THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

CAVEAT TO PARENTS (Save a Ton of $)

I'll reach the 70 mile marker on the highway of my life this year. In Hindsight, when I was 10 and 8, I came upon two roads diverged in the woods. "I took the one less traveled by and that made all the difference".

Ruminating back, I should have taken the one MOST TRAVELED by and it would have only cost me 20 bucks.

Enjoy the video.

WE THE LIVING

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He did not have his ticket punched...but yours was.

The train of life has pulled into the station on Dec. 31, to disembark those who will not be permitted to continue life's journey ( James Arness, Jackie Cooper, Joe Frazier, Christopher Hitchens, Steve Jobs, Andy Rooney, Jane Russell, Duke Snider, Tom Wicker, etc, etc, ).

The conductor looks us straight in the eyes to determine if we should have our ticket punched (the eyes don't lie), "click-click" we are the privileged ones. We can continue on the life train and experience the good, the bad, and the ugly that 2012 will reveal.

The engineer will track the course for the year, as the steward washes off all the grease, grime, & sludge that accumulated during our 2011 ride on the giant H Class locomotive. We will continue our journey into 2012 afresh, anew, a crisp clean blank page ready to receive our entries.

The conductor looks at his Waltham Vanguard pocket watch and shouts...ALLLL ABOOORD!

It's now time for WE THE LIVING to step on board the 2012 Express, and as we do, we pause and glance at those who will not be boarding, all those who will remain on the platform, as we slowly leave the station.

SMILE...WE SURVIVED...WE THE LIVING...HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Note: "We The Living" is just three words and there's no trademark/copyright on those three words but I associate them with, Ayn Rand. A great love story I read as a teenager. OMG! at one time I was a teenager? I'll be the big 7-0 in 2012.

I Remember...Do YOU?

Thanks for the video, my Tennessee connection, Judith Hicks.

I've got three more to add:

The Good Humor Man pedaling his three wheel cart on your block, jingling the bells. You run to catch up to him because your mom delayed agreeing that you could have an ice cream but finally acceded as you promise to eat your entire supper. In his white uniform & cap asks, "What 'el you have" You ask for a Toasted Almond on a stick. He would open the box door, searching around to find your treat as the "smoke" rises up out of the dry ice refrigerated box. You think to yourself, please, oh please don't be out of Toasted Almond or you will have to go with your backup, an Orange Creamsicle. Then his arm rises out of the cold box like a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat & hands it to you. You're all smiles. You hand him the money and he gives you your change from the shiny metal changer he has strapped to his waste. You watch him operate the magic changer, how does that thing work?

The Soda Fountain/Candy/Comic Book store. You climb on the soda fountain stool with the red vinyl top. The soda jerk asks for your order, what you really want is a Banana Split or a Hot Fudge Sunday but your mom only gave you enough for a soda, so out of your mouth comes. "chocolate egg cream". You watch him select the coke glass, depress the pump labeled "Chocolate", add the milk, and rotate the lever of the seltzer water (fissy) and places it on the counter in front of you. You wonder, how does he get the froth on top to be snowy white?

Baseball Card Bubble Gum: Boy oh boy...one day I opened the Bazooka wraper and I got the rare Gill Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers! WOW! My friend wanted to trade me Roy Campanella & Duke Snider ....NO WAY!

Happy Digital Christmas - Christmas 2.0

As the right side of the video is truncated, once you click to start the video, click again which will link you to the You Tube original source and view it full screen.

Piano 101 Merry Christmas

.What you do when you're snowed-in in the middle of nowhere, Montana. I'm on square one, learning the keyboard. Check back in the spring, by then, why, I'll be Jerry Lee Lewis incarnate.

This blog video screen truncates the video left and right sides. To view the full screen version (both hands playing): first click to start the video, once the video starts, click anywhere on the video again. This will link you directly to you tube where you will see the right hand play the keys as well.

Speaking of hands, a few minutes before I shot this video, I was under my pick-up truck installing an oil pan heater. I was performing the surgery lying on my back on ice and snow with an outside temperature of 15 degrees in the dark (using my, when it feels like working, flashlight). I perfunctorily washed my hands/nails which were smuged with dirty grease (as opposed to clean grease) and went streight to the piano for this recital. WHY? because Sara wanted it done NOW!...Yesum, Miss Scarlet".

Lady Gaga Interviews George. Why Move to Montana?

"Lady Gaga" interviews George on "Larry King Live". Why did You Move to Montana, jorge?

To view a full screen video, link directly to: You Tube. See how below on Version 2

Why I Moved To Montana - Version 2

Stick with it. It runs 2 minutes 43 seconds...twist at the end....acerbic pill to swallow....written/directed by me. I was fortunate to get Will Ferrell to play me on such short notice.

To view a full screen version , click to start the video. once the video starts, click anywhere on the video. That will link you directly to You Tube, then click on the full screen icon on the bottom right portion of the bar of the video screen. Big is better, anyway, that's what Sara always says. You have my permission to laugh or shout explatives at your monitor during the running of the video.

"If you want to keep our nation's secrets, really 'secret'...store them where President Obama stores his College Transcripts and Birth Certificate" M. Huckabee