Music, Music, Music

I just have a question for my loyal 3 readers. Does anyone have music playing in their head almost constantly? I know about voices in the head and Son of Sam incidents where the neighbors dog talks to you, but almost always there is a song I have never heard playing in my head. I think my brain is just trying to entertain itself and it knows I like guitar pop. If you know what that is called please leave a comment. By the way you can catch a little of what I am talking about at www.ohiobriars.com
I am off to watch the rest of M*A*S*H*.
Until the next time I get a bug up my behind,
SF

Flat belly update!

So this diet I have been on ( & off) Is working well. I lost 15 pounds before the end of June. I gained five back by ignoring it and having a massive BBQ. I went back on it Monday and lost 5 pounds in 2 days. If I could afford groceries I would be making the reciepes. So I am highly pleased as I have rarely worked out during the last 6 weeks. When I get down another 10 pounds I might go to the pool and actually get in the water.
Ohhhhhh the humanity.
Sonny "water wings" Fortner

Well...here we go again.

I have a third interview with a fast serve restaurant that serves burritos and pays well. I am not really into a restaurant I don't own but it is alot more cash in the pocket. I will also have an internal interview with my company for finace manager...that's the guy that tells you if'n you can buy a car or not. I want the finance manager job. If you can move up and get on with a GM company or a lot that sells several cars a day, you can make 6 figures. I just have to do something...NOW! I would really miss my job now if I had to go back to restaurants, but I do not think I will get it. My resume looks like a restaurant listing in the yellow pages. It is a transient and job hopping lifestyle. Seeing as how I have to make a certain amount of cash before I could consider moving my family, I have stayed in the same place for about 12 years. If I could get into the high 5 figure range, we might just move. There are other considerations, like weather and distance to our families and cost of living. If I had to leave here I would miss our house, my wifes family, the summers, my band, my few friends and my job. Not necisarially in that order. I would also miss the suburb that I live in. It is quaint, unnerving, quiet, relaxed, whitebread, expensive and very americanna. I have grown fond of the place. But like your favorite pair of socks, it is time to go. It is also time to go to bed and dream up a way to convince the wife-my bestest friend to move away from her family and try a new adventure, before we are too old and settled. I fear it may be too late.
Later,
SF

I meant to tell you.

I meant to tell you about a new word I learned recently. It is called dooced. Click here --->http://dooce.com Dooced means getting fired from your job for what someone at work read on your blog. It can also mean losing your significant other, friends and reputation for just putting it all out there. Heck there are some folks being investigated for what they write on their blog. I won't go into more detail because I don't want the men in the big black SUV's to show up at my house. Check out dooce, she has some interesting stories to tell. While you are at it check out things white people like and click on an add and buy something. Save the economy---namely, Mine.
Nighty night,
SF

Lazy summer days????

Wow! It has been busy here at the house of unmade beds. We had a July 4th cookout with fireworks supplied by the city. The cookout went well I thought and I can officially call it a BBQ. We had 2 pork shoulders that I started at 11am and they slow cooked over hickory wood and lump charcoal for more than 5 1/2 hours. They were the hit of the cookout...er...I mean BBQ. I also had some burgers, the biggest hotdogs I have ever seen, veggie K-bobs (thanks Dallas) and 3 smoked chickens. I worked on the yard for about 2 weeks straight and it did not look half bad for someone who doesn't know anything about yardwork. The flowers we bought last month decided to bloom and look their best on that Friday. It rained off & on until the first guests started showing up around 4:30. I had a great time and would like to thank everyone who was there for coming out. I will do it again real soon. I have already started planning. Next time it will be later and will be adults only. More to come about that in august.
Not much going on here except looking for a new job. Lack of car sales are killing me and I cannot take on a second job right now because it would force me to slack on my first job. I love selling cars-especially to people who really fall in love with said car. I love the cars. Suzuki makes a really nice vehicle. I am not just saying that to promote Suzuki. I deal with all kinds of trade ins and other than a Saab, Lexus, Honda or Mercedes I do not think you can get a better car. For the money you would spend on any of those--you can get a better equipped Suzuki at a great discount. I am just saying that when my lease is up on the monster truck ( Awesome Kong II) I will be buying a Suzuki Grand Vitara, SX4 or the new Suzuki truck the-Equator- Coming out this fall. People complain that they don't get 45 miles MPG & that they cost around $15,000, but go look at cars on the lot after you do some Internet shopping and see what is really out there. You will be surprised. There are no, I mean none, zero, zilch, nada Honda Fits in the area and there is a sign up list for those tiny little wind up toys. The Smartcar is on a 9 month wait up here and the are selling for more than sticker. I almost ran over one yesterday because I did not see it. I sit up higher than most every vehicle on the road and it was hiding behind a GEO Metro. The chick that was driving it was also doing 45 in a 35 and swiveling her head to see who was looking at her.
Maybe I am just bitter & broke and have no one to lash out at, but it seems to me the buying public are a little brainwashed as to what is really going on. Anyone remember the dotcom bubble. Same thing is happening with fuel speculation. Anyone remember the real estate bubble-same thing. Somehow all of this money making is going to draw the common man into investing in the oil/fuel market and then it will crash. By then the guys who got wealthy off of this will be out and the small companies and the little guy will be left holding the bag.
Wow, this started off as a small post but became a rant real quick. So to recap---BBQ good, Car sales bad, panic in the streets, very bad. I am still looking for a job that pays higher than minimum wage and I can be rented for parties, bar mitzvas and weddings----for catering. But I will dress up like a clown for an extra $50.
p.s. My computer seems to have been struck by lightning. It looks like one of those old console T.V.s from the early 70's. I switched monitors so that is not it & I did a system restore back to 2 days before the storm. anyone with any info would help. I have a similar system I can organ farm if needed. Any Ideas?--Uncle Don? Uncle Jeff? David?
Thanks Y'all
SF

Happy Summer

Well, It's getting hotter. I remember my youth in the mid south as being alot of sweaty summers, riding my bike in the dustiest of fields, rolling in the woods and trees and culverts and smelling to high heaven. My mom would sometimes ask-no- demand that I take my clothes off before I came in the house. I am still really good at getting nekkid fast. Sometimes there would be the tic check, I had/have a really thick mop of hair & critters would get in there and try to subdivide. I am still really sensitive to bugs and creatures on my person. The best part of summer was freedom and to a ten year old boy that meant a fully functional bicycle. I would ride as far as my bony little legs would carry me and then I would ride back. I would look for the best hill to jump, the best trails to ride and build the nicest ramps you could out of cast off plywood and cinder blocks. I would never wear a helmet, knee pads or one of those little flags that people have on their bikes. I always rode in the street, up and down hills and through yards. I say this because I now live in the Midwest and I have seen some things that make my stomach twinge and a little bile build up in my throat.

Grown men and women wearing helmets. I can understand if you are on a trail or in a road race that you want that extra safety, I just do not understand why on God's green earth you would wear one whilst riding your Target bicycle, pulling a little toddler carrier, on a side street, doing 6 miles an hour why would you feel that need to get decked out like Lance himself. I understand that you wanna be a good influence on the kiddos and you wanna show them how to do right, but what happened to "do as I say, not as I do"? If you wanna show the kids some real life, take one for the team. Fall down and get a concussion and show them how to shake it off. Get hurt and don't cry about it or try to sue someone.

This in, fact, leads me to my "Rules of the road for bicyclists"

1. Share the road. That goes for you too, family of four taking up all of the road in both lanes.

2. If you are expecting to ride your bike on the street with gas powered HEMI's-there is a speed limit the people that need to get somewhere try to go. You better be doing your best to get to that speed. What I am saying is if you are on a street that has a speed limit of 45 MPH, you should be haulin at all times. Some of us have to be at work soon.

3. If I have to obey rules of the road, so do you. Do not bring your casual riding, taking up all of the lane on a 45MPH road, ATB up to a stop light and then decide you are a pedestrian and you can cross in the ped-xing like you were not just in my lane, dilly dallying and acting like you were annoyed that I was tailing you a mere 2 feet from your back tire. And I swear that if you cross against the light or jaywalk-I promise you this, I will find the nastiest, gooiest substance in my truck and fling it at you when I pass you.

4. Unless you are in a sanctioned event, you do not need the whole pointy helmet, spandexed racing outfit to go with your livestrong bracelet. I throw the football with the kids, play baseball, soccer and tennis. I am never decked out in full pads. When I played football in jr. high/high school, we didn't wear game jerseys to practice in. You look ridiculous-Just stop. Yes we know you spent $5000 on you titanium graphite bike with Italian & carbonite brakes, but you do not have to show off the wiener shorts every Saturday on you casual ride through my neighborhood.

5. For the love of all that is holy, stop telling everyone within earshot that you are doing this for the environment. I just saw you drive up in your Hummer and unload your bike-or better yet your Honda Hybrid that is causing the manufacture of batteries that will affect our landfills for thousands of years after you are dust.

All I am saying is ride you bike for fun, I do, Ride like you are on a bike, not a car and if you are in my lane, ride like you have someplace to be-soon.

And look out for gross projectiles.

Live to ride-Ride to live.

SF

Happy Father's Day

I just wanna say to all the fathers--Happy Fathers day! To all of the Grandfathers, great grand fathers and such-thank you for laying the groundwork. For all of the soon to be and future fathers, you don't quite know what you are in for, but you shall soon find out the true meaning of unconditional love-----and you'll say things your dad said that you said you would never say, like "Don't make me turn this car around and " What did your mother say", and the all time classic" Because I said so".
That's right new fathers, live it & love it cause it will come. If you refuse, your kids will turn into little jerks that do not get invited to the cool birthday parties. Just a warning.
I LOVE YOU DAD! in a manly sort of way.
SF