bobbot

bobbot
Location
Dowell, Illinois, US
Birthday
July 15
Bio
born in Illinois. 5 year Navy veteran. Married for 22 years (not counting the first five when we just cohabited. 4 kids, 6 grandkids, 3 brothers 2 living, 2 sisters 1 living, a mother living, a father not living. 1 dog a labradoodle, and a current cat population of 9 (I'm working on that number) I've done a lot of jobs in my life, from shill at a carnival burlesque show to making medium caliber ammunition. I built inkjet printers, embedded computer boards, restored and repaired both cars, motorcycles and electronics. I read, write, and do arithmetic (albeit poorly) My wife claims that I have more useless knowledge than anyone on earth and resultingly no one will play trivial pursuit with me anymore. I do play pinohcle but due to my inability to cheat I don't win very often. Recently disabled I turned to Open Salon to re-engage my writing bug. Update, cat population now at 2. homes found for kittens. Update two add one cocker spaniel to the list and maybe just shoot me.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2012 10:44AM

Another Casualty in the Drug War

By now I'm sure that there are no people left who haven't heard that Whitney Huston, age 48, was found unresponsive in her Beverly Hills Hotel suite yesterday afternoon.  She was long a user of drugs and while I do not know if drugs were the direct cause of her much… Read full post »

FEBRUARY 11, 2012 12:30PM

A Brief Explanation

Some may have noticed, been concerned, ovejoyed that my presence is diminished.  The reason is a bout of rheumatoid arthritis, newly diagnosed that has left me feeling as though my joints are full of cayenne pepper and ground glass.  There are many topics that I wanted to weigh in on  … Read full post »

FEBRUARY 6, 2012 11:30AM

The Road to Anywhere/Nowhere

When we were kids we often went for Sunday drives.  They weren't trips with destinations, sometimes we just kept driving on back roads as long as we could.  We saw rivers and creeks and woods and lakes with fish jumping.  We saw the abandoned farm houses and barns left over from… Read full post »

FEBRUARY 1, 2012 10:15AM

Don Cornelius Found Dead

Don Cornelius was discovered dead in his California apartment of an apparently self inflicted gunshot wound.  I should go on to say that he was the creator and host of America's first nationally syndicated first run television program that brought style and soul music to the nation for the first… Read full post »

FEBRUARY 1, 2012 7:05AM

Requiem for a Dairy Queen

 

 

 When I was growing up in the late sixties, there was an almost national obsession with a pass time known as "cruising" or "riding around".  Sounds pretty simple doesn't it?  Well, it was a very complicated and ritualistic way to spend a Friday and/or Saturday night if yo… Read full post »

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JANUARY 24, 2012 7:08AM

Unemployed?

 

Maybe I don't have a right to respond to the "Open Call".  I really haven't lost my job to the recession since I got sick and lost my job due to health.  Probably, I would still be working at my last job if I hadn't since it was both

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JANUARY 22, 2012 10:24AM

Write What You Know

I've been at this writing thing much longer than my arrival to Open Salon might lead you to believe.  Even though I have poor spelling and atrocious grammer and punctuation skills I've been doing this since the 1960's.  Okay , granted that in the aforementioned 60's I was a child and… Read full post »

I just saw that one of the all time legends of the blues, Etta James ( born Jamesetta Hawkins) has died in California from complications of leukemia.  The perfect cap to an absolutely shitty week.  I've been a blues fan all my life and one of the first blues singers to… Read full post »

JANUARY 19, 2012 12:25PM

Escape (Hot Chocolate)

Well, this is good and bad I guess.  I have a car that isn't hot yet, a new identity, and another body to dispose of.  I think I'll wait a while and then just burn it all.  If there was only a way to keep my old car I could just… Read full post »

JANUARY 18, 2012 10:22AM

Sorry, We're Closed

maybe later

 

 

 

 Well, I'll tell you since you asked so nicely. Maybe it is a bad day, maybe I just don't have something in me that makes me able to make that leap from scribbler to writer. That's the reason I started here, to learn to be a… Read full post »

 

So the latest outrage in Afghanistan is the photo/video of some Marines urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban fighters.  It is outrageous in fact so I suppose on its surface, these acts are fit to be condemned.  I won't argue that in any way, nor will I attempt

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JANUARY 11, 2012 11:18AM

Lucky me, Lucky Mud

Sometimes, when I find the world closing in to tightly I revisit the only religion that has made any sense to me, Bokononism.  For the details read "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut JR. they are all there.

It gets hard sometimes to keep up the cheerful attitude about things when I… Read full post »

JANUARY 9, 2012 12:38PM

Have I Worn Out My Welcome?

I think I have worn out my welcome

fewer take the time each day

have all of my stories faded

back from the light of day

 

I may have worn out my welcome

by repeating my personal thoughts

or maybe I'm just to damn boring

for others to give me… Read full post »

JANUARY 6, 2012 1:46PM

Vicious Cycle

bitter bile slithers

across my dripping chin

anger seethes and rages

as my life slowly bends

 

Foul despair goads

a violent response

clattering blades sound as all hope is lost

Frigid rain chills

 

the spiderweb within

steaming hate and horror

once again begins

burn it all down

 

Smoki… Read full post »

JANUARY 5, 2012 11:37AM

What A World

Sometimes something in a post I read here on O/S will set my mind off on a tangent that leads to a post of my own.  Todays post is thanks to The Chicken man.

In the late sixties rock began to change a bit.  Less of the psychedelic and more of… Read full post »

JANUARY 3, 2012 11:27AM

How Many Children?

News from the Persian Gulf grows more threatening everyday.  I know that this blog gets hits from many parts of the world(thanks Google Ads) so I want to speak to that global audience.  I also aim this at my own countrymen as well.

How many children are enough to sacrifice for… Read full post »

JANUARY 1, 2012 6:57AM

A Quick One

Winds are howling in the mid West this morning, bringing cold and Winter in full force to the places that have been so far a good bit warmer than normal.  It hails the furious malestrom that the world will face this year.

We miss the important news for the foolish and… Read full post »

DECEMBER 28, 2011 7:02AM

So Long Cheetah

I just read an A.P. report that Cheetah the chimpanzee that co starred with Johnny Weismuller in several "Tarzan" movies died on Chritmas Eve at the ripe old age of eighty.

Hard to believe that the last survivor of all of those movies was the chimp.  I only have anecdotal things… Read full post »

DECEMBER 24, 2011 7:06AM

The Gift

The holidays can find us in a struggle, a struggle to meet the expectations of other, a struggle to find the perfect gift.  Gifts are tokens of our love to those we give them to.  We look for those gifts that we know will warm the heart of that person we… Read full post »

DECEMBER 22, 2011 11:38AM

For Fusun, a Totally Different Bird

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DECEMBER 20, 2011 12:59PM

Christmas at Sea

Holidays on an aircraft carrier are some lonely holidays and for a chronic holiday depressive they can be the worst of all.  We had went on a short deployment to the North Atlantic in November, which meant in this case we would spend Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Eve. at sea… Read full post »

DECEMBER 16, 2011 6:04AM

Grains of Sand

 

There are many things in my life that I wish I had done.  I wish that I was magic, able to go back now and right some of them, being only human I can't.  I don't know if this feeling is common or if it is just me being the… Read full post »

DECEMBER 15, 2011 11:12AM

Life Changes or Where do I go from here?

After over a year of uncertainty my life was about to reboot.  I gathered my things from the barracks and told the few who were interected what was going on.  Some were angry that I'd been given a slap on the wrist for my offenses, others were ready to try it… Read full post »

DECEMBER 12, 2011 11:20AM

Onward Through the Fog

 

I went home and went inside to face my parents.  I did as little talking as I could too, they weren't asking any questions about my story and I wasn't going to volunteer anything.  I'm sure that they knew what was going on but they just couldn't deal with

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DECEMBER 9, 2011 10:11AM

Future Wars and World Dominanace

 
We live in a world where huge changes are poised to occur.  After a century of America on the rise and more that eighty years of U.S. dominance in power and wealth China is on the rise as is most of Asia.  We are watching as global preeminence shifts from
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