Late In Early Out

 

Got home late last night and for the next few days I will be lapTOPLESS as the HP is in the shop in Ohio for a tuneup. Come on Windows 8.1 ...............................Off to Hampden-Sydney early this morning for Family Weekend!

Thought you might like the topless comment, bet that will get some hits.

Very productive week in..................well let's just say some northern states and leave it at that. I got an unexpected treat Wednesday night; we finished up in...............well a northern coastal state and took a ferry over to......................an island near NY. I didn't realize there was so much time to be saved by using this service. Little pricey and the sun was down by the time we landed, but a nice treat. Thursday morning we drove back to CT and I realized how much time that ferry saved.



As usual I ate my way through the week, had a couple of really good meals, OK, one really good meal late Wednesday night, and surprise surprise I was able to get a good night's sleep afterwards. Maybe that's the secret: eat a 2,000 calorie meal at 9:00 PM?

Anyway had to go through Atlanta on the way home tonight, not really hungry.....walking through the concourses looking at the same old same old, Oh look there's a Five Guys.......wish there was something different........Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyyyy!

Big news next week, maybe

A Return to Normalcy?

Depends on your idea or conception of reality I guess, and who is to say what is normal and what is lunacy? As a certified madman I've seen plenty of people I could categorically acclaim as crazy, but very few that I think are operating on an even keel. Aren't we all just a little bit crazy?

So you know you were reading this when..........................

 You might have to enlarge this to read it, pretty funny recap of our nutty 50.

Certainly have a scatological theme this week don't you stink?

And now pictures of women bouncing on a trampoline:
Nope, just a before and after shot

This would be the after, looks kinda like a duck's ass

Well maybe not kinda. 

Rush starts today, can't wait. I remember when the 1976 Formula One title race was on, I didn't read a complete recap on the Japan GP until my next Road and Track came a couple of months later, then I read Hunt's book the next year. No ESPN back then; can't wait to see the movie. And speaking of Formula One always want to take the opportunity to say "screw Bernie Ecclestone" Thank you, I feel better

5:30 AM flight Monday morning, told you more are than aren't

OK Sue Me

I know, I'm late again. I didn't get home until late Friday and had a busy day today, so it's late Saturday. Just as well I don't have much to say this week; we displayed at Comfortech in Philadelphia and had a surprisingly good show. This was kind of our last shot at this show, have to see where they go next year. 

So what did we learn? Well I should have gone into the wholesale rather then the manufacturing side of the business: here is a picture of a distributor and good friend driving a rather nice ride. I won't tell his name here, let's just call him Johnny Pro...............and that is a car from an exotic car club. I think its a 430, not sure; probably wouldn't work as a tow vehicle. Nice ride JP

This is called a Philly cheese-steak. I had about 10 of them this week. I've had enough

This is called lasagna, I only had it once this week but I'll be carrying it around for another month or so

Wrong, just wrong in so many ways. But they do know how to make an orange ginger cookie

On Thursday night we went to a party at this place outside the Philadelphia Eagles-Kansas City Chiefs football game                    http://xfinitylive.com/index.cfm?page=about

It was fun but a bit worrisome to be that close to so many rabid Eagles fans as they were getting their collective butts whipped. Philadelphia fans are mean, how mean you ask? This from the internet (therefore it must be true):

The violent acts that were occurring at Veterans Stadium were continuing to increase, thus, leaving Philadelphia no choice but to install a court, judge and jail inside the stadium.

A courtroom was built into the stadium where unruly fans were taken for judgment and sentencing after committing crimes at Veterans Stadium.

The penalties for the crime forced offenders to give up season tickets, pay a $400 fine and sit in jail for the rest of the game.

Since the Eagles moved to Lincoln Financial Field, the crowds have become more subdued by controlling their behavior, and the "Eagles Court" has been closed.

No matter how behaved Eagle fans have turned out to be (not really), the city of Philadelphia still installed a court in their old stadium.

I left at halftime. Speaking of great fans look who was at the NASCAR race last week. Honestly.............

And just one more I promise.....care to put a caption to this picture?
Here's your clue: if you're blue and you don't know what to go to.......................

Let's see...................what else is happening? How does the boat name CooKeeAnna sound? Could be in our near future. Details to follow

Gimme Shelter

I had a busy week going back and forth to work the Famous Supply TriState Expo in Cleveland, Tuesday and Wednesday were long days indeed. The temperature in Ohio was in the 90's and my guess is that factor kept a lot of HVAC dealers working and not at the show. Famous does a great job of running their Expo, it was their 30th, and I'm sure next year will be better.

This week a reader asked what the old BMW 100/7 looked like so I pulled these shots out of the laptop memory bank. Submitted for your approval....................

Yes, that seems like a long time ago. I really do enjoy riding the new bike. 

Now that Nephew Kevin in an officer in the USCG I let Keelyn in on the secret salute; remember this salute when you see a superior officer NK, they really appreciate the added respect

How in the heck is this blog getting > 1,000 views a week? I too suspect foul play

In other news NASCAR went nuts this week; I guess in the future if you come in one lap early to let your teammate lead a lap and get a point in the second race of the year you'll get tossed. I've been checking the sports channels this week to see if I made the Chase. No one ever learned the story of Pandora's box?

Riding down I-77 Thursday I ran past several big road bikes and after the third or fourth one I realized each one had two women on it. That's odd, must have been a rally somewhere; wonder what they could possibly name that type of event?

The City of Brotherly Love is up this week, taking the train from Rocky Mount. I am not fan of Philadelphia but we plan to have a good show and sell a lot of stuff. See you there in booth number 530 at Comfortech. 

Time To Get The Heck Out of Dodge

September 6, 2013

Last Saturday we celebrated Dink's 90th birthday in grand style with darn near all of the family we have. It was a good time; the best thing about being 90 is that you get to open the same presents over and over again. Yes I know.............going to hell for yet another one, but it was funny. Missed Jackson. 

And we had the grandchildren here all weekend. They were a ton of fun, but when they left we both took long naps, followed by our first kayak trip of the year. Figured that would be a great way to celebrate the end of summer: dust off the kayak and do a lap around the creek. 

Odd that the photographer got all these kids to act as though they liked each other, even if it was only for a quick snapshot. We didn't see this serenity very often, but then again they're kids and we're not supposed to see that side of them...................I guess. 

Oh yes, time to leave town for a while. I have too many irons in the proverbial fire, we're planning the 2013 Stewardship program so I'd better duck. Cleveland next week, Philadelphia the week after that. Probably won't have much time to use that new boat...................whaaaaaaaaaaaat?

The Last Saturday, Already?

August 30, 2013

Busy, busy busy week; started out with a flat tire on TAR's car which means a new set of tires all the way around, add some wedge, 2 cans of Sunoco racing fuel, a little more forward bite, but as usual I wander around some times...........

While attaching the spare I realized my old trusty rusty 4 way wasn't where it usually stays. Looked here and there, even in the Jeep, nowhere to be found. When you're like me everything has its place and every place has its thing, without it: CHAOS! Started looking even more and discovered my electric trolling motor, a deep cell 12 V battery, and even my electrical trailer connection were gone. No one to blame but myself, I'm guilty of leaving the big garage side door open, but no more!

Feeling a little pissy, maybe a lot pissy, SWMBO reminded me that she wanted to ride in the boat Sunday afternoon and had prepared a picnic. Translated: there is a Wal-Mart sub in the refrigerator. We went to the landing all the while thinking in the back of my head "you know self, you haven't cranked this boat in 4-5 weeks, sure it's going to run? (sometimes I hear voices in my head) Now batting for the New York Yankees (eeees eeees eeeees) nuuuuuuuumber 27 centerfielder John Riley (eee eee eee)" Anyway where was I? We put the boat in and surprise/surprise it cranks right up. She ran really well right up until we got near the exit to our creek and which time she sputtered and shut down. No amount of cursing and cranking brought her back to life, trust me I did both quite a bit, so plan B went into effect quickly. Yes, the wind and tide were not pushing us back towards the landing, oddly enough it was quite the opposite. She headed towards a neighbor's yacht, fortunately we fended her off and into a vacant slip. I didn't want to bother Tow Boat US with such a short tow and after about 30 minutes someone came by and brought us into the end of our dock. After pulling from piling to piling (lots of practice from many sailboats many more years ago) and with the blessing of a full tide we put her back on the trailer. All of which made me feel like this:

Remember that little munchkin? His birthday is Monday, but anyway that's exactly how I felt. After all of that TAR recommended that I NOT go to ride on my bike, pretty reasonable logic in light of everything else. I took the boat to the shop, later they called and said it was the fuel pump. I told them I tried to override the fuel pump by pressing the fuel bulb as the boat owner spun the starter. He laughed and said that would have worked about 20 years ago, but now I have an EFI engine. Oh yeah.................forgot. But now I have plenty of money to spend, simply flush with cash because the old yellow boat is gone. Sold the engine to someone in New Bern, the trailer and boat to a nice young man from Kinston. Down to one boat at home now, ah, forgot about the yellow kayak that SWMBO owns didn't you? Maybe this weekend we''ll get that out for the first time this year!

Whew, and it gets busier which brings me to this this logical question: how old do you have to be to understand this cartoon?

Happy 90th birthday to Dink; she's feeling a lot better this week

Well Lahhh Teeee Dahhhhhh
August 24, 2013

Rest in peace Lottie McAlister High; born June 22, 1924, died August 19, 2013. The commitment service today was about as good as you can get. Extremely coincidental that we buried my brother's second mother last Saturday, mine this Saturday. 

The fact that she passed away on Bill Clinton's birthday will be discussed in a future post; whoops, someone just took her shoe off and took aim................And I will now retire my lahhhh teeee dahhhhhh comments.