Life is good....

There, I said it, life is good.. Yes it really is. I feel the best I've felt in a long time, maybe even years. I guess moving up the street has been good for me. I have to walk three time as far to go to the store, or anywhere. That's what has been good. In the past few weeks, I've found I can walk farther without stopping to catch my breath and stop less frequently. Besides's, everyone I run into say's I look relly good and ask's how much weight I've lost. Well I must say,I think I've lost some weight, my pants fit less snuggly, or rather loosely depending on which pants I'm wearing. I can say. the pan't I bought in the spring, when I went to my sister's, are definately fitting a lot looser than they did after I bought them. I hope the dryers at the new place shrink them a little, my suspenders are having to work harder at keeping my pants from falling down....LOL I also noticed that some of the cut off's I wear fit a lot better than they did in the beginning of summer. I have tried ti cut down on my food intake and have watched what I drink as far as calories.. I don't drink much soda, and really don't drink that much beer any more. Mostly because i can't afford to. So that's one thing that makes life good.

Another thing is I have a new place to live. I've settled in and seem to get along with everyone in the building. The apartment is really nice, small but nice. My only complaint about the whole place is the fact that the carpet in the apartment is dark red. It shows every little thing as far as dirt,lint of crumbs. So I have to vacuumm about every other day. Or it look's like hell. Oh, well.

Another reason for felling good is the fact that we've had a pretty good summer. Not to hot, not too much rain. Well, maybe I didn't have to worry about the big rain storm of the summer. I've only had to walk downtown in the rain only once this summer. So I've been luccky.

Well this weekend we might get some rain from the tropicla storm Ernesto. But, I'll have manhattan fixin's so when Art comes home this weekend, we'll have something to do if it's to wet out.......

Well that's it for now, keep your stick on the Ice.............

Life after the Fair..

Well we finished the parking at the county fair. We got wet on Saturday as well as a little on Sunday. If it wasn't for that we would have had another stellar week. But you have to take the rain with the sunshine. Hopefully we will end up with twenty six hundred dollars after the refreshments, pizza and portajohn is paid for. You know, if I don't have another slice of pizza for about a month, it just might be to soon. I love pizza, but enough is enough. Thursday was again the best night. The demo derby and battle of the bands. Our lot was full and the fair's lot was full. We had to turn away a few cars. Some of them called us all kinds of names and such. Well to fucking bad, if you can't get there early enough to get in, after two years
of having capacity crowds, you think people would learn. Oh well.

We had little beer left, we gave it to Ronny, he stores our shed at his place till next year. We took everything down on Monday night and cleaned up the lot. So that's it for the rest of the summer, except for the comming holiday. Then it's get ready for winter. Not that I'm wishing for winter. But were on the downside now and hopefully we will have a long and warm fall.

Maybe in the next few weeks, I'll be able to go visit my sister before it gets to cold at the lake....

That's it for know, Keep your stick on the ice........

parking week

Ah, it's fair parking week. Our Kiwanis club is parking cars in a lot adjacent to the Fairgrounds.We've been doing it for several years as a fund raiser. We have had two decent nights as far as weather. Tonight's the big night. There is a battle of the bands that draws a crowd. And of course the Demolition Derby, that will really pack in the demo fanatics. Last year we had almost 500 cars in our lot. But what makes it tuff this year, is they say that because of the way the trailers are parked in the Fair's lot, they lost about 100 to 200 parking spaces, and another private lot, is not open this year, so we will be very busy.

I'm pooped this morning. I had a Doctors apointment in Herkimer yesterday morning. I walked down and got the bus to Herkimer, and of course I had to get dropped off at the old Vampire Diner,(Empire Diner), the bus driver said that they don't drop people off on the main road, so I have to get off at the diner. Bullshitt. Their bus schedule has it printed that they drop and pick up people at the Kmart and Bassett Healthcare as well as The diner. Fuck em. It was a substitute driver so I guess he wanted to be an asshole. I had to walk down and back to the Doctors office. So I had a lot of walking yesterday. Plus helping park the cars at the lot last night and I guess I got a little extra excercise. It was difficult getting out of bed this morning and I'll bet I'll be sleeping in tommorrow morning.

If tonight's anything like last year, we will be swamped with cars and traffic will be backed up both ways on route 5S at the exit's. Lat year the Fair's lot was full and the other private lot was full, they even sent a cop down to direct traffic in front of our lot to direct people into our lot because of the others being full. We are trying to get our people up there early to get things going and hopefully we will have enough help to park all the extra cars.

Of course we have plenty of refreshments and we order pizza ever night. Hopefully we don't run out of refreshments. (Refreshment's =beer and for the non drinking people, soda}. We also have our Fall Raffle tickets for sale, so if youwant to get into our raffle stop by and pick up a ticket.......


well that's enough for now, I'll let everbody know how we made out thjis week. TTFN...............


Oh by the way, Keep your stick on the Ice...

parking week

Fruit and Veggies......

Well it has been a good morning. My cable was installed this morning. They ahd me be home from 8am to 12 noon. Well he came about 9 am,so it wasn't a wasted morning... Wow I can get clear channels... It's been weird, watchin snowy and fading in and out channels for two month's. I had a good amount of time left in the morning, so I took a walk. I just stopped in to the old liquor store to see whats going on. I was sitting down at the desk using their computer to check my email, and someone came in and asked how to get a hold of old DM.... Well it was my buddy Art's dad. He was looking for directions to my place or how to get a hold of me. Well he had some goodie's for me. His friend brought him some tomato's and some beans, (Italian type), so I got a nice bag of veggies as well as a half a watermelon. Ge now that's a nice surpirse. I was just thinking about green beans and tomatoes.. I've been looking around and haven't seen to many tomato's or beens at the stands this year. I know it's not that early, but with the weather we've had , it's been a tough year for veggies.. I heard this is going to be a great year for apples... Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!....can't wait..

Well it's a nice morning... Guess I'll walk home and cook up some beans and have a tomato salad for lunch.


TTFN

Another Sunday and not much going on. Just me and my computer and of coarse the TV. The Brickyard is on . I haven’t been following the Nascar seen much this year. Just been to busy getting ready to move and moving, then unpacking and all that shit. Jeeze, I could always have a few Manhattans to make the day go by a little easier if I was into a solitary drunk. But alas I’m not in the mood. The weather has kind of gotten better out. Yesterday was really nice, not to hot. Humidity was not to bad. I even walked down to the store to get bread and a few things. This week I need to see about getting cable turned on. Just the cheap ass channels. I can’t afford anything more. Oh well, just thought I’d post my boring day….. I guess it could be worse. TTfn

?^$%^$*&^Computer / f'n humidity

Well I’ll try this again. You know it really pisses me of when this fuckin computer screw’s up. It just kicked me out of the word possessor for no apparent reason.
I was writing about how freakin humid it is this morning. It’s so f’n humid, it’s like breathing through a extremely wet sponge. I knew it was going to be a tough day to breath, I woke up and had to use my nebulizer even before I made coffee this morning. But when I stepped out to walk down to Rite Aid for my prescriptions, It felt like I hit a brick wall. It was just plain stifling.
What else is there to complain about today….. Let’s see, were any of you out in the heat the last two day’s. Yesterday I went grocery shopping in the morning. Not to bad out, but bringing them in was really hard. Just took so long to get them all up into the apartment. I was soaking wet with perspiration. I had to change my cloth’s they were so wet. Almost all my frozen food was thawed. But I guess I got them in the freezer just in time.
I haven’t drank anything but water and Koolaid type drinks the past three days. No alcohol or anything else. Which is good in this weather. But you know, I could go for a nice cold beer right now. Maybe a nice bottle of Labatts or even a bottle of Saranac Pale Ale. Or even a bottle of Sam Adams. Oh well not for a while…… Hope we get the rain, not that we need it, but it might cool down and get ride of the humidity. Maybe this weekend I’ll get a six pack or my luck a twelve pack of beer…….. Till then, I’ll just have to wait to see if it cools down a little………… TTFN

After the Storms….. Wow…..

I guess we have somewhat survived the last few weeks of freaky weather. Now we get the 90 to 100-degree temps. I guess Mother nature is really keeping us guessing. I’ve survived the heat and humidity pretty well. I’ve been rained on a lot, but a little water never hurt no one. But I sure wouldn’t want to be anyone that was flooded out. You know, they still don’t know if that was a tornado in Utica on Saturday. I hear the National Weather Service is going to be in Utica today to check out the damage and weather related information. That would be really cool. An f’n tornado in Utica…..

I feel sorry for anyone who got caught in the storm Saturday. I heard it caught a lot of people off guard at the Irish Festival at the Fair Grounds. They still had a good turn out from what I heard. I know they had lots of Guinness beer flowing. I really think the Whiskey Distributors and the organizers should get involved in this and get a temporary license to sell Irish Whisky. I heard there was a lot of people looking for Irish Whisky.

I was hoping my sister would call or email me as to if I could come out this summer to visit, and I still have stuff at the other apartment she could help me get to my new place. I have just my tools and fishing tackle and my marble top table to bring up. Should be able to get it hear in one trip. I’ve kind of gotten used to living up in the manor…. I have to use my oxygen tanks a lot more than before. I have to take the tank with me when I walk down street. It would take me way to long and make it difficult to get down and back home.

I wonder how Sue’s new puppy Lulu and her dog Tucker are getting along. I think those two are going to be a handful. I have to meet Lulu, she’s so cute… Oh well…. Guess I’ll just wait and see……
Ttfn……………………………….