All Right - Toad The Wet Sprocket

My Favorite Toad the Wet Sprocket song and in my top 20 of all time, very great to hear this song , heard it for the first time during my first divorce and for some reason puts a smile on my face, when one door closes another one opens I supppose. Yeah life turned out pretty damn Alright ... Alright

Being A Parent- the Job that keeps on taking

Early morning rising and getting ready for work is always a good thing, means you made it through the night and get another chance to live another day in this mean cruel world. but the world where you live determines the level of cruelty and rudeness in which we partake. the peacefulness of a late night conversation with my wife and the reservations we may share towards our boys in the certain areas that there are reservations that need to be held onto. We as parents never stop parenting and never stop trying to make our children's lives better  by teaching them , protecting them and even buying an online book for college courses for Brandon, whatever it takes we are there and that's what we do. the thoughts and worries of braz and Nikki are so far out of reach that good thoughts and prayers are the only way out of it all, we try not to think not only of the impending deployment to the desert but the ongoing personal drama for Braz as he endures  a thoughtless and mean spirited new marriage to a very immature and issue laden young lady. We try to stay out of his business but we he calls in a panic and angry at the world for the 10th time over the same stupid issue, we say" stop enabling "and walk away from the train wreck you call a marriage and go on and enjoy your youth , bang as many chicks as you thin you need to and enjoy what your youth is supposed to be about. whatever the case may be living in an unhappy world is  not a good place for anybody to be, especially when you have youth on your side and are just starting out in this world on your own,with your new cars and motorcycles and first apartment and the time to put on the grown up pants is here and now and time to assume the role. But how do you talk to a teenager who know everything in their mind when in actuality they know nothing and forget some moist everything we taught  them or tried to tell them the previous day. youth is a fickle mother fucker , they try so hard to be grown up and yet have so little skill in performing this act a they have nothing to fall back on but mom and Dad doing shit for them and they fall flat when it comes time to make the call to the bank or send the bill off in the mail and take care of the business that they tried so hard to to grown up so fast for. Well the time is here and now and the oil rises to the top of this oil spill of a learning curve for our young children. As a parent we try to teach and show in example, yet all they see is the house and the nice furniture and the toys and the Bank account, they see nothing of the time and efforts put into gettig to that point or the sacrifices made i areas to get us there. they see end result and destination, not the arduous journey to where the parent are. We are in a good financial hold and an even better personal and spiritual choke hold of this marriage we call our own. The time and efforts required to get here are efforts I truly doubt our new generation of youth will ever truly attain, they are a fast food, quick fix ,"ME" generation of slackers who don't know what it is to put in work or give up something now for something better later. Life's perspective to them is a new pair of jeans or a cool car or the latest sunglasses that they saw some punk ass singer wear at the Grammy awards. so whatever the case may be , we as parents sit back and wait for the kids to implode and come calling to us for help, guidance , assistance whatever they may need, they are and will become needy because they skipped a few steps in the growing up process to get there and didn't learn it all properly, crash course in life skills never accomplish much. as a 48 year old parent I succumb to the sometime ignorant plight of our youth and throw my hands in the air til they need us again, maybe we are the enablers and we are the cause of the problem.. whatever the case may be ,i have an Orlando golf trip to Plan...excuse me whilst i surf a bit in my search

MC Hammer Cant Touch This

Another Classic Hammer moment, maybe even a classic Saurus moment for the admiration of this dude is amazing to me!!! And i don't really like his music, just his dancin and prancin.The Break it down portion just floors me

MC Hammer - Dancin' Machine

I could watch Hammer dance all night long, i love the athleticism that he puts out,damn talented man he is.

Frank Schaeffer "Spiritual guru"

I was Reading on line in between breaks in my selling endeavors on Ebay this morning and came across another nugget of wisdom from Frank Schaeffer, the man i credit for getting back to christianity and believing in God again. The man who i do call "My Spirituality guru" for so many reasons. first and foremost he is honest and intelligent. His background of coming from the depths of the a place that i truly despise, the fundamentalist right wing of America, he changed, realized the errors of his ways and apologizes for helping to create the Sarah Palins and all of the other fake christian money-making machine that they have become. i can respect a person who admits his faults, fixes them and devotes himself into sharing the true meaning of Christianity s to love and to make  those around us happier people, and in the process we too will become better for our giving of ourselves. not the bible thumpers who want the world to know they are Christians and go to church and Tithe their asses off and want everybody to know this fact, throw in a few well placed paragraphs from the bible and there you have it, Sarah Palinesque Bullshit! So I move to today and have some internal turmoil goin on among 2 of my closest coworkers in their lives, Angie who i love like a sister and who while pregnant with her baby barged into ICU to see me when i crashed my motorcycle and wouldn't take NO for an answer even though they told her so, she did it anyway and i will never forget that, and was the only one to visit me at home while i was re-couping. Richard and his relationship issues have been resolved, his girl told him she made a mistake and wants to come back and start over with him and he is really in a bittersweet place as he was ready to start a new chapter but loves the idea of waking up to his new baby everyday and not just during visitation weeks, so all that being settled i get back to my point about Schaeffer and his teachings to me through his books and his words! He has taught me many humbling things, first off that we can never interpret the bible as totally correct, interpreted by man , man has many flaws and the bible was translated and passed down by uneducated peasant people who probably lost some of the tranlation and passed down various other erroneous statements, so don't take the bible at Face value, there are some incorrect things i it, i have always believed that to be true and have always said that to myself and have never truly bough into it all. Having read the bible 4 times front to back, i can make this statement about my opinion of it's incorrectness based on the fact that i experienced it for myself through my own eyes and not somebody else eyes or opinion. The other point i have taken to heart and try to apply on a daily basis is this, he says that the person we truly are is to be determined by those who love and admire us, our brothers and sister, wives and children who will speak honestly of who we are. so if somebody asked me Greg what kind off person are you, ,i would say i hope i a a good, trustworthy ,loving and giving unselfish person who knows how to love and to be loved properly. The real answer will always come from those who know me and can make the statement of whether or not Greg is a good person, dad, husband and all the aforementioned attribute, we are our own worst critic and how i perceive myself is not the same as others perception of the person that i am. I will be disliked somewhere at sometime, but the real test is those that i should be god too all of the time and do I do it is the real key, not what i think I am but what I prove to be true i the eyes of the people i love and those who love me back. Lastly the "GOLDEN RULE" has been embedded in my mind by Schaeffer as a simple guideline and i think about it all of the time and say to myself, "would i want that to happen to me , or be treated like that"? the million  dollar question and it does help shape the person that i have become by stopping to take a moment and review my actions, thoughts or demeanor and their positiver or negative effects on somebody else!  I will post  a link from Schaeffers Blog and share this tidbit of goodness and see where i get the strength to rise above and beyond what this sad pitiful world at times has to offer;  here goes, thanks and Good days!Enjoy    http://frank-schaeffer.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-do-you-keep-faith.html

Wait To Workout....Killing time

As I sit here and wait for Terria to come home from Michaels office , we are going to the gym together and I sit in my TV Room chair pondering whether I want to go or not, After hitting Golf balls at lunch I was drained and really hit the shit out of them, working on some new stuff and it seemed to work a little  not too many bad shots today and it felt really nice to try something new that really worked. I will go to the gym and work out my upper body tonight and stretch the leg out a little and will give it a day off from working on it, feels really good and I'm thinking a 200 miler this weekend on the Italian somewhere somehow but don't know where to go as of yet. We shall see, but I will take Terria Golfing on Saturday after the gym and then head out for a ride to parts unknown. The day went rather slowly today, had front desk duty and answered calls and helped quite a few folks and then went to lunch to hit balls. Throughout the day i was checking my Ebay bids and sales and seeing where i was at, i mailed off 3 items today before i went to the range and headed aback to see if I had been [aid by the other 2 items that sold at 10 am, one was pai the other I still await paypal payment for that one. I am selling 2 other items that will end in about 5 hours so will have 5 more items to ship when i get to work tomorrow, a [pair of Offroad boots and a pair of Golf shoes, to go with an Offroad Monster energy Helmet and a Denver Broncos Football helmet. I have a stock Ducati seat and exhaust still being bid on for 3 more days and will shit them out after the auction is over for those so this really keeps me busy and i might look into selling more stuff as i find it , if not hunt down things that are sellable on Ebay . All tolled about 1300 plus in my pocket and have 3 more helmets That i could sell and 3 more Gloves that Could hit it as well ,but the 2 favorite Gloves will not go on Ebay Ever. But my Rams Helmet and Saint Helmet could fetch 200 a piece as well as a Set Of Mizuno Clubs so there could be 600 more in my pocket for things that I'm not using.... Me likey this Ebay thing. So Terria is her and changing, looks like the gym wins out and laziness loses tonight, it's all good and fair i suppose. Off to see the Wizard and transform nto an Adonis of some sort, otherwise known as Greg the Toad!!!

My Day has Started

Hey! Tuesday is here and ready to tackle the day here at work by blogging my ass off. Not much going on here, no drama in the workplace yet and my Buddy rich is handling his breakup with the ex GF really well, she is using the child as a hostage now and her true Mexican colors are coming out right now. i tell him to sit back and let her implode and for him just  to be the best father that he possibly can, his little girl will always be his little girl and the mother will be a bad after thought. So he 9is doing better and his visit to Michael really helped out his mind at ease! I'm doing very well thank you very fucking much this Ebay selling thing is really some work i tell you, the research and the constant updating, answering buyers questions , sending responses in a timely manner is really work, then coupled with the whole shipping aspect of Ebay! That is a job i tell you, having sold 12 items already and have made 1200 bucks in 7 days, really incredible, now that the good stuff is gone i need to find more stuff to sell, golf Clubs, gloves and other things that are here are very tempting to sell but would regret the fact that some of these are somewhat sentimental, but i can sell the Mizuno Clubs never will sell my Ping i3's those are my first fitted set of clubs that I bought 12 years ago with my friend Rudy who is no longer with us ,so these will stay out of respect to my Friend Rudy and my love or the Ping brand. Telling terria that we have already paid for the Orlando trip and that is a good thing, we should do very well on our Federal returns this year with the big interest credit from the house payment, just 9 more years and we are done paying on this home in the ghetto, but it is home and we try to make it nicer each day. As for me , the Knee is fucking amazing right now, I have actually come back to about 70% strength and am lifting more weight with it each day. Feel like dancing and really want to get out and walk a little and test the other one out to see if this one get a cleaning out anytime soon. Things are great Terria readies for her Hawaii trip to see Brazman and she is excited about that, don;'t know what i will do i n her absence but i sense Tim will come to the rescue and take me out and golf and stay busy, have gotten way used to having my wife with me most every day and by my side when we cook , clean and relax so it will be weird and haven't gone longer than 5 days away from her ever! So we carry on and think about the future knowing the past is done and gone and hoping that the open minded thought processes stay in tact as they have been. Life with apprehension is a tough cookie to crack and am trying very hard to alleviate that aspect of the healing for both Terria and I so we continue to do the things we need to do to make tomorrows future even better than today's. Very interesting conversation with Brandon, he has lost his luster for the culinary thing and now wants to continue his degree towards History and teaching, all fine and good i guess, but a 25 year old with a lack of direction is not a good thing but we support whatever he decides to do and hope this is what he really wants to do. He once spoke of joining the military but his bad knees were always the excuse, so now he had an appt with my Orthopedic Dr. last Friday and will require the same surgery that i had on both of his knees and thus removing that issue with his knees. The fact that this kid is so goddamn intelligent and good at everything he does but cannot find that direction to focus on and hit it hard. He would score in the 90's on his asvab which would entitle him to do whatever he wanted to do in any branch, but being that he has so many fucking tattoos is stuck with the Army as the only option. he is close to an AA degree which would entitle him to officer candidate training with his high asvab scores and his his overall intelligence. This would also help to pay for his college that he could attend while serving and then could come out and become a teacher which by that time would be more lucrative and more jobs available by then. But all we can do is suggest and he really needs to figure out the way he wants to go, he has a hard time finding things he is passionate in doing, he does everything so well  but never lasts in any area too long due to disinterest or something else! So the realization of the culinary arts didn't work out like i knew it wouldn't, long hours and stress filled work environment for not so good pay, even at the top levels the pay isn't worth the stress  and cooking is a passionate thing , you don't cook to work, you cook as a passion and that he didn't have so we move forward and at 25 he has a little timer left to figure something out. it took me til 26 before i got my shit straight an settle with the Govt. and here i am today and fine figure of a man typing her eat work doing his Ebay while being paid top dollar to do so. Life is definitely good and the boys and Terria  are keeping me young and happy. Even though Ty drives to Beverly Hills everyday to work in a professional Doctors clinic while having independant study at  school from home. He is back at his dad's house with his girlfriend and already has a car payment through his dad and the word debt is a good friend to him these days, a boy who has truly taken hos own youth away from himself but the good thing is that he is not afraid to work, that is a good thing. Braz still readies for the war and prepares him self the best he can with a wife who's infidelity right in front oif him has hardened him very much and for that i am not happy, not all woman are like that and i try to tell as does terria that moving on is not failing , it's setting yourself up for  better by having somebody who loves you and treats you the way you deserve to be treated. Raise the bar people, Raise the goddamn bar. If you don't think enough of yourself to require the best, than you will always settle for second best because thats where you see yourself in the grand scheme of things, as second fiddle, Not my me and not for terria but to watch our boy be hurt on a daily basis by a young girl who we took in as our own and treats him like shit is inexcusable in my eyes, but they live and hopefully learn from their mistakes, i've always been the one who preached,"learn form others mistakes and don't repeat your own mistakes1 good days and good times for the Saurus. god bless my family and god bless our Armed Service members and their families.we all go through this together