bye buy x-mas

wow…can you believe that another Chistmas season has come to an end…what has been gained?…we had a house full of family…my brother and my sisters bring their families…i make stroganoff.  …a big batch and we have a twenty dollar gift exchange….everybody gets a number…the low number picks first….and don’t fall in love with your gift, cause the higher number can trade for it….it is alot of fun…and it is not the gifts but the fun we remember…

  today my wife is working…it is the day after Christmas and everybody will head to the mall…the mecca of capitolism…to return what they got…to big…too small…o my god what were you thinking….this makes my butt look big…the reasons are many…not much fun there…well i only want what i want.  me i will veg on the couch and watch football…hopefully my boys will join in and the fun will start again…you see i love the interaction that the season brings…we get together with family….we get together with friends…we have conversations with perfect strangers…people drop their guard and let you in…why not…it’s Christmas…and what does christmas mean to you…i think that linus  put it best back in 1965…A Charlie Brown Christmas….check it out…just google Linus’s Speech….love to the kids…and linny…..wow…..

jonas brothers where are you?

wow…hey jo-bros…what the mess…give be a break…i mean poor daughter is still waiting…thought at least an autographed bar napkin would show up.. but no ….great big nothing….i got a great elevator offer…and i don’t mean you mark….but damn you boys…..let me tell you guys what you are missing…..my daughter….we will call her meesh….(cause thats one of the things i call her….well meesh is 16….works 2-3 days aweek…she is a jounior in high school and is a very good student….although if she studied school like she studies you guys she would validictorian. now me personally i don’ t hold much hope….but that girl….. she has the faith…..so this is your second chance to make good….come on step up to the plate….love to the kids….and linny….well you keep me wondering…..and you jonas’s…come on cut me some slack

Jonas Brothers!!

wow…nick..joe…kevin…you are making life a living hell…my poor daughter is your biggest fan and you won’t even say hello… she is 16 and the world revolves around you guys…it is her dream to meet you guys…i will admit that i give the child shit about you boys…and she defends you to the core…her room is is a schrine…she has 246 posters at last check.. she records your every show….she sets up the DVR and it comes on during my football….ahhh hey what is this…one moment i am watching football and the next… the jo-bros…oh the inhumanity…..she knows every stat…you would think you guys were a football team….where you are from where you are going….who you are dating…what your dogs name is…she came quote your every song….so come on guys…cut me some slack…drop on down here and say hello….you know when you were in montreal she was right there at the stage…says she made eye contact…oh my god it is ,to this day, her greatest moment…they made eye contact….for one fleeting moment it was me and the jonas brothers…to hell with the other 30,000 screaming fans…ahhhh…..it’s funny she and her friends were hanging together a year ago and suposedly you guys called her friend…and the other friend must have thought it was a joke and hung up….i still give her crap on that one…” you hung up on the jo-bros” wow …and i thought you were a fan….she just gives me that certain stare and says ” you don’t understand” make her day…give her a shout….i tell her it would be a short conversation…

JO-BROS: hi there we are the jonas brothers

DAUGHTERS: uh…wha…huh…d uh..buh wah

JO-BROS: well how are you we understand you want to meet us

DAUGHTER: uh…wha…huh…d uh..buh wah

JO-BROS: well nice talking to ya…keep listening…bye

DAUGHTER: uh…huh

oh my god that would make my day….love to the kids…linny….oh boy..

bald is beautiful?

Wow… i have heard that bald is beautiful…well if that is true then why do people strive to keep their hair…i mean i am bald …have been for a long time…but if given the choise i would have kept my hair…well lets explore the facts….people with hair are looked opon as young and strong….where we bald guys are old and fat….i mean you will never see a bald guy at the hair dresser…maybe the barber for a trim …but the hair saloon…only the bald guy who misses the young women playing with his hair…oh ya another thing bald guys can’t have…young women…ahh their nothing but trouble…take it from an old bald guy… you know when your hair falls out you loose that early warning system…  i bang my head alot…the problem with bald is there is no choice…i mean i didn’t ask to be bald it just happened…and forget hair pieces…they look like crap…i can spot them a mile away…they are dry and just don’t look right..well i am done bitchen…my wife loves me and i good with that…love to the kids….and linney…well your man has hair…damn

the snow is coming

wow.. i have lived here in the central new york region all my life…last i checked that would be 51 years…it always snows…every year we get a crap load..hmmm ….i didn’t cuss there…hmm… i know shit load would have fit better but,… i didn’t want to cuss…in my youth we would shovel the snow…ya right, not today… i got a bad ass snowblower….for you sun belt people that is a lawn mower for snow….i could never figure out if i hate the snow or love it…or maybe neither…i probably just deal with it….it feels good not having it, but damn where is the snow….well anyway this year will be different…yup …cause this year i am one of the ” Plow Guys” bum,bum,BAAHH….yup i work for a town highway dept….yup i fix trucks….used to work in engineering, helped design and test tranfercases…but the plant i worked at,New Process Gear, is heading to mexico…beaners will build all the tranfercases for fords, chevy’s and jeeps….another american product heading south….go NAFTA….so at 50 i had to start again…start anew…back to the bottom…me and whale shit have something….it gets no lower…well as a new employee i will be a winger….that blade out the side of the plow…Wing…..and i get to operate one…so when they tell you not to park on the streets….they mean it….but go ahead…i need the practice….feeling lucky punk…three levers that my job….don’t drop the nose first…makes the truck stop fast…good advise….don’t swing the wing in too far…it ends under the truck…more good advice…..oh and don’t bring the back up too fast…hits the mirror….that could be ugly….to say i am a little nervious…well… i am ….but it ain’t the space shuttle…it’s a frickin wing…love to the kids…oh and keep the kids out of the road…linney…well you know..

wow been a while

wow…haven’t been here in a while…maybe i was on a wirl wind trip around the world…that would be cool…but no that was not the case…maybe i contracted some rare illness and was flown to east patanga..where a realy scarey which doctor performed some spell on me and i lived with the tapangie-wadangie tribe and ran around naked spearing wild bore…now that would be cool…a little scarey for those who can visualize me naked…and for those who can’t i look like…george clooney …ya …me and george could be twins…but anyway..that is not where i was no no i was on a secret mission overseas..ya working for the US goverment…Obama’s personal agent..under cover in iran..in an attempt to make them overthrow the fundimentalist overlords…but no that was not me…… i was ..are you ready…

  i was face booking…yup thats it…the killer of bloggers…invented by some snot nosed kid who at 25 years is a ba-zillionare…damn another why didn’t i think of that moment…so thats it…very anti-climatic huh…you sit and type and wonder where all your friends are.. i have 86…that is sad being most are my own family…but i type and post my little bits of wit and for what…how the hell would i know…make some 25 year old rich thats what for…and don’t forget the fasebook games…i have a zoo…my animals are starving to death and i don’t care..oh well just thought i would stop by….love to the kids…and linny…oh that elevator will always be going up..

In the NAVY

wow…my baby is in the NAVY…she is all of 130 pounds and maybe 5′ 6″ tall…today she couldn’t stand any taller… tomorrow  i will watch her swear the oath…she has already done this in an offical way…tomorrow it will be fpr me… she will hop a plane for boot camp…and become a sailor…in the navy you can sailthe seven seas….my wifes son has left home and moved to washington state…3000 miles…and now my baby…you buy a woman a pair of shoes and she will wear them when she walks away…   my emotions are bitter sweet… love too the kids… love you gretchen…linney kmeep the faith

problems

wow…who doesn’t have problems….they keep popping up… and we keep trying to solve them….. in business they are called opportunities…or issues…or challenges….but what they are problems…some people make others problems theirs…they are usually walking around stressed…problems….they can be small…like should i put out the trash….or they can be large…like should i sell my house and move out west and try to find work so i can feed my family and retire and be happy before my life becomes so stressed that i start drinking heavily and become an alcoholic and developer liver problems and loose my insurance and my wife runs off with the donut shop manager because he has a boat and lives in a nice house on the lake and my son develops a drug habit and my oldest daughter runs off to join the circus and swallows swords and and and…shit… that would be a big problem…yup…problems we all have them…and we move forward …love to the kids…linny … way to go girl ….it ain’t the end but it ain’t the beginning…

empty nest

wow…what a hollow feeling….it’s funny …hey who changed the font….this computer has a mind of it’s own…sometimes i think the house is ghosted…i hate to say haunted cause haunted means evil… no i think ghosted is what it is…probably my mother ….she always tries to class me up….we ll anyway as i was saying before i was so rudely ghosted…it’s funny…we raise our kids to be independent…to make a life for themselves……our house is going through the very scenario….all at once….we have a house of six kids and two adults….well they aren’t kids anymore….hell my oldest…Natalie has been gone to Vermont for years…it is her home…my son is local…he’s the cable guy…not to be confused with larry…Collin is funny and all…just skinnier….and now my baby wants to join the Navy….my daughter Gretchen in the service of her country…i am so proud…and missing them all…now Sher’s two boys are heading west….suddenly our crowded house is not so crowded….. yup me , sher, morgan,and the dogs…

     and my job…..i have worked all my life to be the best…and to a company like magna that means nothing…to them it is the money….blind, and stupid…New Process Gear has been in buisness for over 100 years…see the post  (http://www.iplayerhd.com/player/f69ec4fa-c7fa-44c7-a99d-f029942fdf38.aspx)  we were told….wtf   where did the purple come from?….thanks mom…nice touch….well anyway…we were told that we don’t know what we were doing…so for the good of the company we are going to be closed….  i will be unemployed by the company that promiced me a future…well FUCK YOU magna….i am sick and tired of greg and bob and that rutker a-hole telling me how sorry they are….come on over to my house…meet my family …eat my food and then tell me you are sorry…know me first….i am more than a number…

   so…lets re cap…the kids are leaving….my job is about to disapear…the prime of my life…is more like the most trying times i will ever see…hey Obama are you listening??? send some of that AIG money my way …i would definatly spend it better…and magna…come meet me …know me …make it personal… love to the kids….  and let them go….a caged bird is only entertaining to those who look in…to the bird …life sucks…

the navy

wow…my daughter has decided to join the navy…she is 21 and facing a tough job market….i personally can’t think of a reason why she shouldn’t ….there is nothing wrong with wanting to serve your country….i wish i could do it again….damn i would up in a second….but my little girl a sailor….man that one will be up there…she was a high school athlete….track star…i have an entire wall devoted to her achievements….but the us military….that is some serious shit…. i want her to know  that it is her decision and she needs to gather all the information she can get…..so she has made the first step….we meet with a recruiter next tuesday…i will let you know how we make out….love to the kids….even if you have to let them go…linny…..you are the fighting machine