The kinda sorta disappearing post

I wanted to add the pictures to yesterday's post now that I can get in to do it again, but it's the weirdest thing. The post appears on the blog, but does not exist whatsoever if I go into my Dashboard Edit Posts. It is not there to edit. But it shows up in the blog. Strange. But then, and maybe I'm the only one it's affecting, Blogger has been a little snakey the last day or two. Therefore, I move on.

I had a bit of a disappointment in my life yesterday. I took a can of pork and beans, and why two small, tiny, miniscule cubes of pig fat is considered to be the pork plumb escapes me at the moment, and drained off the juice. Then I took a can of Hormel chili with no beans and plopped it in a pot, poured the beans on top of it, stirred and heated. Sounded like it might be pretty good, although in retrospect, adding beans to chili with no beans kind of defeats the purpose of buying that particular style chili in the first place. Still, I dialed my taste buds in to fun-tastic and dug in. It didn't gag me, but neither did it match my expectations. Oh well. You win some and you mix some wrong.

As I drove home yesterday, passing through the seven miles of once scenic countryside, observing not one, not two, but three accidents with injury, this thought occured to me. Maybe all hope for natural selection is not lost, like I had once thought. Maybe now it is just being administered by the Driver License Bureau who gives any fool an operator's license as long as they meet the stringent requirement of turning sixteen without already killing themself. It DOES make sense.

Stars That Once Would Dance (Aimless Heart)

I recall how the light remained
Hanging over the tree tops so casually
I'd just sit and visit some
With shadows that stopped by

We would talk about this and that
About folks we knew, about me and you
Sun would slowly fade away
Leave behind a perfect night

Smile that smile of yours and rip apart my aimless heart
It never knew the night would bring it pain
For that it paid a price, and
Stars that once would dance
Have now become a thousand points of fright...
...I lost my innocence tonight

I can sit upon the front porch step
So weathered down with time and memories
To call as if you still were here
To fetch me love and cold iced tea

How exactly can you "let me go"
For that implies I was not free
Or that my hands were tied with cords
That somehow I just could not see

Smile that smile of yours and rip apart my aimless heart
It never knew the night would bring it pain
For that it paid a price, and
Stars that once would dance
Have now become a thousand points of fright...
...I lost my innocence tonight

I had once upon a time to kill
And kill I did, God sorts it out
Bitterness creeps slowly in
I close my eyes to hide the pain

Crickets start and add their choruses
In voices I cannot escape
These silky, sultry southern nights
So prone to violence anyway

Smile that smile of yours and rip apart my aimless heart
It never knew the night would bring it pain
For that it paid a price, and
Stars that once would dance
Have now become a thousand points of fright...
...I lost my innocence tonight

Ed
Portsmouth, VA

Today is the Super Bowl. Expect most, but not all, of you to be caught up in the hoopla. I will be working today, but will get home an hour and a half before kick off. So sad to miss all the breathless talking giant heads, in their loud and somewhat ill fitting suits, but will see the game and it's commercials just the same. Enjoy the day.

Left... Left... Left, Right, Left, out
Ramblin' Ed