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FLASHBACK IN CASE YOU MISSED IT – I’m Just Sayin’ (From August 2009)

Happy Sunday everybody. I hope your weekend has went well. Just the other day at work, I went to walk someone into the bay at the fire station. Sounds completely boring and uneventful …. right? Wrong. As I walked in front of the station, taking the short cut in between the bushes and the flag pole, you guessed it. I walked straight through aBIG-A” spider web. Now I’m not talking about one of those little teeny-tiny sissy string webs. I’m talking about one of those “I just knocked over a quickie mart, car jacked a city bus, and slapped that old winch aunt May in the mouth and spider man’s pissed” kinda webs. Notwithstanding the fact that I am DEATHLY AFRAID OF SPIDERS, I tried to continue walking and act like nothing had happened…..but then it hit me. You know what I’m talking about, that, “holy crap that little 8-legged ninja of nasty is somewhere on me” feeling set in. So I spin around doing the “vertical seizure, somebody please get it off me” dance. Kinda emasculating.

All this got me to thinking. Now, I’m not one to question God, and I know he has a master plan and design for all things, but I think I found a flaw. Spiderwebs should be a bright color. A bright color like hot pink maybe. Then, when you walk around a corner, you can see it. You can duck or walk around it. Trap, embarrassment, and I think I just pee’d a couple drops, avoided. I can hear you saying, “but all the insects could avoid it too and the spiders would starve”. I thought of that too. God could make all insects colorblind. They aren’t the smartest creations anyways. Let’s face it, they are almost at the bottom of the food chain, and as far as brains go, they land somewhere between roast beef and Paris Hilton. Taking the ability to see color, assuming they can already, would not be that devastating to them. Hot pink spiderwebs would make it so everybody could see them except the insects they were designed to trap. Problem solved. I’m just sayin‘.



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A Redneck Love Poem

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Susie Lee done fell in love,

She planned to marry Joe.

She was so happy ’bout it all,

She told her Pappy so.

Pappy told her, Susie gal

You’ll have to find another.

I’d just as soon your Ma not know,

But Joe is yo’ half brother.

So Susie put aside her Joe,

And planned to marry Will.

But after telling Pappy this,

He said there’s trouble still.

You can’t marry Will my gal,

And please don’t tell yo’ Mother,

But Will and Joe, and several mo’

I know is yo’ half brothers.

But Mama knew and said my child,

Just do what makes yo’ happy.

Marry Will or marry Joe,

You ain’t no kin to Pappy.


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Wow How Time Flies

thanksgiving-dinner-05Nov2007121649579750Looking back, this week would always mark, at least for me, the beginning of the holiday season. As a child, I LOVED Thanksgiving. We would always go to my grandmothers house and have a big family day. From a big breakfast in the morning to a huge lunch at noon followed by a little football on TV and don’t forget the nap. It was great. A house full of family, food, and fun.

Then, before there was Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving meant a few things. First, NO SCHOOL, and secondly, we got to put up our Christmas tree. I say “WE” put up the Christmas tree, but actually my dad put it up and we watched. We never had a real tree growing up so our job was to put all the same size limbs, normally they were color coded, together in a pile so dad could put them up. Then we would help with the ornaments. It was wonderful. Not the tree. It was a six foot piece of junk, but what it symbolized to us kids was priceless. It meant in less than a month, Santa Clause would make his annual appearance. But what would he bring us? Well, that’s what we did for the rest of the weekend. My brother and I would sit down with the Sears Christmas Wish Book Catalog and dog ear page after page of toys we could only dream of getting. Then the unbelievably overwhelming anticipation began.

Fast forward almost 30 years and I’m ashamed of myself. Over the last few years I feel like I’ve lost sight of what was most important. I know this time of year everything becomes a little more hectic and with work, school, and all the responsibilities that go along with it, it’s hard. But I’ve done a lot of thinking lately. Is it because I’m getting older? Or maybe it has something to do with my dad getting diagnosed with cancer. Whatever the reason, I’ve realized that I’ve let my kids down. I’ve taken away from them the memories that I cherish the most. This year I’m going to try to make things different and though it may not come all at once,  it’s a start. This year may not be the greatest Thanksgiving ever, but I hope it’s one my kids will remember.

I have a lot to be thankful for. I’m thankful for my wife, my kids, and my family. God has truly blessed me and my family with so much, from a wonderful home to a great job. But I think most of all, I’m thankful for second chances. God knows I’ve used more than my share.

So God bless each one you and your families and I hope you all have a great, and memorable, Thanksgiving.


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From the Mouth of Babes

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind getting emails from people. Between work, friends and family, I get about 50 or 60 a day. My blackberry gets more work than Penicillin at a whorehouse. But do any of you have those friends that get a funny email that has been forwarded 900 times and then they send it to you …. without cleaning it up? It really doesn’t take but a few seconds to erase all the forwards and leave just the “meat” of the email. Kind of a pet peeve of mine. Or do any of you have a friend that has “Email Tourrettes”? You know what I mean. You get one or two emails a day from them, then all the sudden … “TITTIE-FACE, NIPPLE-NOSE, SHIT-BRICK”! They send 63 emails in one day. Just wondering if it was just me. Here’s a good one I got this week.

Why we love our children:

  1. Nudity – I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, ‘Mom, that lady isn’t wearing a seat belt!’
  2. Opinions – On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, ‘The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents.’
  3. Ketchup – A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. ‘Mommy can’t come to the phone to talk to you right now. She’s hitting the bottle.’
  4. More Nudity – A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women’s locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, ‘What’s the matter, haven’t you ever seen a little boy before?’
  5. Police – It was the end of the day when an officer parked his police van in front of the station. As he gathered his equipment, his K-9 partner, Jake was barking, and he saw a little boy staring in at him. ‘Is that a dog you got back there?’ he asked. ‘It sure is,’ he replied. Puzzled, the boy looked at him and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, ‘What’d he do?’
  6. Dress Up – A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, ‘Daddy, you shouldn’t wear that suit.’ ‘And why not, darling?’ ‘You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning.’
  7. Death – While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. The minister’s son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: ‘Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnn , and into the hole he goooes.’
  8. School – A little girl had just finished her first week of school. ‘I’m just wasting my time,’ she said to her mother. ‘I can’t read, I can’t write, and they won’t let me talk!’
  9. Bible – A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. ‘Mama, look what I found,’ the boy called out ‘What have you got there, dear? ‘With astonishment in the young boy’s voice, he answered, ‘I think it’s Adam’s underwear!’

Gotta love those little guys. Have a great weekend everyone!




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Say It Ain’t SO-SA

Could it be Vitiligo? Or maybe a tribute to Michael Jackson? He says no to both. Baseball’s super slugger Sammy Sosa was seen recently at the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year Ceremony looking less like the old home run king and more like Darryl Strawberry on a Saturday night (shameless cocaine reference). Sosa denies bleaching his skin also. He is supposedly going through a skin rejuvenation process to combat his years of playing baseball in the sun. Apparently he wasn’t corking his bat with sun screen. Let’s just hope he’s gonna be ok. Here’s a before and after photo of Sosa, one from a few years back and one from last weekend.

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Sosa Before

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Sosa After


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