INDY 500

Indy is just 5 days away. Yee Haw Lets go Racing!!!!!!!!!!

Fishing Trip ReCap

Sorry its been a while since I posted. Katie is on me as you can see by my only comment on my last blog. So I thought I would share some of the photos from my fishing trip on Barkley.

Here I am driving the boat at about 50 mph on the smoothest water we have ever had on Barkley. Look at those long locks blowing in the wind. Look at me being a good boy with my life jacket on.

Here is the one fish that my boat turned in on tournament day. No help from my boating partner...nothing new when the pressure is on him.

This is what it looks like on a rough day on the lake. Three foot waves running about 28 mph. Lot rougher and thought for a while we would not make it back.

Did I mention that we eat on this trip. Here is a picture of our last night's meal. 28 ounce ribeyes...Yummy...Looks like mine is already done.

Hope you enjoyed this post. Only 11 months until we do it all again.

Tea Anyone?

It is time for me to get on a soap box. I am sick of taxes, I am sick of 2nd and 3rd generation welfare recipients, I am sick of social programs that are abused. Today I wrote a nice check to cover what what my state feels I still owed them. Is this taxation without representation..NO, but we are loosing the very fabric that made this a great nation. The value of a hard days work and the rewards from doing a job well done are being replaced by a feeling of entitlement.

The Bank, Auto, Airline bailouts are just examples of what this country is becoming. This may be a little Darwinist's, but only the strong should survive. Is capitalism not the very idea that built this country? If the small business person on the corner can't run their business properly should it be the governments duty to bail them out? Hell No. If I max out all my credit cards and can't pay my bills should the government pay my bills? Hell No. If I buy stock and it tanks should the government reimburse my losses? Hell No. So why if a bank makes bad decisions on lending or if an automobile company can not build a competitive product why should the government bail them out? Or in reality why am I paying to bail them out. It is you and I and our children that will be paying this debt, not the companies that are not competitive enough to be successful.

I believe social programs were put in place to help people through a rough patch, not as a way of life. Unemployment is a crutch while you search for a job, not a income base for you to live off of. Welfare is a system to help those in lower income situations survive, not as a financial base and a license to breed.

I believe in helping the less fortunate, I am a charitable person. Forced charity is not what I am about, and that is exactly what is happening in this country everyday in the form of taxation. Isn't 33.5 % of my pay check enough? To put that in better terms I work 4 months or 122 days before I make a dime.

My fear is that we are well on our way to socialism, and really I don't think most people give a damn.

That it for this soapbox, we will tackle gun issues on another blog real soon.

Golf Season is Here.... Houses beware!

Last week I went to Tampa to play golf with one of my friends/customers. We went down with the intention of playing bad golf on a good drunk and boy did we succeed. Flew in on Wednesday, hit the dog track, then hit Hooter's for dinner. You may ask; Why go to Hooter's on vaca? Well we went to the original Hooter's in Clearwater. I look at it like going to the original Starbucks in Seattle, sometimes you just have to see how things get started. Anyway 7 pitchers later we went to a bar and finished the night. Four hours later I am standing on the first tee box wondering if I should kneel down to put my ball on the tee so I don't fall over. We played 36 holes the first day Round one 95, Round two 89. Rust started to fall off at the turn on the second round and I found a swing or sobriety don't remember which. That night we went out drinking at some dive bar in the town we were staying in. It was ladies night, $7 cover for women with all they could drink draft beer and well drinks. If I was a chick I would have been the second skinniest girl in there. Nothing turns me on more than a girl drinking straight from the pitcher. Anyway, we left there after a short period of time to get some sleep. The next day we played another 18, it was a much tighter course with houses on both sides of the fairway with some tight landing areas. I only hit two houses and luckily got great bounces both times. I put a nice dent in one, and I don't know how well solar panels react to golf balls but it really shot my ball back off of the roof and in to the fairway. Shot a 83 on day two, not bad for the fourth round of the year.

This week is spring break in our home town so I am watching Gabby and working from home most of the week. Have a meeting in Nashville and going to the MMA fight the night before with some friends. One of these days I will have a camera to take pictures of whats going on but for now text is all ya get.

Night Night Kiddies

Big Ten is Over!!!!!!!!!

I love basketball as much as the next guy. But 10 games in four days is a lot of basketball. Especially when the real pounding is not the ball on the court, but what happens to my liver from the pounding at the bar. I can handle my fair share, but what a hard few days. I am still filtering vodka out of my system. Katie came in for the weekend and we were able to spend some time together.

The capstone for the event is dinner at Mo's. If you have not gone to Mo's you must take the trip downtown to give it a try. Great steaks, one of the best wine lists in town, and pretty good service. We had 22 customers in for it and I think a great time was had by all. A new dessert was introduced this year. Cookie ala mode, think a big bowl with under cooked cookie and a big scoop of ice cream with hot fudge poured on it. I think one of my guests put it best, every bite is the best orgasm I have ever had! Glad I could accommodate.

Business as usual this week. Then off to golf in Tampa next week.

Take care kiddies!

Daddy's little girl

How fast they grow. This is my new favorite picture of Gabby. Sporting a straw hat and her sun glasses. Hope you enjoy as much as I do!

To Blog or Not To Blog

I am faced with a decision. To pursue this blog or not. If I only have one person visiting and no followers should I continue to type or am I justifying internal dialog with myself? Am I typing just to hear myself typing? Are there voices in my head or.... you get the point.

I had a laugh out loud moment when I was contemplating the future of this blog on the throne the other day. I thought how funny would it be to have a shit blog? Ya know take a picture of your BM everyday and post that? Do you think that has been done? Would I generate more interest in my incoherent ramblings if I did that?

I make this the watershed moment for my blog. If I don't start generating interest by the end of March, I will make this a BM blog.

Night Night Kiddies