Anyone else feel like President Agent-Orange-Julius-Caesar Dumpster-Fire-and-Fuhrer The-Mini-Peach-Putin Von Trumplestillskin is hiding in an underground bunker? I haven’t seen his orange face for a few days, but maybe that’s because I’ve been busy. In light of not seeing him for a few days, I’m going to start a rumor that he had a stroke and they are currently looking for an actor to replace him. “Paging Alec Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin please report the the Oval Office.” Maybe it has happened already…Trumplestillskin has stepped across the aisle to work with the democrats. Is Alec Baldwin our president?
Reports have surfaced that THE KUSH (another invisible man) was asked by Trump-roast’s lawyers to step down. THE KUSH said, “THE KUSH doesn’t step down from anything. I don’t even walk down steps. If I see some stairs going down, I take an elevator. One time in elementary school there were stairs and my daddy build me a personal elevator so I wouldn’t ever have to step down.” Trumplestillskin’s lawyers are worried that THE KUSH’s connections to Russia are going to endanger the Mini-Peach-Putin…if that is really him…and not Alec Baldwin.
Those bothersome courts are back at it. CA is suing the Trumpster-Fire administration over DACA. If this goes like all the rest of the court cases during the first 236 days, it won’t be long before Trump goes to the mic to say, “These rogue courts are destroying America. All I want to do is make America great again, like Putin did to Russia. #MRGA” The winning, on top of the winning, on top of the winning is starting to feel like losing.
I will declare one victory for President Agent Orange, the UN has passed sanctions on North Korea. Now, Trumplestillskin did say the UN was worthless and terrible (I’m not sure of the exact quote, but it was probably something erudite like “sad”). Either way, more sanctions against North Korea might get me out of my underground bunker (my underground bunker is a dirty tarp) and thinking we might survive the first year of the Trump administration. I never thought it would happen.
Let’s celebrate day 236 with a souvlaki for lunch.
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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