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Tin Pan Alley Buffet

I saw this meme on facebook. Reminded me of a childhood memory. Circa 1980 my paternal grandparents, known to us as Grandpa and Grandma Basil, took us out to eat at this restaurant called Tin Pan Alley, in Bradenton, Florida. I was a very finicky eater as a child. So when he ordered the buffet […]

A St. Patrick’s Day Story

Know what I can’t stand? Corned beef. You know the Go-Fucking-To lucky meal of the holiday. Besides haggis. Tried it once. Corned beef, not haggis. You’ll never get me to try haggis. I sometimes like to say, “I’ll try anything once!” But no. As my wife is fond of saying, “That’s the exception that proves the rule.” And if you know my wife, she never says that. In fact, she hates when I say it.

Me vs. The Tarantula

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Gp7HwwM6s Got into a fight this morning with a tarantula. I hate spiders.

Crotchity Dog

We adopted this little dog over the weekend; it’s a mix between Terrier and a rat (Chihuahua). One of our goals for the new house is to get a dog and cat (the cat is for me). We’re half way to that goal now. When we returned home for the day a couple days ago, […]

2 Lessons Learned

Last weekend I rode with my HOG Club to Tombstone, Arizona. It was pretty fun. We left Friday morning and made our way west via the back roads; riding through Columbus, NM, Douglas, AZ, Bisbee, AZ, and finally up into Sierra Vista, AZ, where we had our reservations. Everyone pretty much went their separate ways […]