psudo dad

 I’m two kids pseudo step Dad these days. I’m not married to Saturn but you wouldn’t know by looking at us. The kids act like mine too. Maybe because I’m always loving them, feeding em and going to all the school functions or at least giving them rides. Tonight I got to see the 11 year old play in the school band. It was amazing. They did the Mozart hits and other faves. The audience/families were a lovely patchwork of cultures from all over the world. Beautiful. Every color of human. I see why they do PE indoors to protect them from ICE. Most of the music sounded great and some of it sounded like an asthmatic Vespa slowly sinking into a canal. I was giddy for all of it. I loved that our boy looked for us after every song and loved that one of his band mates took the time to have punkrock liberty spikes. Also I’m never gonna complain about what part of the room my band plays in again. If these kids can do it outside the Men’s Dumper than so can I.

daphnie

 I don't snore but Daphnie does. She loves to be where I am and sleeps with her head under my bed. Right under where my pillow is. So even though I don't snore, if you see me sleeping it wil sound like a big Rig idling. This dog snores LOUD. Somehow it puts me to sleep.

bread tales

 I got my lil dude a Subway sandwich yesterday. He was stoked. I was confused. "I thought you didn't like bread." He doesn't. This kid cuts the crust off of everything. "I like Subway because they put so much sugar in the dough it's considered cake" I looked it up and yes in Ireland the limit is 2% flour to sugar ratio, Subway bread is 10%.

Olive and Dingo perform Lets go for a drive

cigs keep the cops away

 When people at work ask me for a cig I can often ask “What kind do you like?” The giggle when I file thru looking for their brand. I don’t smoke but I have lots of cigarettes. People offer them to me and give them to me as a tip.  I re-gift them to customers. There are no open stores close by after 11 so when they are jonesing for a square I can hook them up. They try to pay me but I don’t want their money. The relieved look on their face is enough compense for me. 

Occasionally I use them to bribe street people. I do it sparingly because I don’t want them to consider me the cig fairy. It comes in handy though. Like when I heard over the police radio that there were 40 gang members around the corner it only took 2 cigs to learn that they were BBQing. There is a difference between gang members and gangbangers. Older Gs aren’t trying to bother nobody. 

Other people know the cig trick too. So last night a purse was stolen from one of our customers. They were sitting out front and somehow didn’t notice it disappear. That person was an employee of the shop next door. This purse was important because it had the ladies'ID and Insulin plus it was hand made and had tremendous sentimental value. We all got this pic and started showing it around. Not much to go on but it was enough.  The shop owner started handing out tobacco and showing street nomads the perp pic. That got them a lead to a homeless village. 

They passed out more smokes and that led them to the thief’s tent. She wasn’t there but her neighbor went in and got the purse. Some stuff was missing like the meds and ID the owner got her purse back. I was very impressed by how tenacious they were at tracking it down and how willing the street people were not to have heat on their spot.

perp walking

operation test drive

the horn that wouldn't die