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A Life Well Lived...Except For This Brain Tumor

A Life Well Lived…Except For This Brain Tumor

My Dad (BakoHeat) can’t stop talking. He was a salesman so he never really stopped talking when I was a kid but in this case, it’s because of the massive tumor inside his head. The large mass that is putting pressure on his brain, turning him into half the guy I knew and a child that I’m not sure I ever wanted to meet. But this is what the end of life looks like. With only months to live, he is…

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#Advice #Brain tumor #cancer #Dad #Dan McGuire #Dreamer #Life Lessons #Troy McGuire

BTW KMA

About ten years ago we stopped speaking in sentences with real words. It seems like every verbal interaction I have has some kind of weird acronymically speechified meaning. It started slow when I was a kid in the 50s. Just a few of those things started creeping into our communication. It was cute at first– easy, lazy, and smart. At first it was mostly correct sentences like my father might have…

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Jobs for KIDS

I can’t let my children (FOUR) lose their employment over this tremendous pressure to choose their brackets. Such stress! The NCAA tourney is doing it again. I’m a parent here to help…retired parent with more time on his hands then money. There is no “like” universities or “loyalty.” Nope…somehow the four kids spread out all over the country and attended different schools. Now the problem is the…

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RESET 2272017

I realize we live in strange times. I’ve watched enough movies, read plenty of books and once was even brain-scrambled into believing certain folks could walk on water and cure leprosy. So…today became my first experience of a total reset in reality, history and things I thought were facts. Clark Kent proved to me years ago that being faster than a speeding bullet and able to leap tall buildings…

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Persecuted Pluto

I don’t know why I have this ‘thing’ for Pluto, not the Disney character, but the planet. If I could afford to visit a shrink about my Pluto problem I imagine he/she would find a size problem. I’m hoping it hasn’t been a life-long sexual thing. No wondering what one might find with hours of that type of studying. I do know I’m on the side of the angry “NASA New Horizons Mission to Pluto” dude.…

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#Average Heights #high school sports #Planets #Pluto

NCC

NCC Bad habits since the 60s. Eating late at night, after band gigs. Nothing more poisonous. Don’t sound sincere does it? It’s not. Nothing more pleasurable than late-night-after-gig-food. Back in Indiana, the late night assortments were meek. We had a Denny’s right across the street from the gig. Yuk! Maybe five times in 30 years. That was enough. Hated the food. We had a few independent grills,…

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B.C. 2017

You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes well you might find You get what you need (Rolling Stones) One of the first things I learned after moving to Bakersfield, California (15 years ago) was B.C. Part of the CA Community Colleges of California. Bakersfield College has a proud reputation (Mostly…

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Celebrate or Hide?

“Birthdays” Hurrah! Boo? Presents! Ignore me? Celebrate! Don’t talk about it? Party! Shhh? Having just roared past another yearly tribute (or damn reminder) I happened to stumble upon a story about the world’s oldest living person… a female in Italy named Emma Morano. She just turned 117 on November 29. The only person living who was born in the 19th century…Nov.29, 1899. King Umberto was…

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#Birthday #Birthday celebration #old age #oldest person in world

The Last Man in Europe

This was to be the novel’s name, The Last Man in Europe. It has always been one of my top ten favorite novels. The author was sick, possibly dying, with tuberculosis. He had the outline of the novel and visited his publisher. He had a few titles, but liked The Last Man in Europe. His publisher didn’t like any of the possible names and suggested the author choose something more commercial. To…

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#Big Brother #Double Speak #Memory Hole #Newspeak #Thoughtcrime

Thinking Wisely

In order to think wisely I need to read wisely. I like to read real Historians, not self-titled. I like to read real Philosophers, Musicologist, and Scientists. If 98% of the world’s leading Climate Scientists (from 192 countries) agree about the dangers and causes of Global Warming I believe them. I’m sure, especially if I needed huge sums of money to maintain power, I might kowtow to Big Oil…

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#Philosophers #Prognostication #Reading #Thinking

How to Fix a Broken Pizza

How to Fix a Broken Pizza? The answer is “tomato paste.” Just kidding, needed a title for today’s post. Some of you probably think I’m a Pizzaholic. Nope. It’s other things that make me look this way. Could be genes, could be food, but it’s not Pizza. Maybe I’ll order some pizza six or eight times a year. But I’m still a snob about my “favorite” way pizza should taste. I do have favorite local…

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#business #Domino&039;s #failure #Pizza #Pizza Hut #Success

Old Charlie is on another Binge

Old Charlie would take a couple days off because he had been on a binge. It didn’t matter because old Charlie owned the business. The employees would shake their heads, purse their lips and pick up Charlie’s absent duties. Then there was the beautiful daughter of some friends who was diagnosed with an eating disorder. This was years ago in the ‘60s when a new term, for we lay people, became…

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Vacation vacation: freedom or release from duty, business, or activity. See you soon

#Freedom #Release #vacation

Gold and Platinum

When I was a kid my Mom and two of my Grandmothers had many favorite rules to live by. When you’re a kid they come across as actual rules. So serious that a little kid better pay attention or evil things might happen. Later in life I just shook my head and laughed at the fallacies of some of these silly sayings. I remember the “wear clean underwear in case you get in a wreck and nurses and…

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#Clean Underwear #Four Leaf Clover #Golden Rule #Horseshoe #Platinum Rule #Step on a Crack

They’re Playing My Song

A segment of high school graduates don’t ever return to their high school reunions. Once they leave they want nothing more to do with those days. It’s not one particular reason for the shunning of those memories. Actually it can be dozens of reasons and it is what it is. If those years caused bad memoires then no need for instant replays. I fall into the larger group who always looks forward to…

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Imagination not Fear

It didn’t take long for Millennials to be the largest living generation of the United States. The latest estimate of 83 million blew past the 74.9 Baby Boomers. Baby Boomers are aged 50 to 69 years old. Millennials are aged 18 to 34. When the oldest Millennials were in grade school they started using smart phones. They have never know a world without fingertip instant questions answered of…

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#Alt-Right #fast paced world #Millennials #New World #smart phones

Cubbies Gone

No more cubbies. How can you call those baseball athletes, who gave us the greatest playoff games, greatest World Series games and the greatest Game 7 ever…how can you call them cubbies? They are the Cubs, God Damn It, and don’t forget it. Forty Million television viewers will long remember. CLEVELAND, OH – NOVEMBER 02: The Chicago Cubs celebrate after winning 8-7 in Game Seven of the 2016…

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#baseball #Chicago Cubs #Chicago White Sox #Playoff Games Fans #San Francisco Giants #World Series

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