Comin' home

[curt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_ODg0FmzQ

soon

[curt]

It really is a death star.

My Mom keeled over and had to be rushed to hospital in an ambulance. I hope my visit's not the cause. She had just finished writing an e-mail to me reminding me how hot it gets in Az. in June and if I really wanna ride a bike around there for a week. I hope it aint nothin serious. They aint gonna make it much longer, I fear. That's why I'll be re-visiting the death star. Probably be my last trip in that direction. Greece is calling my name again. Them damned Sirens !

[Cal]

Had any news yet on how she is doing?

[curt]

not yet, Cal. My lil sister said "her tongue was swollen, she appeared to be dehydrated, some blood count is out of wack and she has a high fever. (our older brother) said she was incoherent in and out and her speech was slurred. He also said the right side of her face was swollen."

Mom on Thursday: "I have had a few nights of having a hard time going to sleep. (mind won't shut off). What mind??? Right??"

Friday, she wrote "Just a reminder:
June
Average high temperature: 103
Average low temperature: 72
Warmest ever: 122
Coldest ever: 50
Average precipitation: .1

Riding a motorcycle might be pretty HOT!! ?? Love, Mom"

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from NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN..........

"You can say that the country is just the country, it dont actively do nothin, but that dont mean much. I seen a man shoot his pickup truck with a shotgun one time. He must of thought it done somethin. This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it. You understand what I'm sayin?

I think I do. Do you love it?
I guess you could say I do. But I'd be the first one to tell you I'm as ignorant as a box of rocks so you sure dont want to go by nothin I'd say"

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Sounds like home the way I know it. You can lose your life there in less than 10 minutes. Picked up a mojave diamond back once. They say her poison works on your nerves while it goes through your veins. You lose control of your limbs and then your breathing goes and you die. I knowed that before I picked her up. Me and my brother were big on biology. Straight As for him, B+ for me cause I was so in love with Laurie Cluver. I used to go runnin in the desert. Ten miles in one stretch. Ran in the middle of the day when it was hotter than hell. Them snakes aint dumb. They dont lay out in the open when it's hot like that. Go out the same way at night like we did many a time and you could see a rattler most every fifty yards. Some rattle when you come. Some dont. Cleaned up Mom & Dads yard once. Doris and me were freshly married. Picked up an old tire and wanted to throw it on a huge pile of trash we had made. Saw the black widow nested up in the other side of the tire and almost shit my pants right there. Was out diggin for a spiny once while out a good five miles with my other brother. One of them poisinous scorpions was down there in the sand and I must of hurt him with my hand so he stung me in the finger. We dug it out and seen it was the highly poisinous kind. My brother told me to be real calm and try to keep my heart rate down while he checked it. We walked back to the house real slow, stoppin to rest a lot. When we got back I was delerious and the poison had already been through my heart. He stayed with me and made me drink lots of water, so much I puked. When Mom & Dad got back from shoppin we told em I was just feelin a little sick and I had a fever. The next day, we told em the truth and Mom just about killed us. We brought a Gila Monster home once. Wasn't plannin on it but this one was bigger than the biggest one in the books and we wanted to show our biology teacher. We got a few pictures of it, one with me holdin it up next to one of Dads measuring tapes. My brother is a nurse now and he sees after Mom & Dad whenever he can which aint all too often seein as he lives down south of Tucson. I was his first patient he now says. He also says we were dumbasses for doin what we done back then. We're lucky to even be alive now. Yeah, that country will kill you in a heartbeat. That's for sure. Don't need no pesticides in your lungs. Lots of that there too. Never mind the uranium mines over in the east country. Is it any wonder I wanna get in, get it over and get the hell out?

[waldopaper]

well howdy doo... take me eyes off ye for half a day an... whats this? yer mum's feelin poorly? oh man... keep that mojo on or whatever it is ye do. Speak yer piece to them ol folks... cos when they gone... they gone. Keep us posted, Rossi... we pullin for ye.

[curt]

I wanted to give them both somethin to look forward to cause they sounded so damned depressed lately. Told Mom I'm comin home and she (rightly so based on the facts) said "I'll believe that when I see you standin here in front of me." But this is also the same person that said that I'm the only human being she knows that does what he says he'll do even if it hurts or leads to the end of ones self. Actually, she said "you've always been one to set your head on something and then fight tooth and bone until you have it". Growing old sometimes sucks. Its not the getting older that sucks so much, its the way you have to get used to other people droppin off like frozen birds on a power line in North Dakota in January. Never been there and don't intend on going there but I thought that would be a nice metaphore to use.

Still no news........damn. Gonna have to call home to see if Dad's there. Good thing I work for your super huge assed telecoms company and get to use a number combination to keep it all real cheap. That also boils down to this ; if any one of you needs someone to talk to........and I just happen to be the one you wanna talk to or with and I just happen to catch wind of it........gimme your number and I'll callya. Not here.....hell, I dunno where....but we shouldn't be throwin numbers around out here in the open.

Mom'll be okay. There's a german saying - "Unkraut vergeht nicht" : Weeds never die.Another one - "schlechte Menschen leben länger" : Bad people live longer.

I'm so scared.

[curt]

Just got off the phone with my Dad. Mom's allergy pills decided to go against her system after two years. They fixed her up with some counter stuff and liquid antibiotics to get the white cell count down again. "She's pertty perky today" he said, "comin home tomorrow". Bad weed I guess. No, not that...not her. Why am I tellin you people this ? It's almost like a diary. I know why. You do too.

Dad says the tires are gonna melt off of any hog I ride there in June. I said that's okay, it aint mine and I can take the heat. Its traffic I don't like. The heat aint so bad as long as you stay hydrated and you keep them blue blockers on. Good sunglasses tend to put you under the impression it aint as hot as it is. I went without (sunglasses) while I lived there. Never knew how wrong it was until the headaches went away....and all the dust came porrin out of my nose after a few months here.

By the way, Dad had this to say while we chatted or as we say where we're from, shot the shit:

"people are so damned stupid they don't even see that it doesn't matter who moves into the white house. The old boys pullin the strings aint gonna show their faces anyway. They keep blamin Bush for all these things but he aint got no say in this, no more than JFK did an they killed him and they killed the milkman (MLK) for thinkin they had somethin to say and for sayin the wrong things. This old country aint gonna get no wiser any time soon son. Its just one huge ship o' fools. But you know that, dontcha?"

Yip, Dad, I sure as hell do.

[littleoldme]

I'm glad to hear your ma's alright. I'd say your dad's got all their numbers.
Be careful while your over here.

[waldopaper]

hey Rossi... if yer arrivin in Chicago in June... bigawd I want to meet you in Chicago in June. It's only a few hours away from where I am... and BO and pan shook hands because of close proximity... you and I can do the same. And hey... I'll sweeten the pie... I got the best motorcycle helmet ever devised by man... it's yours. Would give ye my Hein Gerke leather jacket too... but I gather that you're much bigger than I am... and it probably wouldn't fit... but I got a really big head- so I'm sure the helmet will work. AND I never wore it- not once- without my silk baklava or doo-rag... so it got no head-grease or breath-stink from me! It's full-coverage you can flip up to half-coverage if ye want. They don't make em any more. Hey- I got Harley leather chaps... ye interested?

We gotta stick together... (or maybe not- whathefuck do I know) but we all been through a really interesting filter to end up here talkin to each other on this ning-ding. ye drop down from 6k km away to go further... and to be honest... I want folk (you and GreyRaven) to be there in the deutschsprache welt to "visit" when me punkins and I have to get the fuck outta here. o'course... I may "pass out of the picture" by then. Who knows?

You-me-Chicago-June... ok?

[curt]

Chicago would've been okay but that turned out to be too tricky with the return flight and all so I took the easy way out and booked Phoenix. Won't be in Chicago this time round. My flight's stoppin in Detroit but I gotta go through the terrorist filter and passed them taser bros to get on my plane to Phoenix. I got a friend down in Alabama says I'm an asshole for not goin there. One up in upper state New York wants me to come there. I myself want to stop in on Kansas for a week and do nothin there. My boss says he's bendin over backwards to let me go for three weeks at a time. Sorry, matey. We'll have to postpone it a while, leather chaps & all.

Ever rode in 120° weather out on the asphalt ? I haven't. Chaps would be a whole lot better than my thickass leather jeans.

[curt]

Mate.........I will be landin in Detroit. I won't be leavin' the airport.....

I know it's a cop-out and I don't deserve any attention at all. I'm sorry for bein' such an arse. I'm so scared of returnin' to turtle island, I've actually sent an e-mail to the local police ...tellin' em I'm comin' and to put their cuffs away....it's only me. A nobody, from nowhere.

[waldopaper]

Thats ok man... I wouldn't go to Detroit to meet the Buddha herself. Aside o the fact that it's a shitpile where a bloke could get shot... I gotta go through Toledo to get to it... and I wouldn't go there for God's own remote control.

[Mouse]

I'm a nobody from nowhere too, Curt. What a coincidence.