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Noooooo .....  a JEEP Topless Weekend. Pull your mind out of the gutter! We'd talked about doing this for a few years now, and last year locked in for '18  being a done deal!   My nephew rolled in from Mississippi with his lady, and we were supposed to have a small group of others, but as it got closer, the pussy's dropped off one by one.   All good .. .  my nephew and I had some quality time.. a great time!  And we FINALLY, got this one in the record books! How was it?  Epic, Great event.  Will I do another one?  Probably not.  Why?   Well.. good question ..... This was advertised as a Jeep Top Off Weekend to kick off the summer.  They do this annually, at various locations around the country.  I've owned Jeeps off and on for about 30 years, but have never attended a 'jeep fest' so to speak.  You know, sort of like a Bike Rally ... I was truly looking forward to it.   As it got closer and closer, I read things like " not a kid fri

... that I allowed this to happen.  I'm literally shaking as I'm typing .. not from emotions.. but , crazy out of breath. Been back in the gym now for two weeks and this new piece of equipment is torturing me.   Takes you into a 14 minute hell.. I mean workout.... except on Level, I can't even  finish the 14 minutes!  In that 14 minutes, there are 8 intervals...a 25 second go crazy period and an 80 second recovery period.. then again .. and again ..and again.  The first week, I couldn't get past two intervals.  I'd drag myself over to a flat bench and do crunches while I attempted to get my lungs in check, again.   Last week... made it to interval 3 .. then ..4.  Today,  made it to 5 ...   then wimped out.  I hope to get through the sixth tomorrow.   And this is Level 1. It has 11 levels and 20 programs.. and I'm stuck in pussy mode.   But...another week or two .. I'll finish.  I know my body .. something will kick in and I'll progress faster and faster.

Five days ago, pulled the plug.   Mama' and I had discussed it a lil while doing some hot tub time ...  she'd deactivated her account a few days previously unknown to me... and ...  urged me to .. 'try it for five days' ..  You know what ..   I enjoyed the time off.   Still, the first two days were like one probably having to quit a drug habit.  This crap has become ingrained in my daily habits.  By Wed, no big deal.  Still, I found myself wondering what I must be missing. Nothing of course.  I do enjoy connecting up with a lot of folks from coast to coast, border to border.  And I missed that part...  but not the other BS that sometimes finds it's way into our life.  I made an extra effort to firewall myself from the ongoing crap that is well.. still going on .. that I've wrote about in the past.  Lil' crazy you have to insulate oneself ...but .. it's done. Moving forward, I'm going to create a two step process with FB.  I don't know about

Yesterday, Jimbo' stopped by to pick a few things up, and as usual in a spontaneous moment we decide to go for a quick ride.  I'd just gotten Krome delivered , finished washing mama's Porsche, and it's 1100 hrs ; sunny and warm!  So, put Krome away and  .....  the BDM Ridgeback i s back in the corner, dusty, on the charger....  begging to be ridden.  Move a bike out of the way, unplug, slap the seat on , roll it back through the maze and fire the bastard up.  It's got a carb and she's barking at me with the choke on... few back fires... calms down.. over to the hose to rinse it off. One thing about owning diff' types of bikes is it, in my opinion, makes one a better rider overall.  However, jumping from  Touring bike to cruiser to sport bike to chopper ...   causes an issue that takes about 15-30 minutes every time I do it.. you've got to reacquaint yourself with the bike.  Turn radius, turn signal locations, foot position.   Well, today was going to t

Few weeks ago, while down in the hill country I'd  got a message from one of my fav' people; Rob Gregory of Indian Motorcycles of Little Rock .  We'd spoken about my Chieftain having some ECM issues and other things I needed to get taken care of previously. I was going to ride it to AR, but he had his trailer headed to Dallas and back while I'm out of town.. .. and ....   he can have it stop by and pick up my bike if I'd like . .and .. would bring it back, piggybacking off of other deliveries.  Really?   Hell yes!   I connected up with driver, gave him instructions on where my bike was located and .. done deal!  Turns out a buddy of mine was having issues with his front forks on his Chieftain, so his bike was also headed back to AR.  Incredible service!   One of the many reasons I point anyone and everyone here locally, towards these folks.. Krome and John's bike ..  arrive in TX  Well, they got the Gear selector issue fixed, had some new tires installed

Watching the boob tube... so many options. Back in the day you had over the air .. then came cable TV with MTV (actual music videos!) and HBO as one of its premium services.  There were VHS rental outlets.  Then flipped over to DVD's.  About the only thing left of that is the Red Boxes out in the retail world. I think Netflix will still ship you DVDs.. but ..  guessing their bread and butter is the streaming piece of the business.  Today if you want service you're over the air (lots of channels if near a big city?), Cable, Satellite .. or ..  Streaming services. We moved to Texas back in '95 out in the 'country' (i..e. nothing right around the corner and outside city limits) and the first thing you realize is .. no cable.  Eventually that would be no cable AND no fast internet! With a TV antenna sitting on a tower next to the house 30' in the air, reception from Dallas sucked so ..  Satellite is the only real option.  Chose DirecTV out the gate.  After a few

Yes .. I misspelled it intentionally .. but ... aren't they the same thing? Long story short, mama deactivated her account to take a break from the FB world.... and ... convinced me to do the same.  Problem is, if I deactivate, it has repercussions due to pages and groups I manage.  So for now, I'll just 'pull the plug' and 'ignore' it for awhile. No actual deactivation. Of course if you deactivate, many folks suddenly think you blocked them or unfriended them.  Now, they'll think I put my motorcycle into a ditch and in a coma..   I mean, how else do you explain the 'silence' .  So, breaking my own rule I did a single post this morning....   ** sniff ** Funny how it affects our lives.  Our routines.  I mean even this morning it took a major effort not to check 'notifications'.  Not to post my daily Coffee Cup pic that I've been doing for a few years. FB has become intertwined in so many other ways with  ... my .. our .. daily liv

Ricky n' Lucy's Gym  Est 2003 Weight creeping up ...  pants getting a notch tight.  Back under control. Came back from Galveston at a high weight.  Been living the good life; seafood and adult refreshments.  But, now it's time to get it back under control. Finally got on the new piece of equipment today and it literally, kicked my ass. It's going to take weeks to get the groove of this thing.  In the meantime, meals are portioned, and the mindset is back in place.....  let the torture begin The new TORTURE machine! Burn them calories Old Skool' Iron. .. all the way up to about 120s Legs! Rows! SMITH Machine Cable Crossovers Rock! Burn them Bi's Hack Squat / Leg Press

It's 2010 ....  and I'm searching for a bike to do some miles... lots of miles on.  The previous year I bought an Indian Chief, but I'm not sure this is 'the' bike I want to do stupid miles on .  No Cruise, it's got a hard mounted motor, and I've done some mod's that make me question it's reliability.  It'll turn out there are no reliability issues, putting over 20k miles on it today but yet ... I found myself looking. First bike I looked at was a Victory Cross Country.  I didn't like the modern crash bars on it.  I hadn't come around to liking the fairing yet (I'm a fan today).  And something as simple as the tank logo, didn't appeal to me.  What I didn't' realize I was passing up was a superb bike with lots of roominess and a solid motor.  I passed Next bike I looked at was a Rocket III tourer.  Though I have a 'classic' model today, I wasn't sure what to think at the time.  The bike felt 'short'