beetleheaded
Random word list:
beetleheaded
marsoon
milliliter
Hartill
overenthusiastically
Word chosen: beetleheaded
Definition: a stupid person; blockhead.
Free association word list:
beetlegeuse (sp?)
movie
Winona Ryder
Michael Keaton
Batman
Christian Bale
American Psycho
staircase
chainsaw
laughter
crazy
Word chosen: crazy
Writing:
The screams in the night drove me from my bed not in terror, fright, or cowardice, but in anger. I couldn’t stand to listen to the screams any more. They were keeping me awake. I knew that I had to put the screaming to a stop, and the only way to do that is to cut off all of their tiny little heads.
They screamed into the night on every full moon as if they were afraid of the pale ghastly orb that passed through the darkness for a few nights every month. It was always on the full moon, and I was tired of it. This was the third night in a row of screaming. I knew that they would quiet down tomorrow night as they had done for the past five months, but I’ve had enough of this.
Not all of them scream to the night sky, and I’m not a butcher. I’m only going to kill the ones that open their cavernous mouths to the pale monocle that orbits our world. I quickly threw on my galoshes to keep my feet dry from the splattering of their juices as I cut off their heads. I also made sure to throw on my rattiest bath robe because I knew that I would have to throw it out to conceal the evidence of my horrific crime. People would understand a single killing, or maybe two, but they would never support the outright slaughter of so many.
I grabbed my weapon, fired it up, and waded into their midst chopping off heads left and right. They didn’t scream as they died. They merely fell silent. One by one, they stopped screaming. They never ran. It was as if they were rooted in place by the mere sight of me. I never stopped laughing at their impotence. I would proclaim that the silence was golden, but the roar of my weapon in the quiet night drowned out any other sounds that I could have possibly heard. I just knew that when I was done, I would have my golden silence again.
Silence.
Nothing.
Peace.
Quiet.
Soothing.
… and that, good officer of the law, is why I am standing in the middle of Old Lady Pinkerston’s lily patch in the middle of the night with a gas-powered weed whacker running at top RPMs while wearing nothing more than galoshes and a bath robe.
PS: Kiara was giving me grief about posting about my rather boring past, so I decided to liven things up. I’m going to post fiction (as above) for this week during my writings. Maybe I’ll continue that through the end of the month. Maybe not. We’ll see what the end of the week brings.
PPS: I figured that while I’m up this “late” I would go ahead and stay up to post for Sunday, and get it out of the way. Now I don’t have to worry about it for the rest of the day.
gnat
Random word list:
obscuration
domboc
gnat
Kies
undergage
Word chosen: gnat
Definition: any of certain small flies, esp. the biting gnats or punkies of the family Ceratopogonidae, the midges of the family Chironomidae, and the black flies of the family Simuliidae.
Free association word list:
flies
annoying
dead
dying
fat
buzzing
freeze
winter
snow
warm weather
odd
thankful
hope it holds
November
Kiernan coming soon
meeting with doula
nice lady
packed for trip
heavy pack
NATO pack
3-day assault pack
MRE
emergency food
good eats?
probably not
survival
camping
dog food
Boy Scouts
Be Prepared
Word chosen: NATO pack
Writing:
A month or two ago, I realized that I needed a bag big enough to carry all of the stuff that we’re going to be taking to the hospital when Kiara goes into labor. I knew that I’d have this bag, my laptop bag, and Kiara to get into the hospital without killing myself. That’s when I decided that I needed a back pack that could handle a large load.
Instead of running to REI to buy an overpriced frame pack, I decided to hit the local Army surplus store. I had in mind to pick up an ALICE pack since I had heard about them, and I knew that they could hold most of what a solider needed for a day or five in the field. If it can help keep a soldier alive, then it can probably carry what I need.
I got to the store to find that ALICE packs are frame backpacks. Ok. Don’t need that for this trip. However, I’ll keep it in mind if I ever do the camping thing. While looking around the store, I came across a NATO pack and a 3-day assault pack. The 3-day assault pack was really, really nice, and could hold TONS of stuff. Unfortunately, it ran $90 for one of them. I decided that Kiara would castrate me if she found out that I had spent that much on a pack.
That left me with the NATO pack for $20, which is the option that I went with. The NATO pack wasn’t quite large enough to hold everything, but it comes close. I have a small bag that holds the rest of the gear that we’re taking with us. Fortunately, that small bag sits perfectly on top of the NATO pack, and one of my bungee cords holds it in place nicely.
We added the last bits of stuff that we need for the trip to the hospital into the bag this afternoon, and cinched all of the flaps and compartments closed. Things are packed up, and we’re ready to go.
Now if we can just keep the weather nice for a few more weeks until we’re at the hospital things will work out nicely.
PS: Not used to posting on the weekends. Hah! Barely made it with a few minutes to spare.
