I need to get my Senior fishing license from Walmart and start hitting up the fishin holes around here. This one's called VFW Lake and it's only 20 minutes away, has a road you can drive all the way around and a $6 all day fishing fee.

Update: I just bought a fishing license online. Tennessee knew who I was, I guess that Commercial Drivers License I just got locked me into the system. Anyway, $4 bucks for a year ($3 handling). It pays to be legit, and old...

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I used to think that my cat Piper was not the sharpest tool in the shed when it came to smartness but I'm beginning to change my mind. Lately, while she's up on my desk being a treat whore, I start sniffing her butt and she gives me this look like, really? So when I head to the kitchen and gather up paper towels to perform the personal area cleanup procedure she so badly needs because she's gotten too fat to do it herself, she's off the desk and heading for the door. I have to catch her, put her back on the desk, grab the cat cleaner and do the deed, and she hates it. I don't blame her, I guess when I'm old and feeble and someone has to clean the shit off my ass, I'll hate it too.

Went up to Mule Town Rec in Columbia today for a little heat and wet. Met a guy in the spa that was older than me and wrote assembly language for some Nasa space flights. Never thought I'd meet another person in the world that knew how to do that. Very cool, for being hot...

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My boy Riley's got a new business card for the new autobody shop he's at. It's just him and the owner, and they're busy. Looks like it was a great move up.

Tennessee sure knows how to serve up a gourmet meal for a charitable cause. At least the girls around here are cute.

To see a place that once played an important part in your life, now sit desolate and abandoned, makes you realize how fickle and irrelevant your current reality really is.

I saw the yellow sky yesterday afternoon and didn't know what was going on. I'd been following the real-time radar map on my computer screen as thunderstorms were moving in and I saw a red blob that was moving in over my neighborhood so I went to the front door, opened it, and looked around. That's when I saw it.

We had been under a tornado watch throughout the afternoon so I was ready to grab my valuables, along with Piper, and head to the bathtub. (Hmmm, now that I think of it, maybe I need a better plan. :-)

Everything was fine but Melissa's husband Michael, who grew up here, saw the yellow sky and put his family on alert. Turns out, I should have been very afraid...

In the meantime, browser testing on my wide-screen monitor is underway:

My nephew Brian lost his cat Lucky in the Jackson, WY snow for six days. He never gave up looking for him and finally found him, trapped under his neighbors deck by the snow, alive.

Eight lives to go and doing well!

From Brian: "I almost gave up looking after the fifth day and then I thought if there's even a small chance to have my buddy back I'm going to try as hard as I can for as long as I have to."