Pleasant Surprise

While out with Wang-O at Houlihans in Ramsey, locked eyes with Keen-O and as recognition set in, realized that she was hanging with Kim-O!! Joy, joy, happy, happy... Figured Gord-O's stock and mystic would be Hi running with two hotties, so headed over to Brady's in Ramsey for some live music. Fun time.

New Tat

Shading not done yet. The background Irish flag will be orange, white, and green, and the celtic trinity itself will pop bright kelly green. This is my right shoulder. Tat artist "Lucky Mike" from Shotsie's http://www.shotsiestattoo.com/ said it will look awesome.

Marah!!!!

Invited by a good friend to see the private Marah show. Around 70 people gathered at the Glen Ridge Train Station for this nite. Acoustic "Unplugged" evening. This is a video of two great songs from that night. ROUND EYE and a great version of BARSTOOL BOYS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3yR9h7rEXI. Marah RULES!!!


Serge and Dave doing an impromptu "Van Jam" after the show.

An Excellent band. Superb musicians. Superb sound quality.

Dave, on sobriety day number 140.

Stanky Twa

That's me at 7 am on the way to the YMCA with cousin, Michael.

Michael lives in Albuquerque, NM. I was in a good mood this particular day because I haven't seen him in a while and I was looking forward to spending some time together. Over the past 6 years Michael has gotten himself into great shape from 240 and gaining to 180 and lean. So, I agreed to forgo my workout this morning for "his" workout. Well, Michael is a two time Ironman, and he came dressed in full regalia with Ironman shirt, visor, and his New Mexico Outlaws bike shorts. I knew as soon as he showed up at my house, that this would be different than the normal trip to the gym.

We did lighter weights, but doubled the reps and did about 1 hour and 45 minutes of total body workout. Hardly stopped in between sets. Sore today, but in a good way.

Good extension, head on the ball. Coach Gordon practicing what he preaches at In The Swing.

Cousin Michael and me.

The Tell

On a salescall in Troy, NY... Posing by the client's sign, then hopping through the 3" of mud surrounding the sign. Dress shoes and suit pants full of mud, etc...

In poker (and in meetings for that matter), a "tell" is an unaware gesture or mannerism that signals the others in the room whether you have a good or bad hand. Those with a "poker face" are able to refrain from showing any tells. After a great sales call and client lunch, my coworker and I were debriefing. Sharing our insights, critiquing each others' performance during the meeting, etc... It was then my worlds collided in a most unfortunate manner... Grant stops the conversation, and throws his hands up, and waits until I am completely quiet and focused on what he is going to say next. Finally, when he has my undivided attention, he says, "you breathe like a zoo animal..." Then he gives me a moment to let that sink in. He then goes on to say that it is not usually, but just when something good is happening, like the customer is sending some buying signals. He goes on further to tell me that it is not minor, in fact it was so distracting and loud that he could barely continue his note-taking. And... It was not just this meeting, come to think of it, it was every meeting where something good happened.

Now, my poker buddies have folded pocket aces upon hearing my "Darth Vader" breathing pattern. They know when I am sitting on a monster hand, and they have told me, even gotten extremely pissed off about it (although it doesn't take a lot to piss these particular guys off). The scary thing is, I still can't tell when I am doing it. I forget what the theory was called, but it is in that quadrant of stuff that others can see about me that I cannot. I'm pretty sure its a biological way that my system tries to lower my heart rate or something. I guess I was just in denial about it, but hearing it from a work colleague has validated what I have been hearing from my poker buddies for years.

I really need to stop that, for f__k sake.

Me and Uncle Floyd

This was fun. For those of you old enough to remember, this is Uncle Floyd. Uncle Floyd is my cousin, Greg's, favorite entertainer of all time. Greg's sister, Gwyn, brought Uncle Floyd to Greg's 40th birthday party, where he performed for about 40 of us, and he was hilarious. Actually, I remember watching Uncle Floyd from 6th grade through college. He was always a little funny and perverted. He did things like walked into hair salons and hit on the girls who were cutting hair on camera.

This is a clip of a typical Uncle Floyd episode...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwivMIQKvRg

Finally, A New Post

So my buddy DEAN-O (aka woogie, aka Chris Elliot), (far left) was up from Austin, and we got our drink on in NYC at LATITUDE then on to Hoboken with Josh (far right). This hottie was at the bar. All three of us (including the other 50 guys in the bar) claim, "it was me she wanted." However when I whipped it out (my camera), she was more than happy to pose with us. This was unsolicited.

On an unrelated topic, is it appropriate to openly breast feed on a plane next to a business traveler? I think not. I mean, with no modesty at all. En route to San Jose Tuesday, the Latina mom and her infant occupied seat 27A next to Gordo. Her husband and their 2 year old took the two seats across the aisle. As I was thinking of eating my melon salad from Starbucks, suddenly another type of melon was there, 12 inches away. Out in the open, no blanket, just there. About the size of a small cantaloupe with a 3 inch diameter black circle. Obviously, the challenge was to avert my eyes. My entire head and neck froze, eyes forward on the little JetBlue TV. I didn't move in fear that she would think I was copping a cheap thrill. Honestly, it was really more like witnessing the train wreck. Finally after a full chowing on both sides, the baby now looks content. Content quickly becomes uncomfortable. About a minute later, the baby ralphs all over the the mother and her seat, barely missing me. I spent the next hour fighting off the "chain reaction" barf.

Gordo made his rookie debut in the over-40 baseball league. Threw on the metal spikes again. Batted lead off, went 2-3 with a walk, 2 RBIS, a stolen base, and 2 runs scored. The Ridgewood Giants are 1-0.

LETS GO METS! The Mets are 3-0 after sweeping the Cardinals.

So friggin psyched that it's baseball season again.