The Day After THE Days

There have been bad days in Mudville. The last days I've been down with a recurring health problem and the "Great American War Novel" has suffered. No research to speak of and no writing. I've left the Doughboys stranded in the Argonne. Maybe today will be the day to get the troops moving. This is not a time of year that is conducive to doing much other than the holiday stuff anyway.

Tiger the Office Cat has been a pain in the butt the last week or so. Her favorite rubbing spots have been my hand as I attempt to move the mouse and the keyboard as I try to write or read. She is getting good at kitty-keyboarding. She can cause more moves on the screen than I can. I will be reading and Tiger will lower her head and rub on the keyboard and take me pages down the item. I think at night when all is quiet she slips up here and tries different things to do to agitate me. She has the annoying habit of pushing her rear into the air, usually in my face. I push her down and she pushes up again. This goes on until she tires of the game. She's sleeping now, resting up for the next attack.

KOGT.com is a website that has local information from my hometown, Orange, Texas. One of the columns is called "Looking Back". It is about things that happened years ago or places we went to years ago. It brings back a lot of memories of events and places and people gone by. From time to time something will pop up and hit me right between the eyes. When you approach Old Geezerdom and reflect back it is amazing to look back. Thankfully most of the memories are good ones.

On the national news yesterday, December 21, was a report that another WWI veteran has died. He was 109 years old. The report said that there are only two WWI vets still alive. The doors are closing fast on these men. I firmly believe that the history needs to be kept alive and I'm glad to find so many websites that relate histories and other information about the war. Maybe there will be a place for "the Great American War Novel".

World War I was the war that began to advance technology in war. A lot of "improvements" to war came about from that conflict. The two allied tanks in use were the big lumbering British tank that was slow, heavy, and cumbersome and the French Renault. The Renault was 35 horsepower with a crew of two and either a machine gun or a 37mm cannon. Top speed was 6 mph. Compare that with what we have today! Airplanes were slow, wooden and fabric covered. One Allied order to airmen was never to leave the airplane unattended. Livestock had a taste for the glue and fabric and would chew a plane useless if they were given the time and opportunity. World War II was more deadly as the technology advanced. Civilization in general became more advanced. The world got smaller. But I don't think it got any smarter.

Putting on my thinking cap I wonder who reads blogs? How do readers find a blog that they are interested in? Do writers write a blog to be read or is it a journal type project? Either way it works for me, it's an outlet.

I haven't decided what today's research will center on, maybe rations. The Doughboys ate "monkey meat" it was some sort of canned meat, corned probably, that came from Madagascar of all places. I'll check it out, hang around.....