knowing how to navigate is everything

have been traveling since about 1 pm this afternoon, leaving Duluth, MN after brunch with the Benedictine Sisters of St. Scholastica convent where I've been staying since about 3 pm Friday.  My purpose in this trip was to be present at my Aunt Sr. Mary Higgins' funeral.  I missed that because Enterprise Rental cars failed to inform me that I would have to pay a $150 deposit on a rental car I had reserved for $67 for three days, leaving St. Paul MN at about 9 am arriving in time for the funeral mass, thinking that I'd even have time for a quick shower before the services began. 
When I got to the Enterprise Offices near the train station in downtown St. Paul I was met by the polite young man named Josh who made the reservation with my daughter earlier.  At no time was I or Angel told that there was a $150 deposit requirement.  I was unable to use my CapitalOne creditcard because there wasn't enough credit available on that card.  Enterprise store manager Nikki said they could not take a debit card at that store.  Nikki said I would have to go to the airport to rent a car because airport car rental agencies did honor debit cards. 
I didn't know how to get on the light rail that runs right there at the train station and I had walked nearly a mile to the Enterprise Store with heavy luggage.  Store Manager Nikki offered to give me the number of a cab service and that cab service charged me Fifty Dollars for a ride to the airport.  At no time did store manager Nikki provide me with any information about any light rail services.  When I got to the airport I was able to rent a vehicle to drive to Duluth but I did not make it in time for the funeral services.  I could have gotten there in plenty of time because my train was early and I wouldn't have had to lug suitcases all over the place because the light rail comes directly to the Union Depot in St. Paul.  I plan to write to Enterprise and to Amtrak and to complain about their lack of consideration in dealing with new customers.  This was the first time I had used Amtrak to travel as I had found it convenient for getting to Duluth in time for the funeral of my aunt.  I think I'll go do that now...register a complaint about my treatment at the hands of Amtrak and Enterprise Car Rentals..specifically that dude Wick Moorman who is the CEO of Amtrak...how dare he allow a new customer to be bilked the way I was??

acceptable criticism and then some

the other night I was in the breakwater with my neighbor Diana and guess what, Donnie Politte was in there with Karen Sargent and their little grandkid Cyrus and some dorky dude I know not who and wasn't that an awkward situation ol Donnie all blushy red like I know you can't get to me here babe and guess what, she DOES have the new car and you don't (mine's overheating and it's either a radiator or a head gasket, since we put on a thermometer and it didn't phase the situation...I am just standing/sitting there enjoying myself and once in a while I hear his voice and once in a while I remember him saying "i know about you and Dobie'...dobie and donnie...two what they call partners? only they the partners evidently...partners in figuring out how to keep me broke and at home so they can clusterfuck the universe using my intellect...well, that's one school of thought and I get a headache trying not to think that way but it slides up on me...I really wanted to be at that inauguration but what I got was Donnie at the breakwater with Karen S whilst I sat eating a hamburger and drinking water watching Cyrus flit about, stretching out into a long weed of hisself that little kid looks rather dispassionate like his father Cody who was about the cutest baby there ever was...one wonders 'what happened to hymn'....
and the real folks have moved on to being in our autoexecutor state and that's that...I'm sure my kids figure that works...let's hope so...meanwhile, ILRC..k?

was all set to go someplace special

daughter called 'you cant go home again' some author's tale that I have to live
apparently
looking up the planning session while a Red VW superbeatle is out front 207YXF
just wifi ing away
and the phone's ringing don't book it he says
don't we'll be arrested it's like Crystal Corliss down in DC now
like Crystal...
shattered is the Rolling Stones song
and Mick was talking about the Baltic and flights on Icelandic Airlines for
$236 round trip or was it $275
yeah maybe it was $275 so I started there looking from Seattle to DC
and then after the call about Crystal I looked up craigslist rides to see if anyone was
driving that far and no they weren't
and you can't afford it anyway after all this time you've burned up every bridge hoping
that you could go back to the Childe Harold and the bent dicks and all of it and relive
what was probably an illusion in the first place
so it's time to do come deep cleaning, empty some dishwashers, vacuum some carpets
take some deep sighs and finish viewing the American's and probably think about the kosher aspect and references made on FB about this that and the other
while I dream of a better truck and wonder about Bradley and Kate
who's Kate now that she's a grandmother having a child again
I dunno we'll see
like I care or ever did there's a gypsy in the woodwork
that didn't want to crawl out and join the Party
he forgot to start up his spaceship they say

biggest darn storm in a while

I have a good book to read, I've put away my sundries and there's a good thing for yas
we'd optionalize the quarter margin with a prize
throw it in while our heart is breaking and find we don't really care that she wasn't herself
it's ok


living with the best of it going for the gold and wanting the fresh air to always be there
sharp and crisp like no where's e;se
forst je batjrpp, tjem tje s;oder

first the bathroom then the slider
here we go
whee...

teresa came to breakfast

I fed her egss and ham haven't had mine yet this morning reading philip roth what a complainer portnoys complaint why was it so popular once this morning's news is that there was a concentration camp jacket found at a yard sale..such things found at a yard sale for two bucks...imagine the experience of the fabric washing things out by hand because of that ethic..wondering if gino the dog is ever going to get up and go outside the lazy little bugger time soon to go to the visit center and open the doors to the public for another day of meeting and greeting, might put some limbs on the christmas tree in preparation for the tree lighting next saturday, christmas coming in another few weeks very sad tones is not going to make it for turkey tomorrow but i have made arrangements to be at the coop for that and will cook a turkey friday mine is still thawing..tone's excuse is he has no money..well..for whatever reason there is...turkey will be prepared on friday after I get done at the visit center..meanwhile writing about the hoarder's ethic and exporing in my own world how that goes...kind of like there's something missing was really motivated when I thought tones would be here and now he's not, I let it all slide, keeping the fire warm...worry about the electric bll but am thankful for the dry wood from Sadileks..haven't made a pumpkin pie as yet need to go let out Minh E..ghengis is roping in our Russell - catchphrase..what else is there to look at on the web to avoid doing household chores, did get all the washing caught up...that's a plus...

forty years ago?

n't really do the math but it was 1985 when I was at #9 and dana was yelling about cannibalism..
we are here today with the issue...trump has one the presidency...it's time to wear yamakas for real...remind the doppelgangers there are walking dead amongst us and we've just elected one of them to be our president...he will make fine bait at the UN where he'll be consumed again and again for the ideas and policies he promotes, for the lies spread about his challenger, a woman...who supposedly a bigger crook than he but the truth of that matter is that no man in this country would elect a woman, even in this time, because they already elected a black guy so next time a woman? no way...that's the way it is and the way it stands...we either polarize an opposition or we go with the walking dead idea of visualizing the guy as what it is we need and want (besides him out of office which ain't gonna happen because we let it happen)...think Green?  that hasn't happened yet but the ideas behind the powers that control the legislators, and with a totally republican congress?   yeah..guess whose taken over now baby...right, think walking dead...think mmm whaat?? new roof on the deck?  no clutter?  all flab removed?  wrinkles?  hair returned?  never have to face the neighbor again?  yeah that neighbor...for always a selfrighteous freakazoid or a bamboozled kid sqwaking about never apologizing...whatever...we're done, it's here, walking dead is whereit's at...time to be a droid for the master race and remember always carry your remote, your gonna need it...that's another catch frase...don't be caught without your remote...YOUR GONNA NEED IT

foc#3

dumb:  I was looking in the papers today, there's a battle of the bands..I think you two should sign up
tweet:  for what?
dumb:  why to be in the battle of course, you can do it, you're tops
fred:  we'd need amps for people to hear us
dumb:  use the guys you go on after, just leave 'em up
tweet:  they don't do it that way
fred:  besides, there's some kinda entry free, yes?
dumb:  taken care of, they want ya and the band you follow is Ash Corps
tweet:  really, Ash Corps?
dumb: signed and sealed, all you have to do is deliver
fred looks at tweet..
Fred:  'what's the catch??
tweet:  there's a catch I know there is
dumb:  no catch, you only have to be there to follow in after ash corps, you can use their amps just plug your stuff in and sing, any ideas on that one
fred:  a fine little ditty come to mind
tweet:  which is?
fred:  remember last summer when we were at the beach and this girl walks by us wearing that ruffly red bikini top with the green bottom and you said she looked like a christmas present
tweet:  yeah and you said for who?
fred:  and we mde up this song about her walkin' by us

and I wish I was with Santa's girl
watching her fill stockings with the kind of presents we all wanna have
loading them up with the dearest of thoughts and the tenderest of words
and the sweetest of kisses and so on and so frth until I explode
watching her walk by
just
watching her walk by

she's a dear little thing
as sweet as them come
in her santa suit she's soooo cute
just walkiong on by me
she's a dear little thing

tweet:  that was a fun one
fred:  we could do it
tweet:  let's practice..now when is this thing?
dumb:  oh, in about an hour
fred:  are you serious?
dumb:  that I am..sandwich??