This Makes Sense

My Fitbit activity tracker among many things tracks my sleep. As you can see from 12:45 to 4:45 last night I was experiencing a most blissful sleep.





What I was dreaming was that I had managed to live in an elevator shaft by climbing walls and hanging there to sleep. I was in constant fear that if I slept too well then I might fall into the bleachers below. This went on for many hours as a climbed along the walls in my dreams.

Meanwhile, in my motionless bliss, my right lung was accumulating fluid to the point where the red streak starts when a major coughing jag starts. Ten minutes later, eyes watering, I finally recover and clear the lung.

Lord this has been a suck year health wise and in many other ways. I'm ready for 2015.

31 Days

I need this. It's cold and rainy here. Where I'm staying is a beach so I can do a few checkout dives as soon as I get there.

Six Days of Flu

Still have a fever, muscle aches, and damn nagging cough.

I am so sick of being sick.

Christmas was a fog.

This morning I thought I had turned the corner until the fever spiked.

Here Are the Facts as We Know Them

Jimmy Dean invented sausage in 1637. It was thought to be derived from a recipe from his great great great great uncle Christopher Columbus. Now you know.

Al Gore invented the Internet in 1992 but it didn't catch on until the World Wide Web and porn came on the scene in 1995.

Dogs were invented by a team of research cave men Grog and Thor. They rounded up a couple of wolves and taught them to sit, and beg for food. The rest is history. This was the spring of 2713 BC.

Merry Christmas

This is how a sick man sleeps on Christmas Eve.


With my Fitbit it monitors sleep, activity, and heart rate.

At 8:40 I fall asleep and have 35 minutes of restlessness and two brief periods of wake fullness before breaking in a coughing jag at 147 am.

Then I'm off to a much more peaceful rest for the balance of the night.

My heart settled into a smooth 70 beats a minute most of the night.

I just love this shit.

Off Season Trailer Upgrades

Our season is done assuming we don't pull off the miracle of miracles and make the playoffs.

My thoughts turn to off season improvements to the tailgate bar.

The canopy is shot. I'm going to look and upgrade this shelter to a nicer 12 by 12 from this 10 by 10. Perhaps a branded shelter if it's not too expensive.

The suspension on the trailer is shot. The trailer bottoms out and bounces way too much. It's just a matter of time before the shackles break under the stress. I need to stiffen what I have, get new springs, or add shocks.


Fasteners - I plan to upgrade the hold down fasteners from brass coated to solid brass.

Branding - I will finish branding the bar top with Extreme Tailgate logos like I did the seats.

Beer - After seeing the convenience and mobility of the beer cart I may just make this available on the mobile bar.

Finish - I will add a few more coats this summer of spar urethane to the bar tops for 9 total.

Aside from the bar.....

Table - One serving table is very melted from two failed burners. I'll need to get this replaced.

Burner - I need an additional propane burner for the third chafing dish and will contemplated buying another chafing set up.

Finally, I'm giving serious consideration to only participating in 6 home games next year. Each game consumes three days of my time, setting up, the tailgate, and tearing down and washing. This would give me back 9 days.

I so love tailgating but 9 tailgates times 3 days is 27 days in the fall that occupy my time. Only nine days are actually tailgating.

My Grandfather

My mothers father. Born in 1898. He was a kind soul and cool dude.


In 1972 I was headed to Florida in my Oldsmobile Cutlass. The day before the water pump went out. It cost $85 or some ungodly amount that I couldn't deal with.

Papa discretely slipped me two C notes with the instructions, "Do not tell your mother".

He made that trip and memory happen.

He was the definition of a gentleman.

Fun in the Parking Lot

That's what I do.


The mobile bar continues to be a gathering place.

Planning

I am a long range planner. Part of my vacation enjoyment is the attention to detail. This brings me pleasure.

This trait I discovered has backfired this year. In my mind I have budgeted in another back surgery this summer and I find my subconscious planning around the now annual event. Two summers in a row recovering from back surgery has become the norm.

I am taking better care this time because I don't want three years in a row.

Meat the Meatball Slider

Brilliant!

The Big Day

Orion will fly today on its test flight maiden voyage. Announced in 2005 as a replacement to the shuttle, the capsule will be boxed up after today's flight to be flown again whenever a suitable rocket is built in 2018.

2018-2005=13 years. This is embarrassing.

By then it will be 20 years behind in technology. But it will meet government standards.

My guess, by the time this thing gets to Mars, it will be equivalent to a 1965 VW Beetle, and I will be long dead.

Enjoy the ride.

UPDATE: It was a dud.

This Guy is Brilliant

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Joe Biden is Right

Nothing says you are dead serious like a 12 gauge shotgun loaded with buckshot. It makes me feel so protected.

In other news....take a look at this comet/booger the Europeans spent millions of euros on just to get there and take this picture.


My guess is the whole lot of them look the same. A wasteland like the moon and Mars.

Tomorrow nasa launches a manned space craft that has no passengers to see if it functions properly. The primary goal is to see how the heat shield works.

If if passes then the U.S. Will have three different capsules capable of manned flight along with Boeing and SpaceX. Of course no one is approved to launch, that'll take a few more years....for what? I don't know.

What Might Be

I got a text from a friend announcing that he was offered a 275 gallon fuel oil tank free for the taking. No explanation was needed. My mind began to rush.






Could it be done? I know a welder, I can get a trailer.



Imagine using real smoke wood, cooking racks of ribs, a whole hog, beef briskets, chickens, pork shoulders.

And you know it would be tricked out, a thing of beauty.

I'm up for the challenge.

It's Garlic Planting Season

Yep....Been told a chimp can do it.