Oh Lucky Days

   I'm not a gambling man.

   I have, on occasion, gone to Las Vegas as a tourist. But not as a person who needs to sit in front of a machine for hours hoping for a jackpot.

   I learned a long time ago that gambling was not for me especially since I don't have any kind of poker face. And what is that old adage? "If you can't spot the sucker sitting at the table in the first five minutes, then you are the sucker."

   But what if you had a day like I had? What if you felt really lucky?

   It all started when I was driving down one of the busiest streets in town. Schools were just letting out, I was about five miles away from the freeway I was trying to connect to, and there were eight red lights in my way.

   I just finished working and like everyone else, I wanted to get home. I put on some tunes and started my journey.

   I mostly stayed in my lane but since parts of the road has six lanes, three on each side, I did maneuver back and forth to a lane I thought would be the fastest.

   I passed three lights, as they were green, remembering the song by the Rolling Stones called "Far Away Eyes." (Listen to it)

   Then I made it through three more without stopping.

   I was smiling by now!

   I thought, wouldn't it be nice. And it was. I made the last two lights on the busiest part of the street, onto the freeway, on my way home without stopping.

   What usually can take up to a hour to get home took me thirty minutes.

   I felt so lucky I stopped at the local convenience store and spent $10 on lottery tickets!

And I Won!

I won $2

 

This is,

That Is Why I Do Not Like To Gamble No Matter How Lucky I Feel

TwoBuckHowie

(Insert Happy Face Emoji)

 

And

 

“Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.” - Alexander Pushkin -

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A Story Knocks On My Door

   I was sitting here this afternoon wondering what kind of story I was going to write about. I thought, maybe I should write down a bunch of really bad jokes and see if anyone responds with a laugh emoji. Or should it be something about science which is always fun for me when I do a deep dive on a subject like the Oxygen Candle. Finally, I was thinking about the option of writing down one of the dreams I have had lately. And if you have been reading this blog over the years you know that all most all of my original stories have come about from a dream I had.

    I was definitely going to stay away from politics! But...

 

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"

- Micheal Corleone -

 

   A young lady rang my bell, I answer the door, she hands me a flyer, saying, "You should vote for Matt Rahn for City Council."

   My reply was, "I will think about it."

(That is not me in this picture LoL)

   If you are too young to know this, the trend of all local political campaigns, from either party, is always the same thing. More funding for police and fire services. Ensure our city is the safest in the country. Support local businesses. Make education a priority and so on.

   Once they get elected, unless they are a good person and were sincere, nothing ever changes.

   Now comes the funny part. Why I will not be voting for Matt Rahn for City Council. The first endorsement he has on his flyer is from congressman Darryl Issa! Except his name is spelled Darrell Issa!

   If you can't even fact check someone's name or you put down a false endorsement, either way, you are not the candidate for me!

This is,

Getting A Good Laugh From The Candidate From Texas Who Change His Name To

Literary Anybody Else

TwoBuckHowie

And

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” - Martin Luther King Jr -

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This One Is For Me

   This is going to be a sort of diary entry today.

   I have used my blog over the years for a therapeutic means of escapism. So it should not come as a surprise to anyone who is still reading my material

   I do enjoy the stories I have written and the books I have self published. I needed a means of expressing myself in new ways, since playing music was no longer a choice that I have.

   But alas, after the sales of my second book tanked after a few months, I gave up on writing too!

   Don't get me wrong. I knew that sales of my book were going to be difficult since I don't have the money to advertise myself, but when you hear from friends, family, and people you meet in life that, "I don't read anymore." it becomes discouraging and the feeling of failure, overwhelming.

   Time for a disclaimer: I'm not trying to solicit comments, sympathy, or put the blame on anyone else but me. If you ever wrote in a diary you know how much it can help at the time and when you read it years later, you think to yourself, why would I write that? Where was my head at? And I put it on my blog?!?! AHHHHHGG!

   Another reason for writing this today is, it's my trick for overcoming writers block. It has always worked for me to just sit down and start typing the first thing that come into my mind. I'm hoping this is the spark that brings back the joy inside of me to finish my next project and keep telling entertaining stories again.

 

This is,

Smiling Once Again

TwoBuckHowie

 

And

 

“Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?” - Anne Frank

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