I backed my car out of a tight slot between SUVs at Walmart. My wife screamed, “Look out! Look out!” arms waving; scaring the living shit out of me. I slammed on the brakes. The car rocked at my sudden stop from .00006 miles per hour. The huge guy reflected in my rear view mirror [...]
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Backing up at Walmart
Posted by larry on October 4, 2012
http://strattner.com/2012/10/backing-up-at-walmart/
Flashback
I retired here. A conscious choice. Not like, I’m done working so I’ll just stay here, type bullshit. Rather, it’s quiet. There’s a hunting season but I live inside the city limit so you can’t discharge a gun; except during a family dispute. Even then it’s only fifty-fifty you’ll get off. During hunting season I [...]
Posted by larry on October 4, 2012
http://strattner.com/2012/10/flashback/
The Guru
As they rocked in his recliner the baby boy plastered on the front of him slept. A humming noise he made in his throat insured the kid remained unconscious. He remembered the noise from rocking his own long-gone son who had also fallen asleep right away when rocked while he repeated this noise over and [...]
Posted by larry on October 4, 2012
http://strattner.com/2012/10/the-guru/
A Time for Beer
“Hey man, let’s go down to the Pub and grab a pint or three,” says Gropinski . His jeans are dirty from working on the docks. “Can’t. Got a pickleball game.” “A what?” He says. “Pickleball. My Ayurvedic counselor turned me on to it.” “What’s…?” He begins, but I give him my full gig. “I [...]
Posted by larry on October 4, 2012
http://strattner.com/2012/10/a-time-for-beer/
This could be the 12-18-11 Blog Post
No having much knowledge of politics in general or politicians in particular, I was startled by this late night thought; a thought so clear I turned on the TV to see if I had heard it on the News. The thought was that Republican candidates for President are all either idiots or dangerous egotistical psychopaths. [...]
Posted by larry on December 19, 2011
http://strattner.com/2011/12/this-could-be-the-12-18-11-blog-post/
Blog 9-15-11
This blog thing obviously isn’t working out. Unlike the banana brains walking around constantly talking on smartphones, or texting, or sending blubber to facebook, or tweets to Kim Kardashian, it appears I do not have anything nonstop to say that cannot wait another day, or week, or even year. I have come to suspect the [...]
Posted by larry on September 15, 2011
http://strattner.com/2011/09/blog-9-15-11/
Blog 8-31
Life is tough – then you get snails in the garden. Snails are ubiquitous (love that word) around here. And they’re not even the edible kind like in France (?) Sluggo is the stuff that keeps them away but you can buy the active ingedient cheaper in other forms. You’ve no doubt heard snails are [...]
Posted by larry on August 31, 2011
http://strattner.com/2011/08/blog-8-31/
Blog 8-30
End days of August. In Wisconsin we would be working on the house and yard to position for Winter. Here in NoCal we have to put a regular shirt on over our tee shirt, it rains and different flowers bloom. The place looks like a forest shot from the movie ET. (Matter of fact some [...]
Posted by larry on August 30, 2011
http://strattner.com/2011/08/blog-8-30/
Blog 8-29
On this, the third day of my attempt to blog I am already a day behind. This blog thing is bullshit. People who twitter and constantly facebook will have to excuse me for this generality but I think they may be airheads. In the context of social media who really has anything worthwhile to say? [...]
Posted by larry on August 30, 2011
http://strattner.com/2011/08/blog-8-29/
Blog 8-28-11
Hurricane Irene roared through the northeast last night and this morning. Nothing much blew down. The world ended in Secaucus not with a bang, but a gurgle. We have friends and relatives in both New York and New England so we watched the Weather Channel avidly until nothing happened. I kind of wanted to see the Chrysler Building [...]
Posted by larry on August 28, 2011
http://strattner.com/2011/08/blog-8-28-11/