Not Necessarily Interesting News

Got an email out of the blue last night. It was from an author who had asked permission to use one of my photos for the cover of a book he was writing. I had completely forgotten about it. He was needing my address to send me a copy of the book per our agreement. The book is about the Sutton-Taylor Feud in Dewitt County, TX in the 1860s-70s. The title of the book is DeWitt County, Texas: The Bloody Years by Willis Gathright. I’ve had other photos used for things like soda bottles and websites, but this is the first I’ve had published in/on a book. Really cool!

: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps from the album “Fashion Nugget” by Cake

My wife just called, the trucking company just delivered a box the size of a coffin to our house. That’ll be the ARB Brush Bar for Shurfoot. The single most expensive piece of the rebuilding project. She said she can’t even budge the box lying on the garage floor. It weighs in around 150lbs. Nice and beefy in case another idiot tries to rearrange my sheet metal. I’m glad I got the heavy-duty springs up front to take the weight of it and the winch which should arrive anyday. Between the two of them I’ll be hanging over 200lbs off the front of my Defender.

: 99 Red Balloons by Gold Finger

I was driving to work this morning and was cut off by two cell-phone talking idiots. I then got stuck behind another on 183 doing 50MPH in the fast lane. WTF? To that stupid bitch on the phone in the red Acura: How many people have to come up on your bumper and then whip out and around you before you get the hint? I gave her the evil-eye as I passed and she looked me right at me with her dumb cow-eyes and kept on talking. I swear the bigger and nicer I make my truck the bigger a target it becomes. I think I’m just gonna plow into the next SUV-driving, cell-phone talking, soccer sticker in the window with Britney’s name on it, Starbuck’s drinking, moomie that cuts me off. I could use the money.

I know they’re illegal in the US but I think Shurfoot needs a cell-phone jammer. A 100 foot ‘circle-of-peace’ around it would make driving so much nicer. Drive within 50′ of me and *BOOM* there goes your call. Pull the fuck over if you need to make a call. I heard a news story a few months ago about an idiot on the phone with a friend when she wrecked her car and killed herself. Her friend on the other end got to hear the whole thing. I about laughed my ass off.

Yes, I have a cell phone but it’s there for my convenience, not whoever is on the other end. They can wait until I get where I’m going. If I feel they’re important enough, I’ll call them back.

: In the Shelter from the album “Changes in Latitudes – Changes in Attitudes” by Jimmy Buffett