The best part of waking up this morning was seeing “Covfefe” trending on Twitter. Trump was either summoning the evil spirit of Covfefe or fell asleep while tweeting. He was ranting about the fake news when he hit send and left an unusually indecipherable note. (Which is really saying something since the bar for indecipherable messaging has been lowered to a slice of printer paper during the Trump presidency.) The message stayed up for six hours…
False reports also said that Trump had gained five million twitter followers recently. The claim was that they were all bots, and he was going to take over skynet, but it turned out that he had only gained about 900,000 and many of them were bot accounts. Twitter believed that someone was trying to get Trump’s account kicked off Twitter for violating the service agreement. I wonder who? Sean Spicer has been seen much lately.
Flynn is turning over some papers to one of the investigations. Should be interesting to see if any of his notes say, “Trump told me to.”
Trump was complaining about Germany again. “They don’t pay enough, the trade deficit is too high, I own two German cars…” Germany supports 670,000 American jobs so let’s not get too crazy about Germany’s lack of economic support.
Kathy Griffin did something stupid, tasteless, and not funny. (If you missed the news, it was a fake beheading of Trump.) She will probably not get invited to the White House during the Trump presidency, or during the upcoming Pence presidency, or the Warren presidency. No one should normalize this kind of behavior…insert picture of Ted Nugent at the White House here.
Tasteless isn’t what anyone can say about a souvlaki after they have taken just one bite.
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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