All, Reed beat me to the punch this month.  I was up early this morning, writing on other things.  I’ve got an idea for a website . . . hopefully I’ll be sharing it soon.  

Hot days, with occassional heavy rains here in LA . . . or is that La?  Does it ever rain in Palmdale? Good luck with the job, Reed. This is certainly an infamous day.

I know we could all talk in detail about where we 6-years ago.

I had hoped to have some good news to share with everyone about a position I thought I was going to have.  However, there have been some interesting twists to the plot, so I’m still in a wait-and-see posture. If nothing else, I was mistaken enough following a telecom with some HR folks that I offered in my resignation with the local company I was working with.  I went from in a rush to get the house ready to sell, sell it, and move to, “oh, uh oh, well, hmm, okay.” Still, the house still needs the work, so I scrapped old gout with a neat little triangle tool and then applied new gout in the master shower.   I’m looking forward (ugh) to doing something with the floors in both bathrooms, maybe tile, very soon.  If I don’t have stroke doing that, things have to get better. 

Also in the line of handyman stuff, I made some beds for my grandsons.  That was a cool project.   It was an early birthday present, I had thought (for a minute) I wouldn’t be in town for their birthday.  Can you believe they’re going to be two on 7 October?

I’ve written a newspaper article that was inspired by the lost nukes.  I’ve having some trepidation about submitting it.   There are people still in the system that might get inconvenienced.  Of course, not as much as the rest of us would be if some bad guys get a nuke the easy way.   Sometimes when I share an article before I submit it, it gets jinxed, and they don’t publish it.  I’m not superstitious, so I’ll just toss some salt over my shoulder and paste it here for your comments about whether it is too mean or out of line. 

Oh yeah, I collected another rejection slip for my novel . . . 

Take care, and never forget the 11th.

The  Chuck

(I’ve edited my draft article and posted it in the proper category)