Hooters

Madam Rumor tells me that there is a Hooter's
coming to town. To be honest with you, I don't know if I am happy or
sad. On the one hand, I am glad we are getting a new restaurant
in town. Somewhere different to eat. My girlfriend says yeah,
that's about like you telling me that you read a certain girlie
magazine just for the stories.
Many of you have been to Hooters, I suppose. I hear the waitresses
wear skimpy outfits, with the tops being too low and the skirts
being too high. I personally would not know. I have never been
to a Hooters. Everything that I have heard about the restaurant
has been about the women. No one ever mentions food. They do have
food don't they? I can tell you right now my girlfriend is not
going to be wanting me staring at any girl's hooters or short
skirts. She and I have talked about this at length. No pun intended.
Her argument is this. What if there was a restaurant for women
called Torso's or T-Tops, or Briefs?
She says, would you want me to go there to eat? Would you want to
go with me ? Would you want me to be staring at some strange man
with spandex underwear while you are trying to eat your steak?
When you put it like that , it does sound repulsive. I was only
going to Hooter's and taking you with me, so that the Hooter
girls could see how beautiful you are, I say.
My intentions were never to go in there and gawk at those girls.
Pretty much this approach did not work either and that is why I
am saddened by the fact that Hooters may come to town and I will
be close, but probably will never enter the door.
It is sort of like the Garden of Eden.
You can look at the apple, just don't try to partake of it.

Yes, dear.

Ex - Wives

Let me tell you what I know about ex-wives. I've
got too many. Don't get me wrong. I liked all of
them. I liked them when I married them and I liked
them when they were gone. All of the ex-wives get
along with me just fine. I even have a photo of
the three of them together. I call it the First
Wives club photo meeting without the chairman
of the board, if you know what I mean. All of the
ex-wives talk to me and I even have dinner with
them on occasion, although not all together. We
also share info about our families when news
changes. It is just as easy to have a friendship
after the marriage as it is to have a hateful
relationship and be at each other's throat. Don't
get me wrong. I don't want to re-marry any of
them, but I did like them before I married them,
and why not treat them the same way today. Many
people do not understand my relationship with
the exes.
That really does not bother me because I know
where my heart lies, and maintaining stability
with the exes makes more sense than not doing
it. The children enjoy a respectable relationship
without fussing and fighting or name calling. The
wives that I didn't have children with, I don't
see or speak to them as often. When I do see them,
they are very cordial and more than likely glad
that they are not still with me. Did I mention
that I have put on a few pounds over the years?
The mother of my children is very pleasant,
intelligent, and willing to talk about the
children. We are not as close in our private lives,
but when it comes to the children, we are on the
same track most of the time.
I did not divorce the children.
I think that I am better friends with the exes now
than when I was married to them. Maybe it shouldn't
be called marriage. Maybe it should be called
friendship time for life. I guess the day will come
when marriage will not be called for, but I personally
enjoyed marriage. I could always get a woman, just
couldn't always keep her. I did develop some solid
friendships along the way and trust me, true friendship
is hard to find, especially a friendship that lasts
a lifetime.
It just seems a shame that you have to marry and divorce
them to discover that they would make great life time
friends.

Breastfeeding

Let me tell you what I know about Breast Feeding.
It sucks.
There are two schools of thought on breast feeding
and I have experienced both of them. The first
school of thought is that breast feeding is good
for the health of the child. Does that mean
physically or emotionally ? One of my wives that
breast fed thought that it would help the child
fight diseases because the child would be getting
the benefits of her immune system. She may have
been right, however, she was the wife that stayed
in the doctor's office so much that we had to buy
two four drawer filing cabinets for all of the
accumulated medical receipts. I considered her a
hypochondriac because she was always going to the
doctor, but was never ever really sick. The baby
might have gotten her good genes and immune system,
but he might have gotten her hypochondriac syndrome
along with inheriting a need to hate my mother.
That is an entirely and totally a different subject.
The other school of thought on this breast feeding
thing is the mother's desire to bond with the child.
I guess as a father I get to bond when I buy him a
car and give him money for gas. I accused my wife
of bonding way too long. At what age should a child
stop breast feeding? Her answer was that the child
decides. When the child feels that he is no longer
a baby and wants to be grown up, he will know,she said.
I said yes, because his first or second grade teacher
will be calling us to tell us that our son is thirsty.
I think that when a child can walk up to his mother,
unclasp her bra, get a drink, clasp her bra back, and
then go out and ride his bike, he can probably learn
to open the fridge door, pour the milk, drink it,
wash the glass, and then go out to play. I could be
wrong or as my wife would say, you are just envious.
I agree with her on that 100%. I never have been able
to just walk up to her and .....well, you know what
I am saying. Maybe I am just a tad bit jealous of this
breast feeding thing.

Politic's, what politic's ?

Politic's is not my cup of tea. Don't get me wrong
we have got to elect a politician for President this year,
but I have never seen such inbred fighting among
the same group of warriors. First the democrats.
Yes,this will be a very important election with
the choice being a democrat. The first lady
President in the United States,or the first
person of color chosen as president if the
Democrats win. They cannot agree to disagree.
They are fighting each other instead of working
together to solve the problems of the world.
They only want to win. Both of them. It seems
that one of them would be smart enough to address
the issues.

Now for the Republicans.
My suggestion for Mr. McCain,if he wants to win,
is to choose a running mate that will satisfy
the population.
My suggestion to him is to choose Condaleeza Rice.
She is a person of color, a woman, very smart and
well liked throughout the whole world. I mean
this selection would pretty much guarantee Mr.
McCain the election. He would satify all of the
electorate. Since he is a man of age, if anything
happened to him , she is smart enough and young
enough to run the country. As I said in the
beginning , I am not a politician, and I don't
care who wins. But I sure know how to tell others
how to win. But like most politicians, they will
not be listening. Let them do it their way and
we are guaranteed four more years of whatever.

Gas Wars

Whatever happened to gas wars? I may be
telling my age, but, we use to have gas
wars back in the day. I have paid as little
as $.19 cents a gallon for gas. Oh,and
did I mention that bread was $.23 per loaf.
Getting back to gas. We are not ever going
to see gas that cheap. I mean the taxes on
gas is over a dollar. The gas companies are
making a killing. Look at their P and L sheets.
We need to find a better way to energize. I
suggested wind, and a lot of folks felt that
I could probably keep a few cars on the road
with the amount of wind that I could furnish.
Maybe they confused that with bull.... well
you know what I mean. The only way we can
control the gas prices as a society is to
ban together to control the consumption of
gas. This is hard for a lot of folks because
they need gas in their work. I do. I put
$50 worth of gas in my car every two days
and I get 30 miles to the gallon. Since
I travel the state,I have to depend on
gas to get to my job. I can cut back on
the weekend though. It is the law of
supply and demand. If we use less gas
the gas companies will be forced to
lower gas prices in order to continue
to sell gas. Just a thought. I can't
promise results. Well I must go. My
girlfriend and I are going riding
around and look at all the pretty
flowers. Wait, I just remembered I
am conserving fuel. Gosh darn honey,
I am sorry we can't go for a ride and
look at the pretty flowers. We must
do our part to save fuel. Oh well,
I really did want to go. See if you
can find some flowers on the internet.
Surely someone is blogging flowers.

Addictions

What are you addicted to? I know I ended that sentence
with a preposition. But seriously, to what or to
whom are you addicted? I am addicted to coca-cola.
I need one at least twice a day and sometimes three
times a day. You can be addicted to your dog, your
job, or to any habit performed on a daily basis.
How do you stop an addiction? First of all, you
have to want to end it. Then you put your mind to
it to stop it, and you proceed to do that. Now wasn't
that fairly simple and straight forward. Did I stop?
Could I stop? Do I want to stop? That is the main
question. To make yourself end an addiction, you
must control the other aspects of your life. You
must not make the mistake of trying to stop an
addiction without the benefit of overcoming the
need to be addicted. Once recognized... truly
recognized, you should be able to see the error
of your ways or at least be aware of the
harm you are doing to yourself or to others
around you.It is easy to sit here and type out
directions for all the world to see, than it
is to put down what I am doing wrong.I have
not ended my need to drink a coke. I want to,
but I don't do it even though I say I can.
I just don't want to give it up. Well , I
must take the dog out for a walk and let her
do her own business. My business is getting into
everyone else's business. I do a great job of
it too. But I am trying to improve. To do
that I have to tell you my life story.
After the first pit stop maybe. I don't have
the time or space to give you my full life
story and besides you would be bored.
Someday you can read the book. Let's hope
it does not become an addiction. Reading
that is. Woe be onto us if people started
reading and getting educated again.
But that's another Blog.

It is not Social Security that will get us. It's medicare

My finacial advisor told me today that she
had had a meeting with the IRS last week
to discuss the future of investing and
saving. They told her that she needs to
be warning her customers and investors
that Social Security has enough reserves
through about 2040. She should warn her
investors that the Medicare and Medicade
funds are what they should be worried about.
This is going to be a problem real soon
because of the 65 and over health problems
and so many baby boomers are getting ready
to retire and reach that age. I am not
really too worried for me because I am
older and the money should be there for me.
I would warn my children and all young
people to be aware of this situation and
to be prepared to meet the challenge of
change that must be incurred to reach
out for future generations and to prepare
themselves for a retirement of only what
they have saved or invested.
They should be looking out for themselves
and their children.

The future and their future is in their hands.

Saturday Rain

Not a good Day

First of all it rained. Next no customer was there to see.
Thirdly someone let their car back into my car while I was
sitting at a stoplight and smashed my door and broke out the
side passenger window...in the rain. The Police finally came
after a half hour and then took an hour to fill out the accident
report. This was after lunch. I can't get the accident report
for 24 hours, so I can't have the car repaired until next week.
The stress factor is strong, but I will survive. Gloria Gaynor
and myself.
Tomorrow will be different. It has to be better. At least the
sun is suppose to shine.
May it shine on you. It sure hasn't shone on me today.
But I love life anyway and thank God for my good health and the
ability to carry on.

Fighting the Fear Factor

What is Fear? Fear is the unknown. A baby cries because he cannot see, or feel the
presence of his mother or father. Your aging parents are fearful because they might
die or not have enough money for retirement or to live out the rest of their lives.
Job security, marriage problems, money problems, all are fears that we all have
had in our lives at one time or another. The common feeling that we all as humans
share, is the fear of the unknown. How do you overcome this fear? Many people
have a strong will to overcome their fears. These are the people who can stop
smoking, or change jobs without trepidation, or leave their spouses without guilt.
Other people think beyond the problem to the next day, or next week. Others
just ignore the problem and let it take care of the problem itself. We must learn
to realize that most of the problems that we fear never materialize. We worry
for nothing. If you can come to this conclusion on your own, you will not be as
stressed, and your life will become smoother and you will probably live longer.
Some people need a doctor or therapist to lead them in the right direction. Most
of these people are using others as a crutch. I am not a person who judges who
needs what, I only suggest that there are many types of worrier's in the world.
My suggestion is that in the long run the problem never came to fruition, and
you worried for nothing. I contend that fear is an idea, implanted by some other
extreme trauma or situation in our past life, that consumes our mind with
distrust, doubt, insecurity and makes us fearful of suspected artificial and
superfluous reasoning that never transpires. We all have doubts, but we can
learn to control our fears by writing them down one day, and going back the
next day or the next day, when they either happened or dissapated . Try to
practice shunning fear, or try to accept the fact that you might be worried for
nothing. Oh yeah, and take omega 3 fish oil. Some folks tell me that works for
them. I say whatever it takes to make you stronger, happier, and healthy is
worth all the work in the world. Learn to control fear. Live longer. That's my
mantra for the day.

The Way we Were

I keep getting these emails reminding me of how life was in the fifties, sixties, etc..
Are these my old friends living in the past, or my new young friends and kids
reminding me of how old I am. It is very nostalgic looking at the old tv shows and
hearing the old music being played, while displays of old candy, toys, books, and
habits from the past roll by. I don't want to live my life over and I don't want to
go back to the sixties, so what do I realize from these emails. Maybe a since of
belonging to a different time and a different world. All the emails that could be
sent to me , stacked in a mile high stack would not change my lifestyle. Unless
I bought me some bell bottom pants and a madras shirt. I do see this stuff today,
but it is not nearly as cool as it was back then. Life changes. My life has changed.
I am not complaining because I like my life. But things seemed easier then. Not
as much pressure to perform. Not as much hurry as today. Life was just more
simple then, and somewhat smoother. I like today.
But sometimes I long for the easier and simpler life. Maybe when I retire. Maybe
not. I will just have to wait and see.

Today is the First Day

Today is the first day of my new blogger post. This is all new to me and as I read about

bloggers, I find myself drawn to this media over and over. Being an opinionated person

gives me the desire and need to write down my thoughts on how I see the world. Of course

living in my own world gives me insight for one. Being ever reminded by others that I

share my opinions openly , tells me that I should write down what I feel and

see, and let others ,if needed or wanted, hear the same thing. Everything will not be agreed

upon, just like life itself, however, if one bit of wisdom is realized, I will have succeeded ,to

the best of my ability ,to make one person happy. To this end I am committed to try.

Today is the first day.