Brain reboot

As I type this it is just after sun up, it’s cool and crisp for the first week of august, I am sitting by the camp fire made out of some scrap wood that was left over from work projects, The coffee is hot the fire warms my outside as the coffee does my insides. It is quiet except a few gold finches on my feeders and a few squirrels that I refer to as tree rats are scurrying about. I am the only one up and the sound of the crackling fire and the birds singing is enough to say to me that I am a very lucky person at this point and time.

 Not sure there if this is worthy of an entry or not for some of you, but for some reason I felt the need to share this singular point in my time line with you all.

 The conditions are perfect to shut the brain down and not think about work or bills or going to the grocery store for food or what you will have to be doing in an hour from now. The sights and sounds of nature and the fire lets you just zone out and reboot.

 If you have the chance give it a try it is refreshing, and if you happen to nap by the fire, while it is sending waves of flickering warmth all over your face and body in the cool air, well that is just a bonus. Take a step back from the your busy world and take it in a nice quiet fire and the sounds of nature even if it is you just in your back yard, and if you can’t have a fire just stop and listen and relax to what’s around you . . . the world will be there when you come back from your brain reboot.

The only thing that would have been a bonus is a little Van Morrison softly playing in the background, maybe a little bit of into the Mystic…

See you next time

Fitzy: Legion of Decency Retired

4 Years and still missed

4 Years and still missed

This Saturday (August 2^nd) marks the fourth anniversary of my best friend and partner in crime’s passing. He died way too young, this past June he would have been 38 years old… like I said way too young to not be here busting my balls.

 Without getting into detail and putting blame on anyone or anything because he is gone and blame will not change the outcome, I will just say it was a motorcycle accident that took his life.

 Justin was as big as life and full of fun, bullshit and energy as anyone I have ever met. He had friends that crossed political, economic and social boundaries that would confuse a census taker, and he was ageless he had friends that were half his age as well as twice his age, he even had a city council woman he befriended, he was that big and full of life.

 Just before he passed I was introducing him to the entire Marx Brothers DVD collection as well as the original Pink Panther with Peter Sellers, we would watch one every week and then use the jokes and make comments about the movies to each other for days and sometimes weeks.

 He was a great artist, could have worked for Disney, in fact there was a time when he almost went down to Florida to work there. He was a Music nut too, he got the love of all music from his dad who love music and started him out on 50’s rock and roll, his tastes ended up resting on AC/DC and Government Mule and some serious blues music as well as Frank Sinatra. He made me listen to AC/DC so much I hated the group and would turn off the music whenever it came on. That was then, now I hear it and just turn it up, because on some level I like to think of him being the one playing it over the airwaves.

 I have not been able to watch The Marx brothers or The Pink Panther movies or even our favorite bad movie Hudson Hawk since he passed, I think Next year I will get some friends together and have a mini marathon, and raise a glass of his favorite whiskey and light his favorite Cigar to his memory.

 Not a day goes by that I do not say hello or tell him a joke, or yell at him or tell him how proud he would be of his brother and sister and his niece. Time seems to move faster as we get older. He may not be in my eyes, but he is in my heart and in my head. I miss you my Fat bastard friend.

You are missed, you are loved and you are remembered…See you on the other side.

Forever Side By Side

~Fitzy~

The Photo Dump July 2014

The Photo Dump

I take a lot of photos; it is sort of a hobby, I not a pro by any means. I use a Fuji 14 mega pixel camera with a 30x zoom, it is just a standard digital camera nothing special to it but it is fun and I get some nice shots on occasion.

 Every month I empty the camera and dump it into my computer and then post the better ones on my blog to share. So without any more typing here are the “Photo dump” winners for July 2014.

Comments on photos are always welcome as well as any suggestion on camera techniques or camera settings. Feel free to post any photos you would like to share with me as well or share with me your blog where you post your photos.

Thanks for looking shutter-bugs

 See you next month at the dump.

 

The Wrath of Thursday!!!

Ever have one of those days when everything just hits right on queue?

 You are driving someplace and your favorite song comes on the radio and you get to hear the whole song just as you pull up to your destination, or it seems like you have a bottomless cup of coffee. And then when you get to work that one task that has a deadline that you despise doing or you have a difficult time doing it, has been done for you or cancelled.

 Well guess what that is not how my day started …  I hear one of my favorite songs and then I get to work before it ends, so I sit there listening to the end of the song and some knocks on my window and wants to chat. Then I get into work and 3 things are on my desk that needs to be done by 10 AM, 2 of them are not even my job. Then as I go to drink my coffee, my cup alas was empty

 I then went on to rip my shirt on the desk, broke a shoe lace, knocked a plant over and tripped on my broken shoe lace and then the topper for the morning was a paper cut!

 WARNING…  WARNING … WARNING … WARNING … STAR TREK REFFERANCE APROCHING!

 I felt like throwing my hands in the air and screaming KHAN!!!

 The day did have its high point I went home and broke the lawn mower. Tomorrow will be better I do not have too many days like this one.

Have a Great weekend all

 

National Junk Food Day

I was sitting here wondering what wise comments or intuitive thought I could pass along to bloggers today and almost said I will skip it and then I remembered a not widely known Holiday called National junk food day.

For most of us, just about every day is Junk Food Day. For the rest of you out there, National Junk Food Day is a great opportunity to guiltlessly eat your, Ring dings, Ho-Ho’s, Potato chips and all your other favorite junk food.

Dietitians will tell you that junk food is any food that contains little nutritional value. We also include foods that are high in salts, fats, and sugars. In other words, junk food is all that tasty stuff that the dietitians, and your parents, say is bad for us. Junk food is the food dreams are made of, flaky cakes and strawberry shortcakes, cream filled goodies that make you drool just thinking about them… The food that makes you feel like a kid all over again.

On Junk Food Day, you get to eat anything you want. Eat any amounts that you want, too. Tomorrow, however, it's back to a healthy diet, Your Folks and spouses mocking and perhaps a stomach ache or in some cases a diabetic coma and insulin shot...  I never said Junk Food Day was safe or didn’t have any ramifications.

How did National Junk Food Day originate you ask? Well, fact checkers and inquisitive know it alls were looking for information on what is and what isn't junk food. They found no information on the origin of this day. It was most likely created by a diet conscious individual or group who desired to eat junk food, without guilt, at least one day a year. I refer to them as Food Nazis

Now as some of you may know, that creating an official “National" day requires an Act of Congress. Something the inquisitive minds did not find any records of. While Congress may be accused of going on occasional junkets, I firmly believe they would not support a Nation day of junk food.

 So for me and a few of my not so close friends out there July 21^st will always be a quiet time of binging on salty and sugary treats, I still may have to hide it from the powers that be, but dam it I am going to partake in it!

However I am compelled to post a Warning so here it is…

Please Note: Junk food may be hazardous to your health. After all, Your Doctors and Parents and spouses know what's best for you. Do so at your own risk. That risk includes those same people saying: "I told you so!"

Jump in and Join me Tell us what your favorite Junk Food is.

See you next time, Thanks for reading

It’s complicated

Today’s blog post has been brought to you by a comment by a friend named Jessica . . . “Men are complicated”

 Life can be complicated, no strike that life is complicated, with choices of what to eat what to wear who to be friends with on face-book and only about a million other things. However I can tell you on good authority that men are not complicated.

You can beak men down into five interests:

1.   Sleep

2.   Sex

3.   food

4.   Sports

5.   TV/Movies

Although about 80% of men have only the 3 things on their minds sometimes all at one time. Men are simple creatures.

1.    Sex

2.    Food

3.    Sleep

 I used to tell this joke back when being politically correct was not a mandatory thing;

“How to impress woman: kiss her, hug her, compliment her, love her, tease her, protect her, listen to her, and support her . . . How to impress a man: Show up naked with a pizza.”

 The inside track to understanding men is to know we like to nap, find out what our favorite food is, act or be sexy (which could be anything from a saying a certain word to an outfit to just a touch), and finally if you know our favorite televisions show or movie and just say one quote from it or ask us about it, it’s like giving a dog a treat, we will be right on your heals.

 Now that is not to say that all men are the same there is about 5% variable of men that are a shade off the regular, such as the Geek, the Gay men and the anti social male, which brings you to the following way to understand them.

The Geek: Ask about his Phone, Computer or UFO’s

The Gay: Make fun of something someone is wearing or ask about his shoes.

The Anti Social: make a comment about not liking people or make a comment about being uncomfortable in public places.

 And although these 3 types of men are specific they can all also be understood using the Food, Sleep and Sex mentality.

 So I say again Life is Complicated Men are not. We are only as complicated as you want to make us, and as Jessica said “Men do have their uses on occasion”

See you next time.

To my friend John

What John is and has been to me and his qualifications as a friend.

My conscience.

My confidante.

My cigar buddy.

My A.D.D. interpreter.

Food taster.

Automotive adviser and tire expert

Relationship counselor

My movie quote buddy

Spell Checker and Grammar coach.

My critic

Roulette partner

Fashion police

Keno mentor

My Dyslexic interpreter

My Christmas shopping buddy

My Area 51 body heat companion

My Graham Norton Viewing comrade.

So I guess you can say John is the pain in my ass and I would not change a thing except to have him knighted so that I could call him a Royal pain in the ass!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Thanks John, See you soon.