HEY ALL!! Well have you been wondering why soooo much on baseball cards and music lately?  Well with good reason. When I would have a bad day, too long of a day, frustrating day, you know one of those "momma told me there would be days like this" kind of day, I would start washing off the bad vibes with music. YES, usually the Rolling Stones, and go from there. And if I had the next day off, I would finish the washing with a good long baseball card session. Well my SUDDEN retirement has caused some challenges. And I have been trying for the last year to get stuff straightened out and settled. I honestly thought I would be working for another 8 to 10 years, and I was forming a retirement plan. Well you just wake up one day, and BOOM your disabled and not working any more. So the adjustment has been a long road. Well I am about 2 months away from getting most of the pieces in place and being done with trying to figure out stuff. SO I have been out on the edge and have been using the music references in this column to relax me and get me motivated to keep plugging away. I am a grinder and even at times when it looks like I am not doing anything, I got stuff going on. Most of it I just don't share. And the music thing is VERY close to my heart. Most of the groups and songs I refer to are the sound track to my life. To this day I can hear a song from "back in the day" and it brings up very specific memories. For instance, I went to Black Diamond school for the 8th grade. The BIG hit that year was " The Mighty Quinn ". My 8th grade teachers name was, Mr. Quinn!! I kid you not. So just imagine every time I hear that I think of lyrics we would write on the chalk board for him before class. One other thing I learned in the 8th grade, it does NO good to have your Grandfather as the Major of the city. I got no special treatment for that. CHOW MOI