I'm giving my new air fryer a workout today, kinda.

French fries with my lunch

and

brownies for dessert after dinner tonight.

Gotta love the simplicity.

I got nothin'.

32 degrees outside and I saw a guy riding his Harley.

Now THAT'S what I call a Freezy Rider.

I've seen a few in my day:

At age 16, I saw 'Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars'. For a couple of years, Dick Clark (American Bandstand t.v. show) would load up some top 40 groups into some buses and they would travel around the U.S.A. in the summer.

Included in the show were:

Diana Ross & the Supremes

The Temptations

The Righteous Brothers

The Fifth Dimension

and many more. All for the outrageous cost of $2.00

In the next couple of years I saw:

Paul Revere & the Raiders

The Dave Clark Five

Chicago

Three Dog Night

Iron Butterfly

Steppenwolf

The Beach Boys

R.E.O. Speedwagon

Santana

Joe Cocker

Simon & Garfunkle

John Lennon

Neil Young

Billy Joel

Boston

Queen

The Hollies

The 'Stones

Paul McCartney

Ringo Starr

Elton John

Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. & Dean Martin.

That's enough for now.

If my addled brain remembers a few more that I saw 'under the influence' (as I get older, some of those memories I'd forgotten pop into my head now and then - call it the restorative value of cleaner living now. lol) I'll let you know.

~

I had a dram last night that my name was either Johnathon Taylor or Tyler.

The first is a former minor t.v. star (as in Johnathon Taylor Thomas), the second is a football player.

I couldn't see myself, so I don't know which one I was.

The main point is that my girlfriend was Kate Beckinsale.

Yes!

If I have to be another person to have the woman of my dreams...

...I'm o.k. with that.

Well past the first half of my life I was a prideful, insecure & selfish person.

And because of those things, I made a lot of decisions that didn't turn out well for myself:

I lost jobs I should have kept, kept jobs I should have quit.

I turned down opportunities that would have enhanced my life today, like joining the military to help me learn self control & responsibility. Buying my childhood home when I was offered it by my parents. Not letting the love of my life go and then marrying a needy, insecure girl who ultimately wanted me only my money.

Mark Twain said that 'Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.'

So here I am, older and just scratching the surface of wisdom.

Instead of pride, I'm learning to be humble. Instead of insecurity, I'm learning from bad experiences to make better decisions and become more confident in myself. Instead of being selfish & opinionated, I'm learning to be less judgemental, that there are two sides to every story, not to judge a book by it's cover and that in life there's a lot of gray in between seeing things in only black & white.

I hope that my long and winding road affords me the hope of making myself and the world around me a better place before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

~

Sloppy Joes were invented by a cook named Joe at a cafe in Sioux City Iowa in the 1930s.

I will sleep better now that I know.

~

Why are they called Sloppy Joe's?

Who was Joe.

Why was he so sloppy?

?

I've been watching the NFL triple header today, while doing my usual Saturday chores, fixing dinner, etc.

If it wasn't halftime of game 3, I wouldn't have had time to shave...

... and drop a line or two here.