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For many years I considered getting a Harley. Different excuses over time kept it on the back burner. It didn't fit the snarky, inner city special education teacher motif, but in the end, neither did I. Many times out riding with my best friend (who passed in July 2016) I would've preferred...

My two daughters just finished the 2016 Winter Aquatic Club Championship Meet with an undefeated season and victory against the only other undefeated team in the league. Our Girls and Boys Teams both won the Championship meet! It was very close and came down to depth. Girls: 343-303, Boys...

Yeah, life goads is, as Masefield wrote, "to urge to heights as yet unguessed!" Some of us urged by voices along the way, while others of people along the line. My parents were both dead when I was 29. I struggled to get my voice for years, but there was an anchor. My Mother's best friend from...

"I will be a gym jumper just to find a Pilates workout!" "I can't get a solid pump without doing DBell presses from a ball!" I am sending this now and it's 4:20. I officially retire Mrhtbd has officially left the room!

Live on the 2nd floor of a 100 year old farmhouse with a roof pitch of about 15 degrees. The ridge is only 6 feet above the 2nd floor ceiling. There are 2 apartments on the 2nd floor; stairs are outside with a small parlor and 2 doors. The ceiling of the parlor is soffit, with slots cut into it...

"If I want to see boobs, I'll look in the mirror..."; this, from a 5' 4" mother of three with a self proclaimed triple D's!" Hello? If she didn't move so fast I would second guess it! Girls have all the fun parts!

Going through old books and "treasures," that survived the test of time, last night with my 11-year-old daughter, I came across the plastic coated tape measure from my sister's sewing kit that I had used since 1979 to originally take my measurements. I told my daughter about it saying the first...

How many of you older folks have much younger kids? I'm 57 and have 3 kids; a 19 year old son who doesn't give a shit (or so he pretends), he's just as awnry as I was at his age. May have something to do with the fact that his mom died six years ago. Then I have two daughters to my ex-wife; 16...

Mine are: "No More Trifling," "Get on with it," and the retro WWI classic, "Dig deep, while sluggards sleep, you'll have wheat to sow and wheat to eat!" Now that the cycle is charged up, time for some wind in the face...

On my way home in a bit, but before I retire I will put the charger on the Beemer. Hell or high-water tomorrow this Cowboy will ride. Freezing temps are called but my sense of feeling is numb so who cares. Time for some wind! The sun gets higher every day. Grrr, hahahahaaas!

Met a young married couple at dinner last night and they seemed very cool. In retrospect, I don't think I have ever qualified as being "cool," but I kept logging on here over the years because in my eyes many of you are not only cool, but very cool! With no plans for New Years, I wondered...

F-ing medical problems, real or imaginary? Hematuria, blood in the urine, so I had the cat scan today. Can even now relive the heat in the IV passing to my finger tips-flame on! Talk about a pound of flesh. Had only half the stitches cut from my leg yesterday. Told the Doc, "Hey, my calves...

My oldest brother (62) calls me just about every day but Friday he didn't call. A retired welder with one bad eye (wears a patch) he lives in Idaho with a family. He spends 6-10 hours a day walking (because ha can't ride his bicycle any more). Called me yesterday, said he fell asleep on a...

Just left my daughter's high school swim meet. Sat there spectating with my 11year old. Man, I really feel blessed, being there in my children's lives and they appreciating it. Money can't buy that. Now having a sandwich while the girls have a birthday meal with their Grandfather. People here...

Darn, thought I was done with health check-ups for the year but noticed these persistent pains in the upper left quadrant of my abs. Had hiatal hernia surgery 8 years ago (center abs) and they put in some mesh. For the past 2 months, the pain has been constant. I thought it was from the mesh...

I am an old school hairy beast! To younger people this may seem gross, nasty or whatever, but in my defense, the learned trait of what to shave when or how often came "after" my generation reached the working world. Anyway on Tuesday, after I noticed I had lost a few stitches from the surgical...

Surgery today, the Doc cut the squamous cell melanoma off my calf. I froze it first and it came back bigger, then after it healed had a biopsy. She said it's worse than basal cell because if left untreated it could spread to the lymph nodes and from there throughout the body. Glad I found...

Ventured out today. First time in 5 days. Need to pick up the kids for the weekend. Somehow, not having to see the ex for a week was therapeutic, but not thrilled with other people either. Been recouping and eating well; baked chicken, rice beans eggs cheeses and coffee. All I need is a saddle...

In the past 10 years I have had strength issues in both hands but mostly in my right, sometimes making it tedious just to hold a glass of beer (so you know that's bad!). I am right handed. Since the issue prevailed more so after being stabbed in the right forearm in 2009 I correlated the lack...

It's a Verrucous Keratosis; one of the classifications of Seborrheic Keratosis, non-cancerous benign skin growth that begins to form in the keratinocytes, the predominant cell type in the epidermis, the top-most layer of the skin. Verrucous keratosis are visible as the person ages. It 's been...