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An Angry Young Man

I read a variety of blogs and forums each day; I call it Running the Traps.

The Old Girl on a hot August day

Back in the day, I read a real newspaper every day. I haven’t read a newspaper in years. The blogs and forums mirror my interest. RV stuff, firearms related things, Texas lifestyle essays; that kinda stuff.

One blog I read is by a young guy who lives down on the

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Old School Musings; Jeff Cooper, Politicians and Getting Up Off the Couch

We are winding down the job here at Calvert. Waiting on this or that as the final touches are applied. The last two days have been off days for me and I have been taking care of some maintenance issues on the Old Girl in the coolness of the early mornings. After sweltering in the heat for the past many weeks, I am taking advantage of the AC during the hottest part

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Things That Work; Working Things

From a previous post titled Tractor Supply Sells Chinese Crap–

I carry a pair of leather work gloves in my back pocket all the time. Not because I am afraid of messing up my manicure but

The end of a long, hot day. A sweaty back, draggy ass Wranglers and gloves in my back pocket.

because working around all this heavy equipment you can ruin your hands if you are not careful. There is always something

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The NASCAR Barometer

I was in second grade when Kennedy was assassinated. I was 13 years old in 1968. These days I feel like I grew up in a different country and was somehow transported to a foreign land on my 52nd birthday. Nothing makes good sense any more. Karzai says the Taliban are viable and threatens to align with them after we have spent billions and shed American blood trying to save his pitiful ass;

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Hey Zune and Microsoft - You *almost* got it right....

I was piddling on Friday.  The boys from Navasota Valley Electric had just about every inch of the driveway filled up with service trucks as they tied me to the grid so there wasn’t a whole lot I could do.  My daughter emailed me from Italy and said she had finally made up her mind to change from an iPod to a Zune music player. Well Glory Be!

Zune on the left — iPod

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Fear and Loathing in RV Land

This is one of my opinionated soapbox rants – SO -

Home Sweet Home for the next few months

if you don’t care for the opinions of a 50 something, conservative, out spoken Texan it may be best to move on to the next blog and read about the huge problem of cats that freak out in your RV if you go over 45mph or writing your congressman about making cutting through your RV site a

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