Neanderpundit

Damn. I was prepared to ignore this, but I was tagged on the same day by four different people. Out of respect to all of them, I’ll respond- and then remind them all: I HATE MEMES.

Four jobs
hand
blow
rim
nose
Four movies:
Anything with Zatoichi
Anything with John Wayne
Becket
The Lion in Winter
four places:
Cedar Lake, Indiana.
Highland, Indiana.
Dyer, Indiana.
Schererville, Indiana
four TV shows:
Monty python.
There are no more.
Four places I’ve been on vacation:
Home. Anyplace away is not a vacation.
Four websites:
Eternity Road
Kim Du Toit
Hog on Ice
Day by Day
Four foods:
Mom’s beef roast
Mom’s pork roast
Mom’s turkey
Any fish cooked by the Ogwife.
Four places I would rather be:
With the ogwife.
Hunting
Hunting
fishing.
Four people to tag:
I don’t dislike anyone that much.

Amazing how the mind works. I’m thinking about goldfish, which leads me to think of my old bike, and next I’m thinking about Gogi Miller.

Gogy (gary. He had a speech impediment that made it hard to say gary so he said gogi, and that’s what everyone called him) was at our house with his family, (this was before they became Jehovah’s Witnesses and all-around god-botherors) and we’d all had some of mom’s excellent potroast. We kids were playing in my room, while the adults watched TV (the millers had a black and white, we’d just upgraded to color)

Anyway, halfway through a game of “sorry” Gogi gets up and goes into the living room, whispers in his mom’s ear.

“You can use the bathroom here, it’t in the same place as our house!” (the homes in our neighborhood were all practically identical or at worst, mirror images.) More whispering “okay, go home, but come right back.”

So gogi left and ran down the street, hopefully, making it to the bathroom on time. Anyway, we all sit in the living room, waiting for Gogi to come back, and soon enough the TV has distracted us. Marlin Perkins is telling Jim to go wrestle the lion while Marlin stands behind the big rock. I Stick my head up over the back of the couch and peer out the window, and see Gogi coming down the street.
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