Small town life and observations in the mid-west.
6 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Gammy got out of the hospital Thursday and was tired of being sequestered. Yesterday we decided to hit the road with no real destination in mind. We essentially took a Sunday drive on Saturday. We stopped in Chester and went down to check out Old Man...
6 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Today, I had to replace some HID (High Intensity Discharge) lights in a parking garage. The old ones were sodium lights which run very hot. I replaced them with a large LED fixture. For the most part, everything came down and went back up fairly...
6 Sep 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
I sit at home tonight alone listening to the sounds of silence. The two pull chains of the living room fan dance to a slow rhythm of a unheard song. The air conditioner kicks on occasionally but does nothing to muffle the tinnitus screaming in my ea...
29 Aug 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
Taken 2020 August 28 06:24 somewhere in central Illinois with Galaxy 8 using "nostalgia" filter. I didn't have time to change the iso and speed settings.
25 Aug 2020 1 minute read 4 comments uthus2000
So I'm a 54 year old third year electrical apprentice. I have to go to school this year on Tuesday nights. I attend the classes virtually every other week. Last week I was in class. This week I'm online. What a joke. I've been logged in for 45 minute...
25 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment uthus2000
I built this a couple of years ago for my daughter. They used to have monthly get togethers where she lived. Everybody would come over one Friday night for the bonfire, music and food. The first few times that she did this, the guys would be hitting...
22 Aug 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
My brother once had a wart on his knee. It was a huge, hideous thing. He had made attempts to get it off using the normal things like Compound-W. Nothing worked. One day he happened to see a man named Harold Gibbs. Mr Gibbs noticed the wart. He...
22 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I hate shaving. Not having to shave, but the actual physical act. In the photo above I'm pretty sure that I hadn't shaved for about 2 years. Or got my hair cut. I quit both of those on the same day. I had had a goatee for years but after leavin...
20 Aug 2020 1 minute read 4 comments uthus2000
I hadn't thought about it before I got out of the army but as time went by I discovered little by little that people are generally a herd of sheep. Not one huge herd, but lots of little ones. There are herds of sports fans, church communities, music...
18 Aug 2020 1 minute read 5 comments uthus2000
The "Wild West"was a period of our history that lasted a relatively short time. It was a time on lawlessness and vigilante justice. With the defund the police mess going on here in the states, it may very well get back to that. With no police to come...
