bric a brac

 You are correct Mr Beagles, that is the source of Woolie Boolie that Catfish mutters as he passes out.  I chose that phrase because it kind of went with hula and it was a couple nonsense words.  When you write and put in contemporary phrases there is always the chance that people who have come of age later may not recognize them.  Yesterday I was reading a story, Pale Horse Pale Rider, by Katherine Anne Porter which was set in the time when WW I was ending and the Spanish flu was raging and she several times references one-dollar men which I knew, because I read a lot of history, refers to guys who were too old to go to the front but volunteered their time at a dollar a year to sell war bonds and suchlike.

The song came up second on my google list (the socks came later) of options.  I did get the one from the urban dictionary, but my experience of the urban dictionary is that being open to the general public many of the contributors are fools or liars.

And here is some exciting news, I will be leaving on a jet plane over Memorial Day.  This is an annual thing that has been going on for like twenty years.  I have old Champaign beer drinking buddies who live in St Louis and others who live in Rolla which is right about in the middle of the state, and I will be flying to St Louis and then we will drive to Rolla where they have a nice spread and the husband brews tasty beer.

For reasons I forget they didn't do it the year before and last year of course was the covid.  But of course we are all vaccinated now, so there should be no problem.  Well there is the case of my expired driver's license but a few years ago when I went to Buffalo with another buddy I got a passport so that we could go to Niagara Falls, so that should take care of that.  This will be the first time that I have been out of town since the 4th of July two years ago.

The other day the subject of Old Dog came up at the Ten Cat, as in whatever happened to.  I was the only one who knew because of the blog, tried to interest any of them into it, but you know how that goes.  The main thing people remembered was those huge projects Old Dog took over once he left Fedex, the 3d printer, the cad machine, the huge 3d printer, the makers spaces.  Do those still go on?  Never hear about them anymore.  A google search came up with a lot of office and school spaces, but I am thinking more of those high tech things.  Maybe I am using the wrong word.

Well I said, the last thing he was into was pasta, and that stirred some interest, and now that I think about it I haven't heard about how the pasta thing is going, so let me ask now, how is the pasta thing going?