Weekend

[tt3]

Ok, Ok, I know its only Thursday, but I can't help waiting for the weekend. Floridians, I'm sorry since that puts Ivan closer...
I've got two beers coming out of the primary, and best of all, a party to go to Saturday. Our old neighbors are having a porch jam, bring your instrument and sit around shootin' the bull and play some blues. I've got it easy, I play bass, and the host plays 12 bar blues... simple riffs, fun for the guitarists, all around a blast. We've done the porch jam the last two years the begining of August during the big blues fest, but it didn't happen, thankfully he's re-scheduled. I'm so stoked. I'm such a hack on the bass, I hardly ever get to play with people.
Ooh, and since its outside on the porch, cigars are ok too! Whoohoo, blues, booze, and a stogie, can an evening get any better? :lol:
Cheers all

[mjknapp]

and best of all, a party to go to Saturday


Wow, a saturday party on opening weekend of the nfl season, You are tough, I am holding out on saturday so that I can get as much done as possibe on saturday, sunday is beer drinking day, football watching, card playing, and running to the bathroom. I have about 6 buddies coming over sunday. I can't wait.


Tonight my neighbor is coming over to watch the season opener, but I still consider sunday the beginning of the season. Eagles over the Giants 24-13.

[tt3]

Yeah, I gotta admit, I'm not that big of a football guy. I cheer for the Packers and whoever is playing the Vikings, ya know?
I'm in a mixed marriage, though, my wife is diehard Vikings. Its funny, she keeps asking me when I'll switch, I said I'd consider it when I've been in Minnesota as long as I was in Wisconsin. As that time gets closer, I'll have to say "I've followed them this long, I can't just change now, can I?"
:D :lol:
Biggest reason, its fun to rib the Vikings fans, they get so touchy! :D

[waldo]

Sounds like a lot of fun Tony. I played sax all through college in bars and restaurants. Was a blast and I miss it a lot. Just moved to this area bout a year ago and really need to find some places to play again.

I'm not much of a football fan either. In fact thats an understatement. I hate it, and pretty much all sports on tv. I think it has something to do with sitting in the living room watching sports with my dad and about 20 of my aunts and uncles all smoking and blowing it my way each time. It's my virtual Pavlovs bell ringing when I see sports on tv lol. Except I don't salivate, I regurgitate :P


Waldo

[mjknapp]

I'm not much of a football fan either. In fact thats an understatement. I hate it, and pretty much all sports on tv.


Wow, a man that hates football, you must have a very happy wife, I love football, sports, I am just a competetive guy though, I played baseball, basketball, and football, oh, and track if you count that, in high school. I lettered in all but track. I was a huge jock, and still have the high school record for the longest interception return in school history......lol I am sounding like Al Bundy now

[SAHF]

:?

Sounds like you guys had a pretty good weekend! I was entertained by my two kids and my wife WAITING for Frances. Oh what fun it is being LOCKED up inside the house with no outsiders .... ](*,)

OMG...NEVER AGAIN!! It is like taking a nice L O N G road trip with one kid with diaper rash and the other with a weak blatter..no thank you!
:evil:

[Remington]

All I care about is New England and they are playing right now. I have to stop and type in between plays. :lol:

[Jackson's Dad]

I'm mixed on TV sports. I grew up in Buffalo, and was surrounded by it (it is a HUGE sports town) so I never had to "get into it" -- it was always there. Now, I'll watch if its a social thing, but not on my own. It sucks sometimes because it gives me nothing to talk about at parties.

This weekend for me is just more chores... they never end. Maybe I'll finish painting our new entertainment center, and start working on getting some landscaping fill for part of the back yard. Fall's coming up fast!

[mjknapp]

That was such a good game last night, I am very sleepy now since I was up so late watching it. Man what a game.

Jackson's dad, I hear ya about fall coming fast, we have 4 huge trees in our back yard that drop leaves on different schedules, so everytime I rake up the leaves, ther is more in two or three days. I have alot of work to get done before the leaves start falling, I am planning on working back there all weekend to, but my wife's grandfather had a heart attack wednesday night, and is having quadruple bypass on monday. If something happens inbetween now and monday, then I guess I will be at the hospital with her.

[Don-Dad]

I'm a big sports fan. Huge hockey fan. Even built an ice rink in my backyad this past winter, thatwas a lot of work.

Hey Jackson's Dad? I grew up in Buffalo

Where in Buffalo? I grew up in Buffalo. Lived there til I was 12 then off to the suburbs, Angola, NY. In buffalo we lived in the Black Rock/Riverside area of town. Bad area now and was not all that great back in the 70's and early 80's.

[mjknapp]

I'm a big sports fan. Huge hockey fan. Even built an ice rink in my backyad this past winter, thatwas a lot of work.



Cool, I am a new hockey fan philly, I love the flyers, this whole city stands behind the flyers win or lose, they drop the phillies after they lose two games in a row, the eagles they stand behind a little longer, but everyone thinks they are just bound to lose, but the flyers are a whole different story, when the flyers were making that stanley cup run 4 years ago, they put a flyers jersey on the william penn statue on top of the building it stands on. It is way up there.


An Ice rink in your back yard, that is awesome, I bet the neighborhood kids loved you for that.

[Don-Dad]

Actually the kids in my neighborhood are couch potatoes or something. Only the neighbors across the street skated on it once. I tried to recruit some kids to help me shovel it off in return they could skate, no go. I'm glad I stay at home to instill some work ethic in my kids. My son loves ton play outside. He loves the computer games as well but I'd rather be outside any day.

I am moving in 2 weeks to a "nicer" neighborhood where you see the kids out everytime you visit. My current neighborhood is strange as you rarely see the kids outside playing.

[Remington]

Wow! I was almost positive New England was gonna blow the game...

Well they squeaked out a win for the first game of the season.

[waldo]

Wow, a man that hates football, you must have a very happy wife

Yes she is :) But she isn't much of a shopper, so I am quite happy to! I don't mind PLAYING sports, just not watching it on tv. I was on the track team, wrestling team, baseball team, ect... I can actually watch some college games, especially ncaa tournament stuff but just not the pro stuff. Would rather rub the back of my thighs with a cheese grater.

Hockey or soccer might be something I could get into, my family never watched it, so no smokebomb flashbacks there.


Waldo

[Jackson's Dad]

I grew up in Buffalo

Hey Don, cool! I grew up in the southtowns, down in Orchard Park. Yes, a "rich" suburb, but we lived out on the edge of town in a beat up old farmhouse. My parents grew up on the east side of Bflo, so their first priority was to escape to the suburbs as soon as they could. My immediate family all moved away now, but most of my extended family is still in the area: Cheektowaga, East Aurora, Grand Island, Hamburg. Now that I live on the east coast again, I plan to take my family into town and stop by the Anchor Bar for some wings one of these days.

Louis: sounds like a fun sport! I'm also more of an individual sport kind of guy. Spent most of my youth on a bike, riding for hours a day. Spent time here and there studying Aikido and Tai Chi, but never enough to get good. (I really need to get back into one of these, and get back in shape!)

Dan

[Don-Dad]

Dan,

So we grew up not too far away from each other. Angola on the Lake is not very far from Orchard Park. We probably crossed paths at the McKinley Mall :) I have some friends who live in Hamburg and in many other parts of Buffalo.

You ever make it up this way, maybe we can meet at the Anchor Bar, though I love Blasedell Pizza right off route 20 in Hamburg, yummy Pizza and wings.

[Don-Dad]

Also, forgot to mention that joining martial arts and doing it with your child is a great bonding activity. My oldest son and I are taking TaeKwonDo together and both yellow belts now. Is it just me or do you find yourself enrolling your children in the activities that you wished you had done as a child? I grew up pretty much in the lower end of the middle class, borderline poor at times. So alot of my friends went to martial arts class and played hockey (expensive sports) and I could not. My son is doing all the things I wished I could have :D He seems to enjoy it so far.