Went down to Bernalillo a bit ago to get my tickees for tonight... found myself talking with a guy about my age sitting outside with a bicicycle... two wheel thing with pedals... with a pack and all manner of water jugs.  Guy had a helmet shaped like a horizontal teardrop he wears... point facing backward, along with a stretchy black short legged suit made of something that might have been a tailored wetsuit.  Distracts from the conversation a bit, talking to a likeable sort of person wearing something like that, wondering what the hell THAT's all about.

He's gearing up to ride that two wheeler from Newfoundland to Mass in a couple of weeks... old guy.  Put some chin whiskers on me, take away my cavalry whiskers, make me a bit uglier and longer winded, hell, the guy might have been me.

Anyway, I've wandered off the purpose of this entry.  Coming back up the hill leaving Bernalillio I was stopped at a red light.... car on my left had it's window down....(incidently, that car resembled a 1947 Dodge sedan scaled down to maybe 2/3 size.... we used to call the trunk of the car the 'turtle' because of the looks of those post WWII sedans)... A spanking new futuristic looking 1947 Dodge sedan is how I'd have described it if the guy turned out to be some kind of whatchacallit, drive-by shoe salesman and I had to give a description to the law.... anyway threads of music coming out the window nearest me sounded to be strangely familiar, though it had a chipmunks ring to it.

Then it struck me.... this song was popular during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 when I was a bootcamper at Fort Jackson, SC....... no chipmunks in those days....."I'mmmmmm just a soooooldier...A loooooonely sooooooldier, so far from home with no something of my ooooooown, etc".

Whew.  I haven't heard that song in 40 years or more, haven't even thought about it.  Coming out of a brand shiny new 1947 Dodge sedan.  The chipmunk sound made it even eerier.

I'm enlisting next week in a parallel universe.

Jack

Incidently, the guy in this picture is me, 

Not some handsome movie actor or famous somethingorother. 

I thought I'd better make that clear to end some confusion.

 It's been suggested to me that's a lousy choice of people to have at the bottom of my blog.