Cafe Einstein - LPTPW 17 - animal, vegetable, and/or a minerally type chemically thing, and maybe some other things as well, yes :)

Well, yes and then again no.
- missed a ( short ) work shift because of a magic roster change. Magical because I was never told .....
- got message about said change in the middle of heavy traffic when I was in the suburb of SomeWhat Elsewhere. So no, I can't drop what I'm doing and just come on in regardless .....
- moved house for my two youngest children from Point A to Point B. Point A had three flights of stars. At Point B I couldn't do a right hand turn across traffic anytime this century and/or prior to the Zombie Takeover. Had to do a multi-block circuit to approach from the other direction and turn in left. I could have unleashed the Four Horsemen right then and there but .....
- they were all otherwise engaged poking my lumbo-sacral spine with sharp pointy sticks, because of Point A.
- however Point B is great. Nice unit of five up the end of a longish path and quiet. Has good focus-fire kill zones for any zombie nonsense, we've set up a Claymore ambush point and a hidden quad 50 cal bunker. I'll put the napalm dispenser in this afternoon and dig the mortar pit next weekend. Still deciding if to put in any punji traps, as I don't think zombies are much susceptible to infection. In any case we can use the tunnel network left by the last resident. When my Barrett sniper rifle comes back from servicing at the armourer's I'll range it in. Some of the local ZombieWatch militia ( Home Defense division ) came down to greet us and we toasted marshmallows while burning an effigy as per standing orders. All in all a really lovely area. Could do worse.
- then we celebrated the move with a Pancake Parlour sojourn ( with Long Island Iced Teas ). That may have returned to me more calories than I burned so a good win there :

... raspberry + rhubarb with mascarpone cream + ice cream. Blue Heaven spider to wash it down. I slept well and dreamed that the whole world was just one big Pancake Parlour ..... and it was all for free as much as you can eat. Am I getting old and deluded ? Nah no way ...... :-)

Cheers, Mike.

( edit ) Brief lunge at thread relevance : was it rhubarb that Sir Wal brought back from South America ( in turn cultivated there for ten thousand years ) ?

{ In a little known Olmec dialect 'rhubarb' = food of the gods themselves }

Yeah, I'll be a mere 49 in 26 days from now. Well, 25 days by the time most of you read this. Actually, as I type it's already tomorrow where most of you are, so definitely 25 days.

Shady Grove is now in Maryland and a Metro stop, Metro is our light rail system. Annie's Orinoco though was the name of an Indian Chief and one of the names of a street in Alexandria, Virginia, and probably other places too, but that's where I used to work back in the day. I still live in Virginia today, as my 5X GreatGrandfather did when he was born here. My 4X GG decided it was time to move though and started the trip that ended with my 3X GG being born in Iowa. My dad was also born there, but since he was in the Military I was born in Detroit, Michigan where I stayed for about 5 to 7 days before boarding an airplane for Tripoli, Libya where I lived for 3 years!! From then until I myself got out of the Military myself I was constantly on the move, never having a place to call home, but traveling to places like Maine, Japan, Georgia, Alaska etc, while moving every 3 to 5 years. ALL of those were with my dad, my own stint in the service took me sailing the open seas mostly to the Mediterranean, but also to Guantanamo Bay Cuba, but LONG before it became a jail for terrorists. They had a bar there that would give you TEN Vodka and OJ drinks for a dollar. The bartenders would only give you ten at a time though, the bar was LONG and there were not nearly enough bartenders, so to keep everyone happy and drinking you only got ten at a time. Twenty dollars bought ALOT of drinks!!! We usually spent twenty dollars each and they had to chase us out when they closed. These were dinner water glass sized drinks, not teeny tiny things!!! Early the next morning at dawn we would go out and play war games all day long, and then hit the bar again when we came back in at dark. Two weeks of that and even WE were ready to come back home to the US again!!

As for the youngsters here, yes they are very respectful, as they should be.