Now....Here's the news.

According to CBS.com

The world's heaviest man still can't walk, but he will soon be able to roll.

Manuel Uribe said Thursday he is having a 1989 Chevrolet Astrovan outfitted to support his record-breaking weight, giving him mobility after more than six years of being confined to his bed.

Uribe earned the Guinness World Record as the world's heaviest man in 2006, when he tipped the scales at 1,230 pounds. He claims to have since shed more than 500 pounds after making a public call for help. Uribe, known as Meme to his friends, even has a name for his new ride. "My friends call it the Meme-Mobile, just like the Batmobile," he said.

The minivan is being converted into an open-air, flatbed pickup of sorts. Manuel says he will put a bed on the back of the van to drive around town, with his new wife at the wheel. When at home, he will hang out in a remodeled garage that will include a forklift to help raise his regular bed up to the level of his car bed, allowing him to switch locations from time to time.

Uribe said that, with the new car, he plans to start up an auto parts business. And Uribe's wife, Claudia Solis, said the two are even thinking about making a trip to the beach in May.

Uribe married Solis in October, and the wedding was one of the few times he has left his home in recent years.

With all that said, lets compare and contrast:

Son of a Thomas

215 LBS

Vehicle 1987

Guinness Drinker

Unemployed

Shed and tractor with 2 flat tires

Google results = 0

Manuel Urbie

1230Lbs

Vehicle 1989

Guinness record holder

Starting auto parts business

Garage with working forklift

Google results = 739,000

Is it just me or.....

You may not be familiar with this man,but this is mayor Michael Nutter mayor of Philadelphia.

Doesn't he look a lot like this man.

Yes, Squidward Tentacles.

O.K I'm Stupid.

So we get about 7 inches of snow around here and I am out shoveling when my mail man arrives.

We exchange pleasantries and before he leaves he says "Anything going out today?" I respond in the negative and that's when I realize that I have not yet sent out the prizes to the first 5 subscribers to my blog.

I promise to do it this week.

In other randomness, here is my dog Montana.

Yes he is an American Staffordshire Terrier with a hint of Bulldog. He is obedient but not very well mannered. It's like living with a frat boy.

He is 85lbs and a little over 1 year old. The person he listens to most is my 2 year old daughter. Go figure.

Miss Orie.... A Fictional Love Story

I would love to say I knew then what I know now, but that would be a lie. Sure she was young when I met her,

but soon we had to part.

I moved away from the old neighborhood.

It wasn't until years later that I would see he again. It was at a college party.

She hadn't changed a bit. She remembered me and we picked up where we left off. We said our hellos and later, our good-byes. I knew I had to see her again. So I called her.

I told her I wanted.....no needed to see her again. She seemed o.k. with the idea.

So a date it was. One turned to 2, 2 into 4, and before we knew it, we were in love.

Things were great for a long time. But then she became distant.

She lost interest in where our lives were going.

She became a different person.

We stopped talking and began to argue all the time.

Finally, she packed her things.

She said the pain was too much.

I said I still loved her and she reached for me.

But no matter how much we still cared or felt, I knew her career would always come first.
The End.

It's so dark in there.

Let's start with the excuses.

There are certain things that I do that I take a particular pride in the amount of time spent organizing and executing. This is not one of them.

Before I tell you my tale and show you my video I will say, the light was bad, the sound was adjusted incorrectly and I did not try to make this look or sound pro in anyway. The back ground music is over modulated and the mix is horrible.

Now......

You may have noticed that I talk about being unemployed a lot. Well If you have never been unemployed and a closet type "A" personalty like myself, then you would not understand what it is like when, since the age of 17 you have worked 14 hours a day, a minimum of 13 days every 2 weeks and at the age of 39 find yourself with no job and a lot of extra time. Eventually, you run out of things to do. (I was walking thru the house tightening up all of the knobs today. Dressers, doors, cabinets, sinks you name it...it's tight.)

Anyway, my wife found out, after 8 years of knowing me, that I play guitar. She is encouraging me to pass the time by playing again. I have decided to take her up on it.

Now here comes the somewhat interesting part. I have mostly played the blues or things that stem heavily from the blues IE; Zeppelin, The Who, Sabbath, Clapton, Jeff Beck etc. I have decided that since I am going to play again, I am going to change my style and learn to shred or play things more in the vein of Steve Via, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen. You may not like there music but like it or not, these guys can play.

So what I put forward today is an example of how I play currently.

I am setting a goal of one year for my ability to shred decently to start to emerge.

Once again, I know the video is crappy.

Enjoy.

Is it spring ????

Here is what's going on on the East side of my house.

Tulips and Crocus are pushing up like it's April.

Now I already know that besides the heat given off by the house and the reflective heat, the east side of my house gets sun all day.

My question; do I try and cover these guys again or do I just let them go? I get a ton of them when they come up and they are great at coloring the yard until my roses get blooming.

Day Dreaming

Like many here in the great Northeast I am done with winter. Groundhog or no groundhog I have had all the cold, wet and grey I can take.

Then, while working at the computer, a friend e-mails me about a job opening. (For those of you who don't know I have been unemployed since October 1st.)

I was once in radio and have been looking to continue on that front. There have been some opportunities but I no longer get that excited about possibilities because the economy is in the crapper, the radio business is in the crapper and there are a whole lotta radio people looking for fewer and fewer jobs.

Well the job opening turns out to be in the Florida Keys. Yes the Keys! Now I'm excited. Will I get it? Dunno. Do I want it? Yeah. I don't really want to move but if I have to then that's the place for me.

I spoke with the wife and she said go for it.

Now I'm keeping it positive but there are a hell of a lot of radio folks out of work in Florida so I'm not holding my breath. But still.

And for Dr. Zibbs. They even do a swap shop.