Calling All Diggers

With Lola going out of town this weekend, and it hopefully not being too hot, I am looking for a few people to come and hang out....

...maybe work in the yard....

....build a driveway....

...construct a rock wall....

....patch up around the house...

...BBq up a dinner...

...swim away the heat...

...have a few brews...

...Any Takers.

Uncle Bill

I was reminded of the many great things that you were today.

All the reasons why I will truly miss you.

Your great sense of humour,

Your infectious giggle and lasting smile,

Your patience and understanding,

Your kindness,

Your courage and drive,

Your passion,

Your approach to each day.

And all of these things will be greatly missed.

But maybe what saddened me the most today was the thought that my brother may never understand.

He may never understand that you are gone forever.

Understand what you meant to him.

That you have passed away.

I will miss you on behalf of him as well, which made today twice as hard.

My thoughts today, the ones that made me cry the most, were the thoughts of you and my brother together, and that no one will be that for him again.

For all the great things you were to him.

No one treated him with more care,

More patience,

More life,

More love,

And no one could brighten his day like you.

On his behalf, I will miss you the most.

If the world approached each other with a quarter of your kindness, how much better off we would be.

To the man, my Uncle, that gave so much of his heart to everyone else that he may not have saved enough for himself.

I will miss you.

I Gave Up Golf For This

Lola and I were felling ambitious today and gave up golf for some good old fanshion yard work.

Lola and I live in the Ghetto of the Trailer park and are doing our best to gentrify our property to look less like a redneck summer home.

Today we decided to tackle our awful looking car port. The job ended up being a little easier than we thought. It took about 3 hours to take it down and work on the garden (?) that is beside it a little bit.

We have big plans for the front yard.

The one half has already been completed, with the help of the folks. We took out a bunch of the old weeds and grass, trimmed back the trees, and added some red lava rock. I think it is looking better.

People in the neighborhood have been stopping by while we were outside and working and complimenting us on how great it looks. This tells me one of two things:

1) They were sick and tired of looking at our gross ghetto jungle and are happy we finally spruced it up

or

2) People are happy that we spruced up the place so our end of the trailer park doesn't look like the hood, or at least that homeless people lived in our trailer. There fore increasing the land value.

Humourous Note for Today: While lying in bed we heard a knock at the door. I got up, through on my house coat, and answered the door. BAM! Jehovah's Witnesses! They didn't stay to talk though as I think the sight of me in a house coat was like Kryptonite to Superman.

The Inglewood Poll

The Inglewood Jack presented the debate on his blog so I figured I would put in my two cents.

Vocals - Serj Tankian: There is just sometghing about his energy. His Politics. His Views. All of this makes him a very intriguing singer. I don't own any System of a Down albums but Tankian has a crazy energy that makes me stop and watch him perform. I agree with Inglewood on de la roca and also give an honourable mention to Maynard James Keenan of Tool/A Perfect Circle.

Drums - I am terrible at remembering drummers of anything. This might be a default just because I know who he is, Lar Ulrich. I have seen a few Metallica documentaries and have seen him do some wild stuff. Other drummers that came to mind (other than Moon) was Phil Collins of Genesis, Dave Grohl from Nirvana, and Rick Allen of Def Leppard. I mean Allen can drum with one arm. Grohl and Collins both went on to bigger things beyond drumming and have shown great talent. Collins get marks for Singing and Drumming at the same time.

Bass - I almost have to go a different direction here. Although I agree that Flea is probably the best of our generation. Geddy Lee gets marks for being Canadian and a legend but I think he is better known as a singer. I have to go into the funk era when the bass guitar was king. The flambouyant Bootsy Collins or Robert "Kool" Bell of Earth, Wind and Fire. I will throw in Sid Vicious to be true to my punk sensabilities, although, like most Punkers, he was not known to play very well, let alone great.

Guitar - Seriously, is there anyone better than Angus Young. The guy just rips and has a huge personality. You could definately throw in the likes of Slash, the first guitarist I ever knew the name of, or the legend Jimi Hendrix. My honourable mention goes to Jim Martin of Faith No More just for his crazy hair and the "Epic" video.

As a follow-up: INXS did and does stink. Aussie bastards!!

This May Be The Funniest Thing I Have Ever Seen

That is not even close to a horse!!

I Google Searched Images For Duncan McAllister...

...and this in the first image that appeared on the results page!!I am Damn Sexy in Yellow Fishing Overalls

Tattoo Idea

I am really wanting to get more tattoos. As they say I am addicted. I would love to get a half sleeve or a nice back piece. I am not really sure but I have lots of ideas.

Right now I am thinking about an "Astro Boy Fighting the The Mighty Hercules" as a tribute to brother. As many of my reader might now these were two of my brother's favorite cartoons. I think it would be really cool but I would need a great artist, wink wink nudge nudge Brizzo or Lola's Brother or my cousin, to design it for me. I am not sure if I would do colour or black and white. I am a huge fan of black and white work that I have seen but this could be really cool in colour.

So many choices and so much body to fill!!!