Off,,,,

Woke up at normal times, no alarums, no kitteh whiskas in me face, just, ‘I’m up,,,,’

and felt completely off kilter.   Not dread, not depression, not physical, just ‘not right’.    Dunno what the problem is.   May be that seasonal things, holidays, hermetic living, boredom, all balled up and mixed into this new feeling inside. 

Yeah,,, I’m gonna go with that theory.   To think its something external right now gets the tin-foil hat thing going.    We’ve enough of that just reading headlines.

Like this’un.

and a meme of the same subject matter

Dood!!!  Please,,, can we have ONE month of ‘leave it alone’? 

Some people can’t be happy in their own skin.  They must find the obscure and terrible to hold thier line in the sand of sanity.(if you wanna call it that,,,)  ((In their defense: we do need someone to keep the paranoia levels up, or things slip through the cracks, Like Pandemics and Vaxx wars.))

This weekend has been “Tooling”.   Skipped out on the kayaking (and I am likely gonna pay for that next time I am out).   When Da bought his new to him Pickemup, it had a truck box on it, and Da doesn’t like truck boxes.  He wants that bed wide open for hauling purps.   The heck I recieve for having a short bed truck is amusing.   To carry on; this box was a step up from the box I have been hauling for over a decade (and mine is beat to shit with leaks and holes,,,,)  

And I did a quicky search for it.

DAMN!!!  These things are nutzo expensive now!!!   Hell yah I’ll take a newer better built box than what I have had.

SO yesterday was changing over, mounting it proper and securing it with a new key barrel (old to me, still using my Snap-on tumblers from my old boxes.)   Today is going to be building a slide under box for the handtools/wrenches/sockets.    I had a box for that purpose a long while back, and it finally crapped out.   Gotta make a new one.   The aluminum box above is deeper than my last one and hard to reach the bottom from the side of the truck, AND, I am sick and tired of chasing those little sockets and drivers that get bounced around. Time to make a home for them where they are secure and contained. (you can mount them on socket rails, but when you go off-road, they WILL get loose.  I go off-road just to get HOME!!! EveryDAY!!!)

And yes, I am going to fiberglass the slide-box.   Same way we used to make our gearboxes at L&C (the sound company I worked for.)   Richard the Carpenter was a master at box building and his roadboxes were SOLID!!!   I don’t have the coffin locks we used on those cases, but no worries,,,  I’ll come up with something.

Might be a day or two before I am done building that box, and til then, those tools live at Da’s.   Don’t like not having them with me (when you drive a truck with 300+K on the odo,,,,Tools are a lifeline.) but its not like I am far off if need arises (and I has a phone,,,)

‘Tis a good day for cabinet building; its grey, cold, and wet out.  ALL the kids are hiding in the house right now.   Elbee is learning the ropes of “mouser”, since I have a feildmouse that decided its nasty out there and moved in.   I’ve seen it once, (thanks to Elbees radar dishes pointing it out for me.)  Traps are set, but I want the little-one to take over where his cowardly adopted brother-kat fails.  He’s been doing ‘OK’, with the curiousity kickin’ hard: now its time for the instincts to kick in and he become the killer.   With it being wet out, maybe his boredom will arrange a horrible death for the vermin,,,    (Kats, everything is a TOY,)(I can only hope I find the carcass before it begins to stink.)

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