the summer of '69 thought that event was just the first step forward in a giant leap of evolution. That, however, sputtered out less than 10 years later and we've seemingly lost the urge toward greatness that we once had. Devolving into endless partisan bickering and squabbling like a pack of hyenas over the carcass of a, once mighty, now toothless and starved lion. Unable to match him even at less than his prime, they laugh and howl with delight as they snatch rotting bits to sate their grotesque appetites, delighting in his fall, rolling about in the fetid refuse of ruptured intestines and fecal matter, as if to carry away with them some steaming stench as proof of their supposed superiority.

Just Damn, no wonder that I gaze upon and cherish bits of yesteryear.