Bugs beat Yankees

so, according to the news, it was the Bugs that beat the Yankees   well i saw that game and yes there were millions of what they call canadian soldiers or flying ants, but do we need to blame the bugs for the Yankees loss    in any sport you must deal with the conditions at hand   it was implied in the news that the umpire should have stopped the game because of the bugs    goodness what will they think of next ....in the meantime at Fenway Park, my man Manny Ramirez hits a 3run home run in the bottom of the 9th to win the ballgame   go RED SOX!!!!   the Yankees are ok, but my Bosox are better this year   someone's got to beat those damn Yankees!

in the meantime, back in Hawaii is my son   he's done with his tour in Iraq   i'm sooo happy and relieved    he'll be coming home on leave probably by the end of the month for a few weeks    it'll be great to see him    i've really gotten attached to this kid i inherited   gotta love him!

Bad Ass Girls...

Bad Ass Girls Drive Bad Ass Toys...and so the sign says    last week while walking thru Wallymart's parking lot i saw this sign on a Jeep   i went over there to see if anyone was in the car   sure enough the woman who owned it was sitting there    i told her i had to have this sign and where did she get it   Allthingsjeep.com    so i order it monday and it arrived today    awesome sign!   it is now displayed on my Jeep   the larger one on the windshield, the smaller on the rear window    and as soon as i can, i'm haulin' ass off to Colorado for some 4wheelin'    haven't been in awhile and i'm anxious to take this Jeep off for a road trip in the mountains    if not soon, i'll be on the passages first thing in the spring   by then i'll have my rack back on top of her   i knocked it off this summer forgetting it was up there and trying to park in a garage downtown.....in the meantime, life is good    next week i start volunteering at church again   i'm still in Roots class at church    i've also become co-coordinator of our Hiking Club   we'll be going on hikes once a month    I'm also ushering our UNM football games   so far so good   i'm just hanging out and reading too    not a lot of new stuff going on    however, my son is on his way back from Iraq finally   his tour is over    sometime tonite or in the mornin' he'll be back in Hawaii   then at the end of the month he'll come home for a few weeks    we may take off to Dallas, TX area to see my niece and her family   maybe we'll get some 4wheelin' in while he's here    for now, it's baseball playoffs and football sundays    such a joy to be retired from the p.o.!!!

class..

well i did start another class   this is one at church   it started tonite and it was refreshing to be in some type of class again   maybe i'll be doing classes the rest of my life   anyways, this is Exploring Roots of Science of Mind   we'll be reading material from those that Ernest Holmes, founder of Science of Mind and our church, found inspiration from   i've been dying to take this class forever   now almost 3yrs later i'm in it   anyways, it'll keep me busy until i begin UNM    fortunately classes at church are not a pass/fail situation, but i do learn a lot   for fun i'll grab my camera and do some b&w while getting to know my new film camera    i'm planning a trip this friday, my birthday, to Bandelair if my bike is out of the shop by then   i'm praying it is    i've been missing it a lot lately   Life is not the same without my motorcycle    if it isn't ready, i'll go up to Tent Rocks for the day   the main theme,  be in nature for a day   then next week, i'm going to return to volunteering at the church again   just one day a week for i will also begin ushering at the UNM football games as well    fall is here and i'm getting a full schedule again   somehow i manage to take summers off and take it easy, but once fall rolls around i'm ready to go    so new beginnings   change like the seasons...

almost...

almost went to the Art College that would have cost me $80k plus interest    i was ready   wanted to go sooo badly   but the closer it got to going, the more i worried about the money    so, i didn't    i would havve been in school today if i had decided to go there   since then i got a good recommendation on UNM    so there i was today at an advisor's office getting the scoop on classes i need   so i'm applying for the Spring '08 term   if i get in, i'm taking a history course i need   basic requirement   if i pass, i'll pursue the degree   if not, i'll just take photography courses    but i'm having faith   belief in myself that all will go well   one class at a time   one step at a time    i'll keep you posted once january rolls around .....in the meantime, i'm waiting on my bike from the shop again    it's little stuff that keeps needing to be done    i'll be happy once i can buy a new one which i hope is this time next year or the following spring at the latest    Life is still good, a bowl of strawberries!

Vick

just a short entry    i want to make a short comment on Vick, the dog fighter    now 18months seems to be a short time for his involvement  in the dog fighting    i've been outraged ever since the story broke   i was just reading the probable fate of the remaining 53dogs that were seized from his property   yep they'll probably be euthanized   i'm outraged for these dogs and the ones that lost their lives  my heart cries for them  just the whole scheme of things   what wonderful dogs pits can be only for those like Vick who use them for dog fighting    it's not good in any way for the pit bulls   the euthanism hurts but that's probably the best for these particular dogs   i can't imagine how they could be good pets at this point, but God only knows    18months is too short of prison time for Vick    let's hope he gets the maximum    the cruelty of some people is too  much.....

just a tire change...

ok, so i wanna change my tire    my left rear tire has a slow leak   well i thought, now would be a good time ot change my own tire just to see if i remember correctly how to do it    simple    i thought   an hour or less i'll be done....so.....i go unload the jack    easy   it's a hydraulic jack   got it down   found my key for the locking nut   easy, no problem removing it    grab my crowbar   it don't work   none of the sockets work on this wheel    ok, so i've never really actually done this before, so maybe i'm not using it correctly    so i look up "Tino at church   nope it doesn't fit he tells me    ok back to 4 Wheel Parts where i bought the wheels and tires   need a different socket   bought that    go back to church   Tino & I get all but one lugg nut off   it won't budge   and the others came off after we found a pipe to use as leverage    ok back to 4 Wheel Parts with a quick run to my apartment    well it wasn't quick and Tino was right    you don't drive on 4 luggz    back at the shop, they don't get enough parts   waiting for more parts   then we don't get the right stud   waiting while they hunt for that part   Hours later and one new T-shirt (JEEP), all the parts arrive and i'm outta there late for work 2hrs....all i wanted to do was change the tire   simple?   not anymore    so my lessons for today    1. don't change the tires on this Jeep   the nuts are screwed tooooo tight by an air gun, not anyone, man or woman, can get them off    2.   let the men do the tire changing    too much muscle needed    plus they're the ones who put the nuts on too tight to begin with   3.   do not fill in for someone at work again    this is the second time this has happened,   the first time, my bike broke down on the day i was fillin in for someone     i'm signning up for auto club again and let them handle it     simple job isn't simple anymore.....now back to my Black Opal wine....Nice!

another road trip

Fort Sumner.    this was my road trip yesterday   didn't know i was going until i was on my bike headed to meet a friend for coffee before church    it was such a beautiful day   the weather has cooled much since my last entry, thank goodness    so instead of going to church, i headed out to Ft Sumner   the famous place where Billy the Kid was shot, killed and buried    it's also was a famous fort during the times when they were rounding up Native Americans way back when....anyways, i took the interstate most the way for that road experience    then south on hwy 84 to the town   stopped in a museum which had all kinds of old relics including some nice old cars   but it also had some of Billy's stuff hanging in there like his guns and his chaps   those chaps looked awfully heavy    anyways, then it was off around the bend to the gravesite    the site is all covered in bars    apparently his tombstone had been stolen a couple times and as recently as 1981    he's buried there with two of his friends   Billy's tombstone has another shackle on top of it besides the bars all three are incased    there was another museum but i passed on that    then i went around the corner to the original Ft Sumner & Bosque Redondo Monument but didn't go in there either   wasn't sure the place was open    there was a modern building there and in the way back a very small fracture of the original fort    i was hungry for some grub for i hadn't eaten all day, so i moved on from there    i took hwy 60 back to albq for awhile anyways    found a turkey sandwich in Vaughn in one of the dirtiest places i've ever been    but it was something to eat anyways    then in lieu of continuing hwy 60, i headed north on hwy 285 to stop at Clines Corner for some sunglasses    i was kicking myself in the ass for forgetting mine    due west, late in the afternoon, the sun was directly in my eyes    and even after i bought sunglasses, the sun was pretty damn bright   that's its intensity here during the summer but i still love it.....the ride to & fro was boring at times    just straight flat desert for awhile and hot    not like going thru the Jemez mountains where you have shade and curves to ride through   but i still enjoyed the ride    only my shoulders are a little sore    will get a massage soon, in the meantime i've got Tiger Balm on it which is Wonderful!    anyways, that's about it for now    not much happening    just working,  hiking and relaxing....until another time....