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Subject: Fwd: From Memphis Commercial Appeal: Bullet silences WEVL radio blues icon ‘Cap’n Pete’

SAD NEWS! Apparently, no one is safe in this city!!  WTF!!!

http://commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jul/17/bullet-silences-blues-radio-icon/

I had the 4th of July off.  It has been a long, hard, hot week.  My Doc says I have two torn rotator cuffs and tendinitis of my right knee.  I walk like Grandpa Joe.  I an in extreme discomfort  from the shooting pain signals emanating from my left shoulder. Ouchie.

Stacy left home b4 I woke up to work a fourteen hour day, again. I miss her and it is going to burn her out.  I cleaned up the kitchen and decided to tackle my malfunctioning water closet.  Three hours and many cuss words later it is better than new.  I have to go to Lowe’s today b4 work to purchase a cut off valve to the w/c tank.  Yesterday, I had to secure the water supply to the whole house because the cut off valve totally malfunctioned.  Phew!

Cheers!

Calvin Reed Flynn. 

 The little dude looks like his grandpa Art with those biker shades on.  Get that kid a scooter. 

Cheers

This day 21 years ago, Stacy and I and our friends Mary and Roger went up to Tokyo where Stacy and I got married in a ward office.  We went to the US embassy to get the document certified.  After the paperwork was sorted we ate Chinese.  We start our 22nd year together. 

Molly treated Stacy and me to breakfast at IHOP.  MMM.  We ate Swedish crepes with lingonberry butter and lingonberries. After a nap we cleaned house and organized clutter. Today was a nice day all around.

I slept in.  Stacy had to work today.  About 1-ish I ate a Reuben sandwich at a pizza joint.  I met up with Billy at the flying Saucer about 2-ish.  By 3: 15 we had ten scoots ready to ride.  We took the back roads to Shake Rag.  We stayed there a couple of hours and then seven scoots came home with me.  We ate our picnic lunches and chatted for an hour or so.  A nice day all around.

Schweet!  Sunday Stacy and I vacuumed out the mess at the bottom of the pool.  We put a hose in the pool to replace the water we were expelling over the side of the pool.  After the mess was gone we added more chlorine tabs to the floating dispenser and sprinkled 6-in-1 shock on top of the water to burn up what was stirred up.  Now the water sparkles.

Monday, I worked at getting flash to play nice with my sound card.  Ubuntu! This is unacceptable.  I also registered as a "Ubuntu People for Obama" person.

 Last night was spent working on the 1958 Vespa VBA1T orange scooter.  I adjusted the mix to 3% and it runs smoother.  The headset was very sloppy so I looked into that problem.  There is a $2.40 tabbed washer missing.  I tightend the headset ring and put the handle bars back on the scoot.  Then I fiddled with the front brake cable.  I now have a bit more front brake.

My test ride was awesome!  I did the twisties on Fite Rd. at 40+ mph.  Today I’d like to get my handheld GPS unit and see the exact topend mph.

Cheers, y’all

I was off today and I worked like heck around the house.  The first job was the stinkiest, washing my camping clothes and putting away my gear.

Then I had to open the pool for the season. Hard frigging work that.

Then I moved furniture for our room mate.

Then I mowed the back acre.

I decided to have some fun with a twilight helmet-less ride on the 58 VBA. The lil orange scooter fired up on the fourth kick.  I haven’t kicked it over since May.  The scooter runs peppy in first and second but bogs down in third.  The headset is very sloppy and it has Fred Flintstone brakes.  My, but it was a fun ride.

It was a great day not to be at work.

Cheers

The waitng is over.

I got fvcked over.

…waiting.

Waiting sucks.

…and pain, pain, pain.  It seems I am a grandpa since May 6th, my brother’s birthday. 

Stacy and I worked around the house and in the yard.  I installed new blades on my p.o.s. White/MTD lawn tractor.  We got our gear on and rode the Vespas to Harbor Town and Visited with Pam and Ted who just returned from Roxy’s wedding in Florida, yesterday. 

Next, we headed to downtown for the Crayfish Festival. People were walking around with pound sacks of the spicy mud bugs.  I asked a lady to show me how one eats those bugs and she did.  Then I watched Stacy eat her first craw daddy. I am still a crayfish virgin.

It was hot and crowded so we walked east from the river and on our way we ran into Elizabeth and Craig.  After a nice chat we ate Tilapia fish tacos and oysters at the Flying Fish.  Yum! Stac was tired by then and we headed back to the Vespas for the ride home.  On the way home Ian waved at us as he passed by in his cool Audi.

I was not finished riding so after seeing Stac safely home I headed over to Erroll’s for a Killian’s Red on draft to cool me off.  I chatted with Srey, Erroll, Ann, and a few bikers I know.  Most, but not all, of them are law enforcement types.  I headed north to Atoka and followed farm-to-market roads east and then south to Bartlett where I got a quart of frozen vanilla custard blended with Heath Bars at Sheridan’s.  I was quite the hero for showing up at home with this yummy treat.

We watched movies and the three of us ate frozen custard.  It was a nice day and I put 75 miles on my trusty Vespa 200l which now has over 17,000 fun miles on it.  Considering that the 200l is just one of my four bikes, that is a lot of miles for a 2005 scooter.

What did you do on Sunday? 

Nothing changes if nothing changes.

If you always do what you always did you’ll always get what you always got.