IT"S ALIVE IT"S ALIVE!!!!

The Afro is back and you know it could never be wack, the Afro is back, do you remember the AFRO!!! To the tune of "The Fatboys are Back!" - The Fatboys

Sifl and Ollie - Beatbox

Gotta luv puppets. This is from the Sifl and Ollie show back in the day.
RickyP getting silly fo shizzle

Shearing the Sheepishness

About a week ago I sent out a letter almost everybody I have an email address for. For the last year I have been thinking I wanted to donate to a worthy cause. I sent it to people who I thought might be ok with getting such a letter.
I took me a while to get it together and I interviewed a few friends first to see what they thought. I felt a little weird or sheepish asking for donations. That feeling was replaced with "Damn, my friends are cool!" The response has been awesome and so now I am blogging about it and extending the offer to anybody else that knows me and might read this. Most of all remember my offer to hang out. I am fun to be with and dang it, people like me... most times

What's up my Peeps,
Let me start by saying "Hi" to some of you I haven't really seen since football started. My 4th graders are 5-0 and my 3rd graders are 4-1. We recently won the Pumpkin Bowl and have pretty much beat everyone in the city. We have 2 games left and I am excited about them. The folks are doing fine and the Punkin (My great niece Lenee) is getting bigger by the day plus she is 4 now, I am getting old. I also wanted to say a big thanks to all of you for your support and well wishes over the last kind of tough and scary year and throughout the years we have known one another. This year I wanted to do something for others during the holidays. I wanted to volunteer on Thanksgiving Day and serve food, but for reasons that some of you may know I need to be close to the house on the holidays to help out. So I thought that what I couldn't give in time, I would try to give in donation. I plan on making a donation to the 2ndHarvest Food Bank. I volunteered there a couple weeks ago with people from work and I liked the organization. So I am sending this email to see if you would like to help my donation grow into much more. I am asking that you donate what you can. $1, $5, $10 dollars or whatever you want to send. I will even collect in person if you like and we can hang out. Just so you know in advance, I will not be handing out receipts. I will not be turning this in for my own taxes.This is just an impromptu thing that I wanted to do. If you need a receipt please donate on your own. I would also like to see all of you before the holidays start. So whether you want to donate or not, let's plan on getting together. You know I miss you and the great smile you always give me when we see each other. I had to throw in something sappy to tug at your heart strings. When and If I get emails back saying yay or nay on the donations I can give the breakdowns on what our total donation amount will do. I do know that a $1 dollar donation can get $9 dollars worth of food for 2ndHarvest.
So I hope to hear from you all soon.
Love and Happiness - from the Al Green song , oh yeah, I almost forgot Thanks!!!
RickyP

Exit: light, Enter Night, Take my hand, Off to never neverland - Enter Sandman - Metallica

Yeah, Ricky rocks out every once in a while
This post is about rocks of another kind. Well, not really rocks, it's more about how our new building hates me. There have been several times when I have gone to use the facilities and the stalls have been tore up. I mean really tore up. State fair, day five tore up.
I think our plumbing is from the stone ages. I can't even say stone ages because at least back then could push junk into a big hole. So sometimes it's bad. That magically, was not the case today.
Today the bathroom was immaculate. I walked in and picked my stall. I sat down, using the paper shield of course, never ever go bareback on a public seat unless you are having a bean burrito emergency. I get settled and the lights go of with a click. Some of the lights in our building are motion sensitive. I had been in the stall just long enough to sit down basically and then click. I told you it doesn't like me. I don't know how it didn't pick me up, a man of my size walking into the bathroom, but there I was sitting in the dark. Don't worry ( I know you were concerned) I was able to finish the business at hand and complete the rest of my day unscathed.
For those of you thinking bathroom stuff is a risky topic, I am sorry. I blog about life man, raw and unfiltered (kind of). As I like to say at lunch time, I blog about the circle of life.

Rock-a-bye Punkin

Shhh!! Uncle Ricky is Punkin sitting tonight. I introduced my niece to the wonderful world of Play-doh this evening. We made snakes and dogs and a bear (oh my, I couldn't resist) that ate Boots, Dora's sidekick that we also made from clay. We finished the evening by watching Chicken Little, which turned out to be the knockout punch. 20 mins in and it was lights out.
When I woke up she was playing with knives, gasoline and matches. Ok, bad humor I know. I need to roll that way sometimes, cuz I am hardcore and from the streets. I have a weird sense of humor. She actually fell asleep.
Anyway, it was a pretty cool Friday night for a guy who a few years ago would never use up a Friday night babysitting.

I Like Free Stuff

Hello,
I went to the Twins game tonight for FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! They decided to win in my honor. Way to go!!
Good night!!

Working in coal mine, going down down down - The Devo version

I volunteered at a food bank tonight.
The work was not tedious in the least bit. It felt good. The title of his post came about from me sharing a moment during the work we did tonight with another volunteer. We even sang a bit of the chorus and he knew the deep voice part of the song too. "I am so tired...how long can this go on!?!" :)
The company I work for has a two week period during the year that they set up company sponsored volunteer events. Tonight we volunteered at the Second Harvest Heartland Food Bank.
The Harvest workers were cool and were very organized. We loaded close to 4100 pounds of food.
I tried to liven things up by having people sing the Flintstones theme song and when that didn't work I tried "Baby Got back" by Sir Mixalot, no takers on the singing but I saw a few people moving their booties. There are not many things I will skip practice for, but this was a good cause. By the way both our 3rd and 4th grades teams are 2 - 0!!
Since a little before my last B-Day I have been thinking I wanted to find another way to give to others, more details on that later. I have some ideas, but I need a little time for the ideas to ferment.

Monday Night Football
It was handled with class and made a lot of folks happy. Now let's fix the rest of the city and make things right by people who were shafted big time.

And now for something completely different....
The Larch