bachelor once again

as of tomorrow...i am a bachelor once again...but trust me...it is for the best...sipping on natural fruit drinks in a hammock at the beach is nothing compared to home maintenance and repair...

i remember along time ago...i was probably 10 or 11...walking out of HSBC on a sunday morning after church...we were leaving during the prayer before the invitation to beat the crowd to watch the lakers & celtics playoff game...back when the playoffs meant something...magic - bird...those were the days...by the way...i do not condone leaving early unless it is of the utmost importance...like the lakers & celtics...anyway...

back to the story...there was an older man in the parking lot leaning up against his car in a cowboy hat smoking a cigarette...i couldnt believe that someone would smoke in the church parking lot...it is funny to look back at my perception of that event...i would have voted that the man couldnt be a "christian"if i were asked...it is not like i was offended...i just used what i had been taught or percieved thru my short life around church to discern the situation...and i had extended family that smoked...so it is not i was sheltered from smoking...i am sure that the drastic evil of smoking was a mis-perception on my part...i am sure that i would have never picked up the idea from being around church...looking back...it is funny to me that i remember hearing of the evils of drugs, alcohol, smoking etc... but cannot for the life of me hearing a word against overeating, eating disorders, cannibalism etc...

i think the moral of the story is: i sure am glad fat people, pukers and cannibals didnt smoke cigarettes or snort crack because of the strong influence of the church against such things in the last few decades...

later from 3rd St.