THere is a better than 0 chance that we might make it. The wedding is at 2 or 3 on Sat in Paris, so we could be on the road by 4 or 5, getting there at 9 or 10. Sat. No bus as usual, though. -----Original Message----- From: mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxx To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, Jun 20, 2011 7:18 am Subject: [tcb] Re: PsycoBlooie The work is easy. It's just hotter than hell inside the building. I prefer being outside in a tower with a rifle. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "w.wood" <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:36:44 AM Subject: [tcb] Re: PsycoBlooie How is the new career working out for you? On Jun 19, 2011 8:36 AM, <mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I have to work keeping the psycos in their cages. > > > > Mark > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx> > To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 9:17:33 PM > Subject: [tcb] Re: PsycoBlooie > > I hear your concerns and I feel your pain, but what about me? How will I > feel when you don't show up? > > All you people, listen. I moved up here so that you poor, hot, dry, huddled > masses people would have a place to come cool off in the lake, drink a > little wine, eat some good food and blow shit up. And I just can't stand it > that some of you miss out. > > It makes me sad for you, but mostly for me. > > Hell, this will probably be my last one. I have almost died up here three > times. How much longer can I hold out? Somebody said that I'm not dead yet > because God still thinks I'm funny. Well, how long can that last? > > Gerald, put all your important papers and stuff in a metal box and put that > box in your bus and get up here before I pass away. If a wall of forest fire > comes at you, exactly what are you planning to do? Piss on it? It won't > help. You can be down there all running around with your beard on fire, or > you can come up here and have a whiskey and watch it on TV. > > P.S. I do know that the drought and fire danger is serious, but I still have > to make fun. I have had flooding and water damage downstairs > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of Gerald Livingston > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 5:14 PM > To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [tcb] PsycoBlooie > > Not sure if I'll make it. Only part of it is lack of fuel funds. > > The bigger part is the fact that we are having a California/Colorado > fire season in SouthEast Texas. Aerial fireworks sales have been > banned. But we live within spitting distance of the Louisiana state > line and I'm just not real comfortable with the idea of being away > while rednecks with fireworks run loose in the tinderbox around my > house. > > There was a 50 or 60 acre burn less than 10 miles from my house last > weekend. Over the past 3 months we have lost several thousand acres > within 100 mile radius of where I live. They had to close a major > highway about 15 miles away when the flames got next to it and went > over 100 feet into the air. > > Weather guessers are calling for decent rain next week. So far this > year "decent rain" has only been 10 minute knock-shit-down hard > thunderstorms or 3 or 4 hours of "drizzle-so-slow-you-can-smoke-outside" > crap that just doesn't count. We need at least a full day or two of > "who-left-the-shower-running" rain. Medium drops coming down hard > enough to get stuff wet but not so hard you can see them bouncing back > off the ground 6". > > Somebody needs to put a big ass overflow pipe due south from South > Dakota down into the lakes that make up the Sabine/Neches river basin > system. Send some of that stuff a little further west to help us out > and keep Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri a bit less wet. > > G2