The Road less traveled

Isn't it amazing that after all these years, the things you want most in life are the things you have always had in front of you all those years. I guess we take time to understand what is important and what is wishful thinking. Sometimes I believe it is better to have been raised with hardships to further understand the need to get up when you are down and start again. Unfortunately, I think we have spoiled our children into believing that life is a "piece of cake" and that you can get anything you want when you want it. Furthermore, I think we have allowed them to live the good life at our expense and now the chickens are coming home to roost. Maybe they all needed to live on Penn Street a few years to understand the meaning of working to get out. This is undoubtedly the difference between McCain and Obama, McCain came up the hard way and Barack had it handed to him. Maybe we have finally come to the time when the younger generation will put us on an ice float and drift us out to sea. Maybe we have now lasted far longer than necessary and have become the doddering old folks they visit occasionally but of course they pay us no mind, as our information and experience are of a time gonebye and not relevant to their new world. I can sit here and remember when getting 3 channels of UHF was the most exciting thing to happen to us, now it is Ipods, Bluetooth, and whatever else they can think of that I cannot imagine how to operate. I can remember when my Mom and Dad insisted we watch "Lawrence Welk", oh how we hated that night, I now wonder do our children think we are the same as our "NUTS" parents, as we thought then. Well one thing is for certain, whoever said "What goes around, comes around", certainly hit the nail on the head. Well, reat assured this Blog will continue until I am in the Nursing home and being used as someone to say, "Oh Poor Dad, he is so old and does not understand us at all"..
Well until next time, keep waking up each morning just to spite them!!
Oh, by the way, SAM the Phils are a game out.......

Wandering in the Desert

Well I tried to watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics last night, obviously, I have way too much time on my hands! Sorta reminded me of Ralph Macchio, wax on wax off!! It was Definetly a spectacle, but then again at my age, a squirrel running across the lawn is a spectacle! I read where the Russians have invaded a portion of Georgia(the republic of Georgia), sounds like an adventure! It appears Oil prices have started to show a decline, and the price of Gas here in Central Florida has dropped to $3.61 a Gallon, and the Market is showing signs of improvement, however, the Housing market remains stagnant and sales are still considerably off. I have begun to realize that retired takes work, you now must wake up each morning and find a reason to get out of bed, on my part, I still work a full-time job, but it is still tough to remember that there is something going on outside your Gated Community! If I did not read the Newspaper(Village Sun which is a newspaper that never has any bad news), I would be totally lost! What I find fascinating is that we have dozens of Clinics, Urgent Care Centers, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, etc, but not one Funeral Home(It appears no one ever dies here), sounds like a plot to me!! Life here is more like STEPFORD everyday, Pool, Mail, Walk, Pot Luck Suppers, Kibitzing with the neighbors, and going out to eat, everything planned and scheduled! It is a Major event when a police car turns on their siren(WOW)!! Lady Lake is a community that has a Town Hall, Sheriff's Dept and 100's of shops and malls, and of course the ever presented Laser Surgery clinics, and more Medical Centers than people! Ramblings are what I live for, so this peiece should give me new hope.. As for the boys in PA, Sam has his golf and is Beginning to prepare for the revisitation of the Snow Mobiles across his land this winter, and of course he is still hoping that the now Potentless Phillies rally and make it to the Series(And I thought I was a dreamer!!), Jase is preparing for busy as a Dance Instructor(At least he has given up his recreational attacks on the Possum, Badger, or whatever was invading his yard!), and finally there is Sully, the Robe wearing Patrone of the Au Natural acreage he calls home, Sully missed his calling(VITO CORLEONE). Well until next time, I will be Wandering in the Desert.

Elementary Watson!!

Well it is a rainy day in Florida, one of the 22 days a year it actually rains.. Football season is just around the corner, as a matter of fact the Redskins and Colts play Sunday night. I really have no idea where this blog is going today, but in time I will know. I guess I need to go to a movie soon, the last one I saw was the Bucket List and I am afraid that seeing another movie would be disappointing. Is it just me or has Television gone haywire, I think they need to start rating the TV shows for Language and Nudity, It appears that anything except the "F" word is now allowable. When did this Phenomenon take place, I must have been asleep when it happened. I have yet to figure out the "X" games, seems like it is about the same as Wrestling was for the Rednecks at one time. By the way, have you noticed that "Rednecks" is now "chic"!! I do rather enjoy the lack of clothing for women on the TV! I am about tired of all the "Reality" shows, I mean let's get real, who cares who has the Best Dog in America, don't they still lick their asses like all the others?? How many Dance shows can one person tolerate. Why not make "Reality TV" really about reality, let's start televising executions from the Prison system, or Beheadings from the Arab world! Nothing like a good execution on a Friday night at 11:00... Oh, and why is it that every day at least twice a day they feel a need to tell me that in February 2009, there will be no reception with Rabbit Ears, only Digital, wouldn't it be easier to go door to door for the 22 people who still have rabbit ears!! I have yet to figure out why places have cups of pennies by the register, would it not be easier to round it off? If you steal some pennies and live in Texas and already have two strikes, do you go to jail for life?? I am sure of one fact however and that is that more people in Florida run their cars into houses than any other state in the nation! I live in a "Gated" community of over 55 yrs old, but it really is not a "Gated" community most days because the residents fail to wait for the gate to open and end up ripping it off. I guess that makes it a Semi-gated community. Do you think if Barack is elected he will address this problem with the gates in my community?? There is one question that I have no answer for, and that is how is John "Mummy" McCain still within range of Barack, sounds to me like not everyone outside the media is so sure Barack is for real. I am thoroughly convinced that ABC, CNN, and MSNBC have not gotten the memo that John is actually still alive and running... What is wrong with having your Grandfather as President?? Why do markets, fruit stands, delis, etc, give you product to taste, do they want to be sure it is still good? Why fo the Walmart Women at the Deli counter show you the slice and ask if it is the right cut, It would be better if they just listened to what you are actually saying.. Speaking of Walmart, with the Olympics in 6 days, does Walmart close since they can get no shipments from China?? How many Walmarts are enough, I have 3 Walmarts in a 5 mile radius and now they are building a Sam's Club, Maybe they should consider building them next door to each other to save space.. What ever happened to all the fuss over the Border, did all the Mexicans go home while I was asleep?? I paid $3.65 for gas today and believe it or not I was happy, well I guess Exxon made it's point!! This is a bit of rambling, so I guess I really did not have much to say afterall.. Well lastly, the Phillies lost again last night, and of course Sam is convince it is only temporary.. Sully is now in a battle in his backyard, fortifying his barricaded garden from the Vermin(Deer, Possums, Badgers, and a Buffalo or two), Sull also has the meanest Geese on earth. What I find fascinating is that the critters can actually find his garden amongst the Au natural landscaping!!! Let's talk tradition, there is a tradition that on Saturdays, you go to Sully's for coffee, which he makes in a coffe pot that preceded Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, strongest coffee on God's earth, nonetheless, everyone still attends for the pleasure of watching the ceremonius making of the coffee. On a good day Sully has 1/2 & 1/2, but this is not the rule, after an hour or so of polictical and sports debating and pulpit preaching, it is time to "Walk around the Pond", undoubtedly most Saturdays the trip around the poind is in mud, but then if the Pond walk were discontinued, where would Sully smoke?? So, if you are not covered in Mud or attacked by the Geese, you can come back again the next Saturday and enjoy the frivolity again. I was a particpant in those Clandestined Saturday gatherings for 3 years, the best 3 years I can remember, because with all it's downfalls and pitfalls, it was truly a gathering of Friends that cared about each other, I will sorely miss those days and will miss even more, Sam, John, and Sully, and the Saturday mornings when you could leave the world behind and just talk with your closest friends for a few hours without being judged, criticized, or questioned. Life was meant for those moments, and I miss them and my Friends. Cie La Vie.

Brittany/Paris/Barack

Well it seems that we have now reached an all time low in campaigning, Comparing Barack to Brittany and Paris, how demeaning, I think Brittany and Paris should be rightfully offended by such character assasinations!! Why would Barack be concerned about what McCain says, he should be more worried about what Jesse says!! By the way, has anyone seen or heard from Hilary lately?? I bet Bill would like to be with Paris and Brittany!! Should I decide to vote which at best is very doubtful, I am going to cast a vote for either Sully, who's blogs make more sense than either McCain or Obama, or I am voting for someone who is trustworthy, honest, and has the experience necessary to lead, unfortunately those people are all DEAD!! So left with the minimal choices we have, I think I will continue to lay by the pool and get a tan aned to hell with who gets elected!!!! To Sully, it was not the same without you here the last two weeks, and by the way, Johnny(The Weiner is most circles) was his usual self, I will leave the interpretation to you.. My wife is still reeling from the visit, Cie La Vie!!! Anyway, back to the topic at hand, What makes more sense, A Virtual Idiot for president or a Mummy?? I guess left with no alternative I will give the Mummy my vote and hope he lives through an inauguration ceremony that may just tax his feeble body to the enth degree!! Or maybe I will vote for Forest Gump, or maybe one of them really is Forest Gump!!
Well until next time, Good Night Mrs. Calabash
And to Sam: The Phillies are going to torment you all summer!!