Neanderpundit

Having spent today chasing down and informing my best friend and his brother about their mother’s demise, I’ve had enough.

I’m going afield tomorrow, to hunt deer. I hope I see a couple. I have to zero in a new scope first. I will be doing both things on the same property, Kingsbury Fish and Wildlife area in Kingsbury Indiana. Where I broke my 25 year cherry last year. A good thing, you know? I do know I’m anxious to leave all this behind me and go where I can be at complete peace for a couple of hours. This is long overdue.

Couple years back, partner’s dad died at home. His mom was out vacationing with a friend.

Mom went over to find the guy sitting in bed, the dog shivering with fear in a corner.

This morning mom found partner’s mom dead, sitting in the living room.

I drove up to his house to wake partner up and tell him the news, twice I’ve had to deliver news like that. He had to steady himself on a chair. I didn’t know what else to do, but better from a friend than from a cop.

God rest and keep her in the hollow of his hand. God keep Partner safe and sane through this.

Who gives a fuck?

When rubber first started to be popular, they made objects of rubber that looked like the objects they replaced- like leatherette book covers, etc. Plastic replaced leather and hard rubber products and spent a lot of time trying to look like the items it replaced. When cars came along they looked, at first, like horse buggies. The first computers looked like the typewriters they replaced.

OSM is one of the death throes of the Old Media trying to make the “new” thing look and feel as much like the “old” thing as possible. Tough luck, guys. This is gonna be a flop. DOn’t invest the farm.