Thank you, Freddie King :-)

I love the tip, I love the top,
I love you better than a hog loves slop
'Cause you're a big legged woman, with a short short miniskirt
Promise me darlin', you'll never make me feel like dirt

Just like the vine, goes around the stump,
you are mine, call me sugar lump
'Cause you're a big-legged woman, with a short short miniskirt
Promise me darlin, you'll never make me feel like dirt

I've told you once, I've told you twice,
we go together, like fried beans and rice
'Cause you're a big-legged woman, with a short short miniskirt
Promise me darlin, you'll never make me feel like dirt

A Self-Indulgent poem with a hidden personal meaning :-)

Lovely days like this are so nice to have
Yet the things that are even more worthwhile:
Nights that end just as sweetly as the day
Nothing beats falling asleep with a smile

Sonnet 71710 (I'm OK, Just Listening to the Blues)

Just because I like the blues and old twang
And I like the way they make me reflect
Doesn't mean I am unhappy today
Just that I view my past with due respect

Life teaches us that we will lose sometimes
But that is not always such a bad thing
I can relate to Hank Williams Senior
And get the point when I hear BB King

If life was not hard or full of losses
Robert Johnson would not have had a voice
If none ever had to bear life's crosses
Then cheerful songs would be our only choice

I prefer today's music as a whole
Its the sad songs that pierce my very soul.

Sonnet 18 (by another Willie that I admire)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Where everybody knows your name

So, contrary to what a select few fair weather friends may think, I have never spent much time in bars. I have sent more time in bars in the last two years (since getting divorced) than in the other 38 years of my life combined. Although I have been known to consume some alcohol with friends, I am not a big drinker and never do during the week or on weekends when alone. Its just not my thing. So, anyway, its funny to me now that this Mexican restaurant/bar called Maria Bonita is like my place now. My son goes three and sometimes four times a week to a jiujitsu class and this place is around the corner. Its easier to kill time there watching their many tvs than it is to drive all the way back home for an hour and a half and get back out again. So I have been hanging out there watching tv or reading or whatever. Last night I noticed that the entire staff was basically treating me like family and they all knew my name. One of the teenage waitresses was explaining the meaning of some of my tattoos to another like I was her uncle or something. This is not a bad thing, it just struck me as funny. Anyway, there is karaoke on Wednesday and Thursday nights, and the chips and salsa are pretty good. Its like my own Mexican Cheers :-)

Quote for the day

"I ain't what I ain't, but I am what I am." -Craig Morgan