Underground Car Guy

The Tie of the Day February 22nd The Race Car Tie In honor of the Daytona 500 yesterday.  Daytona and its speed weeks has always been seen as the kick off to racing season with the 24 hours of Daytona just about a month ago.  Yes I know the short  track racing has been going on, but for the Professional Series, this is truly the beginning of the season.

The Tie of the Day: February 15th The Heart Candy Tie What would a Valentines Day be with out heart shape candy hearts.

The Tie of the Day February 8th Winnie the Pooh OK, so this time a year a lot of my ties get recycled.  So if you saw this last you, you are seeing it again.  I really try to wear a different tie each week, or day, or which ever comes first.

This week I got the sad news that my great uncle Clarence Ramsay had die.  I did not know my uncle Clarence very well, other than he was my grandmothers only brother, a twin, a farmer, and when I went on my mission in 1988, he sold a calf to help pay for it.  But I hardly saw him except at family reunions and funerals. I did get to meet with him, this past August, when he was down in Arizona.  He wanted to come down and visit here one last time.  We had a family gathering at Mattta's, and meet with cousins I have not seen in years or even ever.  I got to talk to Uncle Clarence for just a brief moment, but I was surprised that at 90 year young, he remembered coming down for my farewell.  With his death, this is the end of a generation.  All of my grandmothers siblings are now gone.  I still have a lot of my grandmothers journals and pictures, berried deep in storage.  Looking back on those pictures before, they are memories of my grand...

Sitting in church today, I realized that in about a month, I might not be able to come to church or this ward for a while.  The reason I say this is because of work.  I found out about a week ago that when I would have to bid for my hours at work that there was only on shift that had a weekend day on it, and that shift was they only one had the whole weekend off.   I also found out that when it comes to seniority for the new hire (and that is for both day and night classes) that I am the low man on the totem pole.  So, that mean I get to bid last for hours.  I know that my chance to get the weekend bid is close to none, so I put it as my 4 or 5 choice.  The hours I am going for have a Monday, Tuesday off, but there is an off chance that I may get a shift that will start early in the morning and end sometime in the afternoon.  If that happens, then there is no chance of me going to church. My wards new meeting time will change to the afternoo...

I have not really been a Julia Roberts fan, but she has one of my favorite quotes from a movie.  In Notting Hill, she has an on and off relationship with Hugh Grants character.  Near the end of the film she delivers to him a gift before she goes back to the states.  She ask him, if he thinks that they can rekindle what they might have had.   And this was here response: I am just a girl, standing in front of a guy, asking him to love her. Hugh Grant in the end, in a round-a-bout way, says no.  But after meeting with friends and seeing what the gift was, rethinks his choice and runs to stop her from leaving.  And they lived happily ever after. Why can’t life be like the movies?  

The Tie of the Day February 1 The Tool Time Tie.  If you look at the name on the hammer, it is Binford on it.  The was the sponsor of the show that Tim Allen did on Home Improvement.  (Sorry for the quality of the photos lately.  Time to get a new phone!)