Snoopy The Goon says he’s tagged me and I have to tag seven others in this venerable blogospheric game. It’s a new one for me, but I’m honored to try.
I’ll try not to make it too, too sentimental. Inject a little humor here and there, if possible. Here goes. And, except for No. 1 and No. 2, not necessarily in this order.
1) The Creator of the Universe. Who made a few big mistakes here and there, but I know he/she/it tries. And needs all the help he/she/it can get–whether that’s in any accepted theology or not.
2) Mr. Boy and Mrs. Charm and the rest of the clan, kith as well as kin.
3) A good night’s sleep. Sometimes hard to come by in increasing old age.
4) A good read. Fiction or non-fiction, book or blog post or media article, it doesn’t matter.
5) Sitting on the condo balcony at Port Aransas at night every summer watching the twinkling lights on the offshore oil rigs. Just thinking about all that non-Saudi oil makes me happy, even if I don’t own a well.
6) Texas. Anywhere (even Houston). Anytime. Rain or shine. Drought or flood.
7) Writing. Anything. I’m presently embarked on a book of Texana, though the research is not going well. A recently completed Civil War novel is piling up the rejection slips. But I’ll keep querying agents, and probably try another one of those before long.
And now, as Mr. Goon says, to the victims: Scott Chafin, CGHill, Alan Sullivan, John Salmon, whose comments I can never get to work, so I’ll link this and, maybe, he’ll see it, JD Allen, MK Freeberg, whose WordPress comment thingie on "the blog no one ever reads (except me)," keeps rejecting me, so I’ll try another link he might see, and Akaky Bashmachkin.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I can whup up seven things I love, hell – more than that.
But seven people to pass the tag to who haven’t ALREADY been tagged? Man. How about I just do the first part – later this week. Not now.
That’s what I thought at first, JD, then I had trouble coming up with seven things. As for seven people, I thought ‘no way,’ but I found ’em, minus the two whose comment systems I couldn’t get through.
I guess John Salmon is having the same comment problem with me that I have with him. But he saw the link and came to discover the tag and has responded with some good ones of his own:
http://fatherbrownatleisure.blogspot.com/2009/07/seven-things-i-love.html
Thanks, John. Especially like the Maynard Ferguson clip. Had forgotten our mutual love of brass instruments.
A good night’s sleep… completely forgot this one, because I didn’t have enough the day I posted š
As noted in my comments today:
Nah, no reindeer games these days. It’s all I can do to even post crap these days, much less think about crap. In short, though — my mama, my daughter, my grandsons, Texas, beer, women (esp TX women), books, music, the internal combustion gasoline engine.
I know you’re busy, Scott. I like your short list, anyhow, especially the internal combustion gasoline engine. Without that it would still take weeks to cross Texas.
CGHill followed up with a good post that’s pretty serious for such a normally funny fellow:
http://www.dustbury.com/archives/8733#comments
JD has decided to dribble them out, one at a time. I like the first one, the first good cold front of Sept-Oct where he lives, in Brazosport, TX.
http://brazosmouth.blogspot.com/2009/08/seven-things-i-love-i.html
Same for Austin. It’s the subsequent ones I could live without.