Meteors killed the meat eaters

Lifes simple pleasures include:

• Bart's blackboard scribblings in the opening sequence of THE SIMPSONS
• AccuRadio's TWANG channel on the internet for us "far offers"
• Getting a snail mail letter
• Popeye's spicy chicken
• Waking up feeling "damn good"
• Fresh, hot morning coffee
• Getting a smile returned from a stranger
• A warm, sunny day, a curvy road and no other traffic
• Same day, same road with a sun roof and Neil Young & Crazy Horse* cranked up
• Growing things from seed
• Hard Luck Story by Whiskeytown (Ryan Adam's band before going solo) ["I swore to your daddy that I'd love you, but I changed my mind"....who else could write that?]

Things that suck include:

• Trying to get through the security tape on a new DVD
• The item costs 45 cents. You have 40 cents change or a 20 dollar bill
• Both traffic lanes are moving approx. the same speed and it turns out to be slower than you'd like to go.
• 13 hour time difference between you and all of your friends
• Rain for a month, aka, rainy season
• The price of paperback books
• Amateur political pundits
• Unopened minds. Whether we agree or not is unimportant. Thinking is.
• Public parking (or rather, the pronounced lack thereof) in Japanese cities.
• The way we are treating Reserve and National Guard troops
• The best TV shows competing against each other so you have to choose.
• Realizing halfway through that you have put in one of those 3 hour movies
• 3 hour (or more) movies. If you got that much to say, do a mini-series.

There's more, but I can't think of it right now.

* Has to be with Crazy Horse, that's when he really kicks it in

Travelin' Ed