keyboard seeds

Posted on by June 17, 2019

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My backspace key sticks.

I don’t have to make any corrections when I write, of course, so I never need it.

Not.

That’s a “not joke”.

Get it?

I turned the keyboard over and a bunch of sesame seeds fell out.

Somebody has been eating while they play Roblox.

They left clues.

I wonder if I’ll ever figure out who the culprit is?

Now, I have to take this $2.00 thrift store keyboard apart and clean out whatever is sticky in there and see if I can get it to work again.

That’s the thing about cheap stuff: sometimes you spend so much time fixing it that the cost approaches what you might have spent if you’d bought something nice the first time.

What’s time, though?

That’s a good question.

What’s time?

A keyboard full of seeds is a big enough distraction that maybe I’ll forget to pay attention to all this time passing.

That’s the secret to life!

Fill it full of distraction….and never need to hit the backspace key.

My New Seat

Posted on by June 16, 2019

I sit on my rear for a living.

Lots of people do that.

I drive the mail around….and stick it in boxes by the side of the road…and…I sit in my car while it’s moving down the road to do it all.

My seat was getting kind of broken down.

After 286,000 miles, my Jeep seat listed to the side.

I was on a constant tilt.

Today, my older children took me out to eat barbecue, and then we went out to a junkyard I’d never visited before: LKQ in Greer, SC.

I probably got my seat out of this Jeep:

This is a copyrighted image….maybe they’ll come after me?

This picture was taken about a month ago….

You should have seen the Jeep when we got to it.

The “buzzards” had picked it clean….but….the passenger seat was still there.

I drive from the “passenger” side (right hand drive Jeep)….so…the unused seat in a normal car was just what I needed.

Cool.

I wanted these wheels, too, but they were gone.

Junkyards are fun places….and the parts are cheap.

Maybe I’ll get back there again, someday?

What a Father’s Day!!

I have a comfortable seat now!

Kacey Musgraves-Rainbow

Posted on by June 15, 2019

I heard this driving the mail around today.

What a sweet song.

That’s what good songwriting is…..something that can be stripped down to just a voice and guitar….or voice and piano….and carry off so many emotions like this one does.

“…always been a rainbow hanging over your head.”

Good, good stuff.

Jonna Jinton and The Sound of Sweden….now, that’s a job!

Posted on by June 14, 2019

Now, that’s what I call a job!

Imagine getting a letter where someone asks you to take a recorder around and collect all the sounds that represent your world!

What would I record?

Unhappy co-workers whining about their jobs?

Machines breaking down?

Or….maybe….peaceful bird sounds….a big dog barking in what used to be the garden…wind in the high trees?

I’m not really sure what I’d record.

Jonna Jinton lives in Sweden.

Maybe I should write Sweden and tell them that I could walk around in my most atmospheric outfit and record sounds in the mountains of North Carolina?

Maybe that would be exotic to a person living in a Nordic land?

Maybe they’d pay me to do that?

Here’s another video about this lady.

She just left the city and moved to the country….and figured out a way to make a living by celebrating life and all the beauty it contains.

Sounds good to me…

Here’s her blog….. https://jonnajinton.se/

I couldn’t understand a word of it.

Lined Up at the Walmart….

Posted on by June 13, 2019

We did some shopping today and passed a line of folks at the Walmart at the back of the parking lot….in the shady part.

I don’t know if this girl camps out at the Walmart.

There’s probably cooler places to park your van.

We have a bunch of tents.

We could take the minivan and set up a tent….in the Walmart parking lot.

How weird would that be?

A bunch of Norwegian gypsy’s ….out in the parking lot….big bonfire….cooking a pig over a spit.

Would we make the news if we cooked a whole pig in the Walmart parking lot?

Would they rescind our camping privileges if we did that?

We’d have to move on if they kicked us out.

But…how many Walmart parking lots are there in the world?

We’d have a lot of places to cook a pig….even if they kicked us out.

Awwwwww…..I don’t really want to cook a pig.

Maybe we could just eat a bunch of Cheetos?

Van Life….modified.

Van Life 3.0

Owner build in Joshua Tree

Posted on by June 12, 2019

Here’s a project….a self-build by an architect in Joshua Tree.

This is some intense stuff….well planned and well executed….in a place that probably doesn’t have a lot of building restrictions and the land is inexpensive.

Sounds good to me….a place that’s wide open….even in California.

Building like this is slow, though….it took this guy 8 years to build his place.

Having a vision and a strong set of skills makes this all possible.

Nice place….and planned well for the desert.

In a really hot place….this is pretty cool.

Pretty cool.

 

Dave Whipple….Cabin #2

Posted on by June 11, 2019

Here’s another Dave Whipple video….this time of the construction of his second log cabin.

I love to see these videos….even though it’s not the same as doing the work myself.

Not even close to that….but entertaining and informative to watch somebody competent do this.

And….I get a lot less tired watching these guys do all the work.

Alaska looks like an interesting place.

Idaho’s like a poor man’s Alaska.

All that Pacific Northwest area feels like that.

Awwwwwww.

What the heck do I know?

I don’t know anything about Alaska.

I’ve never been there.

This is a nice cabin.

I do know that.

the real road trip….hit a deer in Canada

Posted on by June 10, 2019

Here’s a decent enough seeming dude on a road trip to Alaska….having a real road trip experience.

He hit a deer in Canada on his way to Alaska from Michigan.

He hit a deer in Canada….driving one of my favorite cars of all time….A FORD ESCORT STATION WAGON!!

A deer could do a lot of damage to a little Ford Escort.

That’s the thing that I liked about this video….the car and the trip.

Or maybe, the car on the trip.

You don’t have to drive a hipster Sprinter van to do this stuff.

You can drive a little car and make it fine….if you don’t hit a deer.

Even then, if you find some good folks to help you, you can keep rolling.

You don’t need the assault vehicle, backcountry hardened super truck that some accounts would make you believe was necessary to get up the Alaska highway.

That’s cool.

Man…..don’t hit a deer.

Here’s a video of one of the cabin’s he and his wife built in Alaska.

The dude’s name is Dave Whipple.

Here’s his YouTube channel….Bushradical….

Van Life in Japan? GIVE ME THAT RHD VAN!!

Posted on by June 9, 2019

Look at all these RHD vans!

I could use one of these to deliver the mail!

I could live in one of these out on the mail route.

I could cut down on my commute time!

I’d miss my family, though, so I wouldn’t do that.

The guy in the video,Yohei, is a “creative”….photographer….videographer….cook.

It takes a creative person to live in a van.

And….check out the Japanese continental breakfast at the hotel these two were staying at…..looks good.

It doesn’t matter where you live….sometimes, you just have to hit the road and feel free for a while.

 

Converted F-150 Micro Home….

Posted on by June 8, 2019

Here’s a recent video from Dylan Magastar.

I haven’t used any of his videos for a while….he’s been off sailing around in his sailboat…but this video is on dry land….so…

This conversion is really nice.

It’s a well thought out and efficient use of a small amount of space.

And…I like this woman’s attitude.

It’s “just do it” at its finest….learn as you go.

I hesitate….thinking that I have to have all my ducks in a row before I even understand what “in a row” means.

I shouldn’t be such a scaredy cat.

Maybe just jumping gets you farther down the road?

This is a nice truck….and she did a good job on the build.

Cool.