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Well you know Xmas is coming with the quickness.  This just occurred to me when I typed the date.  Let's enjoy Halloween and Thanksgiving  first anyway.  I enjoy Halloween when the kids visit, but it is not likely when the security gate is locked where I live.  Maybe I will hang out at the gate.   In four more days my friend Maria will turn 70 and she would not want me to tell you that, but she does not read this blog.  I love her and she has been my best friend for some 27 years now...more than 1/2 my life. 

I may have told this story before, and if so my apologies, but I am not looking through all my blogs so live with it.  Maria and I worked together (she was my boss) for a couple of months until I got promoted to a similar position to hers.  I was promoted because she was outstanding in the work place and she helped me learn.  Bless her for that.  We actually rented some apartments together in the Phoenix are for a few years and we would do lots of things together.  She learned about Alice Cooper , Bruce Springsteen and lots of sports while in my company.  One day I wanted to go see the Phoenix Firebirds (AAA affiliate of the SF Giants) play, and her son called her.  I remember her telling him she was going to "The American Baseball came".   Now Maria is an immigrant from Hungary, but had been some 30 years as a citizen. 

She loved the slot machines, and I loved to bet sports.  We would visit Las Vegas so often that we were often thought to be locals by the folks in the sport books.  Anyway when we first started going I could not lose and she just bet what I bet.  She was like, "where has this been all my life?" and winning is always lots of fun.  Now Maria is a big conspiracy theorist, so a few years later when I had a really bad week, she accused me of working for the books.  "Why are you betting the losers?" I'm trying to explain that I am losing as well and exactly how would I benefit.  If I really knew who would win, then I would just bet more, and it would not make any sense to purposely give you losing teams.  I still love her, but she is a mess with her conspiracy theory.

Here is another story.  She was a manager or Circle K on 24th Street near Oak in Phoenix.  Some elderly gentleman lost control of his car and ran his care into an outside ice freezer and knocked it into her store.  She decided he was working on behalf of an employee she fired.  I'm thinking why would a guy total his car to help a friend in revenge against her ex-boss?  Maria is a bit stubborn in the way she thinks, but I could not ask for a better friend. 

When I am in trouble she is the first person to offer help even though she does not agree with how I earn my money and live my life.   She is loyal and she is the best.  Hope she makes another 70 years.

Now I know that many of you cannot watch television all day like I do.  Believe me you are not missing much, but I watch all the junk like Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, and a few new guys sprinkled in with Judge Judy and her competitors.  Anyway if you do watch Maury, have you noticed that nearly all the male guests have the same shirt on?  I hope they got a good deal on that shirt.....and I once had one like that and it was my favorite.

Do you get cute little e-mails from your friends that get passed around.  I pretty much delete them all, and especially if it is political.  Anyway a guy send me one the other day and for whatever reason I opened it.  I think it was entitled "phrase" and the theme of the e-mail was why do we say " grow some balls" the e-mail pointed out that the balls are kind of mushy but you should say grow a pussy, because those things can take a pounding.

I have lost my DirecTV, and I keep hoping I will have it in a day or two....for two plus weeks.  Anyway I hear a new receiver will be here on Sunday....I hope that is true.  I can watch NFL on the local television, as it has a lot of games, but I get maybe 3 games on local television for college ball.  I think I mentioned this last time, but it pisses me off.

Be careful out there...have fun, and I will be back soon.