First Blog Post of 2017

Yes, I'm still blogging Straight Outta NEB. 

Well, I'm still here in the Cornhusker State pluggin' away my job. I really wanted to do my first blog post sometime in the 1st week of January. The boss said after we came back from holiday break, we're working 5 days a week, 10 hours. And lots of over time Saturdays and Sundays, (10 more hours Saturday and 8 hours on Sunday). It made for a nice paycheck getting 65 hours plus. But not much time for anything else, like blogging. Plus it was easier to get on F/B to post something and check out what other people were doing and then log out. But then I don't get to spill more of my thoughts out as much as I'd would like on F/B as on blogger. There is more of a mixed group of friends there too. 

                      My Hope for the rest of 2017.                                                                                                            My hope for the rest of 2017 is to get a couple things off of my bucket list. Much later this Summer I was planning to go see my sister who moved to Brazil a few years ago. I hope it's all true and no reason why she should say otherwise. Sis said she's having a fabulous time down there. With a fabulous job great house and car. And a partner that is really great and loving. She said when she left she said come down and visit anytime.  Well, I put in for a US passport the last week of January. I'll need to secure a visa from the Brazillian consulate, purchase airline tickets. And as Jackie Gleeson used to say, "and away we go"!  And who knows maybe I'll meet some guy down there that's totally hot. 

Last Blog post 2016

Hello 2017 and Goodbye 2016, Even though it just turned 12 Midnight here CST. Blog time is still a couple of hours behind, so I still get a last post in for 2016. The fireworks are going off right now as I type on my keyboard. With the new year, the talk returns new resolutions and ways to improve one's life. I always say I do more of this or less of that. My main thing that bothers me is I wish to do more with my blog and post more than every couple of weeks or months. I started out in the middle of 2016 saying I'm going to blog every week, nope didn't happen for very long. My big problem is my ADD will kick in and I'll get distracted and find an excuse to blow it off. With 2016 almost done and tomorrow 2017 I find myself older and hopefully wiser

Peace and Love for my friends in 2017!

  

End Of October

I've been getting it without being asked.

This is my end of October brain puke, things I observed these past weeks. One of the things going on that I've noticed. And I'm a bit ambivalent about it. That when I go out to eat out because it's easier with me working more overtime. I've been getting my 10 % senior  discount at eateries around town. And most of the time without being asked if I wanted it.  The age 55 seems to be the threshold to get it. But really I don't think of myself as an old man, in my head, I'm somewhere in my mid-30s according to that real age test I took. But WTH 10 % still means some coin in my pocket right? I know once a guy gets past fifty things don't work like they use to, oh they still work. It just takes longer to get everything moving in the same direction.

HAHA right!

Anyway, I haven't heard any more from my friend Dave W. I'm sure he's busy getting everything together at his new home. I'll have to see what if anything more will happen. Until then I plan to move on.

October Surprise(s)

Arkansas Critter

                                                                                                                                                    So yeah, It's been a while since I did a blog post. About a month ago is more like it. I always seem to have things in my life that get in the way of things I want to do. The beginning of the month of October I helped my friend Dave W. from work with moving. I drove his truck down to where he retired to in Arkansas, he left earlier in the morning with a U-haul. This is the same Dave W. that I had a bit of a man crush on for quite a long time. He was a very difficult guy to get to know. He doesn't open easily and is a very private man. It took me about 5 years to even get invited into his house. After he retired I didn't tell him how I feel about him. I don't think he's that interested in guys the way I am. 

Dave says he has many women he knows around the country and goes on bike rides with. And in his new home in Arkansas, he has a neighbor lady he said friended on F/B.                                       

            Dave W. Just Friends, Not Partners 

Mini Blog Post

I had intended to do a post on Saturday seeing how obviously I didn't blog on Friday. My buddy Dave this past week texted me asking if I would help him by driving a moving truck. Was going to leave Friday, Sept. 30 and Come back sometime Sunday afternoon late. Might be a good time to talk with him and scope things out before I tell him how I feel about him. If I don't think he would be interested I'm not going to do something stupid and come out to him. And maybe make him pissed enough to cause me trouble.                            BUT, one big thing is bothering me and I don't know what to do or how I can help. But my little sister, the one that moved to Brazil three years ago. Tonight Beth (my Sister) got into a traffic accident in her "girlfriend's" car. And now she told sis to GTFO now, all because of said girlfriend car is totaled. Earlier tonight on F/B I learned about all these misfortunes. Say's she wasn't wearing a seatbelt and hit her her on the windshield. And might have a concussion, she was throwing up and has double vision. The damn bitch she's living with wants her out ASAP and won't drive her to the hospital. There's no one else around to take her, they don't have 911 or ambulances like we have in the states. Hell, I'm not really sure if the medical clinics in Brazil are even able to handle this type of injury. I just pray she's not in a coma or worse by morning. I was even planning to fly down to Brazil next Winter, Summer in the north. I can't even fly down there, I didn't get a passport yet. I should try and hurry that process up to help Sis get back. But by the time a get a passport Beth will be back home and OK I hope. I feel so helpless not being able to be there for her. Later this morning  hope it's better news.

I'm Still Searching

Now Easier With Digital Photography

Now I'm a very optimistic person, I'm positive that my love life sucks!!! I keep hoping that someday I'll be proven wrong, but that day hasn't come yet. Some people say the glass is half full. Some say it's half empty. I say "put some ice in it". What am I ranting about? Just like the last guy Tom G. I was trying to scope out and figure which way he swung. I was spending more time with my friend from work, the one that just retired, Dave W. He was telling me the people he met where he's moving to 600 + miles away in a southern state. His decorator, how nice she looks in her lacy tops and very tight jeans. He said she really gets him going. He's got a lady friend in Florida he's going to spend a couple of weeks with next month. And his next door neighbor lady, some one about Dave's age. Spending a lot of time and doing activities together, etc. So no I don't think Dave's looking for a quote-unquote guy friend. And in the past, he's said a few homophobic comments. I still thought I might tell him how I feel about him. If he reacts negatively we both can part ways and move on. If on the other hand, it's positive, as in thanks but no thanks but we still can be good friends. I'll keep in touch and maybe visit him in his retirement. If it goes bad or really bad I un-friend him on F/B and block him, just so he doesn't bother me or other F/B friends. So that's two out of three guys I've been, for lack of a better term chasing after. It might make me appear as a satyr. ;-) But hey I've got to have a backup plan if  the first one or second one or maybe even the third one don't work out. The third guy, I haven't seen him around much lately. But I've made friends with a guy name Roy. We both seem to have a lot in common and have plenty to talk about when we do get together. Like Ron (Retired in Delaware) said before. It might be a guy that hasn't even come on the scene yet, you never know.

Start Of A New Week.

When I was younger, my weekend routine.

I wanted to do a least once a week post on Friday or Saturday to keep myself motivated. Didn't quite happen this time. We were suppose to have a 3 day weekend,  I worked Friday to get my total hours over forty. The Labor day holiday only paid me 8 hours and my workdays are normally ten hours, so by the end of the week, I'd be 2 hours short of a full forty.  Long story short I worked 8 hours this past Friday. Needless to say, I didn't make it Saturday either with a post. Decided to spend most of the day running around Omaha to a couple of flea markets. Today I spent a quiet Sunday observing the 15th anniversary of 9-11. And took my parents out to Sunday dinner.                            I was thinking how strange it's going to be going back to work on Monday. This past Friday was my good friend Dave W's last day at work, he retired after 37 years. I'm quite happy for him that he was able to retire as soon as he wanted. But I am sadden I won't see and talk to him every day like I used to.  On some level I think he likes me, I just don't know if he has the same feelings for me as I do for him. I noticed that whenever he sees me he has a smile comes to his face. I hope to find out for sure how he might feel about me by the end of the year. Even though Dave stopped working, he's still  going to be around town for a few more weeks before moving to his new house he had built down south, some 600 miles away. So if he does become a BFF, it's going to be a long distance relationship. He told me he might be back to visit his family for Thanksgiving, I urged him to swing by and see me then. If it hasn't happened by then, I wanted to tell him I how I really feel about him. With any luck, it will turn out for the best.    Now for a bit of irony, one of the small quirks of living in a small town. People will interact with one another that have no idea that they both know someone that you know. ( does that make sense?) Case in point, I found out the realtor that sold my friend Dave's house in town here is someone that I have a history with. I mentioned Gary before, Gary and I were seeing each other for a while. Then his friends and neighbors were asking who I was, how do we know each other?  It kind of freaked him out, and it was difficult to explain how we knew each other. Sooooo... he said to stop coming by, his friends and business associates might shun him, homophobic small midwestern town and all. I'm trying to break out and be myself, to a point. I have to limit myself here as well. But Gary wants to stay well into the closet. But if you talk to him in person you pretty quickly figure him out, I did! That's my rant of comings and goings on in a small town this post.

Missing My Friend Dave Already.