This Is What I Think.

Saturday, January 31, 2026

Today is 01/31/2026





If this is the first blog-post by me you are reading on my blog then you are the galactically uninformed.










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From 12/25/1959 ( ) To 1/31/2026 ( ) is 24144 days

24144 = 12072 + 12072

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/21/1998 ( ) is 12072 days









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From 11/21/1998 ( my brief return to Rock Hill, South Carolina, following successful interview as full-time employee (for Microsoft Premier Support for Enterprise as Technical Accounts Manager) during travel to Seattle as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation beginning 12/07/1998 until 02/06/2004 ) To 9/26/2001 ( ) is 1040 days

1040 = 520 + 520

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/6/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The City on the Edge of Forever" ) is 520 days



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Star Trek: Enterprise

S1.E1

Broken Bow, Part 1

Episode aired Sep 26, 2001

In the mid-22nd century, the Earth ship Enterprise is launched under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer.

Scott Bakula as Capt. Jonathan Archer









"Broken Bow" [ Star Trek: Enterprise - television series Season 1 episode 1 - Wednesday 26 September 2001 ]

(from internet transcript)

LEONARD: It's a Klingot.

TOS: A Klingon.

ARCHER: Where'd he come from? (they're viewing through window)

WILLIAMS: Oklahoma.









From 11/18/1971 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: University to face housing dilemma in 1972 ; Administration seeking alternatives ) To 1/31/2026 ( ) is 19798 days

19798 = 9899 + 9899

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/9/1992 ( from official State of South Carolina documents: "the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, and released, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell and release unto Kerry Wayne Burgess" the house I owned at Country Club Estates in upstate South Carolina ) is 9899 days









From 5/11/1905 ( "On the Motion of Small Particles..." is published by Albert Einstein ) To 11/7/2025 ( debut "Plur1bus" streaming-video serial AppleTV ) is 44010 days

44010 = 22005 + 22005

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/31/2026 ( ) is 22005 days










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From 9/11/2001 ( ) To 1/31/2026 ( ) is 8908 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/24/1990 ( as Kerry Burgess, from my official enlisted United States Navy documents: "I hereby request to be granted 51.0 days separation leave" for Honorable Discharge from active duty United States Navy - to begin civilian employment with Ketterman's in Greenville, South Carolina, providing mechanical- and electronic-technician support for banking-computers, including extensively the ATM cash-machines ) is 8908 days









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WCNC Charlotte

Heavy snowfall across Charlotte area, live winter storm updates

Author: Hank Lee

Published: Updated: 2:48 PM EST January 31, 2026

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Heavy snow is falling across the Charlotte area as a major winter storm brings significant winter weather to the region on Saturday. Once the snow stops, dangerous, bitter cold is expected to linger for a couple of days.

The storm is shaping up to be Charlotte's biggest snowfall since January 2018, when 3.9 inches fell in the Queen City.









https://www.wbtv.com/2026/01/31/snow-totals-increase-across-charlotte-region-with-extreme-cold-follow-latest-forecast/

WBTV Channel 3 Charlotte, North Carolina

Snow totals increase across Charlotte region with extreme cold to follow: Latest forecast

Heavy snowfall happening Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026

By Lisa Villegas

Published: Jan. 31, 2026 at 12:05 PM PST

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Snow is actively falling across the Carolinas on Saturday, and snow totals were adding up early Saturday afternoon. This is a true snow day across the Carolinas!

We’re in the middle of a significant winter storm on Saturday, Jan. 31.

While the First Alert Weather team has made a few fine-tuned forecast updates based on radar and real-time observations, the overall forecast remains solid and unchanged: Snow totals are adding up, warnings remain in effect, and impacts will continue through Sunday morning.

Here’s a breakdown of the Carolina snowstorm forecast, as of early Saturday afternoon.

What’s changed (and what hasn’t)

Snow is now well underway across the region.

Snow totals have increased.

Winter Storm Warning continues through 7 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 1.

Extreme Cold Warning goes into effect Saturday night.

Why this snow means business

This storm is being driven by an unusually strong upper-level system -- one that’s much stronger than normal for this time of year.










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by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/15/2006 9:20 PM

at Country Club Estates and moved out there until I moved to Arrowood in Charlotte, NC. From there I went across town to Dresden off Independence with the nearby Sheffield Park, and then I moved back near Arrowood to Whitehall. After that, I moved to Paces River in Rock Hill, SC, off Exit 82 of I-77.










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IMDb

The Twilight Zone

What You Need

Quotes

Fred Renard: [putting on new shoes] These shoes are too tight. These shoes are too tight! And they got leather soles. I hate leather soles. They're slippery. But they're what I need aren't they? I put 'em on and then I walk someplace, is that it? I walk someplace where I find what I need. What's with it, old man? What happens? I'm waiting!

Pedott: Patience. That's another thing that you need, Mr. Renard. Patience

Fred Renard: What are you doing, giving me the business? Is that what you're doing, giving me the business? You know, I can come over there and take you apart bone by bone!

[approaches menacingly to Pedott]

Fred Renard: Come on, old man, tell me. Are these what I need?

Pedott: I didn't say they were. But I'll tell you something; They happen to be what *I* need.

[Enraged, Renard tries to pursue Pedott, only to slide on the wet pavement. A car comes by and Renard reacts in terror as he is hit and killed]

Pedott: Mr. Renard, what I saw in your eyes at that bar was death, my death. You were going to kill me. So what was needed for Mr. Renard was slippery shoes. That's what was needed, slippery shoes.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 7:18 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 01/31/2026

Friday, January 30, 2026

Today is 01/30/2026





by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/20/2026 10:06 PM

All those unfortunate enthusiast people?

That product has probably been ready for weeks or months before now and they had to wait all this time just for this day to arrive and for this:










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From 1/20/1906 ( ) To 1/30/2026 ( ) is 43840 days

43840 = 21920 + 21920

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/7/2025 ( debut "Plur1bus" streaming-video serial AppleTV ) is 21920 days










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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:27 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 01/30/2026

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Today is 01/29/2026





by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/29/2026 6:19 PM

If the human-race on this planet Earth is fortunate enough ("fortunate" meaning simply 'natural variability') then the reason I continue finding subtle references out there in the real-world has a simple explanation: because that is what I am looking for

Sort of - not really at all - but sort of how bible-thumpers delude themselves into thinking they have an Imaginary Friend "up there" on the clouds and when all good little bible-thumpers die - in their cowardly terror of mortality - they become ghosts with wings and flap their narcissistic moron self up to those same clouds.

Pathetic.

So, I wonder: why am I finding this stuff.

And it's simple: the people actually causing it probably are motivated by thinking it's a prank.

Because they cannot think in terms of long ago

Long ago, this all - all this I am now experiencing - began on one specific day.

That day was May 10, 2006.

The previous day was May 09, 2006.

In December 2020, an updated version of Stephen King's "The Stand" was unleashed on the global population.

I think it is a better version of a relevant scene, a pivotal scene.

I had nothing to do with it. I just wrote about what I saw that day.









by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/29/2026 7:04 PM

Here we see the reason Donald J. Trump was installed the first time

The we see why Donald J. Trump lost to Bumblin' Biden

Now that scumbag is back

Not For Merit.









The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King

(from internet transcript)

excerpt, Chapter 29

Stuart Redman was waiting for Elder. He had been waiting for three days—and this evening Elder did not disappoint him.

At just past noon on the twenty-fourth, Elder and two male nurses had come and taken away the television. The nurses had removed it while Elder stood by, holding his revolver (neatly wrapped in a Baggie) on Stu. But by then Stu hadn’t wanted or needed the TV - it was just putting out a lot of confused shit anyway. All he had to do was stand at his barred window and look out at the town on the river below. Like the man on the record said, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”









https://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/10/today-is-10182024-post-4.html

by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 9:30 PM

Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home

I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.

Friday, October 18, 2024

Today is 10/18/2024, Post #4

The channel 4 KOMO tv news studio is across the street from the Space Needle in downtown Seattle

On May 9, 2006, as I watched the tv from a few miles away, the weather guy gesturing to a video image on the sidewalk below where he was standing and there was a guy standing there on the sidewalk with a canvas on an easel and he seemed to be painting a picture of the Space Needle across the street from him

The next morning, May 10, 2006, I awoke in that grungy homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle and I knew with absolute certainty everything I remember about my past was wrong.

Originally, after that day US Senator Patty Murray had her photo-op at the USA Veterans Affairs hospital in Seattle, where I was being escorted by social-workers hurriedly out a door on a different side of the building, those same gals seemingly distressed by the presence of the senator, they dropped me off a senior-citizens home named Theodora and eventually I was allowed to stay at the Shoreline Homeless Veterans shelter a few miles away. They kicked me out of there to that less-comfortable but clean, old place in downtown Seattle because I did not want to settle in and conform with a plan they knew only to work, mostly unsuccessfully in my view, for those people too weak to be anything other than substance and alcohol abusers. I had a real problem. Other than those losers they worked with, I had a real problem and it was not a problem I created for myself. All I can guess is that my presence gave other people the authority to justifiably assess the operation of that place I was staying. And those people working there didn't like that. It's some sort of complex, multi-faceted operation and it culminates with me - finally - getting to do what I have been selected to do. And prepare to be amazed when that finally happens.

May 10, 2006.

There has not been one single since then I have not sat here at a desk and tried to understand what happened to me.

And May 10, 2006, is when it got really weird.









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:

by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 6:01:15 PM

Subject: Right

I wonder if this is where that guy painting the picture was standing?

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"I watched the first shoots

like wings tearing the soil, and it was my heart

broken by the blight, the black spot so quickly

multiplying in the rows. I doubt

you have a heart, in our understanding of

that term. You who do not discriminate

between the dead and the living, who are, in consequence,

immune to foreshadowing..."

- Louise Glück, quote from internet, from The Wild Iris









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Gl%C3%BCck

Louise Glück

From Wikipedia

Louise Elisabeth Glück (April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature









From 4/22/1943 ( ) To 4/13/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Operation - Annihilate!" ) is 8757 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/24/1989 ( "The Stand" complete edition, by Stephen King ) is 8757 days









Star Trek

"Operation -- Annihilate!"

TV-series season 1 episode 29, 04/13/1967

(from internet transcript)

[Bridge]

(McCoy enters in his surgical scrubs, carrying a jar.)

KIRK: How is he?

MCCOY: To be very frank, Jim, I don't know that I can do anything for Spock or your nephew. (hold up the jar) They're pieces of some form of living tissue. I removed one from Spock's spinal cord, the other from your sister-in-law's body. They're both the same. The boy's too weak to touch. Besides, removal of the tissue wouldn't stop the pain anyhow as far as I can tell.

KIRK: Did you operate on Spock in time?

MCCOY: No. I just removed these for examination. His body's full of these tentacles, entwining and growing all about his nervous system.

KIRK: My nephew?

MCCOY: The same. Evidently, when the creature attacks, it leaves a stinger much like a bee or wasp, leaving one of these in the victim's body. It takes over the victim very rapidly, and the entwining is far, far too involved for conventional surgery to remove.

KIRK: Recommendations?

MCCOY: I'm sorry, Jim. The lab, the science departments, we're all stumped.










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The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King

(from internet transcript)

Chapter 37

At first Stu accepted the sound without question; it was such a typical part of a bright summer morning. He had just passed through the town of South Ryegate, New Hampshire, and now the highway wound through a pretty country of overhanging elms that dappled the road with coins of moving sunlight. The underbrush on either side was thick—bright sumac, blue-gray juniper, lots of bushes he couldn’t name. The profusion of them was still a wonder to his eyes, accustomed as they were to East Texas, where the roadside flora had nothing like this variety. On the left, an ancient rock wall meandered in and out of the brush, and on the right a small brook gurgled cheerily east. Every now and then small animals would move in the underbrush (yesterday he had been transfixed by the sight of a large doe standing on the white line of 302, scenting the morning air), and birds called raucously. And against that background of sound, the barking dog sounded like the most natural thing in the world.

He walked almost another mile before it occurred to him that the dog—closer now, by the sound—might be out of the ordinary after all. He had seen a great many dead dogs since leaving Stovington, but no live ones. Well, he supposed, the flu had killed most but not all of the people. Apparently it had killed most but not all of the dogs, as well. Probably it would be extremely people-shy by now. When it scented him, it would most likely crawl back into the bushes and bark hysterically at him until Stu left its territory.

He adjusted the straps of the Day-Glo pack he was wearing and refolded the handkerchiefs that lay under the straps at each shoulder. He was wearing a pair of Georgia Giants, and three days of walking had rubbed most of the new from them. On his head was a jaunty, wide-brimmed red felt hat, and there was an army carbine slung across his shoulder. He did not expect to run across marauders, but he had a vague idea that it might be a good idea to have a gun. Fresh meat, maybe. Well, he had seen fresh meat yesterday, still on the hoof, and he had been too amazed and pleased to even think about shooting it.

The pack riding easily again, he went on up the road. The dog sounded as if it was just beyond the next bend. Maybe I’ll see him after all, Stu thought.

He had picked up 302 going east because he supposed that sooner or later it would take him to the ocean. He had made a kind of compact with himself: When I get to the ocean, I’ll decide what I’m going to do. Until then, I won’t think about it at all. His walk, now in its fourth day, had been a kind of healing process. He had thought about taking a ten-speed bike or maybe a motorcycle with which he could thread his way through—the occasional crashes that blocked the road, but instead had decided to walk. He had always enjoyed hiking, and his body cried out for exercise. Until his escape from Stovington he had been cooped up for nearly two weeks, and he felt flabby and out of shape. He supposed that sooner or later his slow progress would make him impatient and he would get the bike or motorcycle, but for now he was content to hike east on this road, looking at whatever he wanted to look at, taking five when he wanted to, or in the afternoon, dropping off for a snooze during the hottest part of the day. It was good for him to be doing this. Little by little the lunatic search for a way out was fading into memory, just something that had happened instead of a thing so vivid it brought cold sweat out onto his skin. The memory of that feeling of someone following him had been the hardest to shake. The first two nights on the road he had dreamed again and again of his final encounter with Elder, when Elder had come to carry out his orders. In the dreams Stu was always too slow with the chair. Elder stepped back out of its arc, pulled the trigger of his pistol, and Stu felt a heavy but painless boxing glove weighted with lead shot land on his chest. He dreamed this over and over until he woke unrested in the morning, but so glad to be alive that he hardly realized it. Last night the dream hadn’t come. He doubted if the willies would stop all at once, but he thought he might be walking the poison out of his system little by little. Maybe he would never get rid of all of it, but when most of it was gone he felt sure he would be able to think better about what came next, whether he had reached the ocean by then or not.

He came around the bend and there was the dog, an auburn-colored Irish setter. It barked joyously at the sight of Stu and ran up the road, toenails clicking on the composition surface, tail wagging frantically back and forth. It jumped up, placing its forepaws on Stu’s belly, and its forward motion made him stagger back a step. “Whoa, boy,” he said, grinning.

The dog barked happily at the sound of his voice and leaped up again.

“Kojak!” a stern voice said, and Stu jumped and stared around. “Get down! Leave that man alone! You’re going to track all over his shirt! Miserable dog!”

Kojak put all four feet on the road again and walked around Stu with his tail between his legs. The tail was still flipping back and forth in suppressed joy despite its confinement, however, and Stu decided this one would never make much of a canine put-on artist.

Now he could see the owner of the voice—and of Kojak, it seemed like. A man of about sixty wearing a ragged sweater, old gray pants… and a beret. He was sitting on a piano stool and holding a palette. An easel with a canvas on it stood before him.

Now he stood up, placed the palette on the piano stool (under his breath Stu heard him mutter, “Now don’t forget and sit on that”), and walked toward Stu with his hand extended. Beneath the beret his fluffy grayish hair bounced in a small and mellow breeze.

“I hope you intend no foul play with that rifle, sir. Glen Bateman, at your service.”









From 9/30/1958 ( premiere US TV series "The Rifleman"::series premiere "The Sharpshooter" ) To 4/21/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Qualified M-14 Rifle, USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, primary-duty: CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2) ) is 10796 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/25/1995 ( ) is 10796 days



From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 5/25/1995 ( ) is 1589 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/10/1970 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Remarks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Congressional Banquet ) is 1589 days



From 5/10/1991 ( George Bush, 41st President of USA: Remarks at Dedication Ceremony of the Social Sciences Complex at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey ) To 5/25/1995 ( ) is 1476 days

1476 = 738 + 738

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days



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Boeing Pre-Merger News Release Archive, 1995 to July 31, 1997

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NBC News

April 25, 2022, 12:13 PM PDT

By Caroline Mala Corbin, professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law

These moments often turned into Christian prayers [Superstitions] to the youngsters [indoctrinating the vulnerable with superstitions that will affect them negatively their entire life] on his team. The school repeatedly offered Kennedy alternatives — like praying in the press box or praying midfield after the stadium had emptied — but the coach refused them.

More specifically, according to the Supreme Court, public employee speech on the job that owes its existence to that job is not protected at all. The logic behind this rule is that the government is paying you for your services and your speech, and it is therefore theirs to control.

This logic applies here. As Kennedy now concedes, he was still on the clock during his public prayers, as his responsibilities extended to supervising students immediately after the game. Moreover, the school was paying the coach to give inspirational speeches to his team, and he simply would not have had access to either the team or the football field but for his job.









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From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Quotes

Seth: You've never been here before?

Carlos: No. I drove by it a couple of times. It's a rowdy place, it's out in the middle of nowhere, there'd be no cops and it's open from dusk till dawn.









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From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Quotes

Jacob: Does anybody know what's going on here?

Seth: I know what's going on. We got a bunch of fucking vampires out there









From 1/28/1972 ( ) To 1/19/1996 ( premiere USA film "From Dusk Till Dawn" ) is 8757 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/24/1989 ( "The Stand" complete edition, by Stephen King ) is 8757 days



From 1/28/1972 ( ) To 12/20/1994 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 8362 days

8362 = 4181 + 4181

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/14/1977 ( departed this planet Earth on 11/02/1975, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed nuclear-pulse propulsion spaceship returned to the planet Earth from solar system deep space from his successful strike in the outer solar system beyond Saturn to divert comet nicknamed "Lucifer", threatening the existence of all life on this planet Earth ) is 4181 days



From 9/24/1902 ( Ayatollah Khomeini ) To 1/28/1972 ( ) is 25328 days

25328 = 12664 + 12664

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/5/2000 ( premiere US TV series episode "Big Brother" ) is 12664 days



From 1/28/1972 ( ) To 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) is 9684 days

9684 = 4842 + 4842

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/4/1979 ( premiere USA TV series "Co-ed Fever" ) is 4842 days



From 1/28/1972 ( ) To 5/26/2008 ( premiere US TV miniseries "The Andromeda Strain" ) is 13268 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/1/2002 ( USA NASA announces the Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered ice on planet Mars ) is 13268 days



From 1/28/1972 ( ) To 6/25/1982 ( premiere US film "The Thing" ) is 3801 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/30/1976 ( Mitsuo Fuchida dead ) is 3801 days



From 3/22/1989 ( George Bush, 41st President of USA: Remarks at a Meeting With Amish and Mennonite Leaders in Lancaster, Pennsylvania ) To 9/11/2001 ( ) is 4556 days

4556 = 2278 + 2278

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/28/1972 ( ) is 2278 days



From 1/28/1972 ( ) To 5/2/2014 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess - Homestead Day 217 - The Homestead Apartments Phase 2 Day 1 - Spokane Valley, Washington State, United States ) is 15435 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/5/2008 ( Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dead ) is 15435 days



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Coney_Barrett

Amy Coney Barrett

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amy Coney Barrett (born January 28, 1972) is an American lawyer, jurist, and academic who serves as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Barrett was added to President Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees.









https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maharishi-Mahesh-Yogi

Britannica

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Indian religious leader

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, original name Mahesh Prasad Varma, (born 1917?, Jabalpur, India—died Feb. 5, 2008, Vlodrop, Neth.), Hindu religious leader who introduced the practice of transcendental meditation (TM) to the West.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

From Wikipedia

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born Mahesh Prasad Varma, 12 January 1918 – 5 February 2008) was an Indian yoga guru, known for developing and popularizing Transcendental Meditation (TM), and for being the leader and guru of a worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways including as a new religious movement and as non-religious. He became known as Maharishi (meaning "great seer") and Yogi as an adult.

His first global tour began in 1958. His devotees referred to him as His Holiness, and because he often laughed in TV interviews he was sometimes referred to as the "giggling guru".









The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King

(from internet transcript)

excerpt, Chapter 44

At last he slept again, and until he woke up the next morning at seven, stiff, cold, hungry, and needing to go to the bathroom, his sleep was dreamless.

“Oh God,” Nadine said emptily. Larry looked at her and saw a disappointment too deep for tears. Her face was pale, her remarkable eyes clouded and dull.

It was quarter past seven, July 19, and the shadows were drawing long. They had ridden all day, their few rest stops only five minutes long, their lunch break, which they had taken in Randolph, only half an hour. None of them had complained, although after six hours on a cycle Larry’s whole body felt numb and achy and full of pins.

Now they stood together in a line outside a wrought-iron fence. Below and behind them lay the town of Stovington, not much changed from the way Stu Redman had seen it on his last couple of days in this institution. Beyond the fence and a lawn that had once been well kept but which was now shaggy and littered by sticks and leaves that had blown onto it during afternoon thunderstorms, was the institution itself, three stories high, more of it buried underground, Larry surmised.

The place was deserted, silent, empty.

In the center of the lawn was a sign which read:

STOVINGTON PLAGUE CONTROL CENTER

THIS IS A GOVERNMENT INSTALLATION!

VISITORS MUST CHECK IN AT MAIN DESK









The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King

(from internet transcript)

excerpt, Chapter 50

“And behold, the Wicked Witch of the West, or some Pentagon assholes, visited the country with a great plague, and before you could say, ‘Here comes Captain Trips,’ just about everyone in New York was dead. Including Larry’s mother.”

“I’m sorry. My mom and dad, too.”

“Yeah—everybody’s mom and dad. If we all sent each other sympathy cards, there wouldn’t be any left. But Larry was one of the lucky ones. He made it out of the city with a lady named Rita who wasn’t very well equipped to deal with what had happened. And unfortunately, Larry wasn’t very well equipped to help her deal with it.”

“No one had the equipment.”

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The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King

(from internet transcript)

excerpt, Chapter 52

But if Harold’s visitor decided to try the back door—

The knob of the front door—Frannie could see it down the short length of hall—began to turn back and forth in frustrated half-circles.

Whoever she is, I hope she’s no better at locks than I am, Frannie thought, and then had to squeeze both hands over her mouth to stop an insane bray of laughter. That was when she looked down at her cotton slacks and saw how badly she had been frightened. At least she didn’t scare the shit out of me, Fran thought. At least, not yet. The laughter bubbled up again, hysterical and frightened, just below the surface.

Then, with an indescribable sense of relief, she heard footfalls clicking away from the door and down Harold’s concrete path.

What Fran did next she did with no conscious decision at all. She ran quietly down the hall to the front door and put her eye to the small crack between the shade and the edge of the window. She saw a woman with long dark hair that was streaked with white. She climbed onto a small Vespa motorscooter that was parked at the curb. As the motor burped into life, she tossed her hair back and clipped it.

It’s the Cross woman—the one who came over with Larry Underwood! Does she know Harold?

Then Nadine had the scooter in gear. She started off with a little jerk and was soon out of sight. Fran uttered a huge sigh, and her legs turned to water. She opened her mouth to let out the laugh that had been bubbling below the surface, knowing already how it would sound—shaky and relieved. Instead, she burst into tears.

Five minutes later, too nervous now to search any further, she was boosting herself back through the cellar window from the seat of a wicker chair she had pulled over. Once out, she was able to push the chair far enough so that it wouldn’t be obvious someone had used it to climb out. It was still out of position, but people rarely noticed things like that… and it didn’t look as if Harold used the basement at all, except to store his Coca-Cola.

She reclosed the window and got her bike. She still felt weak and stunned and a little nauseated from her scare. At least my pants are drying, she thought. Next time you go housebreaking, Frances Rebecca, remember to wear your continence pants.









The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King

(from internet transcript)

excerpt, Chapter 26

The highest-rated morning program in Springfield, Missouri, was KLFT’s morning phone-in show, “Speak Your Piece,” with Ray Flowers. He had six phone lines into his studio booth, and on the morning of June 26, he was the only KLFT employee to show up for work. He was aware of what was going on in the outside world and it scared him. In the last week or so, it seemed to Ray that everyone he knew had come down sick. There were no troops in Springfield, but he had heard that the National Guard had been called into K.C. and St. Louis to “stop the spread of panic” and “prevent looting.” Ray Flowers himself felt fine. He looked thoughtfully at his equipment—phones, time-delay device to edit those callers who lapsed into profanity from time to time, racks of commercials on cassettes (“If your toilet overflows/And you don’t know just what goes/Call for the man with the big steel hose/Call your Kleen-Owt Man! ”), and of course, the mike.

He lit a cigarette, went to the studio door, and locked it. Went into his booth and locked that. He turned off the canned music that had been playing from a tape reel, turned on his own theme music, and then settled in at the microphone.

“Hi, y’all,” he said, “this is Ray Flowers on ‘Speak Your Piece,’ and this morning I guess there’s only one thing to call about, isn’t there? You can call it Tube Neck or superflu—or Captain Trips, but it all means the same thing. I’ve heard some horror stories about the army clamping down on everything, and if you want to talk about that, I’m ready to listen. It’s still a free country, right? And since I’m here by myself this morning, we’re going to do things just a little bit differently. I’ve got the time-delay turned off, and I think we can dispense with the commercials. If the Springfield you’re seeing is anything like the one I’m seeing from the KLFT windows, no one feels much like shopping, anyway.

“Okay—if you’re spo’s to be up and around, as my mother used to say, let’s get going. Our toll-free numbers are 555-8600 and 555-8601. If you get a busy, just be patient. Remember, I’m doing it all myself.”

There was an army unit in Carthage, fifty miles from Springfield, and a twenty-man patrol was dispatched to take care of Ray Flowers. Two men refused the order. They were shot on the spot.

In the hour it took them to get to Springfield, Ray Flowers took calls from: a doctor who said people were dying like flies and who thought the government was lying through its teeth about a vaccine; a hospital nurse who confirmed that bodies were being removed from Kansas City hospitals by the truckload; a delirious woman who claimed it was flying saucers from outer space









From 1/31/1980 ( premiere USA TV series episode "In Search of..."::"Earth Visitors" ) To 10/24/1989 ( "The Stand" complete edition, by Stephen King ) is 3554 days

3554 = 1777 + 1777

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/14/1970 ( ) is 1777 days









From 9/14/1970 ( ) To 6/27/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess I was discharged from the Seattle's Puget Sound Veterans Affairs Health Care System hospital - United States of America Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital ) is 12705 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/15/2000 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Biography"::"Jimi Hendrix: The Man They Made God" ) is 12705 days









From 11/14/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"I, Robot" ) To 8/8/1974 ( Richard Nixon, 37th president of USA federal government 1969-1974: Address to the Nation Announcing Decision To Resign the Office of President of the United States ) is 3554 days

3554 = 1777 + 1777

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/14/1970 ( ) is 1777 days









From 2/13/1997 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth ) To 11/7/2006 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, from my official United States of America Veterans Affairs psychiatric-hospital documents, the final appointment with the psychiatrist ) is 3554 days

3554 = 1777 + 1777

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/14/1970 ( ) is 1777 days









From 2/13/1997 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Biography"::"G. Gordon Liddy: Warrior with a Cause" ) To 11/7/2006 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, from my official United States of America Veterans Affairs psychiatric-hospital documents, the final appointment with the psychiatrist ) is 3554 days

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Ketanji Brown Jackson

From Wikipedia

Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson (née Brown; born September 14, 1970) is an American lawyer and jurist who is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn into office that same year. She is the first black woman, the first former federal public defender, and the sixth woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.










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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Gordon_Liddy

G. Gordon Liddy

From Wikipedia

George Gordon Battle Liddy (November 30, 1930 – March 30, 2021) was an American lawyer and FBI agent who was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration.

Working alongside E. Howard Hunt, Liddy organized and directed the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in May and June 1972. After five of Liddy's operatives were arrested inside the DNC offices on June 17, 1972, subsequent investigations of the Watergate scandal led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. Liddy was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and refusing to testify to the Senate committee investigating Watergate. He served nearly 52 months in federal prisons.

He later joined with Timothy Leary for a series of debates on multiple college campuses, and similarly worked with Al Franken in the late 1990s. Liddy served as a radio talk show host from 1992 until his retirement on July 27, 2012. His radio show was syndicated in 160 markets by Radio America and on both Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio stations in the United States. He was a guest panelist for Fox News Channel in addition to appearing in a cameo role or as a guest celebrity talent on several television shows.

After serving in several mid-level law enforcement and domestic policy roles in the Nixon administration, Liddy was moved to Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign in 1971 order to extend the scope and reach of the White House Plumbers "special investigations unit", which had been created in response to damaging leaks of information to the press. Liddy's own name for the group was ODESSA, a reference to escape plans made by the Nazis.

At CRP, Liddy concocted several plots in early 1972, collectively known under the title "Operation Gemstone". Some of these were far-fetched, intended to embarrass the Democratic opposition. These included kidnapping anti-war protest organizers and transporting them to Mexico during the Republican National Convention (which at the time was planned for San Diego), as well as luring mid-level Democratic campaign officials to a house boat in Miami, where they would be secretly photographed in compromising positions with prostitutes. Most of Liddy's ideas were rejected by Attorney General John N. Mitchell (who became campaign manager in March 1972), but a few were approved by Nixon administration officials, including the 1971 break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in Los Angeles. Ellsberg had leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times. At some point, Liddy was instructed to break into the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Complex.

Watergate scandal

Main article: Watergate scandal

Liddy was the Nixon administration liaison and leader of the group of five men who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Complex. At least two separate entries were made in May and June 1972; the burglars were apprehended on June 17.










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Jimi Hendrix: The Man They Made God

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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 8:38 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 01/29/2026

Today is 01/29/2026





by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/29/2026 2:43 PM

Clearly CLEARLY a staged act of violence by that scumbag Alex Pretti.

And look at how he got those rabble roused and their acts of violence with their whistles.

They should certainly be fined and or jailed for such disturbance of the peace with the intent to inflict damage on the operations of federal workers.

Those monkeys in Minnesota will never learn. Gullible rabble so easy to manipulate into senseless violence against the government and against peaceful order.

Alex Pretti is prancing around melodramatically and smashing government property.

The dumbass is violent and raging and while carrying a firearm

Clearly, that dumbass was inciting riot purposely

Carrying a firearm and screaming that he is tech-savvy enough to know that his iPhone does contain photographic-film









https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/new-videos-show-alex-pretti-in-confrontation-with-federal-agents-in-minneapolis-11-days-before-he-was-killed-162253349.html

Yahoo News

New videos show Alex Pretti in confrontation with federal agents in Minneapolis 11 days before he was killed

The footage [sic] shows him being thrown to the ground after kicking out the taillight of an unmarked SUV.

Dylan Stableford, Reporter

Updated Thu, January 29, 2026 at 8:27 AM PST 3 min read

In one video of the Jan. 13 incident posted online Wednesday, Pretti is seen shouting and spitting at an unmarked SUV with flashing lights. As the vehicle begins to move away, he kicks out one of its taillights.



When Pretti gets up, the person filming [sic] the incident approaches him and asks if he is OK. “I’m OK,” Pretti replies. “Are we all OK? Are we all safe?”









From 5/8/1994 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Stephen King's The Stand"::miniseries premiere "The Plague" ) To 1/13/2026 ( ) is 11573 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/10/1997 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Ancient Mysteries"::"The Black Death" ) is 11573 days









From 5/4/2005 ( the incident at the police department City of Kent Washington State after my voluntary approach to report material criminal activity directed against my person and I am secretly drugged against my consent ) To 1/13/2026 ( ) is 7559 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/14/1986 ( premiere USA film "Aliens" ) is 7559 days









The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King, author

(from internet transcript)

excerpt, Chapter 1

“That ain’t necessarily how it would be,” Hap said weightily from the depths of his ninth-grade education. He went on to explain why.

Stu, who only understood that they were in a hell of a pinch, tuned Hap’s voice down to a meaningless drone and watched the Chevy pitch and yaw its way on up the road. The way it was going Stu didn’t think it was going to make it much farther. It crossed the white line and its lefthand tires spurned up dust from the left shoulder. Now it lurched back, held its own lane briefly, then nearly pitched off into the ditch. Then, as if the driver had picked out the big lighted Texaco station sign as a beacon, it arrowed toward the tarmac like a projectile whose velocity is very nearly spent. Stu could hear the worn-out thump of its engine now, the steady gurgle-and-wheeze of a dying carb and a loose set of valves. It missed the lower entrance and bumped up over the curb. The fluorescent bars over the pumps were reflecting off the Chevy’s dirt-streaked windshield so it was hard to see what was inside, but Stu saw the vague shape of the driver roll loosely with the bump. The car showed no sign of slowing from its relentless fifteen.

“So I say with more money in circulation you’d be—”

“Better turn off your pumps, Hap,” Stu said mildly.

“The pumps? What?”

Norm Bruett had turned to look out the window. “Christ on a pony,” he said.

Stu got out of his chair, leaned over Tommy Wannamaker and Hank Carmichael, and flicked off all eight switches at once, four with each hand. So he was the only one who didn’t see the Chevy as it hit the gas pumps on the upper island and sheared them off.

It plowed into them with a slowness that seemed implacable and somehow grand. Tommy Wannamaker swore in the Indian Head the next day that the taillights never flashed once. The Chevy just kept coming at a steady fifteen or so, like the pace car in the Tournament of Roses parade. The undercarriage screeched over the concrete island, and when the wheels hit it everyone but Stu saw the driver’s head swing limply and strike the windshield, starring the glass.

The Chevy jumped like an old dog that had been kicked and plowed away the hi-test pump. It snapped off and rolled away, spilling a few dribbles of gas. The nozzle came unhooked and lay glittering under the fluorescents.

They all saw the sparks produced by the Chevy’s exhaust pipe grating across the cement, and Hap, who had seen a gas station explosion in Mexico, instinctively shielded his eyes against the fireball he expected. Instead, the Chevy’s rear end flirted around and fell off the pump island on the station side. The front end smashed into the low-lead pump, knocking it off with a hollow bang.

Almost deliberately, the Chevrolet finished its 360-degree turn, hitting the island again, broadside this time. The rear end popped up on the island and knocked the regular gas pump asprawl. And there the Chevy came to rest, trailing its rusty exhaust pipe behind it. It had destroyed all three of the gas pumps on that island nearest the highway. The motor continued to run choppily for a few seconds and then quit. The silence was so loud it was alarming.

“Holy moly,” Tommy Wannamaker said breathlessly. “Will she blow, Hap?”

“If it was gonna, it already woulda,” Hap said, getting up. His shoulder bumped the map case, scattering Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona every whichway. Hap felt a cautious sort of jubilation. His pumps were insured, and the insurance was paid up. Mary had harped on the insurance ahead of everything.

“Guy must have been pretty drunk,” Norm said.

“I seen his taillights,” Tommy said, his voice high with excitement. “They never flashed once. Holy moly! If he’d a been doing sixty we’d all be dead now.”

They hurried out of the office, Hap first and Stu bringing up the rear. Hap, Tommy, and Norm reached the car together. They could smell gas and hear the slow, clocklike tick of the Chevy’s cooling engine. Hap opened the driver’s side door and the man behind the wheel spilled out like an old laundry sack.

“God-damn,” Norm Bruett shouted, almost screamed. He turned away, clutched his ample belly, and was sick. It wasn’t the man who had fallen out (Hap had caught him neatly before he could thump to the pavement) but the smell that was issuing from the car, a sick stench compounded of blood, fecal matter, vomit, and human decay. It was a ghastly rich sick-dead smell.

A moment later Hap turned away, dragging the driver by the armpits. Tommy hastily grabbed the dragging feet and he and Hap carried him into the office. In the glow of the overhead fluorescents their faces were cheesy-looking and revolted. Hap had forgotten about his insurance money.

The others looked into the car and then Hank turned away, one hand over his mouth, little finger sticking off like a man who has just raised his wineglass to make a toast. He trotted to the north end of the station’s lot and let his supper come up.

Vic and Stu looked into the car for some time, looked at each other, and then looked back in. On the passenger side was a young woman, her shift dress hiked up high on her thighs. Leaning against her was a boy or girl, about three years old. They were both dead. Their necks had swelled up like inner tubes and the flesh there was a purple-black color, like a bruise. The flesh was puffed up under their eyes, too. They looked, Vic later said, like those baseball players who put lampblack under their eyes to cut the glare. Their eyes bulged sightlessly. The woman was holding the child’s hand. Thick mucus had run from their noses and was now clotted there. Flies buzzed around them; lighting in the mucus, crawling in and out of their open mouths. Stu had been in the war, but he had never seen anything so terribly pitiful as this. His eyes were constantly drawn back to those linked hands.

He and Vic backed away together and looked blankly at each other. Then they turned to the station. They could see Hap, jawing frantically into the pay phone. Norm was walking toward the station behind them, throwing glances at the wreck over his shoulder. The Chevy’s driver’s side door stood sadly open. There was a pair of baby shoes dangling from the rearview mirror.

Hank was standing by the door, rubbing his mouth with a dirty handkerchief. “Jesus, Stu,” he said unhappily, and Stu nodded.

Hap hung up the phone. The Chevy’s driver was lying on the floor. “Ambulance will be here in ten minutes. Do you figure they’re—?” He jerked his thumb at the Chevy.

“They’re dead, okay.” Vic nodded. His lined face was yellow-pale, and he was sprinkling tobacco all over the floor as he tried to make one of his shitty-smelling cigarettes. “They’re the two deadest people I’ve ever seen.” He looked at Stu and Stu nodded, putting his hands in his pockets. He had the butterflies.

The man on the floor moaned thickly in his throat and they all looked down at him. After a moment, when it became obvious that the man was speaking or trying very hard to speak, Hap knelt beside him. It was, after all, his station.

Whatever had been wrong with the woman and child in the car was also wrong with this man. His nose was running freely, and his respiration had a peculiar undersea sound, a churning from somewhere in his chest. The flesh beneath his eyes was puffing, not black yet, but a bruised purple. His neck looked too thick, and the flesh had pushed up in a column to give him two extra chins. He was running a high fever; being close to him was like squatting on the edge of an open barbecue pit where good coals have been laid.

“The dog,” he muttered. “Did you put him out?”

“Mister,” Hap said, shaking him gently. “I called the ambulance. You’re going to be all right.”

“Clock went red,” the man on the floor grunted, and then began to cough, racking chainlike explosions that sent heavy mucus spraying from his mouth in long and ropy splatters. Hap leaned backward, grimacing desperately.

“Better roll him over,” Vic said. “He’s goan choke on it.”

But before they could, the coughing tapered off into bellowsed, uneven breathing again. His eyes blinked slowly and he looked at the men gathered above him.

“Where’s… this?”

“Arnette,” Hap said. “Bill Hapscomb’s Texaco. You crashed out some of my pumps.” And then, hastily, he added: “That’s okay. They was insured.”

The man on the floor tried to sit up and was unable. He had to settle for putting a hand on Hap’s arm.

“My wife… my little girl…”

“They’re fine,” Hap said, grinning a foolish dog grin.

“Seems like I’m awful sick,” the man said. Breath came in and out of him in a thick, soft roar. “They, were sick, too. Since we got up two days ago. Salt Lake City…” His eyes flickered slowly closed. “Sick… guess we didn’t move quick enough after all…”

Far off but getting closer, they could hear the whoop of the Arnette Volunteer Ambulance.

“Man,” Tommy Wannamaker said. “Oh man.”

The sick man’s eyes fluttered open again, and now they were filled with an intense, sharp concern. He struggled again to sit up. Sweat ran down his face. He grabbed Hap.

“Are Sally and Baby LaVon all right?” he demanded. Spittle flew from his lips and Hap could feel the man’s burning heat radiating outward. The man was sick, half crazy, he stank. Hap was reminded of the smell an old dog blanket gets sometimes.

“They’re all right,” he insisted, a little frantically. “You just… lay down and take it easy, okay?”

The man lay back down. His breathing was rougher now. Hap and Hank helped roll him over on his side, and his respiration seemed to ease a trifle. “I felt pretty good until last night,” he said. “Coughing, but all right. Woke up with it in the night. Didn’t get away quick enough. Is Baby LaVon okay?”

The last trailed off into something none of them could make out. The ambulance siren warbled closer and closer. Stu went over to the window to watch for it. The others remained in a circle around the man on the floor.

“What’s he got, Vic, any idea?” Hap asked.










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by me, Kerry Burgess, APRIL 18, 2012

A few minutes ago I was standing in the bathroom washing my hands and I suddenly thought to look in the mirror at the top of my left shoulder.









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:

From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Tue, May 16, 2006 5:55:42 PM

Subject: Re: I don't know if I am winning or losing an effort by the Borg to assimilate my mind.

And what memories are real and what memories are manipulated?










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The Walking Dead - "Days Gone Bye" - television series premiere episode - season 1 episode 1 - Sunday 31 October 2010

(from internet transcript)

Bedroom - House

Rick wakes up in a house and sees Duane with a baseball bat.

Morgan: Got that bandage changed out. It was pretty rank. What was? The wound?

Rick: Gun shot.

Morgan: Gun shot? What else? Anything?

Rick: Gun shot ain't enough?









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Eighty percent atmosphere.

Jim, you've got to go get your spare helmet. Copy that, Jim?

There's no time. All the systems have crashed. I gotta shut down the hab from below.

We're losing pressure, Jim. You could embolize.










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I've had several dreams where something was wrong with my chest, as though I had a broken bone in my chest, a broken rib in my upper chest.










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Col. Andy Tanner: Infiltrators came up illegal from Mexico. Cubans mostly. They managed to infiltrate SAC bases in the Midwest, several down in Texas and wreaked a hell of a lot of havoc, I'm here to tell you. They opened up the door down here, and the whole Cuban and Nicaraguan and Latin American armies come walking right through



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 3:37 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 01/29/2026