“We’ll skip around San Marcos Stop and tell Doug hello Second gear up Congress You know I like to take it slow.” Man “Comal County Blue” makes me miss living in Austin.

Haven’t done a supper time playlist in a while and I gotta kill a few minutes so… Let’s start with two vastly different dance numbers. Leeann Womack “Chances Are” and Dale Watson’s “Quick Quick Slow Slow” Next we got Waylon Jennings “Are You Ready For the Country” Shaboozey “A Bar Song”

Oh man it is nice when the one new country band you’re into with a former Evangelical front man from Oklahoma and lyrics that poke fun at Democrats publicly say “Fuck ICE” on their Instagram page. Anyway Jason Scott and the High Heat are on team good guys.

Dunno why I thought of this one this morning but… in-the-pines.ghost.io/obituary-bee...

My kid is not happy with some of our school scheduling. But to be fair neither am I.

Not happy with the words I wrote tonight. Gonna have to rewrite tomorrow. Gotta get back to limiting my phone usage. I write better and accomplish more when I’m not scrolling but the snow day and the chaos in Minneapolis kinda got me back into old habits.

Every time I “finish” clearing the snow off my driveway it starts snowing again. I mean Every Fucking Time. The second I put the shovel down a flake falls.

First question at this State Press Conference is “Did you watch the [Patriots] game?” and if this shit happened in Alabama y’all would be howling with laughter at the ignorant rednecks. Massachusetts has the richest white trash on the planet.

Blog day. But I’ve been busy working on some fiction that I swear I’ll get finished and posted I swear. Also shoveling snow. Anyway, here’s last weeks post.

Just a little bit of snow down here in SE Massachusetts.

Also weird that Massachusetts had a mass shooting yesterday and it’s not being covered as a mass shooting just a homicide at a kids birthday party.

It would be a lot easier to tackle the berm of snow and ice at the end of my driveway if these born and raised cold weather people would slow the fuck down. Just because you have an Audi doesn’t mean you’re a rally driver damn.

Welp. Nothings getting written today. It was nice to churn through the words while I could. We’ll try again tomorrow.

I uh… I kinda think it would be neat to go take a walk around New York City tonight. That’d be cool as shit.

WHY THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE DRIVING ACROSS THE SAGAMORE BRIDGE! Swear to God Massachusetts has the richest white trash on the planet man. If these folks were born in Alabama they’d be living in a school bus and cooking peanut butter meth.

Fucking Patriots going to the Super Bowl and here I am trying to be nicer about Massachusetts.

They want a little promo video for that Foxtales story telling thing. So I decided I’d get cute and film it in the snow, mostly because my redneck accent in a blizzard amuses me. Every take was 5 seconds too long and the best one cut off the top of my head.

Goddamn it I was supposed to be writing something but I picked up my phone and my mutuals are being amusing and funny and having good conversations.

Can I finally say that I thought Barrack Obama was a disappointment and a failure as a President without having things thrown at me?

There is a SHOCKING amount of vehicle traffic through my neighborhood considering it’s Sunday and local government has been warning about this storm for three days.

I knew a full grown man, a Ranger school graduate who ran an Infantry gun squad, who would absolutely melt the fuck down in tears if you played George Straits “Nobody in his Right Mind” One bad breakup will fuck a dude up.

When I was in Basic Training the range cadre proved that a 5.56mm had almost zero recoil by firing an M16A2 that was balanced on the tip of his nose. Years later while teaching a buddies girlfriend how to shoot I did the same with a civilian M4 carbine…

“Where’s the NRA!” Bro the NRA got sold for parts a decade ago. They stripped the copper out of the walls so Wayne LaPierre’s Au Pair could get anal bleaching. All that’s left is a handful of racist boomers posting memes.

Why is the millionaire father of a prominent YouTube comedian texting me for money to fight ICE?

where should i donate to help folks in Minneapolis. i want to help those on the front lines, facilitate resistance, and provide resources

Real fucking hard to set aside my phone and focus on writing my silly little stories today. I’ve run out of proactive things I can do right this instant and now I’m just doom scrolling. This shit sucks.

When I was a young Rookie I responded to an aggregated assault at an apartment complex. A suspect got angry at a visitor blocking the gate and waved a handgun at them to get them to move. While the district deputy spoke to the victim I checked the apartment complex lot for the suspect…

The abject failures of institutions and the people who run them have me moving from “We need a third Reconstruction” to “We need a second Constitution.” One that accepts the United States as a pluralistic nation and makes it much harder for powerful thugs to act on their whims.

A while back I found a Covid Diary I started and then abandoned. So I decided to start keeping it again, documenting everything that’s going on these days. It’s not much but maybe it’ll help some historian someday.

Don’t watch the new ICE video. It was a murder. An assassination. Even from the perspective of a former police Filed Training Officer it was beyond the pale. A completely illigetimate use of force. You don’t had to see it. Abolish ICE. Jail them. Impeach fucking everyone.

Kinda like being an 11B NCO severely injured in a vehicle accident 9 days into the war without ever stepping foot in Afghanistan or even putting a loaded magazine in your rifle.

Front passed and the wind behind it is…oof… It’s gonna be a long cold week

You know what. I’ve been a good boy this week. Writings a little slow at the moment but I had a good day yesterday. I think I’m gonna fuck off, get loaded, and watch Youtube videos.

Just realized I gotta dig out the fire hydrant after this storm. Gotta remember that.

This may be the first weather event in the nine years I’ve been in Massachusetts where the locals have taken it seriously.

See the trick is you tell yourself you have to write non-fiction then the fiction is technically procrastination and you’re good at procrastinating.

It’s actually been a pretty good day. I got a good work out in. Made sure we were stocked for this winter storm. Checked all the flash lights etc. finished reading Steinbecks “The Red Pony”. Did some journaling. Got my kid off the bus and homework done. Cooked supper and wrote 1300 words

Oh man. I just had a shockingly good hour of writing. Like I have used up all of my juice and may as well shut it down for the day because there’s no way this next scene will come together as quick and easy.

Anyway gonna get to spend five hours in February reliving some of the worst days of my life for science

VA won’t take me in the PTSD clinic but they’ll damn sure reach out for PTSD research. I do it every time because they swear it helps folks but it kinda chaps my ass that their PTSD folks are only willing to talk to me when they need me.

Y’all wanna see something that belongs in a museum?

In other news just figured out where I’m going with my next rough draft. Ironically it won’t work with this song at all.

I can’t share a version because currently my YouTube app is updating but…minor musical confession… I fucking love Noah Cyrus and Fleet Foxes “Don’t Put it All on Me”

Thinking about future blog material in between sets and I kinda think it might be fun to write a field guide covering the types of dudes found in the average infantry platoon.

Still think this stupid warning is stupid but they ain’t wrong on this occasion.

Everything you want to know about the chemistry of green smoke from M18-type colored smoke grenades. apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...

Needed to read my own stuff today to remind myself. in-the-pines.ghost.io/cold-dark-co...

Oh neat. My phone doesn’t work like it did yesterday because some dipshit decided to arbitrarily change how screenshots work for no goddamned reason and there’s nothing I can do but learn the new way shit works. Fuck tech man.

Fucking finally got a rough draft done. Those last few paragraphs are gonna need some work but after a week I’ve finally got to the ending. Two more to go.

Anyway I gotta go write stuff so y’all may as well read stuff. See y’all after homework.