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Northern Exposure - Fine TV Programming

The old TV Series, Northern Exposure, is probably my all-time favorite TV show.

It took place in a small town in Alaska. Some of the main characters were:

Joel, a dis-placed big-city medical professional (Physician), played by Rob Morrow, who happens to be gay.

Maggie, an attractive, young free-spirit, Joel's sexual protagonist

Ed, a goofy young guy, a likeable kid

Chris, the local radio stations #1 DJ, another free-spirit

Chris' half-brother, a young black man, wandering, searching for his roots

Last night I watched a popular new TV Program called "Men In Trees".

It takes place in a small town in Alaska. Some of the main characters are:

A dis-placed medical professional (sociologist), a woman, played by Ann Heche, who was famously gay for awhile

A fellow who does local odd jobs, an attractive, young free-spirit, the sociologist's sexual protagonist

The local Radio Stations Main DJ, a goofy young guy, a likeable kid

The DJ's half-brother, a young black man, wandering, searching for his roots, who happens to be gay

I am sure that, if I continue to watch Men In Trees, I will find the characters, such as Holling and his wife, Maurice, the old lady store-keeper, Adam and Eve, and the chubby, quiet Indian girl, too, eventually!

Can there be any more blatant rip-off in existence? This show is a crock!

Open Letter to Spanish-speaking US Residents

I have a question for those of you, whether US Citizens, Legal Residents or Illegal Residents, who have been openly calling for the cultural take-over of the United States.

Why are you here?

Not that you and your ancestors do not have a rich cultural heritage in your homeland but you seem determined to bring with you, as a part of your culture, the poverty, the disease, the corruption and crime also! Does this make you feel more "at home"?

Why can you not understand that trying to supplant the US culture with the culture of your homeland will only turn it into the land you all ran away from?

If you truly think that, once you have "taken over", there will still be the entitlements so freely granted by our US Government, you are sadly mistaken!
As you progress toward your goal, and I admit, you are certainly doing that, the Government of the US, at all it's levels, will surely become as corrupt as that which you left!

If your life in Mexico, for example, was so bad why do you insist on bringing it with you?

Honest, hard-working immigrants, legal or not, have been coming to the United States for a couple hundred years. I have spent my entire adult life working with them, working with you! But you must understand that, if the backbone of US Culture is broken there will be no US any longer! You will all be back in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, et.al.

If the end of US Culture is your goal then you are, indeed, much more than criminals! You are insidious terrorists, waging war on the United States in a clever and effective way!

You, the Leaders of this Movement, may well succeed but your countrymen will lose! They will lose all that they gained by coming to the US because there will BE no more US, only Northern Mexico, complete with ALL of it's problems!

In closing, I say that I welcome you, as brothers and sisters, to my homeland.
But, Please! Come here to be United States Citizens, NOT Terrorists, intent on bringing us down!

Mellow Drama!

Well, I ain't yet received a Death Sentence! The blood tests for which I have waited, with bated breath, for 3 weeks, have earned me a referral to a hematologist at the local Cancer Center but, as the "Doc" said, "That don't mean you got cancer."

My blood counts were a tad better than those from last October but still out of whack so we be gonna take a closer look!

Good news is that my blood oxygen % was up to 95! After a couple of years of 89-91, that is good news indeed!

Long as I can recall, i have had this strange ability to sort of step back from myself and observe "me", to objectively observe my reactions to various events in my life. Now I find myself doin' just that.....and wondering just how I might react if I AM given "bad news"! I believe I will be OK with it thanks to my Faith in Jesus but I reckon no one ever really knows until they is smacked full-on in the face with the "news"! Not that I want to "Go" but i reckon I'd rather go before any of my siblings, my kids, my grandkids.....the pain of death is suffered by those left behind!

I know dyin' be easy! Heck, even a child can do it! My Sis, Deanne, didn't snivel!
Nor did my Dad, or my Mom! I take stock of those who have left before me and I realize that I have lost far fewer than many of my friends during the scope of my life. My friend Annabelle lost SIX Family Members in 2 years! Including her Son!

My friend, Charlsi, just weeks back, lost her 15 year old son and, in a sense, her other son, also! He, poor kid, found his Brother dead and is institutionalized still over the trauma!

Butt! I am still here! For Now! I do reckon I need to "get my papers in order" soon though, just because it be "the right thing to do"! My biggest concern is my friend, Bill! He is getting old, too! About 84 in dawg years! I will have to ride that one out for a spell yet, though......

So, Listen Up, Family! I am poor and expect the "state" to handle my cremation, whenever that occurs, unless I strike it rich before I pass on! I would LOVE to see a Memorial Party, a Wake, if you please, but NO expensive, fancy crap! Get someone to cart my ashes to the upper Verde River, like Clarksdale, Camp Verde, thereabouts, and dump 'em in my River!

The BIG thing, though, is this!

I spent most of my years in Safford working for Dean & Mary Lou Kreig and their daughter, Tammy Mayhew. They burned me bad, hurt me! These folks own a heap of businesses, the Quality Inn, the Days Inn, the Manor House Restaurant, Convention Center, the Rock 'N Horse Sports Saloon, the Swings 'N Things Sports Park. et.al.
They are just the kind of folks who would cry crocodile tears over my passing, offer to spend huge amounts of money and facilities for a Funeral, a Memorial Party, whatever......and gain all sorts of good local publicity in the process.

WHATEVER SORT OF MEMORIAL, REMEMBERANCE, I GET, IF ANY, NOT A DAMNED ONE OF THEM IS WELCOME! NO KREIGS! NO MAYHEWS! NO SHORTS! Stop 'em at the door, stop 'em in the john, Kick their sorry asses OUT!

And I hope Saint Peter reads this, too!

Love Ye, too!

Three Phone Calls........

Prelude! Yesterday I gave a ride to Kayla, my neighbor & former date, to town for a DES Appointment. End of Prelude!

In the last 2 days I have received 2 packets of questionairres regarding my Disability Claim and they both need to be filled out and returned PDQ!

So, today, I set to filling 'em out, staying off-line until now. Hey, I need a break!

So! 4 PM: Phone Call #1.....Kayla, friendly & relaxed. I told her, right off the bat that I had had a few drinks and would not be able to give her a ride anywhere. So she said "Thanks" and we hung up.

4:04 PM: Phone Call #2.....Doctor's Office called and told me that my Doc wanted me to make a follow-up appointment ASAP regarding my recent Blood Tests Results.
I informed the caller that I already had an appointment, next Monday, as directed by said Doctor.....kinda got me worried here!

4:09 PM: Phone Call #3:......My Friend, Steve calls. Tells me to stay inside because there is "about 40 cops" at Kayla's house.

Life is, sometimes, just TOO Excitin' here in Rural, Arizona!

The Legend of Dave!

My Old Friend, Dave, the "newest" of my Old Friends, my having met him only 16 years back, just hit the BIG 50 Mark! Amazin'! And he still has as much hair as he did the day I met him!
Dave is "old school ADOT", same as I am. I worked with his Dad in the AHD Plans Division back in 1972-76 but he doesn't recall me.....just a kid I was!

Dave came to work in Materials in 1991, a year after I did and, from then to the end of 1998 he and I traveled many thousands of miles together, workin' in high-risk, life-threatening situations much of the time! We had our share of arguments, as men who spend so much time together are wont to do! But, over the years, Dave and I have become 'bout as tight as two men what ain't brothers can be, I reckon!

Dave is a multi-talented techno-geek (Say it with Pride!) who is into planes, trains & automobiles, radio, electronics, photography, guns ad nauseum....... and, yep! He loves women, too! Ye should see the pic I got of him in a hot tub with Eleven Beautiful Models! But this blog sponsor won't let me publish that so you must use yer imaginations!

And Now, Dave (Super-Dave!) has hit Middle-Age! And he Still hits the highway every week to do his duty as an ADOT Technician! And he Still dreams of moving on!

Stay Put, Dave! You stay active, physically & mentally, and you will have many a good year of pursuing your other dreams, after a comfortable ADOT Retirement!

Have a Good One, Old Friend! Hope You had a HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY!


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