Some Thoughts And Confessions And Things I Know For Sure This July 26

Here are things I have reflected on as another birthday dawns...

Some men look good dressed in a suit but I am not one of them. I am better in casual clothes, but no bargain there either!

One can still be a productive member of society and never have seen "Star Wars"

Dogs are man's best friend and I've had some but it has been a cat that has been my best friend most of my life.

Choose your battles wisely. As I get older there seems to be so much less about which to get upset.

Housecleaning is one of my favorite things to do and I feel really good afterward.

Ants are a scourge and can change the way you live.....until the exterminator arrives.

Bruce Springsteen is proof that you can rock as hard later in life as you did when you were young.

A birthday isn't as much about you as it is about the people you have grown to love and care about. You just want their company.

I will always have to fight weight gain...I always have, I always will. It will never be easy.

It's wine over beer but Summer Shandy makes it closer than I thought it could be

It may not be fashionable to admit but I hate jaegermeister and I will never try it again.

Most -not all- people shouldn't show their feet in public.

I like David Letterman more than any other talk show host even though he has been mailing it in for years

I have had some really interesting birthdays. I'll save it for the book.

Jack Benny is the funniest guy I have ever seen. Never a hint of scandal, by all accounts a wonderful man, and someone who didn't care who got the laughs as long as they laughed.His radio shows are as funny today as they were way back when.

My weekends are made of a few things...The Sunday papers, Junior Mints,Saturday mass, a Sunday breakfast ,old time radio shows and a 3 Musketeers bar.

I would rather be off on a Monday instead of a Friday

The joke is that Italian sons all think their mothers are saints but MINE  may have been. A dozen rosaries a day, an uncommon devotion to Mary and To God,people submitted intentions for which they wanted her to pray, thinking she had a special pipeline to heaven.

Laura is the strongest woman I have ever known. I am forever amazed.

I don't answer my doorbell. If I don't know you are coming by, I'm not going to the door.

I miss my deck.

Deep orange attracts me like a light attracts a moth.

They say you can pick your friends but you cant pick your family. Man, I picked well.

I am proud that I'm on good terms with almost all my exes.not that there's that many.

I have never been married,only close....but all those relationships have been precious and taught me a ton.

I make silly jokes, kid around an awful lot, but it's a facade. I am actually introspective, sensitive and on occasion,shy.

It may be silly but I still think I can make it.

Baltimore Orioles, yes! But raised on The Cubs and they are coming quickly.

My useless talent...I am real good at Fantasy Football.

I admire people who do their jobs well and scoff at those who don't.

Autumn is it. I wish I had been born in October and still be a Leo!

Thanks mom and dad for raising me to have manners

McCartney,Springsteen and Fogerty and that's all that need be said.