For the third time in 220 days, President Agent Orange Julius Caesar Trumpster-Fire and Fuhrer-The Mango Madman-Von Trumplestillskin didn’t do anything too crazy yesterday. So, if the pattern persists (and Trump-roast keeps his job all four years) we should have about 24 days out of 1460 where Trumplestillskin doesn’t set the world on fire.
He did manage to tweet out a book recommendation this morning…Sheriff David Clarke’s new book (hopefully not as plagiarized as his Master’s thesis) “Under Fire.” Is it illegal to use the office of the president to boost sales? Seems to be ethically dubious to me, but I’m pretty sure people who agree with Trump’s world view won’t read more than 140 characters. It isn’t exactly like getting the Oprah stamp of approval.
Mueller is examining Flynn’s attempts to contact Russian hackers to find Hillary’s 30,000 missing emails. Anyone else hoping that this speed up a little bit? A slow moving investigation indicates a thorough approach, but at some point I want people to be locked up before they start dying of old age.
Trump will visit Texas after the flooding is done. That’s probably best, no one needs two disasters in the same place at the same time. Let’s hope he gets some of that Tex/Mex food while he’s visiting. Then he can retract that tweet that said the best taco bowls are at Trump Tower.
Why is my page titled South of the Strait? Well I live in a far corner of the United States. I live in a small town south of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. If I was going to throw a rock across the strait it would land in Canada. I used to be an English teacher. I have worked in Westport, Port Angeles, and Sequim, Washington... and I did two years of substitute teaching in Coalinga, California.
I've moved around a lot, living in: Sterling,Kansas; Chicago; Jordan, Montana; Lemoore, California; Auckland, New Zealand; Spokane, Washington; Gambier, Ohio.
What do I write? For WordPress I used to print once a week for general comments. I wrote reviews of music concerts my daughter made me attend. (Each month she would want us to drive to Seattle to see a music group. I usually stood in the back watching weird stuff.) I also wrote about trips I have taken in Europe where I liked getting lost. I also wrote during the few months when my son was treated for cancer. (He is officially free of cancer of five years.) About three years ago I decided to stop writing blogs so I could concentrate on writing a few books. I have completed three books...or maybe four. I have now compiled my short stories poems and memoirs on Amazon. You can get it at Amazon now..."A Work In Progress"--Jon Eekhoff. I have been very close to getting a printed book called "Lost Summer" but I was never offered $1,000,000.00. (It's set in Paris, 1920's, with baseball, writers, artist, and actually true stuff.) I wrote a book about college basketball called "Laidlaw." It's kind of a mix of "Moby Dick" and a coach who is about to get fired so he takes his team out for a free drive around the West. My most recent book is "California Tales." These are connected stories about the missionary churches in California. They are sad, funny, inspiring, and odd. I had the entire book done in my head and had just one section to finish the next day...and that is when I fell 20 feet from my roof and landed on the cement. (Like a lot of men, I thought I could maintain my own roof instead of leaving it to the professionals.) I don't remember anything about my accident but I am told I was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Though conscious and responsive after surgery to remove part of my skull, I don't remember anything from my first month there. I spent another month of Harborview working on walking, speaking, and writing. That was two years ago. As a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) survivor, I could have quit writing, but I am not going to quit. I work with the University of Washington Speech and Hearing Clinic.
So, here I am. I am married and live here in Sequim with my wife Cheryl. Our kids live in nearby cities. Writing is now an exhausting exercise, but something I plan to keep working on.
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