What a rough and tumble week

It's been a damn sh!tty week if I do say so myself. 'Nuff about that.

I'm making my way through Blaze by Richard Bachman. It's a good book, but I can see why it's a Bachman book rather than a Stephen King book as the subject material is very "un-King-like". Nevertheless, it is an enjoyable read. So far, at least as far as I have noticed, the only tie-in with other King works has been the mention of Shawshank Prison which, you might remember, as the name of the fictitious New England prison in the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption which itself was based on a King novella named Rita Heyworth and the Shawshank Redemption which was originally published in Different Seasons. Ok, everyone got that? Good.

Also mentioned in the book was the song Phantom 309 a song by the late Red Sovine. I only know the song because of a trip Kelly and I took to South Dakota, driving, with the dog, in our old 2002 Toyota Corolla CE (5 speed, no cruise control). Space for the trip was VERY limited as Boo, our wonderful dog, and only dog at the time, occupied all of the back seat. The truck and spaces behind the front seats (on the rear floorboards) and even the space under Kelly's legs was crammed with camping gear and everything else we'd need for the week. To get on with the story we only had the radio to keep us company; the corolla had no CD player nor port for a MP3 player. So we picked up a tape called "Trucking's Greatest Hits" at a truck stop in Iowa and Phantom 309 was one of the many (depressing) songs featured. Seriously, I don't know how truckers can listen to this stuff and maintain any level of sanity.

Well, I'd write more but work calls. Over and out.