Never totally on vacay ......

Wednesday ....1/27/2010. I figured as long as I'm gonna be down here for 2 months doing nothing but drinking and sleeping... I could funnel some pent up energy into doing something I'm really good at and takes little work. Lacing & truing motorcycle wheels. Oh yeah, and it pays really well !!! So I ran an ad in the Daytona News-Journal for a month and voila.. phone is ringing off the hook !! ( wait a minute... cell phones don't have hooks !!! ). Anyway I've already gotten 4 jobs each at about 50-90 bux a piece and the calls just keep on coming. I brought my motorcycle truing stand from home along with my truing spoons, dial micrometers.. etc and I'm totally set up to work on pretty much anything. The cool thing is that Daytona is home to the largest bike week in the world... much larger than Sturgis or Laudon. I think the possibilities are endless since the art of a "Wheelwright" is pretty rare. Thanks to my dad for teaching me when I was a widdle boy.

The wheel I'm working on in the picture is a 1947 Indian rear wheel. Anything goes !!!!

The weather today is AWESOME !!! Sunny and about 75dgs. My buddy Tony Alphonse is here visiting for 2 weeks and he borrowed my car today to go visit his brother in Ocala ( 88 miles away) so I'm homebound for the day. I guess I'll finish this wheel and hit the pool this afternoon.

Gotta get back to the "gourmet cooking" as well.... future posts will have pics. On tonights menu is Coconut Shrimp w/marmalade dipping sauce.. steamed veggies and mussels steamed in Chardonay. Yummmmy Later all.

Catchin' up ......

Well hello to everyone. I'm back !! by popular demand !!! For those of you who do not follow facebook, that's where I've been hiding for the last year or so. If you do have facebook, feel free to look me up and "friend request" me.

To get all the rest of you up to speed. My asthma has been on and off for the last year.. but mostly off and ( knock on wood ) right now,,, doing quite well. I am baackjck at my winter hone in Daytona Beach ( actually Holly Hill ) til mid March and feeling pretty good. I tore my rotator cuff last year while folding a chair on my way to the local hospital with an asthma attack !!! I endured the pain til mid-June of last summer and then had it fixed. That lasted until mid-Sept when I re-tore it again and had it redone on December 7th !!! I am currently healing it back and trying my best to not do anything stupid again. It's very hard to NOT use your right hand/arm when that's your dominate side. I have been doing self physical therapy down here but have to go to a local clinic to get it done right. That's next on the agenda.

I went to the local poker room the other night and entered this huge Texas Hold-em tournement... and guess what ??? Out of 240 players @$65 buy in each.. I WON !!!! After all the smoke settled.. I had $2003 and a 4' high trophy !! I was psyched !!! Then last night I went to a local American Legion hall and played bingo with a bunch of senior citizens and once again... won the big jackpot.. $138. I just can't lose. I guess I'm gonna have to take the trip across state to Tampa and the Hard Rock casino..... I'll try to keep my blog updated at least 2-3 times a week while I'm down here in Florida. BTW... the weather has been awesome this winter... mid 70's everyday so far.. Wooo Hooooo