Ho, hum...winter is glum & spine-less people suck

You know, I am at that point where I am sooooo sick of winter right now. Just enough snow falls to keep everything dirty & wet, but not enough to care. I had thought about skiing this year. I used to love it. I stopped for a few years due to the fact that I am getting older and I had no insurance, but now, well..... I am covered. I can tell you one thing, if I had been my size now when I raced on skis in high school, I would have been a "momentum machine". I would have won hands down on gravity alone.

Moving forward, I had a close friend get black-balled out of his job this past week. Here is a "brother" of mine that worked his ass off to get where he is, and was a the top of his field. This is a fellow lineman, and a man that inspired me to want to be a lineman myself. His only down fall is he calls it like he see's it and in this day & age people are afraid of the truth. I know, I see it in my job. People would rather take a peice of shit and put a bow on it and say "Isn't this lovely?", when in reality.....it's a piece of shit. You know? So these co-workers of my brother all turned tail and hung him out to dry, because I think someone wanted a leg up. Lets get him out, then we can move up quicker. In our trade, these are people that you need to trust your life with when working with the elements involved. I would be safe to say that I would deem none of his former co-workers trust worthy and would never rely on any of them for the slightest thing.
He did well though, I would have flown off the handle. I would not have been so.... so.... I guess you could say mature, about the whole thing. I would have choked a few people. I took a lot of crap from people when I was young, I tend to run a lot bolder now than I did as a teen. Meaning, my bullshit tolerance is zero. Someone, whether it made it worse or not, would be answering for their actions!

Anyway, he has come through it, and I feel deep down it was for the best and he will come out better off in the long run. Call it John Wayne-ism, but I still believe that honesty and hard work will prevail.

On a side note I am soooooooooooooooo ready for this:


“I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life.... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.” ---Frank Sinatra

Short week for me..

Yeah, sick for the first few days of the week, but rebounded nicely for a great Thursday & Friday @ work. Spent both days at work just driving... over 450 miles in 2 days between work & dart night.
Dart night at Bob's is like my one night a week for hangin' out with the boys and throwing back a couple of beers. Good time, keeps your "man card" in check.



The weather was all over the place this week, sunny and 55 degrees Wednesday to freezing rain to rain on Friday and now we are looking at a snow storm on Monday. Gotta love New England. Actually, I am quite tired of winters. After 3 more years, I am seriously considering relocating to a No-Snow climate. Where my Harley may be exercised year round. Somewhere like here:



But until I can move, it will be the same old, same old:



Oh well, until next time.....

“Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.” --- Denis Leary

Major lag since last post...

Well, alot has happened since October. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and I got married to my Bapple on 12/1/07. We went to Vegas, it was great, epensive, but great. Between Christmas & Vegas, I think I a need a few major weather events to pay for it all.

The following are from Vega$:
The view from our suite:

Christmas rocked... I was spoiled like I hadn't been since I was a little boy and my Grampa was still alive. My wife got me a Playstation 3, a #rd generation Ipod Nano, the Led Zeppelin complete studio recordings box set, and the definitive Superman 14 disc DVD compilation. She totally kicked ass!!

On New Years Eve always remember, this:

Leads to this:



So, I am going to try and keep up with this thing again, lets see how I do!!

“Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them.”--Denis Leary