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Pedestrians…

About a week ago, I started doing some bike riding to get some exercise. All is going well, the first couple of days were very rough. I am getting a little better everyday. The area around here is quite hilly, typical of Western Washington. I have to either start up the hill, or end up the hill, truly up hill both ways.

Going down the hill takes me to the waterfront of the Port Washington Narrows. At the bottom is Lion’s Field, a complex of softball fields with a path for the pedestrians. The path is paved about eight feet wide and snakes all around the park. At one end is the “pedestrians only” sign. And since I come from the other end, I don’t see it. :)

Yesterday I wasn’t even ON the STUPID path when someone said, of course, “this is for walking only”. I could have stopped and said something, but I kept on riding. About fifty feet later, the area between the fence and the water narrows so that riding through there, I must take the path. I am a very courteous rider and give the walkers plenty of room. But sometimes it just burns me up that people have to say something just to say something. Whether it’s justified or not.

Come on people, don’t you have anything better to do than flap your lips for no apparent reason?

That was the second time in a week. The first time I WAS ON the path, but there wasn’t anyone around, only one angry lady that yelled at me from about fifty feet away. Again I gave her plenty of room. Get a life people.

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Filed under Personal, Road Trippin' : Comments (0) : Apr 30th, 2008

Bar-b-que them ribs…

Yesterday we, mom and I, were invited over to Gary and Marie’s for some bar-b-qued ribs. What I didn’t know was this was a special occaision. Meagan, one of Gary and Marie’s nieces was showing off her new baby, Nora. Nora is named after her grandmother that had passed away many, many years ago. Meagan’s sister Stephanie was there too. Steph works for Symantec in Singapore. And she is VERY cute and unmarried. If I wasn’t already courting someone, I would have been all over that. :) Also there was Granny McKenzie and two of her daughters, Mary and Heather. Mary and Heather are a couple years older than I and are still very hot and very married.

So for a while it was Gary and I and eight girls. How horrible. :P

Mom had to explain to me about Steph and Meagan. You see their mother Nora passed away when Steph and Meagan were very young, less than three years old. So they were raised by their dad. A fine man that was in the Navy at the time. During the summer, Steph and Meagan would spend their time with Gary and Marie. Our families would eventually go camping together. Which means that the last time I saw Steph and Meagan would have been around thirty-three or thirty-four years ago. My how time flies. I was 13 or 14 and Steph, the oldest, would have been 5 or 6. Now we are all grown up and being all adult. Yea right.

All in all it was a great time. The ribs were great and the spread that Marie prepared was excellent. I have a feeling that Marie had once changed my diapers. That’s kinda creepy, but that’s life with the Prentice family.

We put the “fun” in dysfunction. :D

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Filed under Personal : Comments (0) : Apr 28th, 2008

Mom’s house…

Due to circumstances beyond my control I had to move out of my place.  The owner needed to move in and I can’t stand him, so I left.  Only due to the fact that real estate sale STILL hasn’t closed as the original buyer couldn’t qualify did I have to move in with my mother.  The good news is that a new buyer has been found and has the credentials to close the sale.  Until then, it’s mom’s house.  It is nice to have a place to stay.  She is renting a small three bedroom house next to our very good friends Marie and Gary.  They own this place and although it looks small it has enough room for the three of us.  Mom, Lorraine, and I.  Lorraine has been in Phoenix since the end of April, so it’s just been my mom and me.

The place is located in the part of Bremerton, Washington that I grew up in.  My old high-school is less than a mile from here and the family of an old girlfriend still lives about a block from here.  :)    The house sits on top of a cliff and has a magnificent view of the water and the west side of Bremerton.  I can even see Mount Rainier from the corner of the yard.  Mom sets out feed for the squirrels and the birds which keeps us entertained.  There is even a pair of pheasants that roam around the yard constantly.  I haven’t been able to get any good pictures as they spook quite easily.

It’s been quite different living in town now.  I’ve had to learn my way around, again.  It is suprisingly quiet here, considering the main street through town is a block away.  It’s somewhat wooded here so that cuts down on the traffic noise.

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Filed under Personal : Comments (0) : Apr 22nd, 2008

mom’s house, mom’s rules…

It doesn’t matter whether you’re 8, 18, or 48, when you’re staying at mom’s house, it’s her rules.

Rule #1: The seat goes DOWN! No problem, I’ve been doing that for more than a decade.

Rule #2: No hour long showers. Again, no problem, as I’m not gay.

Rule #3: You might get dinner. You are on your own for breakfast and lunch. Again, no problem. I’ve been living on my own for 27 years.

Rule #4: You mess it up, you clean it. Umm, yea.

Rule #5: Feel free to consume any food in the house. I don’t see why this is a rule, but she’s my mom, so.

There you have it. Five simple rules to follow. And as you can tell, I don’t have a problem with any of them.

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Filed under Personal : Comments (0) : Mar 24th, 2008

All is not lost…

See below.

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Filed under Personal : Comments (0) : Mar 9th, 2008

You only hurt the one you love…

You only hurt the one you love. The other day, I was chatting with some friends when the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with said she had bat land on here head, in her office no less. This loving, caring person believes in the Wiccan philosophy. My ignorance and stereotypical attitude toward this led me down a path that I should not have taken. Suffice it to say. I hurt her deeply. Very deeply, to the core of her existence. She has had some horrible stuff happen to her in the past and my ignorance just brought that shit bubbling back to the surface.

My dear, I am sooo very sorry. I now know that I hurt you very deeply. And only because you told me. I am a man after all, and understanding women is not my greatest strength.

I can only hope that she can find it in her heart to forgive me. I also hope that our relationship is strong enough to survive this. But, what I want is irrelevant, it’s what she wants that matters most to me. I would have gladly given my heart, my life, my very existence to be with you forever. But now, everything we had, everything we experienced together, the love, the trust, the caring for one another is now just fucking gone. Just because I was ignorant.

My God, I feel like such an ass.

I’m gonna go cry in my pillow now.

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Filed under Personal : Comments (0) : Mar 8th, 2008

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