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 Today was a great day!  Got some new ink, so up to 3 on the forearm.  While sitting there getting it done, already decided on 2 more .. maybe 3 .... on the backside of the forearm.  C-130 from the Panama days... maybe one from my Security Police days......  and .. ?   Hopefully, few weeks as soon as these heal up!

 Man ...   3 more sets of holes to go.    Got the Blue one yesterday .. its a size smaller.   I can alllmooooost get the first set of holes.   So obviously ...  before I 'ungrow' the brown one, I'll be smiling in the blue one... ... almost there.  Great workout today!

 .............. I need another bike like a need a hole in the head; at least that's the saying. Last few years I've been watching the Challenger options out there....  the Elites that come out every year.  The JD Versions.  Even looked at the Pursuit, but mama hates the tour packs so opted not to go that route, even though I could easily remove it.  I called Little Rock and asked if they had a '24 Elite.. but .. someone had their name on the 'list.' Was technically sold.   Only 325 made for the year.  Well, they put my name on the stby/wait list..but in the meantime ...  I was looking at several '22s they had new on the floor, at sale prices.  Longer I looked at this one, the more I liked it.  My '81 Suzuki GL1100 was this color...   but.. I normally don't have 'red' bikes.  Kept looking .. thinking .. dreaming.   Then asked folks what name I should call it.  After two days, someone said "Crimson" and L...

Well .. someone will .. in a few months? Get your tickets! Can 't win if you don't play! Simplest way is to Paypal, Venmo or Zelle the $10 or $50 or ?, for tickets to me, and I'll get it taken care of ASAP with photos of tickets filled out. Message me for specifics on those options.. Makes a great stocking stuffer! JS! (drawing is first week of April )

  Been debating on this for awhile .. .. but .. time to do a gym upgrade, and mix it up with the bikes.    Hey .. it could happen .. right? :) On a serious note .. .>>  MY GYM 

......something that always bugged me .. and I see it on on Social Media too often. First time I really noticed it was about a decade ago.  This acquaintance of mine... same age... had a wife about twenty years younger.  Every Time he posted about it there ...   got to read "my hot wife'   .." my sexy wife" .. my this .. my that.  Now, looking at her pics she was a cutie. Met her once, sort of a cutie.  But ...  the nauseating posts over and over...   Looking at the two of them together, you'd wonder WTF was she thinking?  Well, he was a doctor .. probably had a chunk of $$ ...so you fill in the blanks.  Funny part is when I met them, her dad was there .. and looked similar/same age to this dude.  Got the visual? Last two years I've got a couple on my Social Media feed that act like they are having their love affair on FB with posts and comment and more posts and more comments.  It's over the top nauseating....

   Emptied the closet of over a half dozen jeans that were almost new .. or .. new.  Crazy.  Be gone, 42s!   I'm thinking...  "hmmm... I think I might have some put away"... so head out to the building storage area.  Up high, I find two containers .. shorts and jeans.   Feels a lil like christmas! Half are new in both ... few wild looking things (military camo variations) ...  few that half the wife asking "are those still in style?"   LOL .  I don't care...  got something to wear!   There are over a dozen in each container.  I dig it! I know I've got a stash of 38s up in there somewhere....  those are next!   January or June is the question ... I'm ready

  Beautiful Italian Home Ocean Sunset View Pool Spa Entire home in La Mesa, California 16+ guests · 9 bedrooms · 16 beds · 7.5 baths https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/8482243 Where do you start…… ….    One of the nicest homes …    make that THE nicest home I’ve ever stayed in.   Upon arrival my wife and I actually got spun around a few times.   Finally grabbed a notebook as we were determining “whom is in which bedroom”.   After 30 or so minutes, we had it all figured out.   Well sort of.   This place is HUGE. The drive up to the house will have you in awe.   Road is a little bit narrow and I was in a BIG SUV, so had me cautious.   Once you turn into the upper driveway, you’re smiling. But from the front entrance where one parks, the only real clue to what awaits you is the beautiful huge wooden front door. Once you walk in, one is immediately in awe of the view and the realization how big this home is. Room after room is b...

 Last few weeks have been BUSY!   Caged a few thousand miles...... done a lot of riding! Back in May I bought season tickets for the New Orleans Saints.   My nephew is a hard core fan as is much of the Gulf Coast where we have our second home.  Last year he got an email that he was finally eligible to purchase some season tickets after a ten year wait .. but he declined.  When I heard of that I busted his balls but he rightfully pointed out he wasn't in the current financial position to execute on them.  I gave him a lil shit like "too bad you don't know anyone that is?" ...  Well, this past May .. he got another email, forwarded it to me . and ... .here we are.  Probably not the smartest thing to do in my life, but ..... lets live it!  Got 4 season tickets for home games at the Superdome, lower section near the 45 yard line.  AWESOME seats with simple access to the concession stands (full bar directly behind us) and restrooms....

 Over the years, I've wrote about Life Insurance several times.  My biggest pet peeve is that folks don't do the f'n minimal to take care of their loved ones if they die from an accident or natural causes.  Especially ... self induced accidents (ex. Motorcycle at high speed). But... something happened last week that got me to thinking about the other .. insurances. If you have a family ... people.... that depend on your income.. livelihood....   think about the options you NEED to have in place. Medical Insurance is the most obvious.  Most of us do.  If it's inadequate... or non-existent... FIX it.  I'm not an expert here, but the bottom line is ... if shit goes south, we find ourselves in a hospital for an extended stay .. and we have folks that depend on that paycheck of ours......   you'd better have a plan in place!!!!   I'm seeing a situation now that has me cringing.. shook to the core...   with a family .. a ne...

 Well, that was a new adventure for me.   Wife and Daughter have done Palm Springs for girl weeks, but my first time here.  Needed a place to meet up with our daughter and her fiancée.  Needed  a place we could bring Peanut.  A place where they could bring their dogs.  Mama recommended Palm Springs, so I'm in!    One could probably argue it was the wrong time of the year... but... it worked! Twenty hour drive in Big'Un, with a stop near the NM/AZ border for the night and we're there!    Really wasn't too bad.  We drove to San Diego this past December and this was a notch shorter.   By the early afternoon of Day 2, we're rolling in an hour or so before my daughter got there.  Her fiancée would roll in later that evening.   We've prearranged for groceries to show up and hour after we do, so that evening, I've got the grill going and kicking out some juicy burgers.  Score!   Lil time ar...

 It's a new world Amigos.   Putting that pic up (bottom of post) for shock and awe I guess.  Ain't as bad as it seems .  Several on the right are a big deal .. but ...   two of the scripts, not so much.  And all the big bottles are self medicating crap that keep me young.....right?  Still, a handful of that shit takes me 2-3 gulps to get them all down. I remember seeing folks in my earlier years popping pills .. lots of pills .. for their health issues.  Blood Pressure?  Pop a pill.  Organ swap?  Pop a pill.  Pain? Pop a shit load of pills.  Arthritis?  Pop some dangerous shit.  Cancer?  Here's the expensive pills.  The list goes on and on. Back in the day I took a stupid amount of supplements for health reasons.  When you're putting in the gym time and bodybuilding 'naturally', you've got to feed the body for recovery and building up.  I've written about it here, but my intake of 'p...

 Well .. .. two things on my schedule and I'm determined to make them both work.  By the time the weekend was over, melded a third in there... Dad and I have been trying to connect up for a few months but .. .life .. gets in the way. Or in our case, mother nature.  We had one of these getaways planned a few months back, but the skies opened up and weather got a lil crazy in his neck of the woods... so .. we postponed.  Well, we've got a CVMA event up in Northwest Arkansas .... so .. I head to Little Rock on Thursday, then Fort Smith on Friday .. home on Sunday.  The main twist is I'm on 2 wheels but .. my god its getting hot. By the time I get to Sulphur Springs I'm a little light headed riding next to a Semi at 80mph and lets just say ... it's not a comfortable feeling.  After another time this happens, I pull over to check my stats (HR, EKG, etc) and ... don't like what I see .  My heart isn't racing too fast but the pattern is a lil weird.  So ...

 Most of us see this crap all the time.   FB Ads that pop up .. you know .. .on a subject that you just talked about with someone or on the phone?   Perfect example.   I was in Mexico last year, left my belt in my room and now... at the airport in need of one, trying not to look like some gangsta' wanna be with my pants falling down around  my ass.   Well, I mention that I need one.. find a leather store at the Cancun airport and buy a nice one.. and .. I'm done.  Well, I thought I was.  Now for the next three days my newsfeed has ads for belts.  Lots of belts.  I actually bought a couple that looked nice.  All legit via the ads and website.  Still,  WTF is with the FB ads...  yeah .. we know 'they' are listening. Well, I'm a fan of a certain brand of shoes and last month after buying a few pair at fair prices, they show up on my newsfeed for 1/2 or so of that I'd paid.  Now I have to admit......

Few years ago, getting the annual eye checkup I was told I had a cataract in one eye, other one eventually.   Of course the first thing one thinks of is "I thought this was for old folks?"  Then you realize two things.  We are getting older and secondly I learn, 9 out of 10 of us by age 65, will have cataract issues. My dad a few years back (he's in his mid 80s) had both eyes with cataracts surgically removed and he was ecstatic.  He'd had glasses his entire adult life and now for the first time, his eye sight was great!   They put in new lenses and a lot of folk's problems are solved. Told me it was painless, etc so I had zero concerns going into this. Over the last two years I've had to wear my glasses at night while driving.  My depth perception has been affected and on a motorcycle at high rates of speed, it can fuck with you a lil bit.  Felt like I was losing my mojo riding, especially at night. So early last week I went in for surgery t...

In the big picture, I've stayed pretty low key about it all.  This time last year, watched a friendship that I'd had for over a 10th of my life.......go by the wayside.  I'd initially thought it was all petty but still, I drew a line in the sand.   I'd watched others get treated this way by the individual but when it happened to me, I told their spouse that morning....   ".... fucked with the wrong guy."  Got a call that afternoon, but since then, zero contact. Kicker is, in my entire adult life I've never had anything like this happen before.  Going from 100 to zero, that quickly.  Things can usually be 'fixed.' I suppose this could have.  Heck, this past weekend I had someone new to the whole mix, ask me about it.  He knows the other person and I, as of recent.  He's messaged both of us attempting to mend it "Give it a chance" he keeps saying.  But.... I'm not feeling it.   My "give a shit factor" is long gone....

Got to admit, I wanted to put a different spin on this one, on how it would all play out. Great Vaca' run to Colorado, riding in the mountains, enjoying time with close friends...   well, it sounded good anyways.   I attended a CVMA event last week, but I wanted to go up early and spend some time with a buddy of mine in Denver; didn't happen. I wanted to spend a few extra days riding around; didn't happen.  I wanted to Iron Butt it on my way up there; didn't happen.   But..... We'd just gotten back from MS last Monday . I'm dragging ass.  I'm watching the weather and it's taken the air out of my sails.  Chief has been asking me to go up a day early with him, but I'd be home less than 18 hours and...  not an option. Watching the weather, I opted out of an Iron Butt on the way up.  Wet, cold, and I'd be tired on the last portion ...  not what I call 'fun.'  I've got nothing to prove here, just have my reasons for that (CVMA...