HNT #47 -- See OHNT for today's pic post

For pics, I may actually start to tip you off when I am gonna be on The Other HNT in any given week. We'll have to see how long that lasts!

(Over the years, I've had quite a few up there. Have you spotted any before? If so, why don't you just tell me how many and/or in what month/year but not what they look like -- I still need some anonymity, but I'm curious how observant you think you've been/are. Some of mine WERE pretty-well disguised.)
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OK, I'm going to add a little here that will undoubtedly continue in future weeks. I'm adding this as I listen/watch a regular Christian church service on evening TV. Part of why tonight is to offer my worship (such as it is) in hopes that the Creator will look kindly on my favorite WingHouse Girl #1 who surprisingly, asked me to include her in my prayers that she might get hired at the medical office where she is serving her Associate's Degree "externship." It is sort of an emergency medical center and she is LOVING it ALL! She really beams with having found a true career (& a respectable, professional one) at a perfect time in her life (age 25 3/4). She is a smart person and very attuned to people, and I know loves the compliment she received just the day before from the Doctor in charge about her work ethic and helpfulness and enthusiasm at work!

This is VERY cool for MANY reasons, but she was already in my prayers for many reasons. I have noticed how she really seems oriented to going on (if only she had the $$) to finish her R.N. and BSN degree! Her telling me this was fortuitous as I was about to present her with a medical-scrubs top I had mail-ordered from Florida State University in Tallahassee. When I gave it to her, I felt a little Divine Influence intervening as she then called it "perfect" cuz her medical office had just decided on Fridays everyone should wear scrubs from their favorite school & she didn't have any yet! (Thanks, God, for helping me help a girl whom I love find herself a little happier & belonging where we both think she belongs!)

But, to ask me to say PRAYERS for her, surprised me! I'm guessing her family has sort of a watered-down generic Christian view like so many Americans, and I do not disparage that because I think Life has recently watered down MY view of the validity of many aspects of Christianity. But I guess she heard from her best friend that I was including the friend in special prayers & daily TV worship so the friend would get accepted for the one rare Nursing School slot that had just opened up to recent A.A. degree grads & the friend was hoping for. Now the friend did not get selected for the rare slot in spite of her brightness and need and deserving nature, so it added to my surprise since my prayers didn't seem to be effective other than in building our hope and faith observance. But one never knows and I believe it cannot HURT to have people pray sincerely for your good intentions -- especially when we cannot do anything else. It IS doing something when we have done everything else that we can!

My beloved WH Girl FURTHER shocked me by saying she was thinking of going to church soon with another WH Girl she had formerly worked with as a bartender here in Palm Harbor. I don't think this is a giant "true believer" conversion but I think it's revealing an interesting aspect of reverence I had previously sensed in my friend but had never before heard or seen direct evidence of. Which tells ME it's sincere -- not like a few fakey WH Girls I've known in the past who put Christian crosses all over their MySpace pages and then sluttify their bodies regularly to throw people off what is REALLY on their minds! It's further proof of positive intervention because I think both church-bound girls have recovered from terrible drug problems in the past! My friend is a very honest, very responsible young woman who does not rely on other people to do HER work or pick up HER responsibilities, but I see this as a good sign that she recognizes humans cannot control or influence EVERYthing in their own lives. And that a certain amount of respect for a Higher Power's involvement and role is both realistic and appropriately modest.

The only thing I'm a little concerned about is that my #1 Girl is a very sexy girl. She is realistically and admirably fun-loving and sexy. But, I doubt she is aware of one of the toughest aspects of orthodox and mainstream Christianity -- a relatively antithetical attitude toward overt sexuality outside of marriage. (Some denominations are "worse" than others about condemning all sexuality outside of heterosexual marriages, but all Christianity is clearly negativistic toward sexuality.) Each denomination and individual Christian has his/her own position with respect to sex. But I just want to caution my friend and will send her a copy of this article to be aware and non-plussed by others' INtolerance when she sees it. Not to be surprised. Most Christians don't always have very Christ-like attitudes or behavior. After all, as Christians, they're supposed to admit to being sinners too! ;-)

Me? Sinner or not, I believe in One God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. I try to do right and make this world a better place. Sometimes, I even succeed! At least, I try.

!Happy Half-Nekkid Thursday, Chicas & Chicos!
[Now, go visit the Great Liberator, Osbasso, by clicking a tab at the top]

HNT #46 - On Being Slutty

[I send out a regular "Forward" (to some sexy ladies I know) of a subscription I get of "Naughty Bits" from Karen of Denver. Some of you surely subscribe already, too -- I discovered it through HNT! The one I got on 6 July 2009 was funny in an ironically true sense, and I'll see if I can copy the pic to insert below. But with THIS one, I really DID have to editorialize with some of my ideas on sluttiness. Please note, I say nothing about my ex-wife, here! I will share 2 sincere paragraphs below that I wrote to accompany the pic Forwarded to my sexy WingHouse lady-friends!]


OK Gang, I think this one bears deeper thought than most jokes & that's part of the humor, of course! This applies to GUYS as well as GIRLS, too! Although I think everyone recognizes the double standard IS still alive and still hits girls harder than guys! Many girls who sex-blog write about being sluts and loving it; I suspect everyone likes to play the slut at one time or another (including guys.) But if I had a daughter, I'd warn her against the guys who will use her as their slut plaything as long as they can and then drop her as soon as they have another reason or tire of her (often to seduce her back as soon as they get horny again.) I guess this works with modern GIRLS toward guys too, but frankly, I still believe in love and committed companionship as the MOST valuable relationship to seek after. 'Fraid I ain't ever gonna see it tho--thought I HAD it, but was I EVER MISTAKEN! LOL (Trust but verify!)

So, all that considered, I guess it's a good thing I know I'm not a person of "the world" cuz I'm just not gonna "settle" again! I'd rather be alone. I will probably get my wish. I hope you all have better luck! But, please, THINK about it before you just "fall into a relationship" that might be demeaning or self-destructive--you are worth much, much more!! Have fun acting sexxy and "playing slutty" sometimes, but I'd recommend not to become a full-time slut because when you are ready to quit that, many OTHERS will not treat you as anything else BUT!)

Now, tell me, is THIS Slutty? HAPPY H.N.T.!

HNT #45 - Breaking Free on the 4th of July!

This post begins a bit of a new era -- more revealing and honest in my deeper, personal reflections concerning the state of modern American sexual behavior. Many of you will not like aspects of my reflections because you will disagree with them, undoubtedly, because your own lifestyle and upbringing was so very different from mine. Yet, I will not be condemning anyone -- I just think a lot of the current behavior doesn't make good intellectual or logical sense & intellect and "common sense" really ought to be involved a little more when it comes to taking care of our most private and personal parts.

Current behavior, to wit: All the extensive fucking-around! I mean, REALLY! At least from the blogs we all read around here and are pruriently interested in (me too!). The old joke reference about a man using his LITTLE head more than his BIG one seems right on! Only it's not just MEN!! American women as a group, seem to have just devolved into a horny, hedonistic bunch since the advent of the Birth Control Pill in the mid-60's! American women NOW seem to be as sexually promiscuous as the famous American playboys of the pre-60's! Mainly, since they can fuck around in private (secret) and never be held accountable for it as long as they don't show a baby-bump! (It is also a small step for some from there to pretending that terminating a pregnancy is just another impersonal form of birth control instead of killing their own genetic copies were the copies allowed to grow to maturity!)

Now, I'm really not getting all holier-than-thou cuz I had premarital intercourse, too -- and Boy, have I paid for it! LOL!! MORE than MY fair share of "dues" -- which proves to me that the Dues on anything are ALWAYS more than the one who pays them would think fair! Now, maybe you will excuse me cuz I thought I was in love and I thought SHE was in love with me instead of just wanting to get security in a place other than the home and environment where I found out, many years later, she had been molested. I am beginning to write my autobiographical historical fiction/novel again, and I'll address the details there (although the initial posts have been on another secret blog for over 5 years now.)

Along with the scary freedom of greater self-revelation, this 4th of July could celebrate other freedoms I care about. Freedom, not licentiousness or irresponsibility (which are false and careless sorts of freedom, to MY mind.) The freedom of showing more of my physical self on OHNT as well as on the beach (I HAVE lost significant weight this year) is one. I've even traded some semi-nude pics with a couple of young ladies for a new first; ask me & I might say yes to YOU if you're female, young, and pretty. OR just SEND them to me for MY appreciation & eyes only if you don't wanna see "Old Guys Rule" pics! LOL

OK, this looks like a good place for an HNT pic made today as we are working on my porch conversion (to a new room, not a new religion.). Looks like my financial freedom is finally well set, too with 3 companies' monthly retired paychecks(although I WOULD like to be a Florida Millionaire after the special July 4 Lottery Drawing. I have 2 tickets numbered at just over 500,000 and I don't think they are going to sell all one million tickets by the time of the single special drawing on July 4 -- in less than 3 days!)

At last, I could finally afford the lawyers I have needed for "peripheral damage control" ever since my then-wife went overly self-serving and sociopathically crazy umpteen years ago. I still would like the mental & emotional freedom of vindication and justice that that could bring! THAT would mean FIREWORKS FOREVER! In confrontation AND celebration!

HNT #44 - Son & me at The Armed Forces Military Museum, Memorial Day, 2009

The Armed Forces Military Museum, Largo, FL (near Clearwater & St Petersburg), 727-539-8371, Only Closed Mondays & a few holidays.


34th Way North,

In northmost cul-de-sac off Ulmerton Rd between Belcher and Starkey Rd (CR-1)

(Watch for small sign @ corner)

What a great museum! Best medium/large-sized museum I've ever seen of any kind, not just military ones! It DOES have displays and exhibits which include artifacts & commemorations of ALL the services, including a little lip service to the AF & USCG! Understandable that it features the GROUND troops (Army & Marines) and artifacts/souvenirs donated from extensive private collections of a few career Marine and Army officers after their retirement. Apparently developed and maintained largely by members of the local chapter of the Marine Corps League, this whole museum of history beams with attention to detail and classy presentation one would expect of an Elite Drill Team & Color Guard.

What's more, it has some classy, unique ways of presenting the war experiences of American troops -- notably, by putting the viewer in a WW1 trench with the war going on about 6 feet overhead! (Oh, I just realized that meant we were "6 feet Under" -- wonder how many of the doughboys in the trenches thought of that back then?)

WW1 "Doughboys" (US) on the left and the right. Member of Kaiser Wilhelm's Imperial German Army below. All artifacts & souvenirs are original and in mint condition from formerly private collections.

I have a lot of pics to post so I think I'll do that without much more verbage. When you see someone besides ME in a pic, it's my older son (visiting from Tallahassee, FL).

World War 2 pics hereabouts!

Oh yeah, some of the pics are blurrier than others & I think it's because the museum does NOT allow use of flashes on cameras! I'm sure it's to keep cloth materials from fading over time. But ANY little movement must have been amplified much more than normal resulting in blurry pics.

Now, Korea! You remember M*A*S*H?

Yeah, but do you know about the "Frozen Chosin" or "the Chosen Few?"
















And Rosie's Bar WAS a real place (not just a TV/movie fabrication)! You should click on the details in the blow-up of the sign! (Who says history isn't sexy?)
















Might as well end today's blog after a trip to Rosie's! Many more displays and artifacts that I have to leave out. From Rosie's, one can still view much more to see including tanks, artillery pieces and a fully-3D-articulated aircraft simulator which saves space instead of placing actual large aircraft there! I'll slip in a pic here of Saddam Hussein's actual Iraqi uniform captured way before Saddam was when it was being returned from the dry cleaners! It's in the same area at the end. And then, the museum store on the exit-hall sells great souvenirs of your visit.


Although I've thought better of it since, I advised my older son back in the day that he should probably not join the military until he had his college done at least. (Thanks to his mother's BS divorce, university took him 10 years & he had to pay for it all, himself! And turns out there are now GREAT tuition deals from military service!)

Yet, MY father's family spent more time in the military than most do! (My Dad served 23 years including WW2, the Berlin Airlift, Vietnam & Special Air Missions. One of his brothers fought in the Pacific (WW2) & had malaria bouts the rest of his life. The other fought in Korea. I spent 24 years in the AF; fought in Vietnam, Laos, Grenada & El Salvador & got things like bad teeth & diabetes from Vietnam. To say nothing of a Congresswoman who changed the law & especially hurt Vietnam Vets by giving away 1/2 their retired pay forever even in "no-fault" divorces -- & insured I could never finish my Ph.D. degree! If any of that had been done for fair or deserved reasons, I'd have described it differently.)

But, it would have been good for BOTH my sons to have spent one 4-year tour in the military -- where people learn early on to be more responsible, fair, self-disciplined, strong and confident. I'm finding that largely missing in this self-centered, hedonistic, civilian world the USA became while I was off in the AF. Further, GI's develop a strong sense of purpose (often lost upon retirement.) But I think that's often why Hedonistic Pleasure-Seeking seems to be the predominant "mission" among most young people I know in civilian life today. (Which causes as many life problems as it "solves!") Thankfully, some of my dearest young friends have "awakened" by age 25 and are getting their acts "together" much better now. But, I worry that my young friends seem oblivious to significant damage they may have already done to themselves. (Recent research findings suggest a 2 alcohol-drink daily limit to avoid increasing breast cancer risks. MY friends are ignoring this totally, and I worry for them!)

Happy Memorial Day Week to those of you who have lost buddies & friends to war! I think of the GOOD memories & happier times with mine before I get too sad. Enjoy all the memories you can, and go make a few more!

HNT #43 - At Wing House w/ my #1 Girl & Bartender

Happy Mid-May Memorial Day!

I'll write more later cuz I have to straighten house now for my older son who's planning on driving down Thurs from Tallahassee. At least this time, I got a week's notice & will be able to make it presentable for him. (Not good enough for my WH ladies yet, but it's a start!)

My former Marine neighbor just got some great news and discovered an insurance policy from his old US Marshal days which is worth a cash value of $33,000 today! A Godsend to him! Money he has sorely needed for YEARS! So HE's talking about moving out of this MH Park which has gone downhill due to a bad new owner who just wants to sell it for a profit when the economy takes an upswing over the next 2-3 years! We owners of doublewide mobile homes will only get $3000 for our $10-15,000 investment as the MH's are too old by law to move, and will have to be destroyed if the next owner wants to build condo's here as we all figure. (A singlewide owner gets $1800).

I dread moving again but I told my friend to let me know how the prices are in his preferred "target park" nearer his kids' home. It IS nearer to the Dunedin causeway and beaches and fun activities. My biggest problem will probably be having to store my motorcycle in a Public Storage unit as most MH Parks won't allow motorcycles belonging to park residents. An old rule on fixed-income MH owners that ought to change if gas prices stay high. But it probably won't as there are old prejudices and old stereotypes among the ancient majority of owners in these Parks.

I hope you noticed this pic above taken last week with my #1 Favorite Bartender and Goddess of the Female Gender! I am strictly adhering to personal standards of not publishing pics here of friends without their permission but..... Maybe if I print out today's blog for her, she'll see that nothing here would cause her difficulty. (I dunno how she perceives the extra Craig's List pics of girls I DON'T know & which I post to spice up my blog for ur reading. They ARE clearly marked as Craig's List Advertisers, aren't they? In spite of how little I left in this pic, you can tell my #1 is "a very sexy girl from her head down to her toenails!" (There is a very sexy pic of her toenails I dream of her letting me show you, but I doubt it'll ever happen.) ;-) But, maybe, SOMEDAY...

HNT #42 - Newly Nekkid Lips in the Sunshine State

There are shadows on my face cuz it's a damn bright day in sunny Tampa Bay! You can still make out my upper lip which no one has seen bare as a modern babe's hoo-haw in somewhere between 10 and 20 years! So if my WingHouse favorites are tuned in, I hope this will get me the Kiss On the Lips (KOL) I've been taunted about! If not, then WTF?!

Seriously--I'm from Mars, you quixotic Venusians! For ONCE, be direct and tell me what I have to do short of getting arrested! Probably what will work is when I get tired of being so damned frustrated, and just lose interest! Then, you'll be ready to play... HA! Be forewarned, I'm a bulldog and hold on much longer than I should for my own good. But once I quit, that's it! I fuckin' quit and you won't get another chance to misuse me. It's smarter to get sincere & honest with me sooner rather than later!

At least, I HAVE given my readers here a half-way "decent" bunch of skin to discuss this week - LOL! I do NOT smoke dope so if my nipples sit atop normal size male boobs, you'll forgive me? FYI, cannabis enlargens MALE boobs not female boobs -- Sorry, Ladies! Not to worry -- just show us ur boobs nekkid and we'll LOVE them, regardless! The Creator never made Boobie DNA that male DNA would kick outta bed if she were WITH him.... So just figure that way and show us ur tits! Or eMail ME pics and request a personalized, original mini-poem in their honor that I will compose for a trade. (Would u let me post them anonymously on this Blogsite too? Please verbalize a little permission slip to "come" with the pics, OK? U can share more than ur boobies if you like -- if you DON'T want to remain anonymous, be sure to specify the name or title you want me to credit as the donor of your beautiful parts-pics, please!

Maybe next week, I'll lose my tanning-booth virginity and give you the inside view of me as a G-string virgin, too, showing more than today's thong WOULD'VE shown you, LOL. BTW, if you have tats too, be sure to use SPF45+ directly on your tats before getting hit by the sun. There are some handy chapstick-style SPF applicators which allow you to apply only to the tatted lines. Black ink doesn't seem to be "burned out" as badly by the sun as colors do--but, still, a suntan reduces the contrast between lighter skin and the visibility of tattoo ink. No SPF means you'll have to have your colors re-inked before long if you become careless as a sun bunny. Hmmm, I hope they allow SPF lotions on the tanning beds.

HNT #41 - Take a Good Last Look @ my 'Stache

To start off with a Half-Nekkid pic, I started thinking about going completely Nekkid -- on my upper lip, anyway. (I won't admit to anything some of you may think I've posted on the OTHER HNT from time to time, LOL!)

So I took a survey via text-message by some of the young women I'd like to bed someday and SURVEY SAID..... "Shave that sucker!!" (In nicer words, of course. One special ladyfriend was sure I'd look younger -- that doesn't matter to ME except as it matters to HER! LOL.) I imagine you can guess what role will be consigned to my mustache & beard trimmer for the foreseeable future, eh? Of course, I'm willing to share it with any of my survey participants & even give THEM a good buzz as they might desire. I'm sure the suggester mentioned above would enjoy it -- I'll show you before closing the sexy souvenir she got for me in Cozumel 2 weeks ago. I think it's a means of communicating something to me indirectly (like women are wont to do on the planet Venus) that we'd both like to do with each other before it's all over! But I'll give you some time to wonder what it is.

I have a great need to put some time into getting my beautiful golden Harley w/ sidecar working again. I only got 3 short rides on it before the 4th ride went about 20 yards up the street and quit on me! I think the battery is dead, but this starts what I knew I'd eventually have to do -- learn how to fix my own damn bike! So far, I've found the speedometer doesn't work (hopefully, I'll get some free advice on connecting it), the front cylinder was backfiring (now, I push the choke off earlier), and I still haven't replaced the rubber peg on the left-foot gear shift (I've had the replacement piece for 2 weeks.) One of my very sexxy WingHouse girls asked me last night when she was going to get that ride in the sidecar she made me promise her -- Gulp! I damn sure better get it all fixed while we still have sunny days and no hurricane warnings, eh? (June 1 starts Hurricane Season in the Gulf of Mexico.)

Speaking of WingHouse, Cinco de Mayo (yesterday) WAS one of the 5 big "Dress-Up Days" @ WH held on holidays throughout the year. The bartenders and servers (all good-looking, young women) get to use some creativity, but also often buy expensive undergarments for outerwear in place of uniforms on those days. Tips can vary (their WH base pay is only $3.50/hour) & only 4 girls win money prizes during the 14-hour workday. A beautiful red corset cost one top bartender $70 and she only won $50 for 2nd place on her shift while 10 other bartenders & servers won nothing. Hopefully, the increased clientele left bigger tips for some but one server (who I'm sure tends to "poor-mouth" me on bad tip days) complained she had made only $50 on a 5-hour shift with 3 hours left and no new customers to wait on.

Silently I thought, that's STILL over $2 an hour more than my 25-year-old son made after 3 years as a midnight security guard with his H.S. diploma and a state license requiring training and weapons certification. THESE girls are primo lookers but they definitely have it easier than most others their age. When these girls turn 25 & start to lose their tip-worthy youthful looks, many seem to switch to something serious, careerwise, besides work in a bar&grill half their waking lives, and partying-hearty nightly in other bars & nightclubs when they are not working. The lack of academic concern here could be a sign that they come from "working class" families and/or have had difficulty in school themselves. But they're all very pretty and most have very nice personalities (to say nothing at all about being "sexy as hell")!

Speaking of which, it's time to reveal my mystery guest brought back from Cozumel by my "# 2" WH bartender on a cruise there with her bf. Actually, a PAIR of action figures... Go figure!

NOTE: There's no mustache on the little male fucker on this shooter!

What do you think this means for me? Really, tell me!

HNT #40 - Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend! (AND Good Insurance)

Isn't this a beautiful ring and lady's hand on top of an obviously hairy-male forearm? Well, it IS HNT-copacetic -- it's MY dark-blond hairy forearm. And the diamond is brand new, presented after years of anticipation from her fiance to the sweetest WingHouse Mom I know! She was kind enuf to pose with me & allow me to post this pic anonymously on my Blog, and she's the best friend of my Top Doggie/ #1 WH-Bartender I may have mentioned a few thousand times in the past!

This sweet young mom has been committed to the relationship with her baby's Daddy, and very patiently has been waiting him out while she works WH, goes to school to become a Registered Nurse (smart & doing very well there), partying only occasionally with her close friends, and giving great care to her little girl & her fiance!

I am very happy for this nice couple, and it's good to see their relationship come to fruition. She just got her engagement ring (a full carat!) on Sunday and I'd love to show you her pic with ear-to-ear beautiful happy-smile! I promised her anonymity though but, rest assured, her pretty, smiling face IS inspiring and infectiously makes one instantly happy at HER happiness!

I love this pic! It does two things with opposite ends of my life! It reminds me of the first diamond ring I ever gave a girl I loved, and it reminds me of the LAST diamond ring I ever gave another girl I loved as she finally becomes truly independent from a serious ex-bf relationship!

HNT #39 - Legally Blonde, the Musical

Just went out to see this great comedy, "Legally Blonde, the Musical" today at Ruth Eckerd Hall for the Performing Arts in Clearwater, FL. If you have seen either of the Legally Blonde movies, you have the basic gist of the story but this has relevant songs to tell the story. The "road show" has younger performers (20-somethings) which is perfectly suited to this musical about Elle Woods who's graduating college and leaving her Delta Nu ("valley girl") sorority sisters for Harvard Law to reclaim her ex-bf.

This was my first time out in a long time -- last one was Ruth Eckerd Hall for ZZ Top a year ago. (I gotta get out more!) The crowd was predominantly (predictably) teeners & 20-somethings (& parents, in many cases.) So the audience was receptive from the get-go and enjoyed the performance and showed it with applause throughout. More teeners wore pink (Elle's "signature color") than anyone, and I was the only guy I saw in a pink shirt (C'mon, I HAD to wear it!) But the storyline explained that the only men who wear pink are GAY! Oops, MY bad! The storyline continued to say, "OR are EUROPEAN!" So that became my joke, "I'm not gay, I'm European!" when anyone seemed to notice my pink shirt.

I was disappointed when I got to the souvenir kiosk! They haven't produced DVD's of this Broadway show yet altho they had thousands of the original Reese Witherspoon movie in DVD. I think they misjudged the MOVIE sales cuz surely everyone who was interested in paying $40 - $70 for a seat already had seen the same DVD at home. But the kiosks DID have classy T-shirts and a CD for $20 of the original Broadway cast recording of Legally Blonde, the Musical! It has all the songs & gives an accompanying libretto with all the words -- I am going to sit down and read each word as I listen to the songs so that I can finally catch some of the lines I missed during the stage action! I should mention that the stage action especially kept MY attention! Very shapely bodies in slightly revealing costuming that was tres college-sorority-girl chic. The props & scenery were excellent in appearance and ingeniously movable! And the singing voices were all very good! The whole show was highly entertaining and especially enjoyable if you let yourself get swept into the "Elle Woods mindset!"

Of course, this matinee let out at suppertime and I had to pass by the Palm Harbor WingHouse on the way home. Naturally, I stopped for supper and traded hugs with all the 20-something Easter Bunnies working the WingHouse, one way or another. But that is another story for another time.... Hope you had a Happy Easter, too! Hop-Hop-Hop!!! Daddy Rabbit's outta here!

HNT #38 -- My eBay Win!

So FUCK the Russians!!

I had been all hot to trot to get a Russian sidecar having a military history from WW2 and I laid a $1500 deposit down on a Ural with the FL sales rep in Miami (a friendly Cuban-American cop selling motos on the side), and the HQ in Redmond/Seattle headed by a couple of Russians.

Apparently the Russian mindset is just the same as during the cold war -- even those living in America seem to have the totalitarian mindlessness which will keep them from thriving in a free enterprise economy. They stopped importing & producing Urals as their solution to the world economic slowdown: keep their last-year-model motorcycles in their showrooms until sold without any current year's!

Good enough for Russian Ivans in Siberia maybe, but not for this half-Dutchman middle-named "Ivan" in sunny Florida! When they couldn't even guarantee a delivery date 6 weeks ahead, I got my deposit back. The Cuban-American in Miami kept his word and sent it ALL back -- but the Russians are screwing his business outlooks with their medieval understanding of American economics and consumers!
I had to resort to eBay Motor Sales! My eBay win is a USA product, a good ol' Harley-Davidson with Velorex sidecar kit added on! It cost me just 1/2 of what the Russian Ural would have! Granted, it's a reworked '86 Sportster, but it has an upgraded engine from 800 to 1200 cc as well as a bright but impossible color for the Russians to consider: GOLD! Go Figure! The Russians offer Americans each of their models in only 1 or 2 colors, mostly dark & unsafe. Not consumer-oriented enough for the American proletariat, I assure you, Ivan!

Furthermore, Urals have piddlin' after-sales support and repair contractors -- one I called tried to talk me into buying an American bike instead of the Russian one, and the guy was a contracted repair service rep for the Ural company in Florida!! Harley-Davidson is probably TOO consumer-oriented with their trendy Harley franchise shops which are overly expensive except for parts and repairs. BUT they are smart about Americans cuz they ARE Americans.... since 1903!!! [I am obligated to start spouting a little of the Harley jingoism now, aren't I? Even tho I didn't buy my bike AT the Harley shop. ;-) ]

Above, I show you a mostly clothed, windswept ME by my Harley sidecar up near Savannah, GA where my younger son & I drove to pick up the bike & custom trailer that the owner also sold me. Too bad Daytona bike week had just ended before I had something to pull the bike there! But I need some time to learn how to master the sidecar driving which is very different from the regular lean-and-turn driving of a solo motorcycle! As soon as I replace the gear shift rubber cover by my left foot, I'm gonna start driving it around our MH Park to master the turning. Won't my neighbors LOVE me? I won't go nuts though -- besides, our speed limit is 15 mph in the park! You'd better believe there ARE also speed bumps everyfuckingwhere!

My latest tats, now, but see HNT below this one. Like my WingHouse #1-favorite said, "You're getting all tatted up!" (I think she likes them, too.) A week ago, I got the best tattoo artist I've ever seen to add my two combat flying medals below my AF Academy Falcon class-crest tat. In the middle, he wrote the names of the four countries in which I have had my ass shot at for the good old U.S.A.! (I only got to shoot back in 2 of those countries, BTW!)

Actually, they WERE LITERALLY shooting at my ass because we were overhead in the air and they were on the ground shooting UPwards. Well, shooting at my ass or my GONADS! Difficult to tell the diff from 3000-6000 feet below my sidefiring gunship! The medal with a propeller-cross is the Distinguished Flying Cross and the other with the diving, screaming eagle is the Air Medal. Repeat awards are signified by little bronze oak leaf clusters superimposed on the ribbons, but I left them off to avoid confusion and cluttering the tattoos. I have other medals including a Meritorious Service Medal but I wanted to show the specific combat-flying decorations and keep the larger tattoo aesthetically pleasing.

Inking the little details that Mike Sizemore of "Wicked Ink" in Clearwater, FL did so well reflects his 15 years' tattoo artist experience. Even HE said these were "challenging," but I've received numerous compliments on them in only the one week I've had them! See what YOU think! Check the detail in such a small, compact tattoo-space.

I'll try to find the first ink outline that Mike laid out before he started the heavy work. Some of you have liked seeing intermediate steps visually sort of like I like seeing some of YOU visually (heheheh)!

If I can find it, I'll add it as a PS below the finished pieces here. When you click-enlarge these you should be able to appreciate the superb detail & shading Mike gave them. He's well worth the $150/hour he charges! (There are good artists who charge less ($90-100/hr) if ya shop around--Just not THIS good!)
PS: I DID find the earlier tat pic where Mike had first inked in the outlines on the stencil of his drawing which was placed on the arm here. He is the first I've seen use this technique and I think it adds to his higher quality tats. It helps him get those straight lines perfectly straight using guidelines during the main tattooing. I didn't get a chance to look over the drawing for the stencil tho' before he applied it & you should always do that to see if the stencil looks exactly like what you want (things often get misdrawn from your expectations & it's a pain to correct things in an adjustment session 2 weeks later -- you HAVE to wait for it to heal before "touching up.")
Notice this pic shows a chart of Chinese characters on the wall with translations below--if you want one tattooed, they can do it from this or from online sources.

HNT #37 - Re-Do of my Falcon tattoo!

Don't know how this will go, but let me share an interesting text message I just received from a WH Girl I am well attracted to:
" Pray 4 me. I had a checkup 2day. I tested positive 4 sexy, I'm allergic to
bullshit, my blood type is pimpin, and the doctor says this is why I'm hott! "

I gave a funny smart-ass reply that was complimentary, but would appreciate the advice of any of you HOTT HNT LADIES who want to educate Richard-the-Dinosaur on how to handle this in Tampa Bay's hook-up culture of the day!

I started to write this post way back @ Xmas-time. So how might this sext be related to Christmas themes of WingHouse that week? (I HAVE played Santa officially in the past and I noticed girls unexpectedly started hitting on me & were much more receptive when I wore the Santa-suit. Doesn't it take women back to wanting to seduce Santa like they thought of as teeners?)

Actually, this reminded me of the joke my #1 FAVORITE WH bartender told me yesterday -- " Why don't Santa & Mrs. Claus have kids? 'Cause Santa only comes once a year! "

I LOVE my WH Girls!

Oh Yeah, they liked the final version of my AFA Falcon class-crest tat! Check it out above & comment, please. [Especially Ms. Inc.]