Karl’s Korner

Good evening, my friends,

Yes, we had a good book signing at Curves and have seven new fans of my writing. Most want this newest book, “The Texas Two Card Hold ‘em Heist”. After the nice article in the Rockport Pilot, there has been a lot of interest in this story.

While I’m talking about stories, let me tell you that “The Expendables” was worse than I thought it might be.  I don’t know where the people come up with the non-plots for this stupid kind of a movie.

The six good guys fly into a heavily guarded island unnoticed, (of course), and take on about 400 armed soldiers, who stand around and let our “heroes” slaughter them by the dozens.  Body parts fly everywhere while not one of our “good” guys is wounded in any way, shape for form.

The pilots lead you to believe Bruce Willis plays a big role - he is only on screen about 3 minutes and yet manages to throw the “f” bomb about ten times, (or more), in that short period.  What is it with his dirty mouth?

There are more explosions and mayhem then any sane person can stand.  After they miraculously escape in their old plane, they turn back to strafe a dock and kill forty-one of the opposing troops, plus blow up the entire dock as they fly joyfully away.  Wouldn’t this island object to being strafed?  Wouldn’t this be an international incident?  What trash.

In one scene, one of our heroes opens all the valves on several huge gas tanks and lets the fuel flow out into some very convenient trenches that run all over the compound they are attacking.  Of course, none of the bad guys smell the gas fumes.  So fifteen minutes later, the gas is there, conveniently, so they can set it off and kill more bad guys.

In the middle of the movie, Stylvester S. shoots one of his guys who had gone bad “two inches above his heart”, to hear S. S. tell it.  Yet at the end of the movie, which is about two days later, the guy is sitting in a tattoo parlor with his buddies with a small bandage on his chest.  I guess he heals very fast.

This film is not worth the money we paid to see it, and we got in on Senior rates.  The only good thing about the entire evening was the free popcorn.  I’d rate it about four zeros, not stars.

But, enough.  Go and see it if you want to waste your money and time.  Then let me know what you think.  Yeah, I know, it’s only a movie, but it’s a BAAAADDDD movie.

We head for Houston early tomorrow morning for Carol’s eye doctor, so will report on that when we get back.

Right now, it’s early to bed, early to rise - which is supposed to make us bright eyed and wise…we’ll see.

Until next time, keep on voting for us, and Vaya con Dias, my friends,
Karl & Carol

Good evening, my friends,

We are waiting to head out to the movies as a fitting end to my 74th birthday. We’ll see the expendable, which will probably be a shoot’em up, blow’em up, car chase scenes galore, explosions and lots of violence, but what’s new in the movies today???
Hopefully, shortly, four of my novels will be on the way to Hollywood to be considered for the movies. Now, there would be some great movies! If you’ve read my novels, I believe you’ll agree with my statement.

But, back to Whataburger - when we arrived this morning, there was a “Reserved” sign on our usual table, and balloons everywhere. Then, at noon, the Reserved sign was still in place. We got our meals free, courtesy of the manager, Toni, and the entire staff brought out a chocolate icing white cake with candles on it and sang “Happy Birthday” to me. It was really special. If I can discover how to download a picture onto my blog, I’ll show you what I mean. (I am not that computer-literate).

We took Carol for a CAT scan in Portland. On the way, I discovered my driver’s license expired today, so we stopped in Aransas Pass and I was able to renew it in a matter of minutes. Then we spent a half hour at Starbucks in Portland where the staff gave us free Frappuccinos for my birthday. (Is this a trend?)

So, it’s been a nice day - hot, but nice as far as my birthday is concerned.

We are hanging tough in the Whataburger contest, still in 13th place the last time I checked.

Keep voting and tell your friends to vote and tell their friends to vote, etc, on into infinity…

So, it’s off to the movies for us.

Until next time
Vaya con Dias, my friends,
Karl & Carol

Good evening, my friends,

Yes, we want to thank all of you who are voting every day for us in the whataburgerbiggestfan.com contest.

Overnight, we received almost 300 additional votes. We moved from 15th to 10th, and then back down to 12th. If you continue to vote 300 at a time, we’ll be up among the leaders within a few days, so keep it up. We thank you again.

Our daughter, Carla, is back home and getting ready with her husband, Dave, to head out on a long RV trip. Samantha, our granddaughter, is in college and has the position of a resident advisor, which includes a private room and bathroom, $300 a month, and free room. Live is good for Sam.

Not much else to report on today. It was another scorcher and we stayed inside most of the day to keep cool. There isn’t much good on TV anymore, is there? What ever happened to good comedy programs and musicals? All we hear now is sex and swearing - is that funny?

But, enough for tonight.

Remember to vote.

Until next time,
Vaya con Dias, my friends,
Karl & Carol

Good evening, my friends,

Yes, we’ve slipped a few places - I don’t know where these other folks come from, but they seem to have more backers than we… but the contest has a ways to go, so keep voting.

We held a big garage sale today, we are paring down on our big southwestern collection of pottery, Indian stuff, etc. We managed to move quite a bit, but still have more to go - will wait for the winter Texans to get here and then have another when it isn’t so cotton pickin’ hot!

Yes, it has been extremely hot here, heat indexes up over 100 easily, and lots of humidity to add to our discomfort.

Along with the garage sale items, I managed to sell nine more books to new customers as they arrived to see what we had. Nice people and new fans, I am sure.

We plan to head out to Show Low, AZ in a few days, after we have two doctors’ appointments for Carol - one for eyes and another to see if she might have NPH - which leads to dementia and some of the symptoms she’s displayed lately. She also has a cat scan scheduled for next week, so it will be a busy week.

But, if we can make it and stop in Plainview to visit with old and dear friends, we’ll spend a week with my sister and her hubby, fishing, laughing and having a great visit. Joan, my sis, and Carol are like sisters.

Other thoughts include observations of people as they eat at Whataburger. We had a father and two rowdy sons in for lunch. The two boys thought it was cute to throw food at each other and make nuisances of themselves during the meal. Then they all got up and left everything on the table and walked out. Nice way to parent, Dad. Due to your caring ways, our sons are two real assets to the world. In that respect, they do mimic you.

But, enough, you don’t really think they’ll change do you??

And, so the world goes on…

Oh, one last bit of good news – I ordered a new computer today, as this one has been giving me trouble every so often and is over five years old. I really need to keep up with the times and think this is a good move. Wish me luck!

Hope you will continue to vote for Carol and me in the contest. We still have high hopes.

For tonight,
Vaya con Dias, my friends,
Karl

Good evening, my friends,

Yes, in the Whataburgerbiggestfan.com
contest, we have dropped to tenth place, but have received a lot of nice votes lately from friends who have written to their friends by e-mail as asked them to vote for us EVERY DAY - don’t forget that important fact.

So, if you’d do the same, and ask them to write to their friends, etc., etc., (I think you get the picture)…

One of our friends is going to post this on Facebook, so perhaps that will help.

We really want to win this contest or finish very high, so we need ALL the help we can get.

PLEASE, PLEASE, vote for us. Go to the website above, look for us in our white T-shirts with the number 13 on the front, click on the picture and then click on the yellow button, “Like” and you’ve voted. Then do the same thing every day!!

Thanks in advance.

Our daughter is enjoying her stay and we’ll be sorry to see her leave on Friday to return to Albuquerque, NM. But, she and her hubby have a big RV trip planned and hope to sell their home soon to go full time RVing, so we wish them luck and safe traveling.

Until next time,
Vote, vote, vote,
Vaya con Dias, my friends,
Karl & Carol