Friday, 4/24/2026's REMEMBERAMBLE

I arose from this, to write just for you

Another week in the bag, like a late night snipe. Did you ever have someone who cared enough for you to take you snipe hunting? Few if any young folks these days will ever know the sheer joy of bagging a snipe and having a snipe supper feast the following evening, if your mommer cared enough for you to makes grits and biscuits to go with it. Unless Tencent or Sony produce a video game called, "Snipe Hunt," young folks today will look at you with dazed eyes, and a glassy stare if you mention a snipe hunt. Now, a couple of you just pounced upon my use of the name, "Tencent," as if I were a real hep-cat, in the groove, and a real fly guy, who is up on the cutting edge of slang, knowing who Dime Bag Danny, or Two Packs For Sure, was. I can't lie, I originally said, Nintendo, but something told me that Nintendo might be kaput and mentioning the name might peg me as a square, or a jive turkey, so I Guggled it, and lo and behold, they are old news indeed. Oh, did anyone realize that Atari is out of business as well? Man, kids today have no idea about Asteroids and Space Invaders and how advanced gaming was then, just on the heels of Pong and Pac Man. They missed the glory days of "gray scale," before color spoiled it all! We are to kids today as were our grandparents who remembered the Wright Brothers first flight, and when we pretended to go to the moon, shortly thereafter. You do realize we remember well, Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk, Lassie, Raquel Welch and Bridgette Bardot, not necessarily in that order! These are sobering thoughts, even for me, who has been sober for nigh upon twenty years. Now, I am going to talk about a subject that has irked me for all of my life, well since I was lil ole boy. It is naming kids, kids should have a first and last name, that is it. The other name is as useless as a kick stand on an Abrams tank, or screen doors on a Polaris submarine. The other name we have is not worth a poot in a whirlwind, you don't use it, you never introduce yourself as your other worthless-*ss name, no one calls you by it and if they did you would correct them post haste. Having said that, if you want to give your dear lil progenies two given names, have the common sense to call them by the first one. Something my parents did not do for a couple of us, the other dozen or so kids they called by their first names, but me and my brother Randall, finally, the last two they ever made that we knew of, were called by our second name instead of our first. He, Steven Randall, and me, James Wade. At every doctor's office, clinic, DMV, DVD, ATM, and shoe store I must answer to James. James is a good name, an honorable name, a very nice one all around, but, NOOOOooooo, they called me Wade. To compound it, I fill the forms out and then some stout lady with a mellifluous basso profundo, alto voice from hell, opens the door to the office's innards, and says, JAMES PEBBLES!!!!??? To which I reply to with my best and thunderous, "PEEBLES!!" Everyone in the waiting room laughs, and the officious lady holding my file/chart is red-faced and angry. But she always remembers my name and how it is pronounced. It is a trade-off, they remember my name, but they do try to make any procedure you are there to undergo as painful as possible. A side note before I go, concerning my names. I used to drive for Greg Jarriel at NTFC/Collins Grain in Collins for a few years. The payroll system used the first three letters of your last name, followed by the first three letters of your first name as your identifier thingy, not trying to be too technical. So, mine was Pee-Jam. Yep, Pee-Jam. I mentioned that sounded bad, very bad, so dear sweet Mrs. Alene Tootle, who always tried her best to look after me, like a sweet work-mama, tried switching it around. But then it was Pee-Wad. The struggle is real...

Numbers 6: 24-26 KJV

we boyz three, babee conway, lil merle, & me