FUN WITHOUT DRUGS

I recently took a trip to DC with two friends. I realized later that we did almost everything. There were several times that I thought I was going to throw up I was laughing so hard. I was at one point scared for my life. When we realized that the lady behind me on the train, we thought was on her cell phone cussing loudly at her boyfriend, was really talking to a pocket mirror. And I was asked twice by the police to stop taking pictures. There was the silent time on the train when I bet Sam a dollar he couldn't not talk for the rest of the ride. This came after we rode the wrong train, and I bumped my head on a pole to the delight of college girls. We bought records, played poker, smoked cigars, drank coffee, and ate giant burrito's . The only thing I didn't do was have sex with my wife or take hard drugs. But Jeremy and I did spoon, so there's that.

What a Brother Does, and What He Doesn't

My dad used to tell us. A brother never fights with someone else against his brother. You ALWAYS stick up for your brother. I think my dad was John Wayne. I think it was his way of extending his protection to the playground through his covert operatives. Namely my older brother, who was known to think that only he could hit his brothers, everyone else couldn't touch us.

I think the feeling of knowing that at any point in a problem you would have guaranteed help. That's what my dad set up in us. And now I have carried that over to a few very close people. It's not always fighting either, just being there in a time of need. To KNOW that you have a partner, a friend, someone who is fully invested in your problem, it is now theirs. I am thankful I have a God better than all 5 of my brothers.

brothers do fight, but they don't hate.

Balloon Knot

Two words that used to hold another meaning to me have been taken from my vocabulary, ROBBED actually! I am that guy who hears the word balls and wants to repeat it and laugh. I have been polluted, and at the same time I pass on my pollution. The other day when my youngest son called two other kids a couple of retards I knew I had to change. The Lord has been slowly changing my heart for sometime. And that is what it will have to be, a heart change, because like Sam my mouth is about 20 miles ahead of my mind and 40 miles ahead of my heart. But I am aware and I am making the change. But the hard part is that it is bloody funny, I mean Balloon Knot come on that is good, but not as good as "tar star"

Sorry God ... again