MY GOD JIM!!!!!! I'm a doctor not a drunk!!!!

So I was living on the edge and took a different way home from work the other day and I thought to myself, "MAN! That fart sure did stink!" KIDDING!!!! "I should stop by the new Harris Teeter, it's a grocery store, and get some beer so I can chill out and watch some college football." So I stroll in there and I was as excited as Rio De Janeiro when it was announced they landed the 2016 Olympic, This is what I saw!

OK so it's not a picture of the actual display from inside the store, still trying to figure out my new camera phone, but I think you get the point. PBR Light! I have to watch my waist line ya know...

I wanted to start out this blog entry with a BANG and if I say so myself, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

OK back to my house, Say hello to Marvella!!!!

She's hot isn't she??????? Her first job is cutting this nasty a$$ tree down in the back yard.

My environmental scientist/arborist/genealogist/astrologist/nuclear physicist/civil engineer/chemist/nautical expert/Jedi Master in some of the finest beer on earth and all around good guy, Thompson told me that is was probably hit in the early years of it's life.



That would explain the HUGE disgusting GAP in it..... Get it? Charlie wearing a GAP sweatshirt next to a GAP in the tree!?!?!?! NEVER MIND GEEZ LOUISE!! So I feel it's my duty as a law abiding citizen of the U.S.A to take it out of it's misery! So with Marvella and my little nephew Charlie, Liz's brother Will, I cut it down...........

As the slide show blatantly indicates, the tree did not fall where I wanted it to BUT it's all good because it didn't fall on anyone or a house which is always a good thing...... IT'S ALL GROOVY kinda like Katie McBride, Cawley when this picture was taken, modeling Hysol's latest and greatest line of epoxies in 68!!!!!!! Love the hair mama!!!!!!!


The three of us, Will, Charlie and I also did other manly stuff like work on cars.

We ever let him drive one too...


Not really, his feet can't reach the pedals.


Oh and before I call it a day, there has been some confusion by some 'older' people...... When I place a picture up for all to see, most of the time it's a slide show and to see all the pictures you need to hit the play button... That my 'ANDY TIP' of the day.. I hope y'all have a great month and......

LIKE OMG!!!!!

I just got a new phone and I can 'text' someone like a 12 year old! SUPER FAST!!!!! WOO HOO!!! Here's proof. I'm texting my friend and it only took 20 secs.......

Which is a HUGE improvement from my old phone where it took 20 MINUTES!

I also got a PLASTIC shed! My Pops is so proud that he raised one of his sons to share is love for the stuff!

The 30+ years at Hysol-Dexter-Alpha-Henkel and the rest of the name changes every time they were bought out, were worth it. Not only did he get a SWEET retirement package but a son with the love of plastic! So with that homeless hitchhiker I picked up a few months ago, he just won't leave, we put the thing together.

Not much else going on at casa de McBride but I'm happy to report that I have all my hair, no babies daddy, money in the bank, a job, no crazy ex stilled pissed I got the family room couch in the divorce and finally, all of my teeth. I'd say life is pretty good......

ATTENTION! This is a public service announcement... This is why you sign a prenupt before you ever take the plunge into marriage!!!!

This is Liz's, my sister-in-law, brother Will's house...... His wife just recently left him and proceeded to take EVERYTHING with her back to West Virgina, insert joke here. LOVE RULES DOESN'T IT!?!?!?!?!? Mike and Liz got some new furniture so we loaded up my truck with the old stuff and I headed down to C-L-E-M-S-O-N, where he lives, and helped him put it in his empty living room so the poor guy had a place to freakin' sit. We then proceeded to drink a few beers and ponder life and some really funny skits from 'the Family Guy'

So summer is winding down and to be honest with ya, I thought I would have had more done but with a combination of mandatory OT and injuries to my ankle, it's been kinda a waste..... You say that you knew about the OT at work but you didn't hear about the ankle..... Well, while amassing frequent-flier miles to heaven, I was helping a lady at work fix a flat tire, I fell awkwardly on my ankle while trying to loosen up one of the lug nuts, HEY! That's the name of the mascot out at Lowes Motor speedway.

When I fell I thought I broke it because it was kinda pointing in the wrong direction but the Dr. at the urgent care center said it was just sprained really bad.

The only project I have done is clean out the garage and paint part of the floor with some paint I found while I was cleaning out all of my grandpa McBride's stuff....

CHECK IT OUT! It's from Montgomery Wards!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! Are they even around anymore? Look at their logo, I looked online and they stopped using that one in 1968!!!! So this paint is at least 40 years old!!!!! BUT! It's unopened and if it doesn't work so what!!!!! I'm painting the garage floor not my living room walls with it!
So I moved everything out, even the Mustang, poor thing!!!! I was surprised that I didn't find anything living underneath it,

and cleaned out the whole garage..... NOW I look like I live in the south or Emporium, PA!!!!!

I say 'poor thing' because it's not been on the road since.... Drum roll please,

Not bad lookin' huh? Keep your fingers crossed that it dries but either way, It's all good because I'm comfortably numb from smelling paint and epoxy for the last 3 hours.......

All the pictures were taken with my brand new camera!!!! The old one my brother gave me a few years ago finally crapped out... THANK YOU JESUS for Big Lots!!!!! I got a sweet one that , so far, ROCKS like the Ramones at UB in 87! I know because I was there!!!!!!!!! ALSO, I changed up the layout again. I'm a chameleon!!! Don't try to stop me!

When it rains it pours huh? My computer power supply is having ‘issues', digital camera is starting to die so I can’t take any pictures, lawn mower does not want to start and finally, my freaking Tivo is acting like it’s possessed BUT that's not going to stop me from posting a new entry on the BEST blog, even better than yours Karen, on the net!!!!!! HOLLA

WORK WORK WORK! That's all I seem to do........ I was able to take a few days off for the annual 'McBride World Tour 2009' I cruised up to western NY for my cousin's 6th wedding! KIDDING!!!!!


A good time was had by all..... One of my 55 cousins started getting shots and that was the end of me.......

SOOOOO! After that picture was taken I stumbled back to my cousin Jeff's house and 'sort of' passed out and when I woke up I realized that I had 'sort of' barfed....... Well here is the difference between me and others, I took the sheets off the bed and made a 'B' line to the washer and I also took some Febreze and sprayed the whole room..... Others would have just left it the way it was but that's not how I roll! The only mistake I made was telling Kari, who in turn, told my cousin Jeff. He made sure EVERYONE knew............. DORK!!!!!!! All day I had to endure badgering from all of the people they invited to their wedding and reception.....

Let's backtrack, I was on I-86 formerly highway 17, and I was just cruising and jammin' to some old Metallica and BOOOOOOOOM!!!!! WHAT THE!?!?!?!? I was hit by a girl who was

1. texting.
2. fell asleep.
3. was zoning out thinking about what she wanted for dinner that night.

I immediately looked in the rear view mirror and the look on her face was pricless!! She was in shock that she just hit me.... I pulled to the side of the road and she didn’t walk to my car, she ran, and asked if I was alright…. Her eyes were all bugged and everything. I said I was cool but that all depends on how much damage the back of my car is in. “Can I get an ‘amen’ from the congregation? This is all the damage she did……

WOO HOO!!! Nothing that can’t be buffed out by yours truly, I can clean a car right Steph? ANYWAYS, Jessica was her name and I could really tell she was freakin’…. I said ‘Jessica… It’s all cool….. This baby has over 120000 on it and still tickin’…. You scatched my bumber big deal…. I’m not that guy to report this to my insurance or anything…. Get back in your car and go home….. It’s all good!” See folks, that’s how I deal with life….. You do stupid stuff throughout it and you learn from it……Now if it was someone that was being a jerk or a certain person that I recently saw for the first time in like 20 years then it would have been on!!!! COPS, INSURANCE COMPANIES and FIRETRUCKS!!! Hell I would ever had the cops ‘pepper spray’ her for good measure… I bet $100 she did the speed limit the rest of the way home!!! HA HA HA HA HA!! Poor kid! Let’s hope the next person she hits is as cool as me……..

Being it was a complete wash out the last time I was at the Boike and Mese farm, I swung over to their neck of the woods with a few cases of the WORST beer NY has to offer and I was immediately placed on the tractor, with a new SWEET A$$ seat, and bush hogged their fields till sun down........ LOVE IT!!!!!! Some people have their crack, booze and any other form of addiction and there is me with my bush hoggin'!!!!!! AHHHHHH UTOPIA!!! Also, while polishing off the deck demo, I noticed that there is a poor turtle aimlessly roaming around. I figured that I took his/her home when I removed it...... I went out there this morning and it's gone.... Either

1. it found a new home or
2. something had it for dinner.

That’s my excitement for the month…… I will leave you with this image…..

DAMN SKIPPY!!!!!!!!!!! I proudly display this on my front porch.......

SEND IN THE CLOWNS!!!!!

Pretty sweet huh? Grandma McBride loved her some clowns... They are kinda creepy if you ask me. She gave this to me and I really didn't know what to do with it BUT after pondering it for a while, I came up with a brilliant way to use it!


It marks were my water meter is......... Pretty clever huh?!?!??!!? We'll see how long it stays there before some kid steals it on a dare.....

Enough of clowns. I'm starting to get freaked out just talking about them.
Well hello there kids! Right off the bat, I want to say that I have not done a lot to the house because I have been working 'CRAZY' amounts of OT at work but I have had a little time to do a few things. So without further ado put on your s@#t eatin' grin and

enjoy yourselves because this is a celebration!

I do have to say that the survey that I posted on my last entry went over as well as a fart in church! The last time I checked, just a few minutes ago, One person actually answered the question I asked! ONE! MY GOD!!!!!! Do I feel like THIS GUY? Damn right I do!!!

So I have made another 'executive decision', I'm going to keep blogging and posting pictures so when I am old and forgetting what I had for breakfast, I can just look on here and see what stuff I did to the house and when...... Will I remember the link, http://raspix.blogspot.com? Heck no BUT I will put a note in my documents for the nurses at the old folks home to set it on my computer so I can I can view it a revel in that old nostalgic feeling......


Enough of me whining like the CEO of GM wanting more bail out money.

'Operation deck demo' began and is almost complete! There was just no going back on it! After years of neglect the only option was to tear it down. So with my trusty 'Saws-all” and a homeless hitchhiker, KIDDING! Adam is a guy from work, We tore it down....

Heck! I even put my little nephew to work......

EASY there kids!!!! Don't go and call social services on me.... This was a staged picture. I just wanted to kinda freak everyone out........

To get back to the hitchhiker comment, I actually did pick up one... I wasn't going to tell you but after seeing my mother's reaction to the news, I decided to shout it from the top of the mountain..... So yes, I picked up a hitchhiker. Sure he reeked of cheap booze and he kept on repeating himself but we had a good chat about life and politics.... The best part of our conversation was when he said "You're one lucky guy because you have a job, I can't keep one." I did not say this to him but this is what I was thinking. GEE!?!?!?!?!? I'm going out on a limb here but maybe you can't keep a job because you have a little drinking problem, but who am I to judge......

I took a trip to Ohio for my Nana's 90th birthday! And look what I found down in the basement!?!?!?!? WOO HOO!!!!!!

Aren't this babies banned in all 50 states? I'm soooooooooooooooo going to bust this out at my next party!!!!! Sure hope no one gets impaled..... HE HE HE HE HE HE HE!!!!!!!

Being that Grandpa McBride passed away a few months ago, grandma is cleaning out the house of all of his stuff. She unleashed me in his tool shed!!!! I had to take a break because I had information overload! He had so much stuff and I am sure that the EPA has deemed some of it that I touched hazardous material. So if I get cancer or something I'll know why, but I did get an awesome set of tools!

Well that's all I got for ya, oh wait! Wanna see my bitchin' side burns I grew????????



They were bigger than Evil Knevels in 74!!!!!! Oh and the dirty towel in the background is not used to 'clean myself', I use it to on my car... Talk to y'all next month.

Well, well, well!?!?!?! Glad to see y'all again..... I hope your summer is rockin' like Kiss at Madison Square Garden in 78!!!!! It's like 85 degrees with the humidity at 110% and my A/C isn't working properly so I'm on my couch sweating like Nancy Pelosi every time she's asked to try to explain that she didn't know anything about water boarding............

So Mese was the ONLY person to actually point me in a direction for the decor of the kitchen!!! I take that back!!!! Dorothy made a comment that she liked my green counter tops. Thanks young lady for your input and the other thing that you did like 20 years ago for Mark, Billy and I!!!! WOO HOO!!!!!! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!! OH OK sorry about that momentary lapse!!!! Back to the kitchen!!!! This is what Mese suggested I get for the floor. This is how easy I can be.... I emailed her asking what I need to do with the floor and 5 minutes later she sent me the link for the tiles she thinks I should get. I looked at it for a millisecond and emailed her back saying 'SOLD'!!!! The whole transaction was maybe 6 minutes!!!!! That's how easy I am!!!!!! YEAH LADIES!!!!!! Any takers!?!?!?!?!? AND!!!!! I know some people out there cannot believe Boike actually has a wife and she actually puts up with him.... To dispel the 'conspiracy theories', ladies and gentlemen I give you Mese!!!!

This also brings up another 'issue'........ I took the liberty to create a little survey that I wish all of you to take!!!!!!! It will help me in what my future of 'blogging' will hold. FOR THE LOVE OF BABY JESUS at least take the survey!!!! It consists of 1 question!!!!! THAT'S ALL!!!!!!!!


And now the ditch!!!!!!!! KRIPES!!!!!! I have decided that as long as I am on this earth, i'll be always tinkering with it!!!! I planted some ivy at every pile of broken concrete.



Went to The Winston, old habits die hard, I mean the All Star race with the Singers!!!! A good time was had by all!!!! This was my seat!!! The day of the race I went up to the ticket office and was asked by the ticket lady what seat I wanted...... "Ahhhhhhh hell! Let's splurge and give me a seat up in the new section" and this is what she gave me for a mere $65!!!!! It might sound like a lot of money but it's actually cheap for a race and they are running all kinds of specials because there is such a dip in attendance this year...

PEOPLE!!!!!! I had to take an elevator to my seat!!!!! That's how high I was!!!!!!!! So with my sixer of PBR, scanner and head set I headed up to enjoy some RACIN' and thought to myself as the cars went by, 'this is how we won the Cold War! The Soviets had nothing to compete with this!!!!'

I also decided to do something about the driveway... So I took the pressure washer to it!!!!! I have a pretty long driveway so each night after work I work on one section at a time......


I've said this before and I will say it again!!!!! ALL YOU NEED IS A CHEAP LITTLE PRESSURE WASHER TO GET YOUR DRIVEWAY AND OTHER STUFF LOOKING LIKE THIS!!!!! Kripes!!!! I just have a cheap one that I bought at Big Lots a few years ago and look at the results!?!?!?!?!? Looks good to me.... What about you? Now!!!! With that said, if you are looking to freakin' take paint off the side of a house then YES you will need a bigger one......

Remember the guy that kinda cussed me out and caused me to put a halt to completing the "McBride Expressway" ??? Well guess what I found out???? I was talking to one of my neighbors and he informed me that the guy is kinda screwed because he didn't get the proper permits from the county to clear the land....... So it's just an empty field back there........ KARMA!!!!!! Love it! This kinda fits into some of the plans I have to fix up the back yard and I'll talk about that more next month... Sorry this is kinda short but they have implemented mandatory OT at work so my days now pretty much consist of work and sleep, oh I eat a little too.