the semi-auto sixer

as per my usual lately, let me explain the title…

(and no this isn’t about firearms)

…the slang term (old school) for a fully automatic weapon (i.e. “machine gun”) is a repeater. so i figure as this bit is only KINDA a repeater it’s a “semi-auto”…it’s a type of sixer i’ve done before, just with new shit. make sense?

see, it goes like this – i see that there’s gonna be a sunday bit coming. i start looking at my life, current events, web chatter, whatever, and try to come up with something i can actually do a sixer bit ON. some topic that allows me to actually compile a list, which for some reason lately has been a bit tougher. before i know it i look on the notepad section of my phone (where most bits live before they get here) and i have several ideas for sixer bits, but none of them can actually BE a sixer bit ’cause i can’t think of six things…but if i have six IDEAS i go with that, which is how we come up with:

six sixers that couldn’t be ’cause they weren’t long enough, part whatever…

6. the car thing – a couple weeks ago some car issues brought about a need for a new ride. i was gonna do a bit about six considerations, but i think i’ve narrowed it down to three or four. financing it would be impossible, so cash must be acquired in quantity, preferably legally, which lead to…

5. the grandma’s house thing – on the upside, i FINALLY see some light at the end of the tunnel on this…and we’re finding old shit. like books that pre-date the revolutionary war and bayonets that spilled british blood during it kind of old shit. my house will have antiques galore soon!

4. the dude thing – i know his name is TECHNICALLY the “lil’ dude” since when i got him he looked like this:

that’s him at SEVEN pounds, on september 1, 2kX. fast-forward seven months and we have this:

now seventy-two pounds, and the toy in his mouth (which was his best friend…slept with it in his crate every night) he killed shortly after this was taken. bought a new one, and that one literally lasted two minutes. hopefully this is just a phase of his puppydom….

3. the house thing –my house has always been a work in project, but soon their might be something that’s been sorely needed…a BUDGET for it. oh, the fun to be had!

2. the shop thing – i think dell fucked this up, ’cause i used to talk about work (when i started this page and worked concerts) all the time. there’s a wealth of material at a tattoo shop, but after five years of corporate america doldrums i find myself NOT wanting to write about work. hopefully this will pass before…

1. the before forty thing – i seem to remember doing a sixer last year close to my b-day that was something like “six things i gotta do before i turn forty”. i know two of them (set foot on irish soil, buy a harley) never happened and with sixty days and some change to go probably won’t…and if i went zero for six that would just suck, so i don’t think i’ll even try and find that one.