Thread: burrocrat's Account Talk

oh no, more life happened to me. i've had to take some time to process what really was happening what i saw, but now i am sure.

so at the 4th of july dirt track my kid is hangin out and running around with friends while i sit in the stands and enjoy the car races, no problem. when i text him to meet up and check in then we do that, and he is there with one friend "justin" (a belligerent boy) and the other friend is "lexys" (a soft sweet blonde girl). and this justin kid keeps doing stuff that ticks me off, in fact i step in and say "that is enough or i will kick your ass". he needs attention and will do anything to get it. now these three stand apart and careful not to be too close, and i just think "son, you got some fucked up friends". but i told him when it is fireworks time then you come up and sit with me.

so after the rain and they're lighting up the fireworks all three come up and sit in my section of the bleachers. the ahole guy first steals the girl's sandal while she has her legs crossed, then gives it back with a look from me. then they all three go down to the walkway in front of the first row, and she asks someone to hold her phone and the ahole guy grabs it and she does a gymnast spin move over the rail and comes back around and lands on her feet. now i am not into checking out young girls, but that was an awesome move and she nailed it, in her short jean shorts and tank top. you go girl, got the moves.

ahole guy was the one who grabbed and "held" her phone, my kid actually spotted for her and made sure she landed on her feet. before she lands ahole kid he takes off running with her phone. that is when the strange things happened. lexys and my son just looked at each other and nodded...

my kid started chasing ahole boy and lexys moved over and crouched down at the corner of the stands, when they made a full lap and come around the corner of the stands lexys jumps up and puts her shoulder into this kid, and my kid a half step behind grabs him by the neck and takes him down and rubs his face on the concrete. the kid hands up the phone and my son takes it and gives it back to his girl. it was really something to see. basically if this was the discovery channel then those two just hunted together, with no verbal communication, just a head nod and action. i am not stupid. so kids will be kids, and they all came back up to where i was sitting and behaved until fireworks and races were done. but i looked over and this is when i know...

my kid and lexys are sitting knee to knee, thigh to thigh, hip to hip, shoulder to shoulder, and her head is tilted towards him. oh crap, nobody sits touching each other that close for no reason. other boy is 3 feet away. i gave them all a ride home. but i know something happened, a connection was made.

sure enough, all he does now when not in summer school or doing his chores is text this girl. and when she is not doing her chores on the farm 10 miles out of town she texts him. yep. crap. now her family is going to iowa this weekend to show some registered cattle, and he knows her total itinerary. now they talk or text all the time.

it was not like this when i was a kid. but i did ask him "so are you two together?" and he was honest and said "yes". i said "you better treat her like a lady, she is a good girl", he agreed. so that is about all the parenting advice i have for him at this point. he don't know it yet, but he is in for some major heartbreak in the future. it happens to all of us. i plan to just monitor developments and step in if needed.

but there is a whole 'nother worry, i come home from work tonight and the apartment except for the dishes and toilet scrubbing is totally sparkling clean. there is a window of time between when summer school gets out and when i get home from work and i trust that when he texts me "i'm home" or "at the park" that is what he is doing. but i really have no idea what he is doing unless i leave work and go hunt him down. i am pretty sure this new cleaning motivation is to bring her home after school before i get home... not sure what to do about that. treat her like a lady i guess is about all i can say. i was feeling boobs with my friend's sister in the basement to reo speedwagon after school at around that age so not sure i have much room to lay down law here. maybe best to just keep trying to teach responsibility?

so i have done a lot of thinking about this retirement strategery thing. it gets complicated and all interconnected.

about 2 decades ago while traveling for construction work i got introduced to a restaurant chain named "4b's" it is like a perkins or a dennys, just regular mid american family cafe stuff, pretty good though. you can find them in montana. montana is 750 miles wide east to west so you can spend a full twelve hour day just driving across it in good weather without too many stops, and see some wild things. you can also just pull over anywhere and shuck your clothes and jump in a river nekked, nobody minds, do your thing.

anyways, if you drive west to east you will find a 4b's in butte, bozeman, billings, and... well no more b's, there is no 4th town that starts with b but there are other cafes in this chain of the beaten path, but none start with b. so where is the 4th b? this gives you things to ponder while driving across god's country.

turns out 4b's is named for family, not towns. bill, buddy, bill jr, and barb. try the biscuits and gravy or the grilled cheese with creamy tomato soup, trust me i'm a connoisseur.

anyways, i have converted my 3-legged stool retirement plan - fers, tsp, ss - to the 4b's. bus, boat, beer, and babe. that is all i need. actually it's more than i need but i could handle it. i could do with less, but if i have to pitch one of them it ain't gonna be the beer. simple man.

East Grand Forks losing patience with bike collector | INFORUM

Eventually, Magenau no longer needed to collect bikes for himself. They'd just show up. His fenced-in backyard is lined with bicycles: old-style cruisers, three-wheeled Schwinns, mountain bikes in a wide range of conditions, antique road bikes and a 1978 Huffy Bandit.

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"Your property is the most disgraceful thing I've ever seen," said council member Henry Tweten

eff you henry. myself, i think a person should be able to keep as many bikes as they want however they want on property they own. this reminds me of one time when i was on a sawmill job in talent, oregon. it was a time warp vortex kind of place. there was this small strip club downtown and it had a few christian protesters in front handing out salvation pamphlets standing around a 55 gallon barrel with a fire in it to keep warm. inside they only had a beer license not liquor. one of the dancers must've recently calved because she could obviously still qualify for a wet nurse job, but apparently she preferred dancing. i talked to the owner about it, he said they have to bring them in from california on two week shifts, no local talent will take their clothes off. funny stuff, no local talent in talent oregon. ha! anyways, when leaving i notice this school bus down at the end of the road, stacked with bicycles. piled on top the whole way, hanging off the sides, strapped to the back blocking the emergency door, everywhere. more bikes than i've ever seen in one place. they're even smashed inside up against the windows you could see in. the ones without duct tape and tinfoil. so i walk down there and knock, i ask this guy that is a lot a bikes you have there, how many? he says not enough. cool dude, cool. nice bus.

in oregon if you have a school bus, well then that is a mobile home. if you park two school busses close together, well then you got yourself a doublewide. uptown. milk and bikes in talent oregon. true story.

4b's huh...then you can appreciate this, something my supervisor used to tell me when I got to my first duty station.

A bulging bowl of Boston baked beans, boiled and baked in bear meat butter and be quick about it or I'll beat you in the brain with a baseball bat...

Anyway, hope this helps with your newfound fetish for b's

Burro! You're diversifying! A little exposure...

Geez, we haven't heard from burro in a while. I hope he hasn't fallen into a pit and can't get out. I'd like to think he found his Qi and is living in a state of nirvana.

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Don't poke the bear. lol

do you folks want to hear something funny?

well, it's not really funny unless it's happening to someone else.

unfortunately it happened to me.

so it's not really funny at all.

so i joined that eharmony website, you know, to find my princess...

i posted pics, didn't work. i paid the fee, didn't work. answered all those damn questions, took me two hours, didn't work.

finally it showed me 3 girls. seriously lord eharmony whatever there are only 3 girls on the planet what might be compatible? what a curse.

and none of them will respond to my emails. this is a rip off.

but i have faith.

on the bright side, my local cable company is showing eagles v redskins for free today. you know, the house that wentz built.

there is always a bright side.