New haircut...

can you say...

FLAT TOP!

HAPPY ST. VALENTINE'S DAY!

Noises from the Vivarium

One of my Flying Geckos

has caught a mealworm

and is currently

beating it to death

against the tree bark

in it's Vivarium...

I'm in a ZULU frame of mind...

http://www.martinihenry.com/files/goingtodie.wav 

David<--------just got his restored Martin Henry rifle!

VIOLENTLY HAPPY

WOW

THE SPACE BETWEEN

The Space Between

Verse:

Maybe if you hold my hand as we walk through

I know I can trust you

Here now we go again

I want to help you understand the world that I know

Surrounded by angels

Here now we go again

Pre-chorus:

And in the dark our eyes never know if they will see again

But when the stars come out I can feel the light creeping in

Once again

Chorus:

oh, oh

oh, oh

Verse:

Music playing in my head feels like something

I recall loving

Here play it once again

There must have been a melody I can't remember

I only know the beat beat beat

Here play it once again

Pre-chorus:

And in the dark our eyes never know if they will see again

But when the stars come out I can feel the light creeping in

Once again

Chorus:

oh, oh

oh,oh

You and I,

Living in the space between

You and I,

Living in the space between

Bridge:

If I ever see the light of day,

I'll never close my eyes again

But lift my head,

And soak it in

Chorus

oh, oh

oh,oh

You and I,

Living in the space between

You and I,

Living in the space between

You and I,

Living in the space between

You and I,

Living in the space between

MARTINI HENRY RIFLE!

My brother Mark has finished restoring my antique Martini Henry Rifle.  This particular rifle saw service with the Gurkas in Nepal and is approximatily 130 yrs old.  This type of rifle is most famous for it's use in the defense of Roarke's Drift in Natal in South Africa.  Very famous battle immoralized in the movie ZULU...

The trigger assembly removed for cleaning

BLOOD RED ROSES

I am SUCH a nerd...

I LOVE THESE FIGS!

Pictures...



First picture of Dad holding Conner.

Conner's first Christmas!

The Smith Family is always serious...

I beat Mom & Dad down to the Hospital so I could photograph them
as soon as they saw their 1st Grandchild for the first time!

Smith Family circa late 60's

My Nephew CONNER!

I'm still working on improving myself...

1. QUITTING CUSSING
2. MORE TOLERANT
3. LESS JUDGEMENTAL

I'm watching a lot of Republican Presidency Candidate coverage, cussing too much, and writing really negative/hateful blog entries.  I just went through my journal and removed the uglier blog posts.  Quitting cussing is really hard.  For one thing I like cussing.  I like the instant gratification of the release of it.  I think of it as "blasting" something.  Usually while watching TV I blurt out the most offensive thing I can think of to insult the person I'm looking at.  Really ugly.  If I was ever filmed "blasting" the TV it would probably turn your stomach.  You can't be a Liberal and be Intolerant.  I am a Liberal, so I have to improve myself and quit the behaviors that make me look the ogre.  Nice guys don't cuss, judge people, and are intolerant....

(don't want to be this guy)

DAVID<~~~~~~~~TRYING to be a better person

I just found out that Mitt Romney ran BAIN CAPITAL when they squeezed their profit out of KB TOYS which ultimately killed the company that I loved working for...

My Guinness World Record length finger nails tear and break off during my Competitive Eating Tournaments...

Heading out to a 2 yr olds Birthday Party...

Think I'll get her a STARBUCKS gift card!

David<~~~~always thinking of other's well-being!

It's early in the morning, and nothing is as lonely as a train horn in the middle of the night...

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Recently I installed a nifty 3-D hit counter in the sidebar of my journal.  For the first time (right now) there is someone reading my journal at the same time I'm messing with it! 

HELLO DUBLIN!

David<~~~~~tickled that people read what I write!

Adam Ant is releasing a new CD!

And it has been delayed so he is rescheduling his American Concerts!  SCORE!  I'm now contemplating attending the Dallas Concert (the weekend after my birthday) AND the Chicago Concert in October!  Yay me!  Very fired up.  I'm waiting to see what's available after they reset their available tickets due to the rescheduling.  More to follow...

David<~~biggest Adam Ant fan in Missouri!

(seriousily, there was a competition and my collection weighed the most!)

This was the No. 1 song on the day I was born...

THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION

The eastern world, it is exploding
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'
And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin'

But you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don't believe
We're on the eve
of destruction.

Don't you understand what I'm tryin' to say
Can't you feel the fears I'm feelin' today?
If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away
There'll be no one to save, with the world in a grave
[Take a look around ya boy, it's bound to scare ya boy]

And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don't believe
We're on the eve
of destruction.

Yeah, my blood's so mad feels like coagulatin'
I'm sitting here just contemplatin'
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation.
Handful of senators don't pass legislation
And marches alone can't bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin'
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'

And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don't believe
We're on the eve
of destruction.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama
You may leave here for 4 days in space
But when you return, it's the same old place
The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace
You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace
And, tell me over and over and over and over again, my friend
You don't believe
We're on the eve
Of destruction
Mm, no no, you don't believe
We're on the eve
of destruction.

DAVID<~~~just might be the Anti-Christ!

Good Bye 2011...

HELLO 2012!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I wavered on whether I should post about this or not...

But I'm ticked off so I am.  Recently I attached quite a few stickers to my vehicle.  I'm a bit of a bumper sticker snob so I was planning this for quite a long time.  I ordered all the round 3-4" bumper stickers that I wanted to use, layed out the placement, and once I was satisfied I put them on the rear bumper of DEERSLAYER.  I had a rear left window sticker (MIZZOU) that was giving up the ghost so I bought a sticker to replace that one also.  It is the left rear window sticker that this post is about.  Even though I currently have 9 stickers on my car it is not overwhelming or tacky (as tacky-less as bumper stickers can be I guess).  The replacement left rear window sticker was special ordered and I had to plead with the guy making them to make another for me because he had discontinued that line of stickers.  It's black vinyl and goes on the outside of your window.  It's a silhouette of a Schwinn Black Phantom bicycle with the words "Schwinn" above the main design and "Black Phantom" below the design.  Yesterday I noticed that someone had peeled off the "B" and my sticker now read "lack Phantom".  Reading this now, it does sound a bit funny to me.  Yesterday I would have happily punched the vandal in the face, and laughed as they held their bloody nose.  I don't understand the mindset of a vandal.  I have never had the impulse to deface public property, spray paint anything on the side of a train car or steal a Christmas decoration from someones front yard.*  It's destructive and mindless.  The reason I wavered on whether to post about this or not is because I didn't want to spread the idea of their vandalism any more than the people that had already seen "lack Phantom" on the side of my car.  Later I realized the Vandal wasn't only one that had a voice in this situation.  So I'm posting.  I scraped off the remaining letters below the main design so now my sticker just reads "Schwinn" above the silhouette of the Black Phantom bicycle.  I wondered if I had encouraged the vandalism by having a sticker on my car.  Or if I had encouraged the vandalism by having a sticker on the outside of my window.  NUTS to that!  Vandals do their property damage regardless of individual circumstances: cars get keyed, public workers have to remove stickers from signposts, people have to clean up the smashed pumpkins on the day after Halloween, etc.  The good news is that I don't believe the Vandal will ever get any satisfaction from reading this blog posting because the odds are that they aren't the reading kind of person...

David<~~~~~~~~~~Likes the bumper stickers on his vehicle!

* CONFESSION:  In college I had most of my classes in

the AG Building which had it's fair share of Rednecks &

Neanderthals.  After reading this written in pen on the wall of a

stall in the Men's room: "AIDS is God's way of killing Queers". 

I wrote in pencil below: "MS is God's way of killing Kids".

Sweating the details

Well I waited too long to purchase the tickets to see Adam Ant and the venue is sold out.  There are tickets available on the secondary market but they are EXPENSIVE!  I'm still holding out to see if some cheaper tickets become available.  If I cannot pick up any tickets to see Adam Ant then we will NOT do the Chicago trip.  I realy want to go to Chicago to see Adam Ant perform.  I have only seen him in concert twice.  Adam is releasing a double CD in January and I cannot wait!  Cross your fingers...

David<~~~~~~~LOVES Chicago and Adam Ant!

New color morph!



BLUE SAMURAI PACMAN FROG!

(nothing to do with frogs, but still cute as hell!)

The man himself...

ADAM ANT!

David<~~~~~~~HUGE Adam Ant fan!

Snapshots

Me watching DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN

I shall call him RED

and he shall be known as FIELDER!

Conner meeting Santa Claus...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!