SOME THOUGHTS

WE HAD THE BEST OXYGEN TODAY IN SEVERAL DAYS....
ITS HARD TO KNOW WHAT TO PACK AND WHAT NOT TO...
ITS HARD BEING IN THIS HOUSE ALONE...
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE AND DONT YOU?
YOU CAN SEE THE FIRES FROM ALL AROUND BIG SUR NOW...
I FUCKING REALLY FUCKING HATE TELEVISION CREWS...I DONT GIVE A SHIT IF THATS HOW PEOPLE GET THEIR NEWS AND WHAT THEY THINK IS REALITY, THE REALITY IS I TRIED TO SHOVE A KSBW TELEVISION CAMERA CREW TRUCK OUT OF AND OFF ONE OF THE PULL OUTS ON OUR ROAD TODAY, I STOPPED BECAUSE I THOUGHT MY AIR BAGS MIGHT DEPLOY AND AFTER SAYING SOME UBER ASSHOLISH STUFF TO THESE PEOPLE I STARTED TO FEEL A LITTLE BAD AND SLIGHTLY DRUNK.I FUCKING REALLY FUCKING HATE TELEVISION CAMERA CREWS.... PERHAPS I ALREADY SAID THAT.
I DONT THINK ITS GOING TO BURN EXACTLY HERE AT MY HOUSE BUT IM SICK OF LOOKING AT THE REST OF MY SHIT HERE AND WONERING HOW HARD IT WOULD BE TO REPLACE IT ALL...
HOW MUCH WAS THAT SEVENTY TWO PIECE SET OF PLATNIUM LINED DISHWASHER SAFE DINNERWARE ANY WAY....
WHATS BEHIND ALL THOSE OTHER BOXES OF SHIT IN THE SHED?
DO I REALLY NEED THESE GOLF CLUBS?
I FUCKING REALLY MISS BLOGGING.
DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO PUT TWO LARGE AND FREAKED OUT BIRDS INTO AN ANIMAL CARRIER, "ITS LIKE GETTING WET LEATHER LEGGINGS OF A WOMAN WHO IS KICKING!" SERIOUSLY, DOES ANYONE ONE KNOW?
CAN THEY FORCEFULLY EVACUATE A DRUNK MAN WITH AN ANGRY PITBULL? (shhh.... dont tell anyone, but im up here unarmed besides my gay pitbull and his lover.... who will fetch the stick for you to death...)
I WISH MY LANDLORD WOULD COME UP HERE AND HELP ME SAVE MY HOUSE... YES ITS MY FUCKING HOUSE, I PAY RENT AND THAT MAKES IT MINE TO DEFEND DAMMIT... ID STAY HERE AND DEFEND IT WITH HIM, BUT HE ONLY WANTS SOME PAINT THAT IS UNDER THE CABINETS IN MY SHOP!?!?
OUR PHONE LINE HAS BEEN FUCKING UP LATELY...
I THINK THE SMOKE UP HERE IS TOXIC AND NOT GOOD FOR CHILDREN.
CHEESES GIRLS LEFT YESTARDAY AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE THINGS TO WATCH... IMPOSSIBLE...
CHEESE LEFT TODAY TO BE WITH THEM....
THIS HASNT BEEN MUCH OF A BLOG AS OF LATE AND IVE BEEN DOING A PISS POOR JOB AT BEING A GOOD BLOGGER.....
at least there is a small bar here in the kitchen, i could drink the house empty before they pry this from my cold dead hands...wait, thats part of some one elses speech.... uh... hiccup...what?!?!
THE CHICKENS DONT SEEM TO BE LAYING ANY EGGS WITH ALL THIS SMOKE, IF THEY DID, WOULD THEY BE CHIPOTLE FLAVOR, OR A NATURAL SMOKED BLEND.... HMMMM, SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT EH? CA-CHING?!?!
IS THAT KNIFE SET WORTH PACKING UP? THEY ARE NOT HENCKELS!? TOASTER OVER?MY ANTIQUESISH BLENDER FROM B-HAM? MY HOOKA? WE HAVE MORE BOOKS THAN WOULD FIT IN MY TRUCK IN ONE LOAD! BOOKS DOWN THE MOUNTAIN? MY ITALIAN LEATHER COUCHES? WHAT? AM I STILL THINKING ABOUT MOVING COUCHES?!?!?
IN REALITY WE HAVE ANOTHER FULL TWO TRUCK LOADS OF STUFF WE CANT LEAVE.. CHEESES GRANDMOTHER CHEST OF DRAWERS SET... KIDS BUNK BEDS! GAAAAGGGHHHH!!!!!!
MY MOM IS STILL IN A SMALL URN UPSTAIRS, BETTER MAKE SURE SHE ROLLS WITH ME, I DONT THINK SHE WOULD WANT TO BE UP HERE WITHOUT ME...
IM BEAT AND IM GONNA TAKE TOMMOROW OFF AS WELL, ANYBODY WANT TO WORK TWENTY TWO MINUTES OF EVERY HOUR AND SPEND THE REST OF TIME DRINKING AND LISTENING TO GREAT SONGS BY MARKY MARK? AQUA? DAFT PUNK! AC/DC? SOCIAL DISTORTION? THE CULT? NO EH? DAMN....

I THINK THE INTERNET IS GOING TO TRY AND FUCK MR RIGHT NOW... SEE IF I CAN POST THIS....

BEST THINGS IVE HEARD SO FAR....

the folks who have survived these fires are now experiencing guilt... the home next door burned to the ground and their home a hundred feet away is still intact.... its tough i guess when that happens.

something else i heard today was "it was enjoyable to talk about and be a part of until it turned towards our house...."

and "she was so pissed that he didn't take the dogs..."

"why" i ask. "they weren't even on the property when he was there getting all their paintings and a truck load of their belongings..."

"well, he should have found the dogs, that fucking bum."

she being the wife of the man whose ex-son-in-law went up to their property while they were out of town to retrieve any valuables along with his children's belongings and some of his exwifes stuff, because their mother was too far away to make it happen herself...

"um, those dogs were at deetjens. and they aren't even married any more, he did that out of the kindness of his heart... why is he a bum?"

"he should have found those dogs..."

"the dogs showed back up there today, and they still haven't returned from vacation yet so what gives?

"hes a fucking bum...." she mumbles and turns back to her desk.

with all the hubbub and rumors flying around, i think I'm going to go home and not go out until Monday when i have to be at work!!! have a great weekend all and be safe eh?

we are fine

it funny how shit always flies at the same time in the same direction! first our water was a problem, now our home phone is on the blink, then today they shut my cell phone off. i called and they had no idea why? i haven't even received this months bill yet. then they told me that my next bill would have a thirty six dollar reconnection fee attached to it? what? hello? so after thirty minutes of sitting on the side of the highway and going from dept. to dept. i finally get the charges reversed and "have a nice day? what?
anyway, the fire is just consuming everything in its path and they have all but stopped fighting it. they wont go up or onto roads with no access to a way out other than the way in. they aren't trying to stop its path anymore either... so homes are burning. its all the way into the south coast now and they have evacuated my friend wango. they are not letting anyone(hardly) down the highways and there are more pieces of equipment sitting on the side of the road than are fighting the fire... sitting there, doing nothing... idling away the hours... its so disheartening and frustrating...
that's all folks and as of now we are in the clear and aren't in any immediate danger... lots of good thoughts to you all and thanks for all your support and prayers... i will be back to normal blogging habits soon!!!

SO MUCH FOR RUMORS AND THE MILL

after a nine hour day of driving to the city and back to pick up our rebuilt transmission (finally) and returning to the office only to find our town in a complete state of hysteria, did i start the rest of my day. cheese is sick out the nose and is feeling the love the nasal gods.... our town is in the highest state of fire rumordom.. code fucking red... its sickening... in a communitity where everybody knows everything about everyone, its no shock that when tragidy strikes so do the know it alls. i had several phone calls asking about how the fire is doing by my house... WHAT? the fire is miles and miles miles from us, but i had to ensure them that cheese had driven herself personaly to this supposed fire site and saw nothing other that the fire twenty miles from us burning away... and that was only the begining... i digress...
the fire is fucking us in the ass with its hot poker in many other ways... the mini-cheeses dads house is in imminant danger still and "the new sherriffs in town" will not let them up to retrieve any more belongings today. as of the fire meeting at our multi-agency facility sixteen homes have burned. all of them we know and have been to, most are of people we know or who live in them and lost everything they couldnt put into a couple of toyotas.... ive seen cell phone pics better than any ive ever seen on the news or in the paper... i pray for these people...
last couple of days we have driven up to a look out here locally and watched the bombers and choppers dumping load after load... today we were informed that they have taken the majority of our resources away for other fires that threaten more homes elsewhere in the state. i care as much for those people as they do for me.... it was dissheartening to only see a couple of airborne fire fighting units in the sky this evening compared to the multitude of them last night. and the fire is bigger and moving faster than last night as well... so watching haulers with dozers leave the area didnt bode well for my solo ride home...
it will be a new dynamic here, businesses are being shut down and people evacuated, locals are hanging out in parking lots trying to go on in a normal fashion, what else are you going to do. they have shut down the highway in areas and so far its been up to law enforcements descretion as to who and when people can pass...

badge and a gun makes certain people do the wrong things at the wrong times... i wish we had more humble police helping us here... we are all not pot smoking, tree hugging hippies... some of us work, live , love and contribute here.... we need not be treated like we are smuggling something or being dishonest when we say we are helping someone evacuate or are simply trying to go home after a 72 shift at the hospital...

im spent and keep promising to do things im not able to do... so thank you all my bomb ass readers for your wicked support and checking in and your comments... im here, availible for what ever... just cant do my usual blog routine as of yet... ive lurked in several places this week and looks like you guys are keeping it up, so gla to be a part!!! have a safe and sound evening....




yeah, enjoy all the speeling and punkuation errors... i, uh... left them in on porpus!!!


*slinks off, feeling stupid that he cant spell on top of everything else*

ANOTHER FAST ONE

so big sur is on fire again... the girls are quite stressed out that it may affect/burn their dads house.... its huge and i guess there has also been a massive rock slide as a result of the fire. i spent several hours yestarday listening to the scanner and trying to take photos of the massive thunder and lightning storm that hung directly over us. massive. hope my photos work out, i'll post them if they do! today is the memorial service for my friends husband... over a month has past and it seems like yesterday that all went down in the garage...
im slowly loseing speed and momentum at work and in life.... im always tired, a fucking grouch, too lazy for much sex and sick off and on constantly... i never took that vacation and i need it...
anyways, hope yer weekends have been great and i'll be back to commentsie backsies and all that jazz soon!!!!

man oh man...

so the suffering still continues... to top it all off its so damn hot here (over one hundred degrees) that i cant hardly tell if the sweatyness I'm experiencing is from the heat or coming from my ass....

anyway, I'm still too fucked up to post anything of any substance so here is a link i thought was interesting for those of you who have a cell phone and are thinking of purchasing a new one. this might help sway your decision one way or another...

I'LL BE MIA FOR A BIT LONGER

so ive been to the city and back, weve lost all the water at our house... twice, my cousin from canada rolled up from l.a. after buying a monster truck, i had the worst case of acid reflux in my life and spent the night outside naked barfing on my feet, took off work today to recover... i'll be back kids! thanks for checking in!!!!!!

AS LIFE WOULD HAVE IT

cheating on the Internet for just a moment! thank you all for your comments on my last several posts!!! I've been trying to get this crane finished so things slow down here at work. incredibly busy, whew!!! then this morning we have no water at our house!! three women and no water, i cant begin to tell you what kind of issue that would be by lunch time... i found the problem and didn't have all the parts so the landlordian is coming up today... I'm hoping to get off work early enough to catch him on site and not have him running around the property un-supervised!! hahaha... miss you all and will try to come back this evening... we have a new phone service/setup at our house and it doesn't seem to wanna let me get online... grrummmpppfff...

EDIT: no shit storm as of yet, i did think at first that the "no water" at my house this morning might have had something to do with sabotage... but no, just broken male pipe thread fittings... beau will now be wearing a "slip fit" muzzle in the mornings for his poop and pee time. i cant think of another way to let him out to do his business long enough in the mornings with out some sort of adult supervision. and when ever he is out on our property he will have to wear one. our other neighbors dog bit buddies wife/girlfriend last month... i think there might be some merit to the theology "laws of attraction". they must be thinking that they are going to be bit. and besides the guy was trespassing and driving his dirt bike on my private driveway/road. he has a water system down at the creek that he accesses through our property. his actual easement is through our other neighbors yard, not ours... push comes to shove, i didn't see it happen, so i cant be sure it was my dog, he was trespassing and I'm sure i have bigger guns next to my front door than he can carry on his dirt bike!!!

I'll try to give you a better post soon! tomorrow i have to drive up to Hayward to pick up our transmission!(hopefully)

damn man...

my dog bit the neighbor i dont know on the arm a couple of good ones this morning.... we will see what level of shit storm this brings down upon me.... fuck.

friends

we are headed over to my friends house whose husband hung himself last manth to d a bit of surprize gardening. he used to do a bit of garden work and her yard has since turned in to the dog shit zone... so some people got together and organized a yard day... they got a truck load of good soil and several pallets of sod, a truck load of bark mulch and some cool prefab fencing. she has a jappanese tea garden in its begining stages and we will finish it off. many plants and bulbs(i know its a bit late for those, but they will be nice to watch grow for her in the years to come...) have a great saturday kids and i'll be back...

I FEEL A BIT OF POWER DRINKING COMING ON!

today was pure hell... my parts didn't show up, we had part of the "dream team" show up and start welding and grinding metal on the table right next to a freshly rebuilt eight thousand dollar engine head. "

"I'm over it! your fucking dream boys out there just wasted a week of work!" i said as i blasted through the office to get some final paperwork done.

"why don't you work on your conversation skills there, sweat pea." my boss responds.

"i told them this morning that they shouldn't weld on my tables today, i put a shop cloth over the engine head and reminded their foreman that they are not to be welding around the crane. they used my shop cloth to cover the bullshit they are working on and left my shit out in the open, they are filling it with metal shavings!!! i unplugged the grinder, told him to weld on the bench in the shop and don't fuck with my shit. he looked at me and tried to plug in the grinder to keep working." i stammered.

"what do you want me to do about it?" he causally asks as he turns up the volume on the computer while streaming the golf masters...

"nothing, i cut the fucking cord off the grinder and ripped the breaker out of the breaker box for the welders. it should take the rest of the day for them to fix it and the, the beginning of the week for "big cheese" to tear the head back down and clean it out! do what ever the fuck you want, I'm outta here! thanks for all your help!" i damn near yelled.

his face drops and he runs out into the shop....

have a nice weekend folks, I'm hitting the sauce.

cheese and i were checking out all of nations bitchin garden posts as of late and she was feeling my garden post did not do us very much justice! (there is three different links there, if you hadn't already figured that out!) so she has volunteered to take some real pictures and do some guest posting here on the voices!
as i was telling nations earlier, it is quite important for us to feel like we are "keeping up with the Johnson's" and our garden will not be out done! so cheese will be here in the next few weeks or so with her version of our garden... and perhaps even learn the importance of commentsie backsies too!
this day has been the fourth day in a row of work hell kids and i have nothing new to add or to enrich y'alls life with today so enjoy yourselves (but not too much, especially under the desk at work!) and have a great day!!!

something political!

well, in California we have just finally legalized gay marriage... I'm down with that. i mean who gives shit anyway, its a failing institution anyway... i see it all over. I'm in the middle of someone who is working on terminating theirs... so i think everyone should have the right to fuck up their lives they way they see fit!!!

for a different perspective go here! random has a solid relationship with her man, and i am happy for her and her random man!!!

anyway, i liked the motivational poster and thought id rummage up some drivel so i could post it! now, seeing the rainbow sticker on cars will bring a whole new image to my mind!!! i love rainbows!!!

nothing new as i am spent

today I'm spent. two kids to call helpers today and a slew of fucked up shit at work. wrong part, people wanting stuff loaded all day, a truck that needs a major clutch adjustment, a dozer that needs seals, i still need to tear into the crane turret... etc, etc, blah, blah, blah....

I'm beat kids and its finally getting warm outside... nothing like two hundred degree hydraulic oil running down your arm and face and it being over eighty degrees outside... yeah, I'll stop boring you!

thanks for all the nice comments on cheeses garden! she will be undoubtedly pleased!!!

some more phone pics

these are our seven foot tall peas!! and a baby Japanese maple tree. (never mind that...)
a lousy shot of our gray water garden. it gets all the water from the upstairs laundry and sinks and tub.... cali-lillies, mint, abijillion kinds of flowers and wild strawberries....

these are the first beds i built almost two years ago. we way over seeded them and have not had to touch them since. they just keep pounding out new and different flowers year round. even in the snow...

our pumpkin patch next to "the swimming pool". notice the four different types of grapes on the fence behind?!?!
in this picture we have another shot of our peas, next to the carrots and radishes, beets, chard, corn and bush beans. cheese has two different types of egg plant and three different peppers. the raspberries are just getting established.
another shot looking down at it all with small view of the yard in front of the house...
here's a further back view of some other beans and purple potatoes, four varieties of lettuce, volunteer tomatoes and flowers and such.

oh, our soon to be record breaking sunflower. this beauty started in the middle of winter and is already over seven feet tall. its been growing over a few inches a day! I'm bummed i didn't get any shots of our fourteen varieties of tomatoes... anybody have any ideas what the small black spots on the leaves on our "early girls" are... they already are producing some tomatoes, but are getting these spots on their lower leaves...

cheese also just planted a bunch of different squash and zucchinis... so when this shit all starts producing vegetables i expect y'all to be at our door step with your Sunday bests and big empty baskets to help cart it all away!!! this is what i have as far as a post today!!

WOW!

LOTS BEEN GOING ON HERE ON THE VOICES THIS WEEKEND IT LOOKS LIKE! asides from the drunken partying, gardening(which i brought pictures of) and weekend revelry there seems to have been a lot more going on that i missed out on.

today i have cheeses dad, aka: the big cheese, here again helping me again and as an added bonus I'm babysitting, errr... guiding another one of of head honchos children into the glorious world of diesel mechanics today and for the rest of the week!!

so I'm fucking busy, alas... I'll try to sneak back here at lunch... but a couple of immediate things...

first nations! thanks for pimping me out on your blog, i got mad traffic that day and loved your post!

suz, ??? what happened? I'm so out of the loop, but I'll track back and see if i cant figure it out...

everyone else, thanks for all your awesome comments and replies and will get back to you all shortly!!!

if anyone can clue me in as to what was happening around here while i was gone that would be great!!!

WOAH, HOLY SHIT!!!!!

as you all may know, I've been working on our crane. thirty minutes ago my helper(who is about two hundred and twenty pounds) climbs up on to it(the fenders are ten feet in the air) and decides he is going to fall off backwards. I'm watching him as he grabs a hoist strap and unhooks it as he falls backwards off the fender towards two full 55 gallon hydraulic barrels.

BLAM!!!

buddy hits his hand on the barrel as he plunges to the ground back first with the loosened strap firmly in his grasp...

DUFF.... he hits the ground on his back and with a whiplash motion smacks his head onto the compacted decomposed granite.

i put my hand on his chest to see if he is still breathing, nope....

i talk to him and tell him to "FUCKING BREATH DAMMIT!"

his eyes are open but not pointing in the same direction. one is looking over my left shoulder and the other is kind of swirling around in circles in the sky. his heart starts pounding!!!

"OH BOY, BUDDY, YOU BEST START FUCKING BREATHING"

"GASP, SNORT, BUWHAAAA..." he exhales gasping for air as blood starts oozing from his nose...

"keep on breathing asshole..." i say while frowning at him...

"fuck you, my back hurts... " he replies and tries focusing in on my face.

"yeah, good. you just fell like ten feet. remember that?"

"yeah, i do, my back..." he groans and closes his eyes...

"keep your fucking eyes open and stay still. do you want some water?"

we shoot the shit for a minute and he lets go of the strap finally. hes bleeding from his hand a bit and wipes the blood from his nose... he lifts his legs and turns his head and i help him roll over onto his side.

"hey, help me up..."

"fuck you... you think i want my back to hurt as well?"

we go into the office and i sit him down and give him some water. call the health center and they are out to lunch... I'll be leaving to take him there in a few minutes...

ever seen anybody "knocked the fuck out"? crazy shit man.... have a good weekend all!!!

go green!!

this is one of our excavators in action!

sweet, sweet action!!!

this is actually a comment i left over at csi Seattle's blog. he was having some troubles with a few commenters about one of his posts. he drives a big truck and enjoys it. some folks didn't appreciate his enjoyment or his big truck. left him some not so nice comments and he didn't like that at all...

its a big truck truck, who gives a shit. I'd drive a jacked up hummer if i had the money, my licence plate would read "yeah i am that asshole you bitch about."

i am the kid in school your parents warned you about as well...

i wanted to give him my side or version about how i feel about these high and mighty folks who "care so much about the planet". here was my comment, in case he deletes it. he doesn't want heat in his comment box and this might stir it up over there. sorry csi...


"that's pretty ff-ing funny if you ass me. the drama that is... I'll give you another side of the truck driving/gas wasting vs.hypocritical save the earth angle... where i work the trucks are all big. massive. our smallest truck is a crew cab f-250 long bed. we have transfer haulers that average about 4-5 miles a gallon (when empty of dirt, equipment, etc), transport trucks, portable concrete batch plants, thirty some odd pieces of equipment ranging from backhoes to bulldozers, (bigger than tanks, try a cat d-9 on for size)anyway, where we live folks are all about building green and carbon footprint, blah, blah, blah... do you know what it takes to build this stuff? first any of the materials found in these homes is manufactured "somewhere" right? well then its shipped via cargo ship, train, plane, transport hauler, etc... across the globe to the home site... which uses fuel, oil, kills animals in various ways right? then we haul our soot belching equipment to the pristine ocean view they spent millions buying,(i wont get into the evils of money here)and we dig. disrupting local plants and animals, ripping out trees and the like.then we line the dirt with various forgien materials, anti moisture barriers, plastics and treated gravels...lay a foundation you say? well then we bring in more trucks and pumps and will spread hundreds of yards or concrete embedded with fiberglass which will encase miles of wires and plastic tubing and conduits, galvanized pipes and the like...the wood used to form these foundations is normally discarded... thousands of board feet of lumber dumpstered... then we haul off your dumpsters in our d.o.t. rated dump trucks...when this is all done we dig large holes in the earth and install huge fiberglass tanks and trench in hundreds of feet of plastic piping so they can have the ease of flushing a toilet... then fifty or more feet of "leach fields" where the excess "black water" will run off and into the ground for years to come...lets take a little break here and realize that you cant get the next phase of your "green built" home done without construction work and construction workers. they will not be hauling their equipment and building supplies there on top of their prius or echo. they will need trucks, lots of them, four wheel drive versions to get up the dirt road we hacked into the side of the mountain and over the bridges we built with steel shipped over from china and Taiwan...when all this is done, the customer would generally like several back-up power options installed in to the network of the house. so we install generators and solar systems... (did you know it takes more energy and electricity to build a solar panel than it will ever produce in its life time?!?! ever! it could produce power for a hundred years and still not even come close... just thought you should all know that.) now the home owner will want to protect their home homes with some commercial grade chemicals rights? stains and weather proofing and the like right? i know there are some organic paints and stains, i have them in my home. but the average home builder does not like the maintenance involved with these products, so they use the ones with m.e.k. nasty stuff, makes babies with three arms and shit...then they will need to get water, either by drilling into the earth and finding it or tapping into a spring or pulling it from a nearby creek. more pipes, more wires, more fuel/energy/plastics into the air... and it lowers the aquifer an/or surrounding creeks.now they move in and want shit like t.v. and phone, perhaps some high speed Internet. more trucks show up and hack down some trees and set up plastic dishes and telephone poles and more cables and wires and fiber-optic nonsense.
is your home feeling green now?
so when you are out driving around in your hybrid feeling smug about how you are saving the world one step at a time your not... unless you live in a hollowed out tree stump and fly a kite to work, you are no better than anybody else who drives a four wheel drive truck to work and gets a sense of enjoyment out of it..."



wait until i post about how California should secede from the nation and we should start a "don't ask, don't tell policy with our working friends from the south....

what to do....

can you spell "icup"?

last week i purchased some limited editioned works from iksodas and simply fucking love them! i gave one to denim for his birthday and hoping it all goes well for him. and the other will replace one of the pieces i have up on the wall now. with that one being gently jacketed and placed in my fire resistant case... thing of it is i usually try to not buy more than one at a time and never more than one a month... yet here i am interested in yet another print from a new photographer (a new one to me that is)... i also try and give myself several artists and prints to choose from... so i can hem and haw and check them out a million times before i do any negotiating... there have been times where i whip out the wallet and buy, buy, buy... that has produced varied results... sometimes to my excitement the prints come and I'm fucking blown away.(this months purchase for example) other times not so much.

i once received the wrong image from a guy in Israel, "no problem, I'll send the correct one this minute!" he said.

"don't you want this one back?" i asked

"no, keep it. my mistake is your good fortune."

turns out the new photo he sends me is also #19/20 (hmmm...) and for the price i paid for the first one, i wasn't to sure that i was getting such a rare piece. now they sit in a plastic jacket buried under some of my earlier, less informed purchases.

there is so much wonderful art out there and id love to have it all on the walls or sitting in my private archive but i don't have the money.. "poor me huh, not enough money to buy art? too bad eh?." people are starving and I'm worried about which piece to buy... well i work my ass off for a living and i do deserve to treat my self in the fashion in which suits me best! hah!

bet you didn't see that coming did you...

anyway, I'll put it to you readers, I'm looking at an image from btcharles at the moment titled "finally". great pic! well shot and good depth eh? if any one has another artist or image they think i might look at to give my self a choice and not just have a buy or not to buy decision I'd love the feed back. i wont tell you what he might want for this image, so its up to you to decide what i might pay and what i might enjoy...

its not a contest. there is nothing to win, but I'll link all your suggestions on a post and give you full credit if i purchase something... how bout it!?!?!

sorry just another funny picture for today kids

i found this one a while ago and was perusing the documents section of the computer that's not mine and i guess i stashed it in another folder... i thought it was a pretty good one! anyways, its wicked windy here today and I'm stuck working outside. hope all is well in the interwebulon for you!!

JUST so you all know....

i hate not blogging. i really, really hate the fact that our smartest people on the planet didnt think to invent a longer day! i dont have enough time in the day to accomplish the things i need to get done. why didnt they come up with a thirty hour day? thirty five? lazy fuckers.. i bet they were americans who invented the day, time and all that bullhockey! and since it is so short some things have to suffer. and some things have to be done in the dark. tonight i was gardening in the dark. i love gardening and im damn good at it. it relieves stress and makes me feel good! even in the dark... i enjoy my animals as well... ever pick up a chicken and say hello in the dark? its the funniest thing ever. they are totally blind and out of sorts.... ours are normally extremely friendly but in the dark, they are playdough and you could hang them upside down from one foot if you so desired.....

but then it gets truly dark out...

and you have to go inside....

do chores.

and some more chores...

and you answer some phone calls...

then its past ten oclock and yer tired....

did i mention eating? nope...

did i mention bathing in any fashion? i didnt stink so...

sooo... some things suffer...


im hungry, filthy, tired and havent had a moment to do some of the other things i really enjoy in a while.... or even had energy for it... i often read blogging folk talk about simalar issues and now after two weeks of experiencing the same i concede... i fucking miss blogging and my comments, commenting and reading others blog... i hate catching up and not being apart of fun contests and the like.... im so missing out...

i wont ask to be forgiven or any of that shit, but i wish i had more time to spend in here! i think there should be a sixty hour work week and thirty hour days! not only would we make more money having to work more but there would be more time to screw off on the clock as well!!! and there would be more hours in the day for all the other shit we NEED to do... such as ummmm, drinking!!! having fun, chores(sob) and all that other shit.

i dont know how you folk who watch/have television do it. when i had t.v. i was glued to the box as much as possible... i would never get as much done now if i hit the remote as much as most of the world....

so, the facts.... i miss it here, i wish there were longer days, longer work weeks and more time in the garden...

"thats a post???" you ask... thats what i got!!

I'm not quite sure of what is happening at this ski resort... any ideas....



I'm out of the office for most of the day today, like yesterday and tomorrow. enjoy your work free work day all!!!

A LIST

three days of camping
90 sum odd beers...
four dog fights
one bottle of cora-lay-hoe (really umm good fucking tequilla)
one bottle of hornitos (a not as nice reposado as above)
three big boy pulls from a jack daniels magnum (thats costco size)
two arms completely farmer tanned
one neck cooked the same as above but doesnt hurt as much
three gallons of motor cycle gas
1 quart of race fuel
six pounds of blown snot
twp pounds of wild boar
two dirt bikes
two kids (as far as the ones that we brought, there were at least fifteen there)
sixty people
forty other dirt bikes
one band that forgot their drummer and sucked bad
one band that was really good and started too late to walk the four hundred feet over to watch
...but the music was good
five hours of round trip driving
six hours of packing and unpacking and repacking and unpacking again
two tents

are you picturing this yet?

hundreds of miles of dirt roads and rangers/twig pigs to run from
top speed of sixty three on the dirt bike
eight asprin
twelve cokes
nine red bulls
seven v-8s (the drinks not the engines
one uber drunk guy leaving to meet his wife at about four a.m. who side swiped his wifes car into a jacked up trucks bumper, than almost ran over a guy who fell asleep in a fold up chair sleeping next to the road
two almost really drunk fist fieghts
one wife getting super pissed off that there was no "toiletry bag in the truck where she left it"
one kid crashed a borrowed bike and didnt cry, just told someone to tell her dad to "hurry the fuck up" ened up being hurt fairly bad
two free t-shirts
free admission
pimp camping spot
donated a hundred bucks for next year
mini cheese: "i grabbed second and hammered third like three times today!!!!!"
extra mini cheese: " my half birthday is coming up and i think it would be a good idea if you got me a new dirt bike;'




one drunk, smelly, sauced, tired, smiling, drunk, in trouble with the girl friend for being so drunk when he finally showed up at home hours after he was supposed to, in pain, itchy, sunburnt, ears ringing blogger.



thanks kids for checking in on me this weeek,,,,

work has been a VERY PRODUCTIVE PLACE at the end of the week and this weekend i off set my carbon footprint for the next four years...

i'll be back.