Friday Random Ten

If I do nothing else, I want to put up today's soundtrack. I will be making and waiting for calls most of the day.

Bad Karma - - - Warren Zevon
Poor Man's Shangrila - - - Ry Cooder
Bury Me on the Washita - - - I Brake For Pow-Wows
It Takes a Worried Man - - - Pete Seeger
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - - - Ewan McColl
Gilgarry Mountain - - - The Pogues
Someday - - - Los Lobos (featuring Mavis Staples)
The River In Reverse - - - Elvis Costello
The Sake of the Song - - - Townes Van Zandt
Say It Isn't So - - - Billie Holiday


Bonus Track: (hit random twice take the top)

Roll River Jordan - - - Wailing Souls

I Was Planning to Post Today

I know I've been a slacker. I've been processing the naming and adoption ceremony and was fully intending to get something up about that.

Then the phone rings. It's the Sgt. Major, Larry, in Arizona.

He's going to Afghanistan in two months.

He fucking volunteered.

I understand. I do. He could not stand to remain stateside while the troops in his charge are sent onto the battlefields. He is a soldier. He cannot stay out of the fight. I know how he feels. I do understand.

But. Fuck.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

His wife and daughters will be coming out to stay with her family in Garden Grove. I will be close enough to look in on them and bring them out to the desert from time to time.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

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Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

That is all.