Worn Out Wednesday

Hey Everybody! I hope that you all had a good Thanksgiving weekend!  I can't believe that we're only a month away from Christmas!  Add 1 an extra day and we'll be at Boxing Day aka my big 5-0!  Yeah man! I'm going to cover what I've been up to between Halloween and Thanksgiving.  I have been a busy little beaver y'all!  I returned to work on Halloween after an absence which started in the middle of January 2015! Hey Everybody! Happiest of Happy Fridays to you all! I wrote the first 2

Hey Everybody! Happy Saturday! I think that today is a good time for an update or a catching up session as the case may be.  As has often happened in my life a big high was followed by a very significant low.  This past summer that pattern repeated itself.  Let me tell y'all about it. As I have shared previously completing the Avon Trail was one of the high points of my summer.  The following week I completed some routine blood work.  When the results came back they were not quite what I

Hey Everybody! Happy Saturday! I promise to not keep you too long. I still love that picture in the cover image y'all!   Today marks the 1 year anniversary of my kidney transplant!  1 YEAR!!!  YAY!!!e!  The last 12 months went by fast!   After shooting the video above it turned out that someone's support actually did save me from a life of daily dialysis.  I am very thankful that for the second time in my life that someone who I didn't even know made a decision to do something that

Hey Everybody! Happy Saturday! Happy October! Happy Thanksgiving/Columbus Day Weekend! Happy Oktoberfest!  It's Wunderbar!    Good morning Banger Nation!  I'm coming to you live from the couch today in the city which boasts the largest Oktoberfest celebration outside of Munich.  I planned on writing this post yesterday but what feels like my first cold of the season zapped me of the energy required to write a coherent sentence.  I'm feeling a little better today as I look out the window at

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! Happy Fall Y'all! Well I'm finally getting around to sharing the story about my trip back home to Atlanta in July.  It was stinkin' hot!  Imagine that!  Summertime in Atlanta was hot and humid!  Who could have seen that coming?  I'm acting like I'm new!  Main Pleez!  That reminds me before I get to my tale I have to give a shout out to my Lil' Bro!  Carl made my day last week with a phone call out of the blue to tell me that he was passing through Atlanta.  At

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday!!! Congratulations on putting another week in the books!  In keeping with KB! tradition I try to share a good story on Fridays so that we can head into the weekend on a positive note.  Today I am going to share one of my most memorable experiences during my summer break.  For those of you scoring at home this is the post that I had planned on writing yesterday.  That was then and this is now.  So let's get to it. The first major thing that I did after I decided to

Hey Everybody! Welcome Back! I hope that you all had a good summer wherever in the world you got the chance to spend it.  We had ourselves one hot and sticky summer season around these parts!  I ain't even lying about that y'all!  I thought that I had left all of that heat and humidity stuff back home in Georgia.  I thought wrong!  Apparently Mother Nature uses the same tracking software that my college alumni associations use to track me down when they're having a fundraising drive.  Those

Hey Everybody! Happy Sunday! I hope that you are all enjoying this 2nd weekend in June..  It's been pretty much wall to wall sunshine here and I am planning to get back in it before it's gone.  So I'll try to not keep y'all too long. Banger Nation!  Before I have a chance to get sidetracked I want to make sure that I express my sincere gratitude again to each and every one of you for the love and support that you have shown me over the last 3 YEARS that we've been getting together like this.

Hey Everybody! Happy Midweek! I did not see this coming y'all.  I had no idea when I published my first blog post on June 10, 2015 just how long I would continue to write such things.  I would not have guessed at that time that I'd still be going at it this far on down the road.  Once again it just goes to show that you never can tell!  According to my math this is the 500th blog post that I have published on this website!  I feel like I've said enough in that number of posts to last me for

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! It was a late night followed by an early morning y'all.  Monica and I were planning to get a jump on the weekend so we got up early.  My brain is still a little fuzzy and I'm finding it hard to string words together to form proper sentences. So about last night.  The Celebrity Men's Fashion Event took place as scheduled.  I am pretty sure that I had never even been to a fashion show before last night.  I am absolutely positive that I had never been in a fashion

Hey Everybody! Happy Midweek! We are halfway through this week and rollin y'all!  Hang in there and just KEEP BANGIN!  The end is in sight! In my last post Monica and I were getting ready to head off to a wedding.  The ceremony was beautiful!  The weather we had to contend with in order to get to the wedding location was horrendous!  Our area of Ontario experienced one of the worst windstorms in recent memory after I signed off on Friday afternoon.  Our apartment complex lost 4 big trees at

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! Happy Quatro de Mayo!  The judges will also accept Cinco de Mayo Eve. Well we've made it through another week y'all!  I for one am glad about it!  Congratulations! I am always in the mood to celebrate on a Friday and just about any other day of the week for that matter!  LOL!   However today promises to be a little extra special.  It's a nice day for a dry wedding!  Pardon my liberties with your lyrics Mr. Idol.  It ain't lookin' like that's gone happen though.

Hey Everybody! Happy May Day!  AKA International Worker's Day!  Is it me or does that May Day logo below remind you of another logo with a hammer in it?  I ain't sayin'.  I'm just sayin'.  LOL! We have officially completed 1/3 of 2018 y'all!  The sun has been shining today beaming out temperatures of 26 C or 79 F!  The meteorologists over at The Weather Channel said that Ontario hasn't been this warm since last October.  Monica and I just returned home from running some errands.  While we

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! It's the last Friday in April already!  We've managed to put another week in the books!  Congratulations! I have been a busy little beaver since my last blog post.  Tuesday I paid my last visit to Service Ontario for BeADonor month.  I ended with a whimper instead of a bang.  It was a very slow day traffic wise which gave me plenty of time to think about how the month had gone.  I engaged with the greatest number of customers on my first visit and the numbers

Hey Everybody! I will not keep you long today.  The weather's too nice outside for me to spend too much time typing on my keyboard inside.  I'll write more on another day. 2 YEARS!!!  Today marks 2 years since I had my heart transplant surgery.  2 years ago I knew going into that surgery that even if everything went exactly right that the best that I could hope for was to have a second organ transplant surgery  sooner than later.  When I woke up after my heart surgery I realized that I had

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! I experienced a surprisingly pleasant  Heart Clinic visit yesterday.  It was my second annual check up.  Monday will be 2 years exactly since I received my heart transplant.  I saw Mighty Mike on my way out of the hospital yesterday and we each remembered different dates for my surgery.  I told Mike that the reason for the confusion was that the hospital counted my transplant date as April 23rd because that's when the surgery started and it continued for 12 hours

Hey Everybody! Happy Midweek! I wasn't kidding when I told y'all that I was going to be busy this week!  Although our big ice storm got my week off to a rocky start on Monday the last 2 days have heated things up like a microwave!  I'll tell y'all about it. The after effects of this past weekend's  winter storm caused me to cancel my TAP shift under advisement from someone who was on scene at Grand River.  NO BUENO!  I'll give it another go next week.  I was told that I would have some new

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! Happier Friday the 13th! I've had a good week so far y'all!  It's ending on a good note too!  I'm coming to you live from my chair in the waiting room at Waterloo Honda.  My Beautiful is seated in the chair next to me.  We are taking part in that risky rite of Canadian springtime.  We are getting our winter tires swapped out for our summer tires.  Only time will tell if we got the timing right this year.  How much more snow are we really going to get?  I mean it

Hey Everybody! It's getting late and I don't plan on getting too far with this post tonight but I thought that I'd at least get it started.  I have had a very busy and productive 2 days so far this week.  I am feeling more than tired at the moment but it's a good tired.  The kind of fatigue that I like.  I feel like I'm tired because I've actually done something over the last 2 days.  I think that's a good thing. Yesterday I had my first solo TAP shift. Oh yeah!  My official TAP email account

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! Another week has come to a close.  YAY!!!  Congratulations on seeing it through to the end!  My week ended with a bang! Today has been a wild one from start to finish.  The cover image for this post shows the sight that greeted me in the parking lot this morning.  So much for the light flurries that they were calling for.  LOL!  Ontario's wintry spring continues!  After I uncovered my van I hit the road headed for the first flag raising of the day in Guelph. It