When I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean they were

giving out these nifty POTC temporary tattoos. This is

of course a scan of the sheet. I never did use them as

I was afraid of being mistaken for a hooligan.

I decided to take a walk around Rancho De La Tex after

the rains. I don't know how accurate these rain gauges are

but this one says close to nine inches. It has been raining a

lot, I'm just not sure if it is just this much a lot.

So much rain coming down and all this guy collected was a

rock. We should form a club. The fawn makes a

guest appearance.

It looks like my old chair of seventeen years or so has seen

it's last days. This was my old "sit outside and smoke" chair.

I bought it strictly for that purpose. I haven't used it for that

reason for ten years last June. Anyway, I guess it has

held it's last backside.

Think you used enough mousetraps there, Butch?

There aren't a whole lot of oranges there right now, but the

ones that are there are pretty doggoned.... orangy.

Last one for today is a flower.

 Just a short video of some So Cal rain (finally)

while sitting in the car at In N Out.

 

No wonder my foot kept getting caught on the clutch.

 

"Chewie? Chewie, is that you?"

I'd seen this movie with the Black Friday "PROMO"

sticker on it in the $7.88 bin for at least a month. It was

the only one with that sticker in the entire bin. I never

thought the promotion would still work, but I finally decided

to take it to the price checker thing. $3.88. Huzzah!

Yeeeees...

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss...

Yeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssss...

YES!

We tried a new Tom's restaurant. The burger above was

not mine. This one was a double cheeseburger with bacon

and pastrami on top. And to be honest (blush), mine was

just about as big. Yuhhhhh-MEE.

Just saw this sitting in the house. I have no idea who bought

Richard Simmons stuff. All I know about Richard Simmons

is that he seems to be an okay guy. He has been helping people

for years and years and you never hear anything bad about him.

And if you never saw him guest on a show called "Who's Line Is

It Anyway", you should do yourself a favor and look it up on

YouTube. I've seen it more than once and I rarely laugh that hard.

Especially for repeat viewings.

I'm excited about this. I got my Gravity Blu-ray. This one stars Sandra

Bullock and George Clooney and is outstanding. I saw it in the theater

and I can't wait to see it again. I just wish they would have done a better

job with the Blu-ray artwork. This is the first time I've ever felt that way.

The movie is just epic, but the cover is so blah.

I could not get a good picture of it.

Stand and Deliver!

I just ran across my Adam Ant poster from back in the

day. Adam Ant was thee dude. I liked his music a lot (strings

and marching drums ala' 1700's). With songs like Strip, Friend

or Foe and Dog Eat Dog, Ant Music was hot in the early 80's.

 Adam has quite a background and has had his share of problems,

but he keeps coming back.

And here is something that I didn't really know I had. My

3 Dog Night ticket. I don't want to say how long ago this was,

but look at the price of the ticket. This was my first more or

less "on my own" rock concert and was at The Great Western

Forum in Inglewood, California.

The Forum was one of the former homes to the Los

Angeles Lakers basketball team. I hate basketball.

~ A picture in The Bank - Old Town Temecula, California ~

This is just the most random shaped restroom

I've seen up to this point in my life.

Walmart Field Trip! Woo-Hoo!

Uh-oh. It's that pink, pastel and chocolate time of the

year again. Love me them Easter aisles.

I hope she does. I'm not paying five dollars to

watch her knit a sweater.

~ Lee Greenwood - American Patriot ~

Everything from The Pledge of Allegiance to

Star Spangled Banner to God Bless the U.S.A.

Enough said.

 I go out walking after midnight. Out in the moonlight just like

we used to do. I'm always walking after midnight searching for you.*

I love the night. But I'm not really searching for anybody.

That's just the song talking.

* Walking After Midnight by Don Hecht & Alan Block via Patsy Cline

And speaking of the Gene Autry Museum in Griffith Park, California...

The last time I went I bought this cool little Mexican double loop
leather holster/pistol keychain.

This is my Star Wars Titanium Series Luke Skywalker Figure.

Luke is defending Echo Base on Hoth and is about to take

down an AT-AT Walker in Star Wars Episode V: The

Empire Strikes Back (1980). Luke comes in a cool display

case, but it is just too big for my cabinet so he is out of that

and on the base only.

I took this picture on my visit to the Gene Autry Western Heritage

Museum in 2010. The museum is at Griffith Park in Los Angeles.

Ever get a chance to go? Go. Anyway, the item pictured today is

(as the sign says) a Tooth Key from about 1850. You just grip that

handle in your fist, wrap the business end around the offending

tooth and..... yikes.

 

My son took this picture at the entrance to Tomorrowland

in Disneyland, California. I do not know the name of the

big gold atrocity. The Matterhorn looks nice though.

~ Circa 2003 ~

 

Now, I am not really familiar with buses

and bus trips...

...but if this is what they are all like, I will

pass. Fortunately this was a very short trip.

Like ten minutes short.

 

 
So I was playing a game of pool on my beloved iPod when
Jimmy comes walkin' in...

Jimmy is always good for a few moments of abandon and some
laughs, and he plays a good game of Eight Ball. He smokes too
much and every room he spends time in ends up looking like a
bar. I believe that if Jimmy were able, he would surround himself
in black and white.

He doesn't know much about me, and that's the way I want it. Jimmy
says he thinks of me, often. But it isn't Jimmy who thinks about me.
It's those romantic bits of his that do all of Jimmy's thinking.

"So kid, ya married?"

Wellum.. That depends on your definition of married, Jimmy...

"Married.. You know... husband, dog, kid... white fence... the works.."

You gotta be kiddin', Ji....

"LOOK HERE! Do I LOOK LIKE I'm kidding?"

Jimmy pounded the stiff rubber end of his cue stick on the floor three times...

He softened.

"I loves ya baby... I gots ta know..."

"Baby?"

No..... No Jimmy.... I ain't married... Not no more.
"It's yer shot....."

Okay Jimmy....okay....

 

~ Chapter 33 ~

I decided to eat in the truck today and even though I

was all cramped in there because the cab was full of

groceries, I really enjoyed this first try at a Subway Hot

Pastrami Melt. I like it. Kinda expensive, but I like it.

Oh, hey... Just leave your shopping cart there because

like... it's such a long walk to the cart collection thing.

You can hardly even see it just to the right there.

 We're on the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley again.

Should we go to Hollywood or Glendale? This trip we go to

Glendale. Too many people in Hollywood nowadays. It's

okay if you have a destination, but if your just cruisin' and

your my age, it ain't all that anymore.

Awwwww. Me you too.

- Miniature Golf and Arcade -

"That's it man, game over man, game over!"

I can't believe how lucky I am (just saying this makes me a huge

nerd) to have found the new NECA "Aliens" Series 1 Xenomorph

Warrior Action Figure at Toys "R" Us. These things have already

gone up in price. And NECA did another great job with this one.

NECA is badass.

This warrior is over nine inches tall. He has over thirty points

of articulation and a bendable tail (which is great to assist in

standing positions). He also has a hinged jaw with that infamous

sliding inner mouth. This one has the bluish paint job (as opposed

to the brown one) and as usual, he will remain unopened.

 

"Luke, we are your fathers."

Giant Darth Vader guys at Toys "R" Us.

The only thing I know about this is that

I'm glad I wasn't standing there.

I haven't had pizza in a while and I need a booster shot.

This photo of a pepperoni pizza I had a while back

makes my mouth water. Not attractive.

Isn't tagging a trashcan in a fast food restroom
kind of low brow?

This is another picture I snapped when my parents took me up

in a private plane in about 1965. I took a few photos of Disneyland

and this was scanned from a contact sheet of them. I'm not sure what

that construction is down there. I think it is New Orleans Square and

Pirates of the Caribbean. I'm not totally sure. You can see the Mark
Twain steamboat docked down there too.