from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle: year 2006
one night, Randy Cole and I, and another guy named Eddie I think, were running through a neighbors backyard. One of our friends had a trampoline and we would go over and jump on it sometimes.
This particular night we were going through that yard and we heard a screen door slam. Eddy and Randy ran one way, I ran the other way. As it turned out, I ran the wrong way.
This huge dude hopped down off some kind of embankment wall brandishing a big knife and asking why I was in their yard.
Los Angeles Times
Errant Satellite Twists Out of Shuttle's Grasp
May 11, 1992
HOUSTON — What had been a flawless maiden voyage for space shuttle Endeavour ran into serious trouble Sunday as astronauts attempting to snag a stranded $150-million communications satellite sent it spinning out of control.
"We've got to get away from this thing," Endeavour commander Daniel C. Brandenstein, 49, said
EP: "MELT" (2018)
SHAED
"Trampoline"
(from internet transcript)
I've been having dreams
Jumping on a trampoline
Flipping in the air
I never land just float there
As I'm looking up
Suddenly the sky erupts
Flames alight the trees
Spread to falling leaves
Now they're right upon me
by me, Kerry Burgess, December 29, 2011
my step-brother who was killed that night in November 1986 when I was back in southern Arkansas on leave from my assignment in the United States Navy. I always think of how I believed everything they showed me about that crash site where they say he died. He had been driving me around in that same pickup truck just within minutes, probably five or ten minutes earlier, before he was killed. He was killed just a mile or two down the road from where I was staying with my mother and his father where I had lived when I was in high school. I knew the stretch of road as if it was in front of our house. I used to go deer hunting and squirrel hunting nearby and I drove by there many times and I walked through there many times and I rode my bicycle through there many times and I walked around there on 25 November 1986 and I listened to who ever was telling me about what was the cause for why he crashed and how he hit his head on the passenger-side door
by me, Kerry Burgess, 05/29/07
My step-brother, Micheal, died the night of November 25, 1986. He had just dropped me off at our parents house and was driving back to his place. A few miles away, his ran off the road and his truck spun around so violently, it threw him across the cab and he hit his head on the passenger door. I blamed myself about that for a long time. That was right before I went to Dam Neck and it was a very gloomy time for me. I remember thinking that if I had been in the truck at the time, his head wouldn't have hit the door because he would have been thrown into me. I also have this memory which I used to think about a lot. We were going out to run around and for every day before that, I had been driving up to his place and he would usually drive from there. But this night, he told me to ride with him, which meant that he wouldn't have died if I had driven as usual that night because he wouldn't have even been on that road. I haven't had a dream about him in a long time, but they used to vary between him being awake in the dream with him sometimes being asleep.
From 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a US Navy enlisted seafarer ) To 11/25/1986 ( ) is 924 days
924 = 462 + 462
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/7/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Special Message to the Senate on Transmitting the Treaty on Outer Space ) is 462 days
From 5/15/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Proclamation 5194 - Missing Children Day, 1984 ) To 11/25/1986 ( ) is 924 days
924 = 462 + 462
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/7/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Special Message to the Senate on Transmitting the Treaty on Outer Space ) is 462 days
From 8/8/1974 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Address to the Nation Announcing Decision To Resign the Office of President of the United States ) To 11/25/1986 ( ) is 4492 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/19/1978 ( premiere USA TV series "Project U.F.O." ) is 4492 days
"Homer Goes to College" [ The Simpsons ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 14-Oct-93
Fortunately, the pig's OK. Homer, the Dean, and the nerds watch as the pig is airlifted to safety, tied into a harness under a helicopter.
Dean: I'm sorry, boys, I've -- I've never expelled anyone before, but...that pig had some powerful friends.
Nixon: [bitterly] Oh, you'll pay. Don't think you won't pay!
From 11/25/1986 ( ) To 6/5/2004 ( ) is 6402 days
6402 = 3201 + 3201
From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 8/8/1974 ( ) is 3201 days
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 08:06 AM Pacific-time USA Thursday 01/11/2024
