Random Thoughts

When I was 10 years old, I asked my mom for a TCR for Christmas.   Total Control Racing.     It was 1978.   I wasn’t sure I’d get it.

My mom drove all over northern Utah for find it.   It was the hot toy of the day, and she finally found on in Salt Lake City and had a lady try to wrestle the last one out of her hands, or so the story goes.

That was my best Christmas morning.    I was like Ralphie, peeling back the wrapping paper on his Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time.    My mom’s story, made it even better.

Today is Christmas day, my favorite of days.   The kids are all happy, we’re all together and just enjoying the day.   You can’t go anywhere, even if you wanted to;  everything is closed.   Christmas day is the shit.

My wife surprised me.    I asked for a B.A.C.A. ring.   I didn’t think she’d pull it off, but she did.     What a gal I married.     It was the best Christmas present ever.

There’s a turkey in the smoker, 24 hours of a Christmas story on TBS has been playing for almost 24 hours, the family is together and life is good.     We’ll sit down as a family and have a family dinner together as soon as this turkey is done.   

Hope you all had a merry Christmas.    I did.     Even if I hadn’t gotten a thing, this is still my favorite day.

This video makes me chuckle.   This song has been in my head for the last 2 days.   From one of my favorite bands:

My kids are excited.   These are the best of days.   My youngest still believes in Santa, and she tells me every day how many more days till Christmas.   She’s a smart kid at 10 years old, so I still wonder.    She’s smart enough that I think she’s playing her odds about Santa.

I think my favorite day of the year is Christmas Eve.   The family will all be together, we chill out, cook food, have 24 hours of the Christmas story on all of the TV’s and listen to the Christmas music that we’ve all enjoyed over the years.   A candlelight  Christmas dinner with our finest ware in the evening.     Its always been a  helluva day.    I’m a king I tell ya!

Merry Christmas to all you biker pricks.   May the holidays be as good to you as they’ve been to me.

Merry Christmas.     It’s less than a week away.    Are you ready?   I sincerely hope its a good one for you.   From me and mine, to you and yours.    If you’re not feeling it by now I gotta think your wick is wet:

One of my favorites:

A long week.  A Friday night feels pretty good. A beer, a  reflection or two on the day, and nothing else.  Ahh, nothing else.   Well, till tomorrow.

This one seems to hit the spot right now.    Check out that guitar:

Thats wrong.   On so many levels.   I felt I did a good job though.   ergghhh.

From back in the day.    Hope ya’ll are enjoying your Sunday.

A local Pittsburgh personality that started making videos that people related to and made a semi celebrity out of himself.    This guy cracks me up.     They got him marching in parades and such.   He says things I think.  Makes me chuckle.

I remember waiting outside by the birch tree  for mom and dad to start the car so we could go see the Great Waldo Pepper. I was 8. I think my dad always figured himself somewhere  in a dogfight, or at least a barnstormer. …

A movie you should rent, if you can even rent em anymore…   Download it, or something….

I gotta admit, thanksgiving is not my favorite holiday.

But, I’m hip on being thankful.     I had to do some work this morning, so I went in and knocked it out, then headed the 80 miles north to the inlaws so we could have thanksgiving.     I have really cool inlaws.

Seems to me its always better when its tight.  Just the family that you talk about in your conversations from day to day.

But when you sit around a table with people that you truly love, thats a special thing.   Yeah, we had that.

My 2nd oldest daughter and I busted out early, and had a good talk, pretty much all the way home.    I’m thankful for her.

I had a great thanksgiving.   I have a lot to be thankful for.

Hope you guys all had a killer one as well.   Happy Thanksgiving Fokkers 🙂   Ride Hard.