Hello Friends/Enemies(?)
  It's been a few months now.  Seems hard to know where to even begin.  Or maybe even why....

Not sorting through hundreds of filed bits and pieces of ideas/writings from the past year for sure.  Most everyday I start writing something and whatever that is ends up being forwarded to my email or under stack of papers.  To be finished later or never...

Perhaps a review of 2008 is in order.  Expect that sometime this year.  It was good and bad.  Hope this year stays sucker free and I make a lot of money.  This will help to keep checks from bouncing and the phone getting turned off.

In the end I am lucky to be able to do the things I do so I can't complain too much.  I was writing this earlier.  It's been kind of cold lately being winter and all.  When I left work last Wednesday night all the doors to the Ford were frozen shut so I had to crawl through the back glass hatch in over the seats to get inside.  Then it took more than 20 minutes before it was warm enough to travel even one inch.  Anyway this is from earlier so here you go:
 

  I was sitting here last night a little after midnight and the power went out.  It was off for the entire night so no light,heat,or You Tube.  Damn it was cold but not cold enough to want to find somewhere that was not as cold so I just went to sleep.  I was not really tired but what else to do besides go to bar and get trashed.  I don't do that so often anymore.

  In the morning I was able to get the keys to reset the breaker downstairs which was kicked over my desire to run a small heater in one room and reheat the mashed potatoes in the microwave at the same time.  Luckily this has only happened one other time since I've lived here so not the biggest deal in the world.

By probably 9am it was off to the Carlisle Gun Show.  Too bad when we got there found there was not a Carlisle Gun Show instead a sign noting that the show was rescheduled for another weekend.  I probably wasn't going to buy another gun but I what I really wanted was a Surefire flashlight that did not cost way too much.  Some models cost over $400.

So it was off to Harrisburg area to visit the Bass Pro Shops which is a giant fish tank with a hunting/fishing store built around it.  The "handles" to the outside doors were even made of elk antlers.  Very interesting.  Found the flashlight section and started testing out the Surefire lights.  They didn't have the one I wanted and the price listed was way too much anyway.

After that it was off to the Hollywood Casino in Grantville.  I had never been there so it was cool to check out.  I was surprised at how many one cent,two cent, and five cent slots they had.  After an hour and just about breaking even back through Mechanicsburg to a Circuit City liquidation sale that people were going wild over.  Not sure why as even at 10% off the stuff was still overpriced.  I need a new computer real soon.

A few hours ago I ended up buying the flashlight on Ebay so I will have it later in the week.  It will be perfect for blinding suckers who hassle me when walking home late at night and also in the spring I am going to explore the abandoned Pennsylvania  turnpike which includes the Rays Hill Tunnel.  If you are familiar with author Cormac McCarthy(no country for old men) one of his newer books "The Road" was made into film and is coming to theaters hopefully sometime this year.  Parts of the abandoned turnpike were filmed for the movie and I will go there to see for myself.  If you are really interested there are videos on youtube of the tunnels.

Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike

"The Road"


That is it for now my friends...good night