#8 at Talagedga

I like Jr's red paint. But I have to say this looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!

Friday, man I love Friday.

Friday is a greatest day of the week. I work a full day at a normal job then I go to my "fun job". I work as a youth counselor at a recreation center on Friday night. I go in from 6:00 pm to 11:30pm. I am in charge of the gym. So what we do is play basketball, dodge ball, football, etc. Can you believe I get $60.00 just to go goof off in the gym for a few hours? Me neither! We open the rec center to kids ages 9-14, no adults other than the staff. We have a dance room, a concession stand, game room, swimming pool, and my world down in the gym. The kids call me Mr Gym. I do at least one thing the same each week. I call it the "red line fitness challenge" this is where I put the kids through a Marine Corps PT session. The last two kids standing get prizes at the end. One thing is for sure I send the kids home tired. The only bad thing is, 250-300 9-14 year olds can drive a man crazy. The younger kids are okay, but the older kids think they are too cool to be there. As long as we all have fun, and we always do! It is a great night. I like to end my week on a high note and this is just the way.

I'm going to Bass Pro shops on Saturday. They have this big fish tank, it must be 200,000 gallons and full of big fish. I might just get me a pole and do a little fishing there, at least until they call the cops on me.

If you have ever taken your wife to Bass Pro shops for a date and had Dr Pepper and beef jerky for your meal........YOU JUST MIGHT BE A REDNECK.

My little man and one big SNAFU.

Here is a picture of my boy Drew when he was about a week old. Future ball player for sure! Well here is where the SNAFU comes in. In case you don' know SNAFU is a military term for "Situation Normal All Fu>>ed Up"

I video taped his birth. From the time about an hour before to well after he was delivered via c-section.

I had the tape in my camcorders and kept adding to it even after we got home. About two weeks ago my daughter Cori had a school play that she was in. So I go to swap out tapes in my camcorders. I pull out the new tape I'm going to use and take the old one out of the camcorders. I have them sitting together on the floor right in front of me. Something must have distracted me or something because I put the tape of his birth back into the camcorders. I had rewound it first so I could not have known which was which.

Then it happens SNAFU!!!! I recorded over his birth with my daughters school play. Well a few weeks go by and I'm in Arizona at my brothers house and I'm going to show it to him and Karen. That's when I noticed it.

So when I get home and back to work on Monday I still have not told my wife, Natalie yet Know I know, you don't have to say it I'm digging a deeper hole. I looked on the internet and called a bunch of video recovery specialist from New Jersey to Los Angeles. Same story at all of them I'm screwed!!!

When I told Natalie, it was bad. She is still upset over the whole thing and pissed off at me. I did not do it on purpose it was a big mistake on my end. I am the one who will have to live with it. Here is the real kicker, I had to have a DVD recorder when he was a week old so I could make DVD copies of his birth for family members. Yeah you guessed it, I never got around to it.

Life has been tough here this week. But long after her anger is gone, my guilt will last.

My family is my life. I have found that friends come and go in this life but your family is your family for life. Now we are not the Brady Bunch or nothing. I have brothers and sisters that we just don't talk, or even care to talk. But then again I have brothers and a sister that are close to me and I love dearly.

Take care of your family's, and do the best you can in this life , because of these two things you only get one.

Jim

Phoenix NASCAR a few more pictures

Just a few more here. I've got more where these came from so stay tuned.


HBZ, "I should have been the lead in Magnum PI".














This is me and the Jack
Daniels car.

Now what would NASCAR be without beer?????
This is me and Karen "Big Fish Lewis" The guy next to me has a cool hat like mine!

Did I mention we all went fishing too?

Arizona Bass Fishing

As promised here are some photos from my trip to see my brother in Phoenix. These pictures are from last Friday. We went bass fishing at lake Bartlett. We had a blast but, we did not get too many. The little fish HBZ caught in this picture is here more for humor than anything else. We even saw a bid rattlesnake in the parking lot but I did not get any photos. I will post pictures from last nights NASCAR race later.