Just Spaghetti

Yesterday Dad said to me "You and Rhonda don't see as much of each other now that school's started" huh,so true old man.This can be fixed ,so after school I drove down,we picked up The Girl,went home,cooked a spaghetti dinner together,went downstairs and ate supper while watching Grimm on the DVR.Just the three of us.Why is this blogworthy? Because it turned out to be one of the best evenings I've had in a long time,a lot of you have had many,many nights like this.Family night might be old hat to you but it's still really new to me.I never pictured myself as the family man type it turns out I really like it.Who would have ever guessed that?I don't know that I'd call myself domesticated but I am sure not the same.I did make sure and listen to really loud-ass music on the way home,Nine Inch Nails,at ear bleed volume.

trying something

Warm summer midwest night

Flying , flying home

Roof open to the wind

Maximum Metallica

Content , invincible

Cold,Bored,Homesick

Alright I haven't blogged in awhile,so here goes.For the most part I'm pretty happy here which is why I haven't had much to say.I guess I'm at my most creative when I'm pissed off or down.I haven't been either too much lately.But today I woke up and I had this thought "Maybe I can finish up work early and go surf awhile",then I woke to 19 below and a driveway full of snow to clear.Rude awakening as you might imagine.So today I go through the routine I've gotten into but my mind is worlds away specifically its at 40th Street in Newport,waves 3-5 feet and no kooks anywhere.I'll surf for a couple hours then go to Taco Mesa and grub like a monster.Not today................

College Football & Nice Suprises

As I've been watching ESPN I've been thinking that another season of college football is going to start soon and I won't be able to watch games and talk college ball with my Mom who was maybe the biggest fan I've ever known.I am not sure that I'll watch and honestly been feeling a little sorry for myself.Another thing cancer took away,like it just took my friend Kurt's sister Jane.

As I was thinking about all this I was looking through the pictures on Mom's camera when I found these two.That's Mom and Chipper doing what everyone does when they get a digital camera,you take a few pics of yourself.These pictures of her being silly just made me smile and realize that cancer didn't take it all.So I'll be watching the Gators this fall and not alone their biggest fan will be right there with me.

Life's Not Fair

So this week I've decided to get serious about eating right and going to the gym every day,like I've never said that before.Thing is,I'm trying.Here's where the unfair part is,I'm walking out of Hvvee with all my Healthy Choices and Lean Cuisines and fruit and all that shit when I catch a whiff of this wonderful smell.It's the Burger Shack in the parking lot,they are grilling big,thick burgers and juicy brats and the aroma draws me in like a moth to a flame.I see their sign which says I can have two burgers or two brats with chips and a drink for five bucks,what a deal !Then I notice that working the grill and the counter are three gorgeous blondes,they are wearing shorts and little tank tops and are beautiful in that Midwest girl-next-door way.Now how the fuck am I suppose to resist that?I will be 300 lbs by summer's end ! It's just not fair !

The Malibu

For some time Dad's been talking about selling Mom's car and today mentioned he wanted to show it to someone.I told him to let me clean it up a bit first.It was going along OK till I opened the trunk,in there was the bag holding Mom's things from hospice.Her pajamas all neatly folded like I had just done her laundry.Her well worn winter coat and gloves that I helped her into so many cold mornings to go to chemo.she was always ready to go of I was.Even those godawful weeks going to radiation every morning in subzero temperatures as long as I was game,so was she.I try to focus on those brave mornings,but all I see today is that last time she bundled up to go to the hospital knowing as well as I that she wasn't coming home this time.Even though the fucking cancer had taken so much of her mind by then she knew.I know this sadness will pass and I will be able to remember my brave and funny Mom but right now my heart hurts.

New Job

My New Wheels

As of today my duties at the Lingle Place are no longer confined to working in the Big House, I now am also a part time field hand.I am the proud operator of this fine piece of machinery you see here!First I got to experience the joy that is shopping with Big Al,all I'll say about that is I hope this mower lasts as long as they say it will because I don't think we'll be welcomed back to this fine business any time soon.On the other hand it was funny to see the chief fire up the ol' Snapper and give it full throttle I wasn't sure if it was going to drag him to Watertown or pull his arms out of their sockets.When he finally let go he was half way into the street,old people!At least I think his curiosity is satisfied.So for the first time in years I mowed anyone that's seen the place knows that's no small job.I found it oddly soothing in a Midwest Zen sort of way.of course now I'm sore as heck.Hello Flexeril & Vicodin my old friends.I better rest up I may have some plowing or baling or some shit like that to do tomorrow.