HEY ALL!! keep the gift, return the gift, re-gift the gift

    "    Well you've got your diamonds and you've got your pretty clothes, and the chauffeur drives your car, you let everybody know, .. .. your mother she's an heiress, owns a block in St. John's wood, your father'd be there with her, if he only could, but don't play with me, .. .. your old man took her diamond's and tiaras by the score, now she gets her kicks in Stepney, not in Knightsbridge anymore, so don't play with me, .. .. now you got some diamonds and you will have some others, but you'd better watch your step girl, or start living with your mother    "    Well had a great time over the Christmas holiday. My eldest daughter and son-in-law made in down. Had my sister and family over for gifts. I will say we, as a family, do a pretty good job of gift giving. Usually nothing that is really out of sorts. Now, there are a few things that you may scratch your head on, but all in all, we do a good job. Has WAY TOO much to eat as well!! But, that's what the holidays are for?? Right??  Got a decent amount of snow yesterday. Started about mid-morning, and continued till late afternoon. Probably six hours or so. I think about inch, maybe inch and half. It was completely off the road by this morning. It just stayed at 33 degrees and snow yesterday. Good to see. It was kind of nice. Still nursing a stiff and sore lower back, and an aching hip. I think I am gonna have to go see the doctor and figure this out. But, I am also sure it will be after the new year. Time to get back to normal or so now. Back to eating the right stuff and so on. Was able to get registered with my new health insurance company today and finished up a couple of other things on-line. So getting settled in. I don't think I will do anything special for the New Years celebration. I haven't in several years. CHOW MOI!!

HI ALL!! Santa Claus, Papa Noel, Hoteiosho

    Well this post will be a little different. I am not going to open with a verse from my ALL TIME FAVORITE rock and roll band. I do really love giving you guys the words to the songs that have been the sound track to my life. AND, will continue to be the sound track!! I just want to wish everyone a great holiday season. However, whenever, where ever you observe the moment. I also want to thank everyone who has taken the moment to read my blogs. Weather you went looking for me, or more than not, stumbled upon this posting. Thanks for those who continue to read. I hope I am at least making it worth your while to read it and maybe get a little wisdom or thoughts from it. I started this blog as a way of getting thoughts and feeling off my chest. It has turned out to be so much more. I truly enjoy sharing my life's experiences and learning's with those who stop and read. SO, again THANK YOU for reading and please keep it up next year. If you feel so inclined please share it with someone you know.  CHOW MOI!!

HEY ALL!! Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, ohhh BA Hum Bug

    "    Well we all need someone we can lean on, and if you want it you can lean on me, yeah we all need someone we can lean on, and if you want it you can lean on me, she said my breast they will always be open, baby you can rest your weary head right on me, and there will always be a space in my parking lot, when you need a little coke and sympathy, yeah we all need someone we can dream on, and if you want it baby well you can dream on me    "    Well I AM still in lots of pain. This time it seems to be the right hip, and not so much the lower back. Over the weekend the lower back pain stopped, but the hip pain is out of control at this point. It is even bothering me at night now. So more e-mails and calls into my doctor and now just waiting to find out what to do. In the mean time I get an e-mail on eBay about a guy wanting to return his die-cast cars he bought last week. Says he got the wrong items. So I go and look at what I got left. SON-OF-A-BITCH!!!!! He is RIGHT!! I got the cars he WANTED!!  STILL in my storage shelf!! DAMN IT!! OK, send me back the wrong cars, and I will send out the right ones. THANK GOD he still wants the right ones!! So after paying three times postage to get the error corrected, I will LOSE MONEY!! GO FIGURE!! Got some plans put together for Christmas, just need to firm them up. Had a great time yesterday watching 'World of Adventure'. It is a show on NBC about different sports. Well this one was about Mountain Biking, actually about WOMEN Mountain Biking!! AND, one of the three was my daughter!! They went to Gooseberry Mesa area West of Zion in Utah and had a blast!! So very cool to see that. Once again she went and made her daddy all swelled up and all with pride!!  CHOW MOI!!

HI ALL!! mixed drink, on the rocks, neat and KEEP pouring

    "    If I was your captain would you salute me, what I say yeah everybody, beauty everybody now yeah, are you one bad apple in a box, yeah dangerous. dealing out electric shocks, I've seen the gloves coming off, dangerous if looks could kill, I bet you shoot me now    "    Well it's been a struggle. My back has been just killing me. Lots of pain, right across the belt line. Getting up, down or what ever. So went into the doctors yesterday and got a trigger point injection (TPI). Got some relief right away. But woke up this morning and the pain quickly returned. If not even more, with some shooting pain as well. So sent another e-mail to the doc to see what can be done next. This is just SO hard to deal with. My inter fear is that it is more of my Stenosis. But I will be patient and see what the doc comes up with. Not much else going on, eBay has been slow. I got a BIG sale going and was hoping to generate some action, but nothing so far. Just relaxing and waiting for Christmas plans. At this point I got nothing. I have decided to leave that stuff in someone else's hands. I am surprising comfortable with that as well. I think I just don't have the 'Holiday Fire' at this point yet. Did have the house cleaned in prep of the holidays. If I am still hurting liek I am, it will not be very pleasant anyway.  CHOW MOI!!

HEY ALL!! 3 point try, mid-range jumper, make a free throw

    "    Oh little girl, such a pretty, pretty, pretty girl, Come on baby please, please, please, I'll tell ya, you can put me out on the street, put me out with no shoes on my feet, but put me out, put me out, put me out of misery, yeah all your sickness I can suck it up, throw it all at me I can shrug it off, there's one thing baby that I don't understand, you keep on telling me I ain't your kind of man    "    Well I have been suffering badly since Sunday. I was practicing my guitar on Sunday afternoon, got up out of the chair and my lower back started to hurt, lots of pain. It felt like the first time I got pain from my stenosis. It really hurt a lot when going from standing to sitting or vice versa. Then there was just a kind of constant pain. I tried extra Tylenol, heating pad, ice packs, nothing seemed to make a difference. Was able to sleep well on Sunday night. Then Monday same thing, lots of pain and no relief. Was again able to sleep very well on Monday night. That is about the only time it does NOT hurt me is when I am laying in bed. Now this morning it does feel a little better. Still some pain when moving from seating of standing, and some pain when walking. but less pain when sitting, and less pain over all. I have a message into my doctor to see if I can increase the med I am taking for my existing nerve pain. Well and through that I did managed to get eBay relisted and was able to get a Holiday sale started. Then was even able to sell an item already.  Of course I got several of the "ain't no way" offers as well. A couple of these guys just keep after me thinking they will wear me down and sell to them at 10% of book. A word to those mindless dudes, "Ain't NO way"!! Still trying to get plans together for Christmas. Not quite sure what we are doing, but ain't sweating it either!! CHOW MOI!!

HI ALL!! real tree, fake tree, no tree

    "    well it sure been a cold cold winter, and the wind ain't been blowin' from the south, it's sure been a cold cold winter and a lotta love is all burned out, it sure been a hard hard winter, and my feet been draggin' 'cross the ground, and I hope it's gonna be a long hot summer, and a lotta love will be burnin' bright, and I wish I been out in California when the lights on all the Christmas trees went out, but I been burnin' my bell book and candle, and the restoration plays have all gone 'round    "    Well more rain. I did do some errands this week. The reason I am late with this post is I went to the grocery store(s) yesterday. I find I have to shop at two stores to get exactly what I want nowadays. So got done and home and put all the groceries away. Then a little lunch and some nap time. I was just worn thin. By the time I thought about posting it was close to dinner time. So was able to get through all my eBay listings and update them. I re-figured book value and adjusted prices on all the listings. I also added what book value was in the descriptions of the items. I think may help people when they want to compare value vs price. At least they will have a reference and can see how much I have dropped the price to begin with. I listed everything at 70% of book. I think that is a fair starting point. I have bought a lot of my stuff at around 60% of book. So I feel good at that. NOW, that's not to say their won't be the idiot that still wants it at 10%!! But at least now I will be able to communicate my displeasure with them better. I am NOT at the point that I have to start giving away the stuff, YET!! Anyway just staying in and trying to stay dry. Hoping no trees come down on the property.  CHOW MOI!!

HEY ALL!! trade, free agent, no deals at all

    "    tell me honey what will I do, when I'm hungry and thirsty too, feeling foolish and that's for sure, just waiting here at your kitchen door, hey baby what's in your eyes, Is that the diamonds from the mine, what's that laughing in your smile, I don't care no I don't care, Oh baby you got my soul    "    Well it was a quite and easy weekend. Did get laundry done, and a few other little minor things. Been feeling better lately and just trying to stay that way. Started to put together the Christmas thing over the weekend. Got a couple of boxes decorated and a general idea about how to do the rest. And started to sort through the presents and wrap the ones we needed to. Been getting some action on eBay. A couple of offers and counter offers. Nothing sold yet. I am still amazed how low of offers I get on some items. I got a 2001 Stadium Club complete set, 200 cards that include 25 Short Printed cards. Books for $120.00. I got it listed for $67.00, and I get an offer of $40.00. Not as bad as I've seen. But the Short Printed cards alone are worth double that. So we'll see. I just am not in a hurry to sell, and do not feel pressured to sell. At least not yet. So I have to be strong and hold my ground. I did send a counter offer back for $60.00 and I am paying postage!! So got to spend some guitar time over the weekend. I am following a guy on line who has an extensive video training series. I started from video one and am working my way through it. I just want to be in line when he gets to my level. SO far, so good. I am waiting for a couple of packages to arrive yet and then I am done with Christmas shopping. I am still not in the clear about what the celebration plans are. But I will be patient!!  CHOW MOI!!

HI ALL!! no phone, no internet, no worries

    "    Went out walkin' through the woods the other day, and the world was a carpet laid before me, the buds were bursting and the air smelled sweet and strange, it seemed about ........, Mary and I we would sit upon a gate, just gazin' at some dragon in the sky, what tender days we had no secrets hid away, well it seemed about ........, now all my friends is wearing worried smiles, living out a dream of what they was, don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up, went out walkin' through the woods the other day, can't you see the furrows in my forehead, what tender days we had no secrets hid away    "    Well we have been without a land line and no internet since sometime yesterday afternoon. I guess someone ran over the phone companies little green box by the road. Had power and TV, but that was it. I was not happy with the information the phone company had when I called early last evening. The 'tech' thought it was a problem with my own line. There had been no 'report'. If it was just me then it was going to be over two weeks before they could get out here. He also thought it might be 'something' with the central station. But would not know until the next morning. I asked him " You mean there is no one there over night?", "That was the old phone company, we don't do that anymore." WOW!! Maybe we should go back to the 'old' phone company. Anyway, lots of patience and lots of Stones music and now we got phone and internet back and know why it happened to begin with. Still have several storms coming our way this weekend, must be winter time. Not much else going on, still practicing guitar, and waiting for the Christmas gifts to arrive. Still basking in the fun of the weekend with my daughters.  CHOW MOI!!