Welcome to the weekend. David and I are at the bar getting ready to reward ourselves for putting another week in the past. This week is a little different. In addition to Linda Hill’s weekly prompt, I’m joining the creativity challenge put forth by Teagan Geneviene on her Whatnot Wednesday post. Teagan challenged us to think about our junk drawers. Meanwhile, Linda wants us to work with:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “blanket.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
SoCS prompt by Linda G. Hill
If we were having a beer, you would be wondering about my status.
“Good afternoon, Dan. How are you on this early autumn day?”
“Early? It’s mid-November, David.”
“Yes, but it’s going to be sixty-degrees, so it feels like early October.”
“We don’t have Octoberfest on tap anymore, but we still have Modelo, and I just opened a new bottle of John Howell’s Bourbon.”
“Words to drink by, Curley. Set us up with our usuals.”
“Coming right up, Dan.
“So, Dan, despite the unseasonable warmth, are you ready for winter?”
“I am, David. I still have some leaves to pick up, and I’ll rearrange the shed, but the snowblower is ready.”
“Did you put the storm cab back on?”
“I did, and I made it a little easier to get on and off next year.”
“How did you do that?”
“Here you go boys. Bourbon, a snifter of seltzer — you’ll have to explain that someday — a glass of ice and a tall pour of Modelo. I might add that our pizza special today is our clam pizza.”
“Oooh, that sounds good, Curley. I think we’ll have one of those.”
“Cheers, David. Do you still want to hear what I did?”
“I may regret this, but yes, I do.”
“If you remember, a couple years ago, I replaced the headlight that came with the blower with an improved model.”
“Your stories never start with the story, Dan. They always start either in the past, or on some obscure planet in the universe of Dan.”
“Do you remember the headlight?”
“As far as you know, yes, yes I do. No need to tell that story, too.”
“Okay. Well, the new headlight is mounted to the storm cab, so I have to disconnect the wiring when I remove the cab, and reconnect it when I reinstall.”
“Sounds easy enough. I mean, easy enough for you.”
“The power connection was easy enough, but the old light was grounded by the bolt that held it in place.”
“You’re drifting into the past again.”
“I had to, to establish the problem. The new lamp has a separate ground wire. Each year, I had to wind it around a bolt on the handle to get a ground.”
“How hard can that be. Find the bolt, lefty-loosy, wrap the wire and then righty-tighty.”
“I love your use of technical terms, David.”
“That is it, isn’t it?
“Yes, but the cab bolts are English, the handle bolts are metric. I never have the right wrench.”
“Let me guess. You bought a set of wrenches to leave in the shed.”
“No, silly. I made up a break-apart connection. One half is a ground wire that stays bolted to the handle. The other half goes to the headlamp. Disconnecting is just a matter of pulling it apart.”
“And reconnecting just pushing them back together. Good job. Where did you have to go to get the connectors and the wire?”
“The junk drawer.”
“In your kitchen? You wife must like having that crap in there.”
“Not the kitchen. I have a junk drawer in the garage, too.”
“And you just happened to have wire connectors and wire in there?”
“Remember, I used to own a Triumph Spitfire. You couldn’t own that car without a good supply of wire, connectors and alligator clips, along with a blanket or two for when the heater failed.”
Iron Man by Black Sabbath was one of my college roommate’s favorite songs. Whenever I hear the song, I think of Tony. He’s been gone for over 42 years, and I miss him. For Tony, after my usual attempt to remind you of the books I’ve written (one of which is dedicated to Tony), you can enjoy a little Sabbath.
All five of my current books are now available in audio book form thanks to Amazon KDP’s Virtual Voice process. The voice is AI generated, but I can honestly say, it’s pretty darn good. The audio books are reasonably priced (all below $7 US) and, if you already own the Kindle version and want to add an audio version, you can do that for $1.99. There is a five-minute sample on the book page for each book. If you’re interested, click on any of the Dreamer’s Alliance book links below the image or on the link below for my latest book.
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