St. Pats cemetery 2014

October out the window in Ayer

Sweet booking jeebus !

Richard and Sampson welcome a lucky man.

The yanks at Chickamauga @ Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia!

Pop and Alex outside Chattanooga!

Waning gibbous at 108 East Main Apt # 11

Best nap is a beach nap at Salisbury Steak Park .)

Now hey you, mister, can't you read?

"Sign, sign everywhere a sign
Blocking out scenery, breaking my mind
do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign? " Five Man Electrical Band

Ayer rail station in the morning

Weather is here, wish you were fine.

Going from not being naked and famous
to being
naked or famous on the
first of September.

Who wouldn't be angry

The condo board of the building
where I rent
decided to disconnect the washer and dryer
to drive one of the other tenants from the
building.
It was a huge inconvenience to me and
I wrote an email to the landlord that
simmered with self righteousness.
I gather up my 2 loads of laundry and headed
stiff necked to the 24 hour Bubble It laundromat in town.
I had access to multiple washer and dryers so my
two loads were done within an hour and
while rereading Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
time to just skipped by.
Yup, worked out just fine.

Great apes at Salisbury State Beach

Reintroduced to bum knuckles.

Move a muscle,
change a thought.
When in doubt,
push a pawn.
Nashua River Trail
biked me.)

Things I touch on the walk to and from work.

This is in the order into work.

2 wooden railings.
Cedar tree.
Bent guardrail.
Snow pole on a fire hydrant.
Tree stump.

On the way home reverse the order but add brushing my hand over a pine tree's needles after passing the wood railings.

Holy shit, Voyager 2 Encounters Triton

Smooch!

Another post at Kendal Green stop. I think we have ourselves an old fashioned curmudgeon.

Smile!

Chicks, go figure.

Some B and E might lead to some T and A.

August 2014, Pop dishes the good stuff.

On the way home.

A house was getting a new drive way
And that day they had removed the old driveway
down to the dirt right out to the road including part of the sidewalk.
A kid about 5 or 6 gets out of a car that just pulled into the driveway and runs to the edge at the road and exclaims "O my God, they cut the sidewalk. " slight pause "I loved that sidewalk. "

I am the Tardis

People and books.  Bigger on the inside.

Engineer was yanking my chain.

While walking I waited while the train crawled to a stop and then reversed direction 5 times here at the crossing at Groton-Havard Road. Eventually I reversed direction and crossed at the Sandy Pond Road crossing. But see that little ladder of 2 or 3 rungs between the cars? I think I could have made it.

The absurdity

A great song (Born to be Wild) blasting on my headphones
as I stand and gaze over the cubicle farm.
I have to laugh.

Waiting for Dad and uncle Than at Shaws

I'll bend over for that.

Found a dollar bill on the ground this morning.
Good luck proving it hasn't been in my
pocket the whole time.

A lesson in the laundry room from Marjorie

Marjorie asked which apartment I was in
and I responded 11.
She asked how I was liking it and I said
it was nice and I liked overlooking the pond.
Marjorie responded "When its not smelling like vinegar."
I back pedaled a little bit and said that I still liked
the sound of the trains.
Marjorie said "You will get used to it just like she
got used to the traffic noise out front."

Big time

The thing that I do which makes me decent at my job
of establishing patterns based a limited amounts of data
I also have used to conflate a single event to represent
the inevitability of all future interactions with 3 and one half billion.
OK Righteous Anger, come in and have a seat.
What can I get you?
An ashtray?
A coaster?
Put your feet up and lets talk.

Maybe

As we evolved from sea slugs our thoughts evolved from something deeper.

Posted at the Kendal Green train station.

The exit door is a mystery.

Turns out the conductor's are not quite sure either which train door will be used to exit the train. Seems to be up to the engineer and he keeps it a secret.

Much faster

I would dry off much faster if I could take my pants off
but this office is so uptight that
I don't even dare ask.)

Soaked walking to work.

Just found a small electric heater under Steve Berke's desk.
Using it to dry my shoes and keep my feet warm!
Is there no problem technology can't solve. 
Suck it monkeys .)

Women a sleep on bench

At Kendall Green station there are 2 benches
end to end. On Wednesday night when I got
there on the way home there was a young women
fast asleep on one of the benches. She was on her
back, her phone balanced on her stomach. She was lightly
snoring. I sat on the other bench next to her and
started to read a book while waiting for the train.
In a few minutes her phone rang and she woke up
with a start, grabbed her phone, and looked around her.
When she saw me she gave out a yelp, jumped to her
feet and dropped her phone.
She clutched her chest, took a deep breath and apologized
saying she gets spooked when people sneak up
on her.
The train came a few minutes later and she did not
get on.

A women on foot

While walking to the train
she approached and asked
"Sir, can you tell me the way
to the Federal prison at Ft, Devens?"
I said I thought it was a couple of miles
away so a bit of a walk, she shrugged.
I said I had never been there (pun?)
but there was a sign pointing to Ft Devens
at the rotary not to far away.
Its about 6 hours later now and I can
not help wondering what happened.

Woman and a bear.

While walking on Sandy Beach road at about 7:30 pm
on a Sunday night, coming in the opposite direction on the
other side of the road is a little old woman. She sees me and makes her
way over to my side of the road, some drivers politely stopping
to let her by, and tells me about the bear that was spotted
on this road this very morning while she was out for a walk.
In the story a man stopped his car and offered to drive her
safely home but she said no because she did not know who he was.
So he drove slowly along the road so she could walk by the car
till she was home. I asked her how big the bear was and she held
her arms out wide, just like how you would give someone a bear hug.

Mooched!

Supper at Pops on 7/19/2014.

One day, two bird stories

Out of the window on the right side I saw, as the train passed over the Concord river , 5 to 6 Canadian geese emerge from under the trestle below me, the 2 in front already slicing the water, the others with wings
cupped hard doing a stall before hitting the water.

Walking past the coop on Lexington road I could not see any chickens. I said out loud "Sleeping in late this morning , lady's!" which gave my brain permission to stop looking for the chickens and see where they were, scratching in the shadows under some bushes.

Tale of Two Poop Shutes

The much older with barely a sigh,
the much younger with a grunt and a cry.)

Not sure why I like this

A sentence from a book I am reading:

"The boat leaned into the waves under the weight of the wind." - Ted Kosmatka

Seen at work

That's Tom dominating the cone of shame!

Thirty Than years

30 years ago today as I held you in my hands for the first time

A stew of subatomic particles bounced and passed through us

to continue traveling on to 45 other stars by now.

Now that’s a 30 year mission. You have explored new worlds,

Sought out new life and civilizations and boldly gone where no Wood has gone before.

May the next year bring you dirt under your fingernails,

Adventure for your mind

and a song in your heart.

Love

Dad

P.S. "Than is older now than I am in this picture, sweet jeebus."

Think back, look forward.

"Enough of the preamble, now for the amble. "-Cecil

All the jingoism left me jangled.

"Time is a great teacher, unfortunately it kills all its students. " -Hector Berlioz

Pop, Me, Jenna, Than, Izzy, Marcy and Samira.

Saturday night and not to shabby.

Dr. Who to binge on, blazing chicken wheat wraps, grandson fast asleep upstairs.

Good to be an old guy

At 57 can be mind blown at a 931 gigabyte portable hard drive.

Hey, somethings

1)Walk so it shows on a map.
2)Driving to and grok national parks.
3)Read,Read,Read
4)Correspondence with people.
5)Eat well and frugally.
6)Don't self censor this damn list.
7) Do something to benefit folks.
*************************
1) Work with people I care about.
2)Work more with my body.
3)Help someone.
4)WOOF
5) Dentist while still working.
6) Prescription sunglasses.

A little trippy

I feel there is this chord that runs from my head to my feet
and at vibrates at this very low octave
and at times, just sometimes, it responds in sympathy to an ineffable
universe.