Lessons, Retirement

Seems I only ever write about my weekends in here. WEll, I'm not going to change that now. I spent this weekend out in Newburyport, MA. On the ride up we stopped by the Kittery trading post. That made me just want to take up some new sports. My uncle retired, we had a big bash for him. I stayed at my cousin's house, wish is just amazing to say the least. I havent' seen any of my relatives from out there in years to be honest, so it was nice to see them. That was saturday. Sunday involved all of us going downtown. There is some nifty stores down there, let me tell you. I got a new life is good shirt, at the life is good store. I went jogging down by the water. That was awesome. I think a ran a little slow so I could also enjoy the houses. There 's some beauties out there. I never really paid attention to any of that when I was younger. Now I think it's pretty darn cool. haha. I never would have guessed that. IT's just amazing how fast people grow up though. THe last time I saw my cousin's kids, they were little, now they're almost as tall as me. Where did it go?
Two fridays ago I spent a few hours with a friend of my dads, whom I" also known since I was younger. He's an amazing piano player. He sorta gave me a lesson. I've always been at this point where it seems I just can't get any better no matter how hard I try. To me, I can hear what is wrong, but I just dont' know how to fix it, or it doesn't sound like what the music tells me it should sound like, but I dont' know how to play it like that. So hopefully a lesson here and there will give me some inspiration and make my playing more enjoyable!

Mt.Os erruption

What a fantastic time saturday. Jim had this cookout, cookin, out, in , out.. It all depended on the weather. ANd somehow I ended up cooking, but I love doing that anyway. Anywho, Boccee ball, was interesting. We had to be careful with them, cause I think Jim wanted to bring them back to the store? I dont 'know if he did. It was nice to see all of Jims old friends, whom I've gotten to know over the years. I took a couple of motorcycles for a ride. I've never ridden a street bike before, and here I am, trying out a cruiser and a rice rocket on the same day within minutes of eachother. I"d love to get a bike. Probably a cruiser though. I think a good time was had by all. The trip to the carnival, that was intersting. The usual St. Mary's carnival. except with all sorts of beer and alchohol involved. I tried to play sweet with this lady there so we could get a ride back to jims, That didnt' pan out.
Of course no trip to the carnival is complete without a stop at the Female Review at Robbies' Place. Hmm. I think I almost wanted to get kicked out, just so I could say I got kicked out, of a bar in ware! It was definitly a fun, interesting time. Everyone else went back to jim's, Me being determined to a get a ride from that lady we ran into earlier, ended up walking over to Gabe's, with Pete, that girl and her friend. Needless to say that didnt' work out. I'm sure Pete would have loved the ride. What a long walk......
I'm a little fuzzy on what happend after that, I do remember talking with a few other people, then it was like 03:30, and there was not place left to sleep so I went home....

PS.. Putting Mentos into Soda does work!!!!! More experiments are needed!!

Hard Tale

Jeeze, finally slowing down after this weekend. Friday night over Jay's new place. FUn with Stella and cards. yum. That apartment rocks!! I wish I wanted to move to worcester. Then saturday night went out to the Huke Lau, it was good . My friend had a little graduation get together there. THe prime rib was good. Got to see some of my old friends, wich it seems we all have different schedules lately so we never hang out.
Sunday brought on a busy schedule too. It actually involved me having breakfast twice, but that's ok. A bowl of oatmeal is no substitute for a ham and egg sandwich at the local restaurant with good company. Then I was offf to Holyoke , Josh and I went biking in hadley. The weather was nice, overcast, but cool and comfortable. Good riding weather. and it wasn't as greasy as I thought it was going to be. I just need to study the map of that place a little better. Everytime I go there I"m usually following someone, so I get lost easily on my own. That place freakin' rocks though. It was interesting , cause it's the first time I've road a hard tail off road in like a year. Totally different. I"m not going to go into explaining it hear. It's still just as fun!!! And that of course ended with hitting the Moan' and Dove for some exceptional brews.