TGM Book sale…

Posted on by March 14, 2018

Tomorrow morning (well 0800 PDT), the previous Grey Man books will be on sale, except for Partners. I cut the price to $2.99 on it last week, and now Amazon won’t let me reduce the price again or do a promotion on it until next month.

Note- These sales will be for the Kindle books only, I can’t reduce the price on the paperbacks.  Sorry, I wish I could, but that’s out of my control!

Also, I do have a question… Are y’all really reading the book in one session? I’ve gotten ‘yelled at’ by a few folks about losing sleep… 😀

And as always, honest reviews are appreciated. I will have paperback copies of Twilight in the end of the month, so if you want a signed one, I’ll be getting them out then.

And lastly, THANK YOU to those who’ve put out their hard earned money on my books! It is appreciated, and I do hope you’re enjoying the book!

Hrmmm…

Posted on by March 13, 2018

First it was the “Jeffersonians“…

And then there was THIS…

Now there’s this-

Adam Ringel felt the stirrings of national pride at an early age. “Ever since I was a kid, I identified as a Californian, not an American,” he recalled as he sat in the back of a café in San Francisco’s Mission District during a meet-up titled “Coffee With Secessionists.”

Full article, HERE from MotherJones.

So at LEAST three separate proposals to ‘separate’ California.

One has to wonder where/when/IF this ends, or comes to some kind of reality. One thing is for sure, and that’s the rural sections of California are NOT happy with the urban centers. Not at all…

A lot of this centers around water rights, and water, from what I’m hearing from folks that are boots on the ground. From Hetch Hetchy, to LA water district, to the farmers being cut off from water for the smelt, HERE. A friend of mine’s father sold his farm in the central valley for pennies on the dollar five years ago, because he couldn’t get any water, and it was cost prohibitive to try to drill any wells.

Mono Lake has dropped at least 50 feet, HERE.  Lake Mead/Hoover dam is also in trouble, HERE.

I can’t help but think that a combination of all these issues ARE going to bring about some changes, but I really don’t know which way they are going to go…

Your thoughts?

The Grey Man- Twilight…

Posted on by March 12, 2018

Oops, forgot to add, if you want a signed copy of the paperback, $16.00

Email me at OldNFO at Gmail dot com with how you want it inscribed and as soon as I get my copies (end of March), I’ll sign them and get them out to you.

Apparently the two copies aren’t linked yet, but that has been requested, so for right now, THIS link for the Kindle, and THIS link for the paperback. Sigh…

First day was pretty good, thanks to those of you who went out and bought it!

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,929 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

I truly appreciate your taking a chance on me, and being willing to part with your hard earned dollars! I hope you enjoy it. And yes, there will be one more book in the series!

The Grey Man- Twilight…

Posted on by March 11, 2018

It’s ALIVE…

Click on the cover to order the Kindle version!

The blurb-

Never count an old man out, even when he’s hanging up his hat!

Deputy Sheriff John Cronin is looking forward to a quiet retirement, working on the ranch, and handing it off to his granddaughter Jesse. And he’s got to pass on a generation worth of investigations, but it’s not as easy as handing over the case files and the keys. First, he’s got to train Aaron Miller to fill his role, from the way to dress for rural juries to the finer points of stakeouts and murder investigations, Texas style.

Between the oil patch workers and the cartel’s drug runners, there are plenty of loose ends for him to tie off… or terminate…

This coming weekend, I’ll be putting the other books in the series up on special, so if you haven’t read any of them, check back on the 16th!

200 years ago…

Posted on by March 10, 2018

This 21 year old’s book was first published…

And the rest is history.  Anybody have a guess???

Continue reading →

Humor…

Posted on by March 8, 2018

Kinda, sorta… 🙂

In the beginning, God covered the earth with broccoli, cauliflower and spinach, combined with an abundance of green, yellow and red vegetables. He did this so that Man and Woman would live long and healthy lives.

Then, using God’s bountiful gifts, Satan created Dairy Whip and Ice Cream. And Satan said: “You want hot fudge with that?” And Man said “Yes!” And Woman said: “I’ll have one too… with sprinkles”. And lo and behold, they gained 10 pounds.

And so God created the healthful yoghurt that Woman might keep the figure that Man found so fair. And Satan brought forth white flour from the wheat, and sugar from the cane, and combined them. And Woman went from size 12 to size 14.

So God said: “Try my fresh green garden salad”. And Satan presented crumbled Blue Cheese dressing and garlic toast on the side. And Man and Woman unfastened their belts following the repast.

God then said: “I have sent you heart-healthy vegetables and olive oil in which to cook them”. And Satan brought forth deep-fried squid rings, butter-dipped lobster chunks, and fried chicken so big it needed its own platter. And Man’s cholesterol sharply increased.

Then God brought forth the potato, naturally low in fat and brimming with potassium and good nutrition. Then Satan peeled off the healthful skin, sliced the starchy centre into chips and deep-fried them in animal fats adding copious quantities of salt. And Man packed on more pounds.

God then brought forth running shoes so that his children might lose those extra pounds. And Satan introduced cable TV with remote control so Man would not have to toil changing the channels. And Man and Woman laughed and cried before the flickering light and started wearing stretchy lycra jogging suits.

God then gave lean beef so that Man might consume fewer calories and still satisfy his appetite. And Satan created McDonald’s and the 99-cent double cheeseburger. Then Satan said: “You want fries with that?” And Man replied: “Yes! And super-size them!” And Satan said “It is good”. And Man and Woman went into cardiac arrest.

God sighed… and created quadruple by-pass surgery. Satan chuckled and created the public health system.

And here we are…

Wow!!!

Posted on by March 8, 2018

Definitely worth the read!

“Leading universities have turned themselves into hybrids of Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood and Mao’s Red Guards.”

Lance Morrow at the City-Journal on The Age of Travesties, HERE.

Personally, I think he hits the nail on the head. Being an old fart, I would add that I believe the ‘radicalization’ of the education system began in the mid-late 60s with the protests against the Vietnam war.

Some of us went over there and did what we thought was right, the left protested or ran to Canada (or both). We stayed in the military, they finished college, lived the hippy life, smoked dope, got advanced degrees, and got jobs teaching at those same universities…

We didn’t…

They started ‘inoculating’ the next generation (Gen X) against us, and we let it happen.

In the early 2000s, I was talking to a professor at an SEC school, who had been in the Reagan administration as a foreign policy advisor. He just flat stated that he and other ‘conservative’ professors were shunned by the liberal arts types, and the Athletics Department put out a list of profs NOT to take classes from. ALL of the conservative profs were on it, because they actually made students attend class and pass tests!!!

Now Gen Y are starting to move into those teaching positions… They are fully inoculated, and happily take to the streets with the students (millennials). Their goal now is control. They want to control who can say what, who gets $$$, who gets medicine, treatment, etc.

Ironically, I was chatting with reader Stretch, and he said this- Got to reuse a great line last week. Aging Hippie: “The youth of today will take to the streets and take the guns.” Me: “It’s not who’s in the streets … it’s who’s on the roof with their rifles that decides matters.” A most delightful mixed expression of horror/fear/hatred followed by a screech of “Fascist!” 

Now Stretch is one of us… A grumpy old fart…

What that aging hippie and the others don’t realize is that we won’t go quietly. Just because we haven’t popped off before, is because we STILL respect the laws in this country, unlike the left…

Are we becoming the Koreans on the roof tops in South Central??? Maybe…

Sick and tired…

Posted on by March 7, 2018

Of all the BS gun control arguments…

Especially where the ‘facts’ are wrong, and the ‘conversation’ is one way.

I’m not going to participate in any more of those discussions, either online, or in person. The antis refuse to ‘listen’ and any correction sends them down a different rat hole rather than actually trying to have a CONSTRUCTIVE conversation about guns.

When the default position becomes either, Well, you are white, so you can’t possibly understand. Or well, you are racist or (insert derogatory term here), when we don’t kowtow to them, I’m done. I will walk away because I have better things to do with my time.

I was watching a clip last night on Cruz vs. Scarborough about 2A and gun control and turned it off after about three minutes. Talking louder doesn’t mean you’re right, it just means you’re NOT willing to actually listen. And there was another one last night with Ingraham and the mayor of Baltimore. The mayor NEVER shut up during the entire interview, talking over the host the entire time. I know they used to fax out Dems talking points every day, and I guess the ‘new’ way is email and texts to people’s phones, since a lot of the talking heads are using the exact same language, which the mayor must have been reading, since she never actually looked at the camera.

The piece de resistance was the Governor of Connecticut, Malloy, accused the NRA and it’s members of being a terrorist organization!

There are no words… I’m done… I will no longer be polite, I will no longer listen politely to your BS ranting, and I will walk away. And you really don’t want to threaten me. Trust me on that.

Grrr…

Posted on by March 6, 2018

TGM- Twilight might be delayed.

Amazon now wants me to PROVE it’s my novel… Sigh…

This is turning into a week of Mondays…

Simply @%^^$!( amazing…