greetings all,
things here at chez graham are mosying right along. the spring breakers have come and gone for the year, bike week was kind of busy, and the racing was as fine as ever. both bars are in their little grooves and don't need much correcting day by day. just touch them up every now and then and they keep on rolling.
lost an old friend to a train crash last month and am real sorry i didn't talk to Kai Bodtker for a few years. the last time i saw him was at my buddy cole's place out in oregon a few years ago when my grandfolks had their 50 anniversary. he seemed ok then but since then he had lost his girlfriend and was feeling down for a while. there seems to be some debate whether or not he stopped on the track on purpose or not. doesn't much matter, i reckon, just knowing he's gone to the creator is sad enuff for me. if he did stop then it was his life and his choice. i only hope he found a better place for himself and i'll never knop til it's my turn to take the big journey. hopefully, i'll make it here for a bit longer, i'm curious to see what's gonna happen in the near future and the far, too!!
uncle stingray has spent a few bucks on the old boat this month and it's sitting in the boat slip right now. we're just gonna clean her up a bit and get some small stuff finished on her and we'll be out kill'n fish soon. or at least fishin' for 'em. i hear tell there's a reason they don't call it catchin' ..... don't know much about it myself, but uncle stingray is the scourge of the river, or so he says, so i'll get plenty of learnin' either way!! can't wait to get on the water, tho, i miss bein' out there.
life with the rev and me is pretty darn nice. we're still figurin' each other out but we don't seem to find much to argue about and what we do find is usually not worth spending to much time on. we have been getting better and better at understanding each other and i reckon it'll just get easier and easier. she's got a little garden going out on the deck and we cooked our first pan of lasagna the other night....best one i've ever been involved with, near 12 lbs. of noodles. meat, and cheesy goodness. froze most of it and nibbled the rest right to the bottom of the pan, licked the sides and the critters didn't even get a taste!! too bad for them, it is sure good food!! we have cooked some great meals together this year, and we seem to like the same kind of stuff, lots of meat and 'taters, some sushi bar every now and then, and some veg and rice to keep the body working right. we've both gained a few lbs. but that just seems to be 'cause we're awful happy.
well, that's about all the news that's fit to print. gotta get her up and fed before work and the laundry needs to go on the line, so......
have great days and nights til i talk to you again,
rainman
Monday, March 23, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
greetings all,
been a while...that's how it goes here at chez graham...things are always slow to happen.
used to be if something needed doing, i jumped right up and did it. now, i'm a bit more liable to sit for a bit and contemplate the task.
well, this evening we went and spent $$$ on a new lawn mower, weed eater, and dinner at our local sushi joint, boy, we do love that fresh bait for dinner!!! couldn't afford the mower and such, but i figure in about a year or so it'll be paid off and i'll still have the mower to use. the yard guys want $50 or so a week to get it done and i can do it for a fraction of that. just got to force myself to do it. the old mower took a crap about 15 months ago and it's been yard art ever since. the rev has started to express an interest in the yard work. i'm afraid that once we start she'll regret all the "horticulturin'" h/t GUYK. luv that phrase.
we do have a nice little herb garden and a bit of mint she's planted. we went to the fair grounds a few days ago and got a couple of dogwood saplings for a buck apiece! figure after a few years they'll give some shade and a few nice flowers in the spring. our place used to be quite the showcase of local florida fauna, but after the divorce....i let it all go to hell. it seems to've been long enuff to wait for me to get back to it. sooooo.....if she's willin', i'm gonna help us get 'er done.
i do like me some pretty fauna, and a few bits of herb and a couple of 'maters and peppers are good to! all of a sudden i can't wait for spring to sprung!!
hey, good news! she's proposed!!! she had a dream that got we hitched on 09-09-09, so i reckon we'll probably do it that day. good as any other, i figure she's way smarter on that kind of stuff than i am, so i'll just go along for the ride on this kind of thing. we'll have been together almost 2 years by then and it seems she can still put up with all my idiosyncrasies, i'd be an idiot to turn her down!! hell, i am not the easiest guy to get along with.
so if you are in our neighborhood then, drop on by and we'll find a spot for you in the party!!
good to talk to you all, whoever you are...seeya later,
rainman
been a while...that's how it goes here at chez graham...things are always slow to happen.
used to be if something needed doing, i jumped right up and did it. now, i'm a bit more liable to sit for a bit and contemplate the task.
well, this evening we went and spent $$$ on a new lawn mower, weed eater, and dinner at our local sushi joint, boy, we do love that fresh bait for dinner!!! couldn't afford the mower and such, but i figure in about a year or so it'll be paid off and i'll still have the mower to use. the yard guys want $50 or so a week to get it done and i can do it for a fraction of that. just got to force myself to do it. the old mower took a crap about 15 months ago and it's been yard art ever since. the rev has started to express an interest in the yard work. i'm afraid that once we start she'll regret all the "horticulturin'" h/t GUYK. luv that phrase.
we do have a nice little herb garden and a bit of mint she's planted. we went to the fair grounds a few days ago and got a couple of dogwood saplings for a buck apiece! figure after a few years they'll give some shade and a few nice flowers in the spring. our place used to be quite the showcase of local florida fauna, but after the divorce....i let it all go to hell. it seems to've been long enuff to wait for me to get back to it. sooooo.....if she's willin', i'm gonna help us get 'er done.
i do like me some pretty fauna, and a few bits of herb and a couple of 'maters and peppers are good to! all of a sudden i can't wait for spring to sprung!!
hey, good news! she's proposed!!! she had a dream that got we hitched on 09-09-09, so i reckon we'll probably do it that day. good as any other, i figure she's way smarter on that kind of stuff than i am, so i'll just go along for the ride on this kind of thing. we'll have been together almost 2 years by then and it seems she can still put up with all my idiosyncrasies, i'd be an idiot to turn her down!! hell, i am not the easiest guy to get along with.
so if you are in our neighborhood then, drop on by and we'll find a spot for you in the party!!
good to talk to you all, whoever you are...seeya later,
rainman
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
haven't written in a bit so.............i stole this good idea.
I read this today at a regular read of mine: Blackfork
Any person with common sense could sort the whole mess out in about six months with the hard stuff being done in the first week. Want some hope and change? Here's a rough sketch:
Day One: Cancel the bailout. Privatize SS. Cancel Medicare. End the Drug War. Abolish the departments of Education, Housing, Homeland Security and anyone else standing around. Announce the vetoing of any spending bill without a 10% cut-(not in the increase, but in actual baseline budget). That's day one.
Day Two: March with the press to the steps of the capital and demand Congress institute term limits. Three sessions for the house and two for senate. Effective immediately. Everything will be vetoed until that passes. Period. Photo-op: Toss Ted Kennedy and Ralph Hall off the Capitol steps by the scruff of the neck. That afternoon you announce that the southern border will be sealed by airmobile infantry with National Guard beefing up the checkpoints. You also announce that the immigration service will streamline and simplify their procedures and policies so that workers will be able to come and work. Then you fly to Laredo and have a photo op tossing two illegal border crossers back into Mexico by the scruff of the neck. Any out of work bureaucrats from DC are invited to apply at the Border within 48 hours.
Day Three: Announce the end of corporate welfare including agricultural money. Photo-op: You pound ears of corn into the gas tank of a Prius, then set the whole thing on fire.
Day Four: Play golf. In the afternoon you announce US withdrawal from UN. Announce closing of UN in New York and invite them to set up in Kenya or Iceland. For a photo-op that evening you catch two drunk Coraguyayan ambassadors coming out of a dance club and toss them into their double-parked limos by the scruff of the neck.
Day Five: Live press conference where you shoot at the press with a paintgun while answering any question with "Tough shit."
Day Six: Start the issuing of 1,000,000 pardons for all gun law violators, drug violators, tax law violators, et. For a photo-op you toss a tax cheat and a medical marijuana inmate out of the front gate of a Virginia Federal Prison by the scruff of the neck.
Day Seven: Abolish the IRS and institute the Fair Tax. Announce the end of 70% of foreign aid. For a photo-op you toss a complete copy of the tax code from the top of the Washington Monument. That night a Marine helicopter carrier off Zimbawe sends a team to kill Mugabe's presidential guard and turn he and his cabinet over to the crowd outside.
Second Week: For a photo-op you pound a handmade sign in the yard outside the Whitehouse that reads: "Want Something? Apply inside." You abolish the BATFE and auction all contents of federal evidence rooms on Gunbroker. Photo-op: You nail a copy of the Bill of Rights on the doors of the Supreme Court.
I ove the way this guy blogs and am hoping one day to live the kind of life he writes about.....hiking the woods, shooting a ton of ammo and various varmits. Seems like we could do with this bit of common sense in our world today. Thank you, Blackfork, for living the dream, and writing about it for us. oh, and i just can't get enuff of the christmas card you posted from days gone by!!
I read this today at a regular read of mine: Blackfork
Any person with common sense could sort the whole mess out in about six months with the hard stuff being done in the first week. Want some hope and change? Here's a rough sketch:
Day One: Cancel the bailout. Privatize SS. Cancel Medicare. End the Drug War. Abolish the departments of Education, Housing, Homeland Security and anyone else standing around. Announce the vetoing of any spending bill without a 10% cut-(not in the increase, but in actual baseline budget). That's day one.
Day Two: March with the press to the steps of the capital and demand Congress institute term limits. Three sessions for the house and two for senate. Effective immediately. Everything will be vetoed until that passes. Period. Photo-op: Toss Ted Kennedy and Ralph Hall off the Capitol steps by the scruff of the neck. That afternoon you announce that the southern border will be sealed by airmobile infantry with National Guard beefing up the checkpoints. You also announce that the immigration service will streamline and simplify their procedures and policies so that workers will be able to come and work. Then you fly to Laredo and have a photo op tossing two illegal border crossers back into Mexico by the scruff of the neck. Any out of work bureaucrats from DC are invited to apply at the Border within 48 hours.
Day Three: Announce the end of corporate welfare including agricultural money. Photo-op: You pound ears of corn into the gas tank of a Prius, then set the whole thing on fire.
Day Four: Play golf. In the afternoon you announce US withdrawal from UN. Announce closing of UN in New York and invite them to set up in Kenya or Iceland. For a photo-op that evening you catch two drunk Coraguyayan ambassadors coming out of a dance club and toss them into their double-parked limos by the scruff of the neck.
Day Five: Live press conference where you shoot at the press with a paintgun while answering any question with "Tough shit."
Day Six: Start the issuing of 1,000,000 pardons for all gun law violators, drug violators, tax law violators, et. For a photo-op you toss a tax cheat and a medical marijuana inmate out of the front gate of a Virginia Federal Prison by the scruff of the neck.
Day Seven: Abolish the IRS and institute the Fair Tax. Announce the end of 70% of foreign aid. For a photo-op you toss a complete copy of the tax code from the top of the Washington Monument. That night a Marine helicopter carrier off Zimbawe sends a team to kill Mugabe's presidential guard and turn he and his cabinet over to the crowd outside.
Second Week: For a photo-op you pound a handmade sign in the yard outside the Whitehouse that reads: "Want Something? Apply inside." You abolish the BATFE and auction all contents of federal evidence rooms on Gunbroker. Photo-op: You nail a copy of the Bill of Rights on the doors of the Supreme Court.
I ove the way this guy blogs and am hoping one day to live the kind of life he writes about.....hiking the woods, shooting a ton of ammo and various varmits. Seems like we could do with this bit of common sense in our world today. Thank you, Blackfork, for living the dream, and writing about it for us. oh, and i just can't get enuff of the christmas card you posted from days gone by!!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
the end of another year
greetings, all!
hope this missive finds all well in your respective worlds. merry christmas, happy hannuckah, and happy new year. hope you have a peaceful transition into the next bit of life, tomorrow being the beginning of the next phase of time....
we'll get a new president in a few weeks, good luck to us all on that note!!
hopefully the business part of our bar life gets busier than it has been these last few weeks. the economy has sure hit us in the service industry pretty hard. we too have struggled to make the ends meet.
my personal life has made a turn toward the good this year, with the rev's and my discovery of each other. we've weathered a few squalls and have come thru them, i think this bodes well for our future together! i may have a new gig next year, but i'm going to play that pretty close to the vest for now....don't want to jinx it! the rev continues to do well at her job and we look forward to the next bit of life, we 't wait to see what the new year brings!
thanks for listening and as i've said before i'll try to keep this up to date for all to keep up.
hope this missive finds all well in your respective worlds. merry christmas, happy hannuckah, and happy new year. hope you have a peaceful transition into the next bit of life, tomorrow being the beginning of the next phase of time....
we'll get a new president in a few weeks, good luck to us all on that note!!
hopefully the business part of our bar life gets busier than it has been these last few weeks. the economy has sure hit us in the service industry pretty hard. we too have struggled to make the ends meet.
my personal life has made a turn toward the good this year, with the rev's and my discovery of each other. we've weathered a few squalls and have come thru them, i think this bodes well for our future together! i may have a new gig next year, but i'm going to play that pretty close to the vest for now....don't want to jinx it! the rev continues to do well at her job and we look forward to the next bit of life, we 't wait to see what the new year brings!
thanks for listening and as i've said before i'll try to keep this up to date for all to keep up.
Monday, December 15, 2008
is it monday already?
howdy all, i can't keep apologizing for missing days, so i 'll pre-apologize right now. done, and done.
had a bit of a busy weekend, i guess... just spent time with the rev until she had to go to work on saturday and then a good buddy, craig showed up from his latest adventures in computer fix-it land. he was in hollyweird for the last few days and had a few good stories to tell,.. ended up having a few too many drinks...as if there was such a thing!!! closed the bar metz 2, at 2am then went for last call at my other bar, the one horse saloon. my partner, t.k. niceley, was there and when we closed up at three we went over to his pad and had a few more....next thing we know the dang sun is coming up!! nice how time flys when you are with good people and telling good lies.
we slept for a few hours and missed church (brunch!) but we went and said howdy to the girls at the brunch joint anyway. they're a fun crew and are as glad to see us as we are them. great food at their joint, caribbean jack's, a good view of the river and marina and always some unusual people watching. it's been kinda sad for the folks in the service industy here in town this year and when we get to spend some tips on good service we enjoy it. they appreciate it, too, as do we, when they stop by our place. seems like that $10 dollar bill just keeps bouncing from bar to bar to bar........
the rev had her slowest night yet last night...just 2 people for a couple of hours at one point. she called and said that she'd cleaned all the bottles and glasses in the place, wiped the coolers out, stocked everything she could, and now what was she supposed to do?? i told her to read a bit, but she allowed as how she forgot her book on the bedside table, well, bummer, just then a local guy showed up and she was, at least, not all alone in the bar. the package store guy is there, too, but he's on his side of the store and she's on her's. like i said, it's been slow here, and if not for our locals, we'd all starve and be on the streets.
got a comment from GUYK over at CHARMING, JUST CHARMING this morning, thanks, GUYK! i wondered if you'd ever end up here and glad to see you. i always read your "bit of wit and shit". now all i gotta do is figure out how to link him and get his blog and all the others i read on my reading list.....i'm not too savvy on these dang 'puters, so it'll take me a bit to get it just right. hope the link works.....
off to work earlier this mornin', did some bit off whiskey ordering and such, got a bartender that's getting surgery on her shoulder in a couple of weeks, so need to find a fill-in for while she's away for the next 6-8 weeks. know any good, honest, likeable suspects? got a couple of nibbles, but if you know someone, send 'em to me.
metz 2
2136 s. atlantic ave. (a1a)
daytona beach shores (in the winn dixie plaza)
386-252-1625
tell 'em i'll look at their application and if the fit is right i'll call 'em and set an interview.
i suppose i need to clean the filter on the pool and get some bleach from the pool joint, maybe do some housework and get some dinner going for the rev, she's back in the pit at 6pm so i better get my trottin' harness on.
guess that's all for now, hope you all have a great day and i'll be back for more later.
had a bit of a busy weekend, i guess... just spent time with the rev until she had to go to work on saturday and then a good buddy, craig showed up from his latest adventures in computer fix-it land. he was in hollyweird for the last few days and had a few good stories to tell,.. ended up having a few too many drinks...as if there was such a thing!!! closed the bar metz 2, at 2am then went for last call at my other bar, the one horse saloon. my partner, t.k. niceley, was there and when we closed up at three we went over to his pad and had a few more....next thing we know the dang sun is coming up!! nice how time flys when you are with good people and telling good lies.
we slept for a few hours and missed church (brunch!) but we went and said howdy to the girls at the brunch joint anyway. they're a fun crew and are as glad to see us as we are them. great food at their joint, caribbean jack's, a good view of the river and marina and always some unusual people watching. it's been kinda sad for the folks in the service industy here in town this year and when we get to spend some tips on good service we enjoy it. they appreciate it, too, as do we, when they stop by our place. seems like that $10 dollar bill just keeps bouncing from bar to bar to bar........
the rev had her slowest night yet last night...just 2 people for a couple of hours at one point. she called and said that she'd cleaned all the bottles and glasses in the place, wiped the coolers out, stocked everything she could, and now what was she supposed to do?? i told her to read a bit, but she allowed as how she forgot her book on the bedside table, well, bummer, just then a local guy showed up and she was, at least, not all alone in the bar. the package store guy is there, too, but he's on his side of the store and she's on her's. like i said, it's been slow here, and if not for our locals, we'd all starve and be on the streets.
got a comment from GUYK over at CHARMING, JUST CHARMING this morning, thanks, GUYK! i wondered if you'd ever end up here and glad to see you. i always read your "bit of wit and shit". now all i gotta do is figure out how to link him and get his blog and all the others i read on my reading list.....i'm not too savvy on these dang 'puters, so it'll take me a bit to get it just right. hope the link works.....
off to work earlier this mornin', did some bit off whiskey ordering and such, got a bartender that's getting surgery on her shoulder in a couple of weeks, so need to find a fill-in for while she's away for the next 6-8 weeks. know any good, honest, likeable suspects? got a couple of nibbles, but if you know someone, send 'em to me.
metz 2
2136 s. atlantic ave. (a1a)
daytona beach shores (in the winn dixie plaza)
386-252-1625
tell 'em i'll look at their application and if the fit is right i'll call 'em and set an interview.
i suppose i need to clean the filter on the pool and get some bleach from the pool joint, maybe do some housework and get some dinner going for the rev, she's back in the pit at 6pm so i better get my trottin' harness on.
guess that's all for now, hope you all have a great day and i'll be back for more later.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
cold wet days
short post today, sorry i missed yesterday. just hung out at home mostly both days. poor weather the last couple of days here...we both hurt quite a bit when the weather gets cold, so the bed and the comforter and a good book are key to keeping sane. i went to work for a bit this morning and then went for a new plug wire for the bike. the rev took me to dinner at carabba's (great food!), and now we're at home watching the bears beat up on the rev's team, the new orleans ain'ts. doesn't look good for the guys from the big easy, to cold, i figure. but we'll stick with them til the bitter cold end. if they win they have to keep winning for the rest of the season to make the playoffs. if they lose, well, next year is another season. hope all is well with your world, and i'll talk more tomorrow, if i can.
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