dear diary,
tariffs, amirite?
i have begun a new method of measuring my coffee intake
no more, "one cup in the morning", or "a cup and a half, no more!"
a more accurate measurement is the cost, in dollars (usa), per standard cup
metric cups will cost less because you GET less with the dang metrics
yesterday i drank $14.07 of coffee and $5.65 worth of tea
now,
i have discovered a way to write these off on my taxes as "entertainment" or "pharmaceuticals" and thus save mucho dinero
until they begin to staff the irs offices properly then i'm sorta screwed
in fairness to those less fortunate, folks of japanese persuasion, or married into japanese culture are not permitted to participate in this poll
What in particular makes Aoshima Island, Japan, a tourist destination for Japanese?
dear diary,
the taxman cometh
the infernal revenooers
i'm been calling my lil monastery a "shack" for a long long time
now the official government dude tells me that's a misnomer and the ole cockroach hut is more properly termed a "shed"
so i called up ole arthur "two sheds" jackson to inquire as to any pros or cons with my latest authoritarian challenge to my authoritarian autonomousity
dang government
gonna introduce them to my telepathically controlled fire ants
And then, one day in April, I wasn't even there
For there were many things I didn't know
A son was born to me, mama held his hand
Saying "someday you'll understand"
Well, I'm here to tell you now, each and every mother's son
You'd better learn it fast, you'd better learn it young
'Cause someday never comes
dear diary,
why, oh why, do i have the chutzpah to assign a voice to a random internet post?
like a low droning sound?
a swarm of mosquitoes onna warm texas night?
or maybe bird sounds and calls and cries
never does that voice rise to the machinations of 30 hummingbirds hovering the feeders on the porch tho
or crows screaming from the cottonwood trees
or woodpeckers mistaking a tin roofed garage for a pecan tree
damn what a racket
but you know that really scary sound?
3am in the morning, the shack is as quiet as a mouse,
i've got the monkey brain runnin steady at 80mph,
and i hear that owl
he's a big one, got some volume behind that hoot
he's close, that voice is defined well
i worry about my olde dog
owls don't have the press corps that eagles, hawks, osprey and the like have
but they got the same claws
and they a whole lot quieter when they in the air
you'll never hear em when they huntin
