New tires and it Rains...

Got my new tires for my bike yesterday.... and today... it's RAINING!!
They say it could clear by this weekend so that would work for me.
So, in recognition of the Indian Summer and Sunshine that's going to come soon, I thought I would post my HNT as a tribute to the FUTURE SUN.

Have a wonderful Thursday and may your weekend be warm and Sunny!

KC

The little things in life

Today, I had a splitting headache but still had to function at work and couldn't go home, crawl into bed and let it run it's course... I think its from the changing of the seasons, the trees are dropping their leaves and the pollen is thick. Whatever the reason... I HATE HEADACHES !
So, I worked all day and when I got home, there was a package on the porch.. a big package... it contained my new Motorcycle tires!!! I haven't been able to ride since my trip because I wore off all my tread and I've been waiting for these tires to get here and THEY FINALLY CAME!
I'm like a little kid when it comes to packages... I was born on Christmas Day and as such, had to wait 12 months for presents so Packages on the doorstep make me happy!!

I'll be putting them on the bike Thursday, just in time to enjoy a great ride this weekend......
Sorry if I sound like a little kid... but there are a few things I still get a great deal of pleasure out of and riding is one of them.

HNT tomorrow.... still thinking of what to do...
Have a great night!

KC

A leg up for the day

I have to go to court today to try and get a ticket removed from my record. I have a feeling that the court will be a "Leg Up " on me so I thought I would post MY leg first in hopes that a little HNT will sway the judge...

Wish me luck!

Another HNT is here

The strong arm of the law got me the other day. Mailed me a ticket for rolling through a right turn on a red light. $462.00 I saw the video, I looked, I slowed, I merged.... I got a ticket.


So, here is my "Strong arm" that's going to have to work even harder to pay for this.


Happy Half Naked Thursday!

Talk about sad times

I just returned from work and my phone rang. It was a friend of mine that told me he received a call from another life long friend and that his 15 yr old Daughter had committed suicide this weekend....

I was stunned, shocked and saddened by such a loss... How could a 15 Yr. Old girl have so many problems that she would want to end her life rather than get help.. I know it's not easy to be a teen, I was one once... I can't say that going through those times, I didn't think about it. Once when the love of my life, cheated on me. I was going to show her!! But I didn't, instead, I broke up with her and life went on. Another time, when I was having a tough time with Cocaine... I had just spent my rent money on drugs and couldn't borrow anymore, I didn't have any more money to get more coke and I had to go home and face my wife and my baby boy and tell her that I wasn't going to be able to pay the rent and that we were probably going to be evicted. I was driving my '74 Monte Carlo along a stretch of road that was lined with Eucalyptus Trees, I was going about 80 MPH and I knew that all I had to do was jerk the wheel to the right and all my problems would be over... but instead, I went home and faced my wife, figured out how to make it right, went into treatment. Spent 28 days getting clean and sober and then went back to my family. A year later, I was divorced and raising my baby on my own.

The thing that saved me was the thought that my child would one day ask his mother, "What happened to my dad?" and his mother would tell him that he couldn't handle living life without drugs and Alcohol and he killed himself. What kind of pressure would that put on a child!!! I've been clean and sober ever since. 25yrs...

The thought of losing my child to suicide is FRIGHTENING! I just can't imagine the pain that this little girls parents are going through... just think of all the things going through their minds right now, "did we miss something"... were there signs that they didn't pay attention to... HOW COULD SHE DO THIS !!! So sad....
When my own daughter was 14, she took 7 Tylenol and then told her stepmother, I was out of town working. My ex called me hysterical and asked me what to do, I told her to take her to the hospital. They in turn, asked if they could send her to a place where she could learn to deal with some of the issues she had from her past. ( I'll get into that at another time) She spent 3 weeks in a place where other kids that tried to hurt themselves were staying and since then, she's been pretty good. Of course she still deals with things but she's learned one VERY important thing...

SUICIDE IS A PERMANENT SOLUTION TO A TEMPORARY PROBLEM.


My friends have asked what to say to these people that just lost their child. I told them to leave them alone right now, they need to be with close family. You can't tell them you know how they feel, unless you've lost a child as well and I think that if I was them, at this stage, I would want to work through some very sad times before I started answering questions about my dead daughter...

Then, offer support, take over something for the family to eat and then be there if and when they need someone to talk to.

Such a sad thing...