I know what you’re thinking: I’m feeding you misinformation in case the Customs people who’ve no doubt cross referenced the readers of this blog and and are now readers as well are monitoring your computer records. \u00a0Maybe I never left the area. \u00a0Maybe I’m working an off-site secure computer back in the nettle hollows, living off the larder of snowbirds still tanning in Pahrump, Nevada, ordering pizzas and survival gear with phony names and numbers. \u00a0By now the Customs Swat Teams know who Skeeter is and the net is closing faster than habitat for deer \u00a0up at the clearcut by the Country Club.<\/p>\n
Wait! \u00a0How would I know that’s been cleared if I’d left the area? \u00a0But why would I mention it if I hadn’t? \u00a0Life on the lam is a cat and mouse, life and death 3-D chess game. \u00a0The pursuers know all the moves, all the gambits, every turn and fake. \u00a0You have to think like them, but you have to think differently than their usual prey. \u00a0You need to be semi-insane. \u00a0You need a warped reality. \u00a0You need — do I need to say it? — to think like an artist, mangled synapses, \u00a0broken chromosomes, mutant mentality. \u00a0Take them down the rabbit hole with you and see how well they<\/em> deal with a distorted reality, see what they<\/em> ask Alice when they’re 10 feet tall.<\/p>\n Am I hiding? \u00a0If I am, I’ve been hiding all my life. \u00a0I’m accustomed to the funhouse mirrors. \u00a0I’m comfortable with the Jabberwock, the mad tea parties under tangerine skies, the bi-polar seasons, the non-linear logistics. \u00a0I’m at home with uncertainty. \u00a0I’m not looking for answers. \u00a0I’m not even looking for \u00a0questions. \u00a0Let’s see how the Authorities do when the signpost up ahead reads: \u00a0SOUTH END. \u00a0NO EXIT. \u00a0Then we’ll see who’s hunting who ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know what you’re thinking: I’m feeding you misinformation in case the Customs people who’ve no doubt cross referenced the readers of this blog and and are now readers as well are monitoring your computer records. \u00a0Maybe I never left the area. \u00a0Maybe I’m working an off-site secure computer back in the nettle hollows, living […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4973,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/4973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}