Sometimes, when we desperately need a refuge, the best place to hide is a dream. The daytime sort. They can be great spots to ride out a storm. Let’s face it, boys and girls, a whole lot of the crap we have to face every day wasn’t revealed to us when we began the process of “growing up”. Had I only known, I’d've tried like crazy to stunt my growth. Would’ve denied it whenever someone…

That’s a well known expression in the MLB, (Major League Baseball). It’s one of the big secrets to success, and holds a great deal of truth. Willie Keeler, thought to be the smallest man to ever play baseball for an extended period, (not gimmick players or one-hit wonders), set some records over 100 years…

Depends on who’s buying it. When I bought gas about a week ago the regular 87 octane was $3.92 per gallon. (This post was written June 23rd). I had to stop and look a moment at what I just keyboarded in order to believe it’s true. On the 6^th of November, 1970, the day before I married the first time, I was p.o.’d because I had to go all the way across town in…

Still, I had to live with him. No choice on that part.

It hasn’t been short term, either. I first met him way the heck back in 1948. Those were the days where we had to watch TV in the dark because they hadn’t yet invented electricity. It was tough at times, on many occasions more work than I wanted to take on.…

… into what I call a ‘betes nap when my cell phone rang. If my blood sugar, (I’m diabetic now), “crashes”, (too high or too low), I need a nap. They range from 10-75 minutes, then I’m okay. I stuck the earpiece in and pushed the button without looking, so I answered “hello” instead of “Bill Cady”, as I would if it was someone I knew.

Could be a…

A good idea, or a bad one?

Recent news articles say the majority of women using the #1 implanted item, breast enhancers-enlargers, are experiencing trouble down the road. Pain, infections, slippage in many cases. (Pretty much guaranteed, with or without implants, much past age 60). What was initially installed to make a woman sexier can now make her very…

… because I politely point out something you did wrong to me? How many times has this happened to you?

I suppose the motive to say something on this topic arose during the 1,592 days and nights I was homeless, sleeping in my car and being hassled by every imaginable figure of authority. Their number also included countless self-appointed bosses.…

Girls were able to fool me for many years. Fool me badly, not just a little. No kinda-sorta to it. We’re talking “big-time baffle” and I’m not ashamed to admit it. My bam was boozled until I brought in a valued assistant known as “Diabetes”. I call my new buddy “‘Betes” and we get along just great. One of the first things Betes did for me was blow off any and all members of a…

On the waterfront: A holiday tradition … You can camp here … if you have a home and don’t need to camp. If you don’t have a home and you need to be there, you get ticketed. Deal with it.…

Can’t say I coined the term. First I heard of it was circa 1994 when, as an internet newbie and lifelong freak about Irish wolfhounds, I found a group connected with the breed. They had a very bizarre “chat circle” set up by a guy named Mardon Erbland, (I am not making this up!), known as “Mardon’s…

Take a peek at the link with the definition. You’ll see sarcasm has a couple meanings, one nasty, the other “less than pleasant”. It can apply to someone’s normal wit, (see…

The simplicity of modern man somehow seems to retain some extremely strong roots to those cave man days and it’s sad. Sad as can be.

There was an article in the San Diego Union-Tribune titled: Boy, 4, mauled to death by dog…

It’s a goal to aspire for, being that way. The song shown below was given to us by a great singer, but not someone I ever listened to on the radio. He had his first big hit when my Mom was two and opened his “business” the year I was born. He was someone my folks listened to, but I can still appreciate his greatness and the quality of his voice. His songs would be something to enjoy…

That’s me, in case you didn’t know. You see, the fabled Alex Irving also has a blog, as you’ll see by clicking here. I even subscribe to it, which you can do, too, if you want. Plus, he’s got this really great website, as you’ll see here. I’d even go so far as to say…

Whaddaya gonna do when people swear all along the way of your life they know you’ll end up dead broke? Stretched out flatter than piss on a platter? Stony cold dead broke without a pot to piss in or a window to throw it from?

When you have a few spots along the way that look like the bad news is coming true? Even worse, you end up homeless?…

… then for a few years I was a watchist. Now I’m a don’t-careist.

In the summer of 1969, at Onondaga Drag Strip in Onondaga, Michigan, my 1966 Chevelle SS with a one-time 396 V-8, bored out to 412 cubic inches, sporting 540 hp, turned a 10.13 second quarter mile, doing 138 mph when I hit the traps. That car could fly! I beat the NHRA…

She had to be in her late 70s, at least. White-haired and crippled, she used a walker-cane, the kind with four legs on the bottom for someone too whipped to keep going who needs to do some serious leaning. Perhaps five-two or five-three, 175-200 pounds, the old girl is pretty close to being on her last legs.

If she was a horse we’d…

NO WONDER I DIDN’T WANT TO DO IT

Mom would’ve referred to our “progress” on this blog as…

… on my part to suggest a woman in her 70s who’s obviously 60-80 pounds overweight really ought to lose some weight? To the point she’d then be very uncomfortable on a crash diet for many weeks, maybe even months?

While I already have an answer that makes sense to me, I keep in mind other things have “made sense to me” in the past. Such as my…