HAPPY NEW YEAR HORN DOGS!!!!!!!

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Stop by Lori's blog and see what her New Years resolution is.

The Best Things in Life

This list courtesy of James S Huggins.

# Falling in love.

# Laughing so hard your face hurts.

# A hot shower.

# No lines at the Super Wal-Mart.

# A special glance.

# Getting mail.

# Taking a drive on a pretty road.

# Hearing your favorite song on the radio.

# Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.

# Hot towels out of the dryer.

# Finding the sweater you want is on sale for half price.

# Chocolate milkshake.

# A long distance phone call.

# A bubble bath.

# Giggling.

# A good conversation.

# The beach.

# Finding a $20 bill in your coat from last winter.

# Laughing at yourself.

# Midnight phone calls that last for hours.

# Running through sprinklers.

# Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.

# Having someone tell you that you're beautiful.

# Laughing at an inside joke.

# Friends.

# Falling in love for the first time.

# Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you.

# Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep.

# Your first kiss.

# Making new friends or spending time with old ones.

# Playing with a new puppy.

# Late night talks with your roommate that keep you from sleeping.

# Having someone play with your hair.

# Sweet dreams.

# Hot chocolate.

# Road trips with friends.

# Swinging on swings.

# Watching a good movie cuddled up on a couch with someone you love.

# Wrapping presents under the Christmas tree while eating cookies and drinking eggnog.

# Song lyrics printed inside your new CD so you can sing along without feeling stupid.

# Going to a really good concert.

# Getting butterflies in your stomach every time you see that one person.

# Making eye contact with a cute stranger.

# Winning a really competitive game.

# Making chocolate chip cookies!

# Having your friends send you homemade cookies!

# Spending time with close friends!

# Seeing smiles and hearing laughter from your friends.

# Holding hands with someone you care about.

# Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change.

# Discovering that love is unconditional and stronger than time.

# Riding the best roller coasters over and over.

# Hugging the person you love.

# Watching the expression someone's face as they open a much-desired present from you.

# Watching the sunrise.

# Getting out of bed every morning and thanking God for another beautiful day.

# Having friends you know you can cry on or talk to about your deepest problem

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I'm adding "Free Internet Porn" to the list. Can you think of anything else to add?

Cooking Tip # 14

When a recipe calls for white wine in the sea scallop scampi, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, substitute red wine. If you don't have any white wine, just leave out the wine all together or dinner will turn out FRIGGING DISGUSTING! YUCK!!!!!

That is all. :-(

I'm lonely and bored

Lori is in Rhode Island this weekend visiting her parents and I needed some cheering up. Nothing says holiday cheer more than a hot chick cooking in her bra. So for your's and my viewing pleasure, "A Girl, A Bra, A Stove".

Thank you Atom Films!

We All Need a New Calender for 2008

I thought I'd perform a public service and provide y'all, my fellow horn dogs, with a link to free sexy 2008 calenders. Well, almost free. Each one will cost you the price of twelve sheets of printer paper and a little color ink.

It's going to cost me a lot more ink and paper than that. I've been printing out calenders for three days now and still haven't reached the end of the list of calenders I want. I sure hope I can get them all printed out and hung before the first of the year.

http://www.areaticino.com/calendari-2008.asp

My Favorite HNT of 2007

For HNT this week, Os wants us to choose our favorite 2007 HNT. Here is a summary of the rules.

For the last HNT of the year, it's time to go back to YOUR OWN archives and choose YOUR favorite HNT of 2006 2007. This is the one that YOU think is best. Post the picture again, and let us know why it's your favorite. Link back to the original, if you want.

This was tough, because I liked them all. Well, most of them anyway. The Root Canal HNT was at the very bottom of the list. I went back through my HNTs and finally decided on the SUPER BOWL FANTASY HNT posted on February 8th. This HNT was done jointly with Lori. She posted Part One on her blog and I posted Part Two on mine. Doing this one was a lot of fun. Click on the links and I'm sure you'll be able to figure out why.

Now for my favorite picture. Since this post was a two parter, I felt the need to post my favorite picture from each part.

"What's better than watching the big game, with the Nudist Rules in effect..."

"...and being served food and grog by your favorite sexy wench?"

There is nothing better!

Wait! Now that I think of it there are a few things that are better and they all include my favorite sexy wench.

If you are so inclined, all 125 of my HNT posts are available here.

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Click on the lady's boobies to join the fun.

No, not Lori's boobies you horn dog. The lady's in red below.

Merry Day After Christmas!

I hope you got lucky, as in you received all the gifts you were hoping for. I sure did and more. My son got me a 27 inch TV for my bedroom. My old 24 inch one was starting to go, so if he didn't get one for me, I soon would have had to buy one for myself.

I gave Brian a tool kit, so he'll stop using mine and then maybe I'll be able to find my tools when I need them. I also got him a new electric razor. He's been complaining about razor burn, so he was very happy I gave him that. His big present was a VISA gift card so he could buy new hockey equipment. He has been playing roller hockey in a league where they use a ball. In January they move to a different league and move up to the A division. This league uses a puck and getting hit by a puck hurts a hell of a lot more than getting hit by a ball. That means that he has to outfit himself with different types of protective equipment. I gave him enough money so he can buy new skates too.

In the afternoon Brian went to his girl friend's house and I went to Lori's. But first we both went to the cemetery to visit Barbara. I never saw so many people there at one time before. There was a constant flow of cars in and out.

Lori made a turkey breast with all the trimmings for dinner. It turned out perfectly and everything was excellent. But before dinner we exchanged gifts. Her kids gave me gin and tonic, a fancy Margaretta kit, a hand tool that makes cutting vegetables, etc., easier and a muti-pack of different flavors of hot sauce. I love spicy food! I got them all VISA gift cards. I gave her son the new Guinness Book of World Records, one daughter I gave a Starbucks card and the other girl I gave her just what she wanted. Five boxes of Kraft macaroni & cheese and five cans of tuna. I know that sounds like a strange gift, but the girl could live on that stuff.

Lori gave me a bunch of stuff and I gave her a bunch of stuff too. I'll post about that later, but first I have to get outside and pick up the bags & stuff that held the Luminarios. For the last 25 years, every house in our beach association has put them out every Christmas Eve, weather permitting. We line the streets in front of our homes with them.

FYI: Luminarios are small brown paper sacks, half filled with sand and a candle placed in the sand. On Christmas Eve these are lit, it will help in guiding the Christ child to this home.

May You All Get Lucky!

...and get everything you wanted this holiday season.

Merry Christmas my friends and even them that are not.

I love you all!

But not in "that" way of course.

Sort of in a brother or sister

or lustful sort of way.

Take your pick.

;-)




Disclaimer: That was not a poem, because I can't write poetry.

I'm so excited!

I just received an email from someone I tried to contact two years ago. How cool is that?

On December 13, 2005, I posted this story about being ambushed in Vietnam while we were on patrol. This wasn't the story about the ambush when I was wounded, but the one where my platoon sergeant, Sergeant Cox was wounded. Unfortunately Sergeant Cox died from those wounds later that day.

As I mentioned in the story, I'd found Sergeant Cox's name on the Vietnam Memorial web site and in turn, I found a note from the daughter of one of his best friends back home in Queens.

Paula Miller
pamille5@vt.edu
Daughter of good friend
65 Blossom Hill Road
Lebanon, NJ 08833 USA
Jimmy Cox was a good friend of my father's in New York. I know little about him, but I do have the honor of holding his army green jacket with his name on it. I say I know little about him but I feel the impact of his tragically short life on my father. My father is not an emotional man, and I have never seen him cry about anything save Jimmy. I can see through my father's eyes and the tears, how wonderful this young man must have been. To Jimmy and my dad, thank you, I love you.
Peaches

I sent her an email soon after I read this message, but I didn't hear back from until today. That was over two years ago!

Hi Tony
I left a note on the Vietnam Memorial Names website quite a while back. I left my college e-mail address on the site, and since then, that e-mail address has been closed. Through some random family internet browsing, my mom came across my message on James (Jimmy) Cox's name, and your blog responding to it. I know my father would appreciate your stories, especially about Jimmy . My parents still send his mother a Christmas card every year. Thank you for who you are and for your service to our great country. I hope this note finds you well, and I wish you and your family and friends a very Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!
Warm Regards
Paula Miller

I replied to her email letting her know that I am available to talk to whomever would like to chat. I'll let you know how this works out.

Did I mention that I'm excited? :-)

Are you going to be busy this weekend?

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Three Christmas Wishes HNT

This weeks HNT isn't the normal HNT. Mr HNT asked us to pick three HNT participants/bloggers and then tell the world what we'd wish for them for Christmas if we had the means to do so. This was not an easy decision. There are a lot of people I'd like to give wishes too, but I had to settle for three.

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My first Christmas gift wish was a no brainer. I did a post about them last Friday, it is for Samantha and Don. Their son will be deployed to Iraq on January 2nd and Sam may be deployed at anytime.

My gift to them would be peace in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Zoely gets my second Christmas wish. She is about to head out into unknown territory, Maine. She could have picked a better time of the year WARMER WEATHER, but sometimes we don't have a choice in some things.

My gift to her is a paid for credit card with a never ending balance.

That way she can buy lots and lots and lots of warm clothes for her and her kids and a never ending supply of fuel oil/natural gas/wood to heat her abode and keep her and her offspring warm.

If she is so inclined, maybe she'll also buy some sexy lingerie and post the pics.


I'd even chip in a few bucks out of my pocket for that. How about you?

Edit: I've been corrected, she's moving to Vermont. Same difference as far as I'm concerned. It's still fucking cold!

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Then there is the third recipient of my Christmas wishes. I'll give you two guesses who it is; here's the clues.

Clumsy: kləm-zē
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): clum·si·er; clum·si·est
Etymology: probably from obsolete English clumse benumbed with cold lacking dexterity, nimbleness, or grace b: lacking tact or subtletyawkward or inefficient in use or construction: unwieldy
Synonyms: See awkward

Did you guess?

No?

Here's another hint.


You still didn't guess?

Okay, here's the last clue. You have to be able to guess who it is with this one.


Yep, it's Jillie, the ultimate Green Bay Packer fan.

My first gift for her is a cool looking cheese bra like the one on the chick above. Jillie already has the cheese head. Besides, I really want to see Jillie model it for me. She is hot! ;-)

Then there is the most important wish for her, gracefulness.


(See the definition above for a hint why.)

The poor thing really needs this, badly! Last year she fell stepped off a curb and required surgery on her ankle. Not once, but twice.

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And for the rest of you horn dogs that came here to see some skin this fine day, here's a naughty picture of me taken by my baby when we were in Las Vegas.

Merry HNT Christmas Y'all!

MEN ARE ALL THE SAME (keep scrolling)

I wonder if I was like this growing up?

Rated - PG


http://www.2spare.com/item_92126.aspx

I Heard the First Beep After Dinner.

Every few minutes I heard it again, and again and again and again.
All through the evening I heard the beeping.
At first I thought it was the TV.
Nope, not that.
Then I thought it was the smoke detector.
Nope, not that either.
Then what the fuck is it?
It was driving me crazy.
Seemed to be coming from the hall, so I sat in there while I chatted on my laptop with Lori.
WTF?
For a solid 1/2 hour I never heard the beep.
So back to my recliner I went.
THERE IT IS AGAI!!!!
It's, it's, it's coming from, uh, uh...........
I have no idea where it is coming from.
SHIT!
There it is again.
FUCK!
This beeping has been going off and on for hours!
Where the fuck is it coming from?
I will not sleep tonight until I find the source of this beeping.
FUCK!
There is goes again.
I know, the batteries in the smoke detectors are low!
Nope, I changed them and still that fucking beeping is there.
Now what?
Now don't move Tony.
Just listen and see where it is coming from.
But I already tried that you idiot!
What do you think I am, stupid?
Sorry..... :-(
What do you suggest?
How should I know?
Crap!
There it is again!
I stand in the door way to the basement.
There it is, down stairs.
I walk down the stairs and stand motionless at the bottom of the stairs.
I wait and wait for that god awful beeping sound.
There it goes again.
I walk into the other side of the basement door and it dawns on me.
That fucking carbon monoxide detector is beeping.
About every minute or two now.
That's the signal the battery is low.
I get a new 9 volt battery from the den and replace the old one in the carbon monoxide detector.

SUCCESS!
The beeping has been silenced for another year!
Hooray! Let's just hope I remember what that beeping sound is next year.

Sin City - Part 9, The Strip Video Tour Part 2

This is the second part of our tour of the Las Vegas Strip at night. Part 1 can be seen here. It really is an amazing sight to see.

Hero performed by Michael Israel in New York

I stopped by Don's blog last night at Mysteries of the Pineapple. Don is married to Samantha Alice, a blogger friend some of you know and a friend of mine almost from the beginning of my blog. Sam enlisted in the army late last year and is now stationed in Germany. Don and their children joined her there a while ago.

In Don's post, he said that he had a tough week, because he found out that their son will soon be deployed to Iraq and his wife Sam, may be deployed at anytime. I can't imagine what they are all feeling right now.

As much as I'm against the war in Iraq, I am still extremely proud of them, and everyone in the military for making the sacrifices our country has asked of them. I'm also proud of many other people, in all walks of life, that makes sacrifices for us every day.

Don provided a link to an amazing video on YouTube that is a wonderful tribute to these people. I'm not ashamed to say that I cried like a baby starting at the 2-minute mark and continued until well after the video was over.

This is part of the description of the video they provided.

Don't miss the end...wonderful surprises all the way through. HERO is an amazing accomplishment, a performance you watch with your heart. This work has helped raise interest and awareness for many charities and worthy causes. This performance was produced by Wolfgang Films.

HERO explores commitment to an ideal. It asks the question: What endeavor would you undertake knowing full well that the odds are you will fail? What would you give your all to knowing it's likely you will be severely injured or even die trying? What is the greatest possible reward and in that thought, what is the most valuable and priceless thing on earth?

Christmas Tree HNT

Os gave us an HNT theme this week and for the next two HNTs after this; December 20th and December 27th.

This week we were to show you our Christmas tree. I know he was expecting our Christmas trees to be up and decorated by now, but as you probably know by now, I am "King of the Procrastinators"!

LONG LIVE KING BTE! ;-)



As you can see, my tree isn't set up or decorated. I suppose you can also tell by looking at my Christmas tree and me in my basement here, that I'm also not the most organized person in the world either. I found the Christmas tree, but darned if I know where the stand is?

Oh well, if I can't find it, I'll just lean the tree up in the corner of the living room.

HAPPY HO, HO, HO HNT CHRISTMAS!

Sin City - Part 8, The Strip Video Tour Part 1

Lori took this video on our second night in Las Vegas. We were on our way to dinner and we wanted to look at the Strip at night.



Tune in for part two of the Strip tour very soon some day. You'll see it as soon as I get around to posting it.

GOOD NEWS!

Sometime on Sunday Lori lost one of her glue-on nails. She didn't know exactly where she lost it. She looked in all the places she remembers where she could have lost it, but she never found it.

Well, this evening I found it and she was very happy, but me, not so much. Why may you ask?

BECAUSE I FOUND IT IN MY MOUTH!

Yes, my mouth! It was in my drink.

How did it get in my drink you ask? There is only one way.

Well, three ways, but those ways aren't part of this story.

Sometime Saturday after 4:00 pm (Happy Hour in my house starts daily at 4:00 pm) Lori made a round of our gin & tonics and her nail was knocked off by the ice when she reached in the ice maker bin. This evening when I made a drink, I must have grabbed the long lost finger nail along with the ice and dropped it in my glass.

A short time later while we were watching TV in bed, I took a drink and felt something, other than gin & tonic or ice, in my mouth. I took it out and low and behold, it was the long lost finger nail. She was really happy, but me, I was a bit grossed out.

Come on, I had no idea where that finger nail hand been. It could have been anywhere, even in naughty places. Okay, that would be HOT! I love her naughty places, but that's another story. But what if that finger nail had been in, well, you know, other places not so HOT? Never mind, I like all her places if you get my drift.

Anyway, finding a finger nail in my drink is not exactly something I wanted to ever find in my drink again.

What's the worst thing you ever found in your drink or food?

Finally got the pool closed.......

...... well, almost.

Last weekend I had an excuse. It snowed.


I know, I know, I know, I've been procrastinating closing my pool, but I've been mega busy ROTFLMAO , but that all came to an end on Saturday. With Lori prodding me, I started closing the pool.

The weather on Saturday was cold, cold and colder. Okay, it was in the mid-40s, but that's still cold for a pool closing. While I was doing the pool, Lori was baking cookies. Don't they look good?



I wasn't thrilled that I would be spending the day out doors, but I know it had to be done.







I tried to get some sympathy from Lori so I could stop and go inside where it was warm.










I even tried smiling, but no deal. I had to at least finish cleaning the pool before I would be allowed inside to get warm.











The time finally came when it was time to add the winterizing chemicals.

Two of part A and eleven of part 3 and then a few dashes of part M.





Here is the clean, chemical balanced pool.









It was starting to get dark, so I went inside to work on my next project; getting the back door storm door to close. That included replacing the broken door knob/latch/closer thingy on the storm door.













Then the next day, Sunday, Lori helped me get the winter cover on.


PS
Remind me next fall to close the pool before the garden hoses freeze.

I've changed sides

I've always liked dogs, but not cats. This pretty lady changed my mind. If you watch The Office, you'll recognize her.



Wait! That was about cats, right?

Blogging HNT

Some of my favorite things to do are done in my bed, including blogging. Where is your favorite place to do things you like to do?

I also like to watch TV there too. ;-)

HAPPY HNT Y'ALL!

WHY GOD MADE MOMS

WARNING! Before you read this you better go pee, because if you don't, I'm certain you'll wet your pants from laughing so hard.

These are answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:

Why did God make mothers?
1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?
1. We're related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me

What kind of little girl was your mom?
1. My Mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your mom marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that Mom didn't have her thinking cap on.

Who's the boss at your house?
1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goof ball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between moms & dads?
1. Moms work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.

3. Dads are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power 'cause that's who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.
4. Moms have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mom do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don't do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mom perfect?
1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I'd diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.
2. I'd make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.

Which way do you hang it?

The toilet paper roll that is. This may seem like a stupid question, but which way do you like the toilet paper to come off the roll?

Facing you (over)

OR

Away from you (under)?








Me, I prefer over and don't have a clue why anyone would want to hide the beginning of the roll against the wall.

A poll is below so please vote accordingly.

	Toilet paper, over or under?
	Paper Over
	Paper Under
casino

IT'S A LANDSLIDE! OVER IT IS!

Sin City - Part 7: The Real View

I hope your as happy as Lori and I am that I was just dreaming in the last two Las Vegas posts; Part 5 and Part 6. Now without further ado, here is the complete video of the view of the Strip from our room on the 16th floor of the Hilton Vacation Club on the Strip in Las Vegas.

Procrastination at it's finest!

I woke up to that this morning. I guess it might be time to close the pool, huh?

Kellie Pickler sings great, .......

........ but this girl is dumber than a rock.

Another Sin City HNT

As you know, Lori and I recently went to Sin City. If you didn't know that, "WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN!" Get your ass in gear and check out the Las Vegas posts on my regular blog and catch up.

Sin City Part One, Sin City Part Two, Sin City Part Three, Sin City Part Four, Sin City Part Five, Sin City Part Six

Anyway........................

We loved Las Vegas and believe you me, they don't call it Sin City for nothing. Our first day there we drove up and down the Strip just to check out the place.


Lori saw this SUV and started drooling. Her favorite color is pink.









We didn't have time to check out this place, but it is at the top of our list of place to see on the next trip.









We stopped for a red light and Lori spotted this. We parked in the Fashion Show Mall parking garage and went over to check them out.





Here's a closer look at what she found. Yep, advertisements offering sex of all kinds in your room in 10 minutes or less.

How cool is that?







We each reached in and pulled out the ones we thought were most interesting.








It was perversion gold!










We just picked some out and compared what we each choose when we got back to the room. Among the others, we each picked out a copy of this one. LOL

"Barely Legal Asians"

Have I told you how lucky I am. :-)





On our way back to the mall, I found a ticket on the side walk.



HAPPY SIN CITY HNT!

SIN CITY - PART 6, Scary View, the Conclusion

Poor-o-poor BTExpress, he seemed to have met his doom in the last episode. Like you, I need to find out what happened to the poor old guy. So without further ado, lets see what happened in part two.



"Sir, sir, the plane is landing and you have to put your seat in the upright position."

"Leave me alone, I want to sleep!"

"Sir, your tray and seat back must be in the upright position. Don't make me call the sky marshal on you."

"Yea, yea, what ever you say......................... bitch."

Can't a guy get some sleep?

SIN CITY - PART 5, Scary View

If you've been reading my posts about the vacation Lori and I recently spent in Las Vegas, If you haven't read them, then STOP NOW and go back and read them., I'm sure you've been on the edge of your seat waiting to find out what happened after The Scary HNT. If your not on the edge of your seat, then that means you haven't read my Las Vegas posts and I'm pissed off. So STOP NOW and go back and read them! There will be a test so pay close attention.

Wait no longer my faithful readers, but beware, this one is scarier than the last one!

My new favorite model/actress, .........

........is Heidi Klum. I'll give you one guess, no, two guesses why. :-P



I bet you love her now too.

I went to Lori's for Thanksgiving

Lori 's parents came down on Tuesday from Rhode Island to spend the week visiting. Like last year, my son went to his girl friend's and I went to mine (my girl friend is Lori if you were wondering).

I asked her if she wanted me to bring something, because I wanted to share show off my culinary skills to her family. I've developed into quite a cook if I do say so myself. Except for baking. I don't eat desert, so I never bothered to learn to bake. That was proven last year when I tried to make a pie and screwed up the ingredients. If I remember correctly, I left out the sugar.

At first she said she didn't want me to make anything, but then a couple of days later, she said she changed her mind. She told me she found a recipe for something she wanted me to make. Now of all the things she could have asked me to prepare, what do you think it would be? It could have been anything; stuffing, any of the side dishes or even the turkey.

So what do you think she asked me to make? I'll give you one guess.

So, did you guess it correctly? Of course you did!

Yep a desert, a baked desert. Did I tell you I don't bake and that I never learned, because I don't eat desert? No, not just any old baked desert, but a frigging "Tropical Pumpkin Pie". Did I tell you I don't bake and that I never learned, because I don't eat desert?

Of course I said yes, because I'm the man and I'm good that way.

She emailed me the recipe and I read it. Basically a Tropical Pumpkin Pie is a pumpkin pie with flaked coconut mixed in with the pumpkin filling and spices. Crushed pineapple is spread on top of that and then that is covered with toasted coconut. Here's my pies, all three of them.


Why are there three and why is the crust so dark you ask? Did I tell you I don't bake and that I never learned, because I don't eat desert? Well, since I was making attempting one for Lori, I'd make one so my son could take one to his girlfriends house. I mean how hard can doubling the ingredients be, right?

Now you ask, if I just doubled the ingredients, why are there three pies and not just two. Well, I tell you. I have no frigging clue! I measured all of the ingredients VERY carefully and even leveled off the measuring cups and measuring spoon with a knife. I followed the directions precisely and double checked as I went along. I made sure I even bought 9-inch pie crusts like they said. Good thing there were three in a pack or I'd have tossed a lot of filling. I just have no idea what I'm going to do with three pies. Did I tell you I don't eat desert?

I know the crust is way too dark, so next time I'll cover the edge with aluminum foil like they suggested. Did you know I don't always take suggestions?

When my son got home he immediately wanted to know what smelled so good, so I showed him. He took a double take and then asked me why I made all those pies. I explained that Lori asked me to make it and that I was taking one to her house and I'd made extra so he could take one to his girl friends.

Before he answered, he saw the small dish of filling cooling on the rack that I'd made for a taste test after they were done and he asked to taste it. He got a spoon, tasted it and HE LOVED IT! He cleaned the dish. I thought it was pretty darn good myself. :-)

I felt a lot better now. Even with the dark crust, I'm sure it would be a hit, especially with the crushed pineapple and toasted coconut on top.

Oh yea, did you know they don't sell toasted coconut? I had to toast my own. That was a first too, but even that came out good. :-)


To make a long story just a bit longer, my pie was a big hit. And you know what? I might just do a little baking now that my second attempt at pie making came out pretty darn good?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Before we get into HNT, I want to wish you and your's a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Not it's time for Half Nekkid Thursday! Mine follows.

Sin City Part 4 - Scary HNT

This may be the last look you get at BTExpress and Simply Me.

They ran into something very scary in the endless hall of their hotel in Sin City.

Here is the video of their encounter. Watch it only if you dare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Scary HNT

PS
Sorry I'm not following the MP3 theme for this week as per King HNT, but I don't have an MP3 player and almost never listen to music except in the car. (Yea, I'm weird) But the sound effects in this post are MP3s, so I guess I'm technically complying with the theme.

Cleaning Lady Troubles

My cleaning lady never showed up today. She didn't even call to let me know she wouldn't be coming. This is the second time she didn't show up or call. I called her and left a message on her answering machine asking her what happened. I reminded her in the message that this happened before. I also reminded her that she is supposed to call if she isn't going to show up. We discussed this the last time.

She called back about 5 minutes later. The poor thing had migraines so bad that she was admitted to the hospital. When she was released, she felt too poorly to call me.

I wasn't buying a minute of it as an excuse not to call.

Sure she could have had a sever migraine and even have been admitted to a hospital for it. BULL SHIT! Poor thing. But WFT? She couldn't find 1 minute to call me an when she got home to let me know she was going to stand me up?

I am normally very nice when I talk to her, but this time I was very stern. Not angry sounding, just stern.

The holiday is coming up and she stands me up! This better not happen again or it's curtains for her. I don't care how good she is. I'll get someone else to clean my house for $20 and hour. Anyone want the job? You just show up every two weeks for four hours and clean my place. It will be the easiest $80 you'll ever make.

Sin City - Part 3, Day 2, The Vacation Club Tour

We arrived at the hotel early Friday morning. The hotel looked first class, but I assumed it would if it was to compete with all the other hotels in Las Vegas.






There was marble everything everywhere.











Check in was at 4:00, but arrived a little early........at noon. They gave us a room right away anyway.










The hall was kind of creepy. We had an interesting experience in the hall the next day, but I'll leave that for another post.










The first thing we did when we got into the room was to take pictures of the room before we messed it up. The room was really nice, but nothing special. It was a lot like all the other newer Hilton hotels I've stayed in.


Here's the view of the Las Vegas Strip from our room.








The second thing we did was make drinks (I packed the gin & tonic) and make a toast to the two love birds destined to have a naughty time in Sin City.

Wait, that was the third thing. We went to the bathroom after taking the pictures.






We were going to get together with Tara this weekend, so next I got online to send her an email to let her know we arrived. We exchanged a few text message and emails and agreed to get together the next night on Saturday.



The free high speed wireless internet access was nice. When we were in San Diego last November we only had free wired access. The old phone landlines suck!

The next day, Saturday, we were scheduled to take the two-hour-tour of the Hilton Grand Vacation Club on the Strip we were staying at. I got the cheap rate for the room when I agreed to take the tour. The vacation clubs are time share condos at Hilton resorts around the world. Right now there are almost forty of them.

The tour of the facility was nice and the salesman was friendly and knowledgeable.



They don't have a restaurant in the hotel, but they have a 24-hour deli. There will be a restaurant in tower three when the build it. They are also going to build a fourth tower. With four, almost 40-floor towers, that's a lot of frigging rooms!



They have a health club, but it's one place I'll probably never go into. Who goes on vacation to spend it in a gym?







The tour was nice and then we sat down for the sales pitch to try and get me to buy a time share. He even said they had an incentive to buy into their time share. I just wanted to get it over with so we get back to touring Sin City. But the guy was good, very good. He made it all sound so attractive. Somewhere during this conversation he asked us, "If you could take a vacation any where in the world, where would it be?" Lori said Hawaii and I agreed. I'd always wanted to go there. (Lori thought that this is the incentive to buy they would offer me.)

It isn't like any other time share I'd ever heard of.

You know how when you buy a time share that you get a week at a certain resort at a certain time of the year? This isn't like that.

You know how they tell you that you can trade your week for another week somewhere other than the place you bought into and are lucky if you can get it when you want? This isn't like that.

This one works with points. So many points a year based on what level you purchase. You can use them at any of these palces, any time there is an available room or suite.

Hilton Grand Vacations Club offers a collection of extraordinary resorts in some of the world's most desirable locations, access to over 2,800 Hilton Family of Hotels worldwide, 3,700 exchange opportunities across the globe and a variety of unique adventure and cruise travel options. Hilton Grand Vacations Club resorts offer extensive amenities and impeccably designed studios, one, two and three bedroom villas...destinations unto themselves. Ownership at a Hilton Grand Vacations Club resort comes with a proprietary allotment of ClubPoints - the currency which delivers flexibility, choices and vacation planning services so simple and easy, you'll wonder why you ever vacationed any other way.

I wouldn't be restricted to just one particular week a year. Nor would I be restricted to any one place. I could vacation at any of the places they offered, anytime I wanted. I could even check into a local hotel for a weekend if I wanted. They have about a dozen different hotel chains.

Damn! I was just about hooked!

Next he asked me if I was interested in talking to his manager. It seems that if I bought in that day, the manager would offer me that "incentive" to buy. I figured it wouldn't hurt to hear what he'd offer, so I said yes. He walked away to get his manager.

I turned to Lori and almost at the same time we said, "This sounds good." I was hooked and being reeled in.

A minute later the manager showed up and we chatted a bit. You know, small talk. Then he says, "I see here that you'd like to go to Hawaii."

I said, "Yes."

He says, "If you buy today, I will give you two free round trip airfares on American Airlines and a week at one of our vacation clubs in Hawaii. What do you say, interested?"

(American Airlines is part of this too. So are every cruise line in the world and many other travel and vacation companies including house boats, including RCI time shares. It's just not Hilton's I am limited too.)

What else could I say but, "Yes."

That's right, I bought a time share at the Hilton Grand Vacation Club on the Strip in Las Vegas. I swore I'd never do that, but I bought it. I am retired, can travel at will and have been taking vacations anyway, so this seemed like a good idea. Besides, I'm actually buying a piece of the vacation club in Las Vegas. I can hand it down in my will, even give it away. I just couldn't see a down side.

The plan I bought was for a two-room suite, for a week in Vegas. That is 5,000 points. If I take a smaller room, like the studio we stayed in, the price in points drops by about half. That would give me two weeks at least. I can even use the points for airfare.

The incentive points I got for the free vacation in Hawaii was for 15,040 points. So I expect that a one-week vacation in Hawaii, in a two-room suite with airfare is expensive.

Does anyone have any idea how much that would cost?

But I'm free to use the incentive points and the 5,000 points I get right away, for any vacation I want. It doesn't have to be Hawaii. Having 20,040 points to start, is a lot of frigging points and a lot of vacation time immediately available to me. If I don't want to use it, or can't, I can bank it for future use.

I just couldn't see the down side to this, can you? Honestly, can you?