Random Thoughts, This June 28, 2026, AD

 Hey!  I still have a blogamathing.

What's been going on in the life of Tommy?

Work.  Workworkwork.  We're doing it for ourselves, and not the behest of some faceless name on an email, like at the grocery store.   Shyam and I own a fishing bait delivery company.  We deliver all over Southeast Tennessee, going as far west as Jasper and South Pittsburgh, and as far North as Knoxville and Crossville.  Business has been good.  

And spare time?  It's more than I had with Food Lion.  I just haven't been using it to write like I should.

There's a lot of windshield time.  And story ideas.  Hell, I had most of a Twilight Zone episode written surrounding a bus with the name BJ Tours on it. 

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I have wandered out to see a couple movies.  The nephew and I took in Disclosure Day on Father's Day weekend.  I like it.  I dig the optimism, though the realist in me says Stevey's overestimating A.) the General Public and B.) How much a meteorologist and a journeyman musician pull in, incomewise.

Shyam and I went to the Swingin' Midway Drive-In to catch Masters of the Universe, which we both enjoyed for the silly nostalgia of it.

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I haven't cared for a lot of what I've been reading lately:

I read A Children's Bible, by Lydia Millett along with Anthony Jeselnik's book club.  Have mostly enjoyed what he's presented with the Club....but this one just didn't do much for me.  I had, interestingly, the same problem with it that I ended up having with I See You Called in Dead, by John Kenney (not read with the book club):  the trevails of well-to-do white people aren't interesting trevails, sometimes.

The Western Star, by Craig Johnson, wasn't bad, but it's ending wasn't satisfying.  Came out of nowhere, if we're being honest, and that's not really Johnson's modus operandi with Longmire.  

Harlan Ellison's Endlessly Watching....a continuation of what was started in Harlan Ellison's watching, published via Kickstarter.  It's still fun, but Harlan loses interest in the column somewhere about 6 columns from the end.  And it works a lot like this blog from 2014-2026.

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Cubs?  If they hit, they'll make the playoffs.  Not because the hitting's that good, but we have about 19 teams in the Majors that will finish the season somewhere between 78 and 83 wins.  Not good, not bad.  But we only have about 7 in the leage that will finish above that, and the Cubs should be one of them.  But only if they keep hitting.  If they slump like they did in late May and early June?  They're sunk.  

Which is not to say they'll win anything this year.  There are 3 or 4 really good teams this year.  Dodgers, Yankees....and probably the Braves, assuming they wander out of this slump they've been in for a couple weeks.  And maybe the Brewers, though I'm loathe to say so.

Saw today that Hoby Milner is out with appendix troubles.

At least I can't blame that on the Cubs training/conditioning staff....

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Looking back at the past several paragraphs, I seem fairly negatively aimed.  But that's not how I feel, really.   

I don't think.....