3 MORE DAYS UNTIL XMAS!!!!

After my last post I thought I would try and tone it down a little for the holidays. Make no mistake in 2007 I will bring the noize somehow, someway. But before I do that I would like to take this chance and this space to say thanks to my friends and family on this most merry of seasons. John, my friend, I am glad you are my homey, my man, and my bro. You may not see it in yourself sometimes but I see it in you ALL the time. Ryan, my other bro, you know so damn much and really are someone that I trust with my life. I may not act like I listen to you but I think I put up a fight because it hurts sometimes to think you know so much more than I do and I am the one that is older. Kevin McElwain...Dude...I am very lucky to have met you. You may work for IKON but I won't hold that against you. I could sit and talk with you all day about anything and everything. Christy Watts, my special friend, the people above are special but none of them can say they go back like you and I go back. I have known you almost 25 years...whoa are we getting old or what???!!! I can't tell you what it feels like to know that I have someone out there that is always there and always has been. I may drift a little and may get off the path but I always know you are there throwing out the lifeline for me. I am proud of our friendship. On that note.......I may not get another post in before 2007 so I say to 2006....you provided me a lot of laughs and a lot of stress too but most of all you provided me the opportunity to just be what I am. Merry Xmas everybody!!!!

Random Thoughts

I was just wandering around and thought this might be the perfect time to spew about some random thoughts that have been cascading around in the black hole that is my mind. So here goes:

--Why do people tap you and say excuse me at the same time? Wouldn't you think that one or the other is more than enough to get someone's attention? I have to admit when some one does that to me I want to turn and put a hole in their head where their face used to reside.

--This one is because of Darrin Sardineer--Have you ever asked someone did they remember a particular event and they say yes and then when you ask them what transpired they go "I DON'T KNOW?????" Okay, let's figure out what went wrong. You said you remembered the event but don't know what when on during the event. Sure you don't....or in Darrin's case maybe you don't remember...

--Ever walk into a room and someone says you got a phone call....Great, who was it??? I don't know....why bother opening your pie hole and telling me I got the call in the first place then....I am sure I am going to call that person and say, "Heard you called, but I don't have a damn clue as to what you wanted!!!!" "By the way, I am an asshole..."

--Did you ever think that the person that tells you, "you know that grass isn't always greener on the other side..." needs slapped really hard across their face. Who is that person to talk to you about grass, sides, or talk to you in general?

--How about the person that goes to McDonalds and gets 17 Big Macs and 13 Large Fries and then orders a diet coke? Someone really needs to tell the next person they have a problem relating to the real world. That diet coke ain't going to do a damn thing except drip all over your fat face...

--Why do women go out and spend tons of money on clothes and THEN ask you if they look alrite in them? Sure I want to buy the car first and then see it for the first time when I get in it. Then you wonder why a man's relationship with a remote control is deeper than the one with his partner. It only does what we want it to and doesn't ask questions....

--Women, Blame God for you having to go thru Labor...If I wanted to try and pass a watermelon thru me I would have put it there in the first place. Plus, please don't use that analogy again. I like Watermelon and don't need that ruined for me by using the labor imagery.

--Men, don't lie to your lady....They are smarter than you....we are cavemen, not thinkers...plus the conversations she had with her friends growing up had more to do with real things and not whether The Transformers could ever happen? They are more prepared for life...that is why they give it....and ladies after dealing with men all of your life would you really want them carrying your child anyway???

--And last but not least.....Menopause is not a button on the VCR!!!!!!

The Beatles

The great thing about this blog is the fact that I can write about whatever I want to, whenever I want to. Tonite, I wanted to spend some time writing about something that is near and dear to my heart. The Beatles. I am sitting here right at this very minute listening to them. Specifically, "She Loves You", which I believe is the greatest pop song of all time. I grew up with The Beatles and as I have gotten older I think that my kids someday and kids of today will never get to experience what my parents did. You see The Beatles changed music and created something that can never be duplicated. If you ever run into anyone that says they have not heard a Beatle song you should turn and run because that person is not from Earth. I can say from experience though what it feels like to hear Beatle music up close. I have seen Paul Mccartney twice in the last 4 years. Both times I have left the City of Pittsburgh to do it. The first time I went to Cleveland, Ohio to see him. The second time I went to Philadelphia, Pa. to see him. I dropped the gauntlet and have promised that if he is in my time zone I will find a way to see him. Anyway, when I was in Cleveland, Mr. Mccartney opened with a great song in Hello, Goodbye. It was what he played third though that showed me the true power of great music. See he jumped into All My Loving and guess what!!!??? I was like all of those black and white videos you are used to seeing. I started bawling like a baby. It was truly a great moment because I looked around and a lot of others were crying along with me. Fast Forward 3 years later in Philadelphia and at the end of another truly mesmerizing performance, Mr. Mccartney pulled out Please, Please Me. Again, the tears started down my face and on top of that you could actually hear me gasp because all of the air was taken out of my lungs. Why am I telling you all this??? Well because I felt like it and I want the day to come when I pass on to know that The Beatles and their legacy will be passed on and forever cemented in history.