Boy. I laughed so hard at this!!!

An e mail from my Mother after I sent her 5 pictures of myself with photo booth:

The subject heading: I'm worried

about you. You need to get out of the house more - doing something besides teaching middle school children. Your job is obviously weighing too heavily on your mind. See if you can sign up to volunteer for the Salvation Army. Offer to drive their canteen to disaster calls. You meet a lot of nice policemen and women who are doing jobs that keep their minds and feet on the ground. It might rub off on you. You also could make your latte to serve from the canteen. After a long night of a stand-off with some mentally ill woman who is holding her live-in drug supplier boyfriend at gun point, the officers would really enjoy a jolt of your latte when this real life situation is resolved What I have just described is a reasonable diversion for you to put your life in some kind of perspective. It's a big wonderful world out there. See if you can find it. Volunteering for helping in situations that take place outside your home and school certainly would keep you from being bored and developing pictures like the ones you sent this morning. Your concerned Mother

I laughed so hard I had to pee and my belly fat jiggled. I think she may be right. Ha ha!!

flash... Mom always could make me feel "little". he he

I've decided.

This is my very, very, very favorite movie of all time. It looks like 1988 was a good year for me & mass media.

FlashG. Gotta get OFF OF MY BUTT!!!!

Care to read this book?

Dan Brown has been on the talk show circuit with this book but if you look at the reviews on Amazon, it only gets a 2.5 of 5 points with over one thousand readers & their opinion of the read. So why all the hype?

I just ordered a used copy of Deception Point for .01 cents (yea Amazon!) based on :

1) It's rating (4.5 stars of 770 readers).

2) It sounds "sciency" & I saw Bill Clinton's name in the editor review.


I'm guessing that I will like DP because I am a science teacher and so will enjoy the subject matter. I am also predicting (but will never have it confirmed) that of the 770 readers who rated DP, many were similar to me in being attracted to it more for the science than the mystery intrigue that so captured my imagination while reading Angels and Demons.


If you have never read The Eight by Katherine Neville? It was written in 1988 and one of the reviewers of it started out by saying:

Before Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, There Was The Eight.

What I remember most about that book? I LOVED it & on a trip to visit my Dad in NC brought it with me to give to him to read. He stuck his nose up in the air and said,"Fiction? I don't read fiction". Besides being hurt (yeah. He was always juuuuuuuuuuuuuust a little better than everyone else) , I remember thinking " Well Whoop-de-do-da-Day!!!!!! "

I think I will now purchase a copy of The Eight... cause I Do LIKE FICTION!

Guy is dead, Mary. Get over it.

My new ride....in the snow grrrrrr.

I didn't shoot the deputy.

I didn't even call the sheriff. But one showed up. side note....F'n Gomez is a pussy....

I bought another motorcycle. A 2005 Kawasaki Vulcan 500. It ain't perfect (been dropped/both sides) but what a deal. $1800 in cash & only 4000 miles on it. BUT there was just a sliiiiiiiiight problem with the title. The seller did a switcheroo on me when we met at the new DMV by Fleetfarm . side note....Ha. Damn Yankees. Foul ball. Hope you choke on your damn sunflower seeds

Anyway, I signed everything at the DMV but the seller had done some white-out on the title & there was some question by the folks behind the counter whether or not the paper work would go through. If it won't, I will have to deal with a third party who previously owned the motorcycle side note....If I were a guy I would say "suck my dick 'ya damn Yankees and whom I've never met, and have no idea how I would get ahold of.

So. When the seller, who really didn't have title, drove the bike to our house, wife following... 3 kids in the car, I met him outside and I said,"Troy, you're not going to like this but I can't pay for the bike until I have the title in my hand.".

Holy balls. What a mess. Wife calls the Sheriff. Troy/wife start screaming at each other, Dan starts to step in (been there, done that), I told Dan to stand back, I can take care of this......

It takes the sheriff 35 minutes to get here!!!! After going back & forth from Troy to me several times, paper work from the DMV in his hand, the sheriff finally reassured me that he could find the third party if he needed to (if the title were in limbo...will find that out within 8 weeks) & so after Dan slyly slipped the cash into my hands after he saw things were on the up and up, I counted out the 18 $100 bills into Troy's hand and said "Bye...have a nice evening".

Cripe. That's the most entertainment I've had in months. Course, I lead a relatively boring life.

GO TWINS!!!

FlashG Vulcan lover

ps. Sheriff ran the VIN#.... at least I won't be riding a HOT motorcycle!!

Report from the abyss.

We were all at our house by 2pm. Danielle & Zach, Jessica & Matt, Dan & I and Buster. We had pecan pie and ice cream for Jessica's birthday which was actually on 9/15, but you celebrate everything you can when folks are together.

THEN we went to the Hidden Lake 18 hole frisbee golf course just up the road from us- played a few holes and enjoyed the VERY windy weather.

Back home. Watched some Vikes. Had a brewsky or two. Jessica & Matt suddenly had to leave... her ride to Duluth was closer than they thought!! Bye bye bye. Good to see you/you too.

The rest of us had a great supper, cleaned up & watched channel 2 : The History of National Parks. Zach & Danielle were actually looking forward to this show. I fell asleep/ surprise!!!!

Good times. Good times. I really miss seeing Danielle. Hmmmmmm. Things have really changed.

F

Last September weekend & the deep abyss.

Dan & I are expecting to see both Jessica & Danielle today. Funny how someone as uptight as me has learned to remain flexible when it comes to the kids & their unpredictability... especially when they are adult children .

Danielle & Zach flew in from Denver on Friday for a wedding they had to attend. I am not sure where they stayed, where the wedding was nor who was getting married other than it was one of Danielle's friends.

Jessica came home on Friday as well. Home for Jessica really means in the general area of St. Cloud. I chatted with her on Facebook last night, asked where she was and she said "Matt's Shop". That would be Schulte Transmission in Waite Park.

Jessica is home because Danielle is home from Denver & it is an opportunity for them to catch up with one another.

The original plan was that we would all meet here for supper & Dan & I would have a fish fry tonight. "All" could mean Jessica, Danielle , Dan & I OR it could mean Jessica, Matt, Danielle, Zach & Dan & I.

Things have already changed. Jessica will only be here for lunch. I am not sure when Danielle will show up. But this I am positive about: Danielle & Jessica themselves know exactly where the other is and what their plans are, if and when they will see each other , who will be with them & where they will meet.

In the mean time... Dan has food ready for 8 for both lunch and supper, two bedrooms are clean, both bathrooms are clean with clean towels set out & Buster just got a bath.

The abyss is deep, but it is ready for anything. And so am I !! :)

FlashG. Flash & I took a ride last night at dusk... was fun.