Don't feel funny.

Hello friends,
I don't know what people do without friends! Thank you to my friends. I'm not feeling funny these days. Not much. I did see a Bob Hope movie yesterday that I had never seen before, "Alias Jesse James". It was a comedy. If you hadn't already guessed that, you don't know who Bob Hope is. Only one of the worlds greatest comedians ever! I believe you should laugh every day, even if it's only at yourself! I learned that from Bob. Another actor I like is Jack Lemon. I liked those two even as a teenager. Jack Lemon's character often gets into these ridiculous situations and it's funny to see him squirm his way through it. I used to dream up situations to get into, so it would be funny to others when I had to get out of them. I only remember actually doing one of them and it worked quite well. I spelled my middle name incorrectly on legal documents, like my driver's license, social security card, etc. I never used my middle name anyway. It is Combs or Coombs. I honestly don't know. I changed it back on my drivers lisence, but I'm still not sure it's right. I have my birth certificate, but I never can remember it even after I look at it. I have a mental block. In fact if you took all of my mental blocks and placed them end to end, you would have wasted a lot of time and you'd have a long walk home from Nantucket or maybe Daytona Beach, which would be great! I love the beach. I love the sun, the waves, people having fun, the sand, bright colors. I'm feeling better already. If I can just hang on for a few months.
You want to know what's really bothering me? Of course not. But you've read this far. Might as well continue. Like one of those books that's supposed to be so good. you just keep reading it, hoping maybe something on the last page will make it worthwhile. What's bothering me is the responsibility factor. It's what happens when you're not used to being responsible and all of the sudden, you try it!!! Like eating lots of vegetables and your stomach is not used to it. Like when you don't go to the dentist or floss your teeth 6 times a day. Or when you don't eat right, get fat, get high blood pressure, get diabetes and high triglycerides (how ever you spell it). It's what happens when you take your car to the mechanic. It's what happens when you take the Ramsey Lewis Trio Financial Peas seminar. Everything is just fine, if you ignore it. We did our budget. You know what?? We spend about $500 a month more than we make. And there are a lot of things that aren't even on there!.
My doctor says if I lose weight those things might go away, the medical things anyway. I believe my blood pressure and blood sugar would both come down. Just when I get high marks for something, they decide it's bad. I believe when I lose weight my hair will come back! You see, there still is some hair up there. There's just not as much per square inch. If I reduce the square inches, the hair would, of course get thicker. I figure about 25 square inches should do it! Of course my ears would end up on top of my head and my chin might be a little tight, but there's an extra one down there anyway. I guess that's what it's for. Sometimes I dream that I have hair. I'm really quite handsome! In fact, I'm convinced that's why I don't have hair! It's my thorn in the flesh! When I was young, girls used to follow me around! A few of them were just trying to get those 50's I had hanging out of my back pocket, but some were really interested. Most of those, I encouraged to visit the senior center, where the guys walked a little slower and could be more easily caught! Ah, the fun memories of youth...I would save up for weeks and weeks until I had about 5 or 6 dollars. Then my buddies and I would do our favorite thing. Go down town! We would take the bus from Forest Park, the greatest place to grow up, unless you count the beach. If I had hair and lived at the beach, you could just forget it!! But, the most fun you could have living in Forest Park, was taking the bus to DOWNTOWN ATLANTA! Talk about opening up the eyes of a young man, around 14, it was groovy, man! For ten cents, you could take a 30 minute ride on the bus to Atlanta. The route ended on Auburn Ave right across from a Krystal's Hamburger joint. We usually ate there. Three Krystal's for ten cents each, some fries and a coke. So you could eat for about fifty cents. A couple times we ate at Shoneys. You're talking about a dollar twenty or so for a Big Boy combo.And you had to wait an hour for them to make it. We always joked that you could order from Shoneys, walk next store to the Rialto and see a movie, and get out about the same time your food arrives. Of course Riches was an institution with it's 5 story buildings on both side of the block and the connecting three story bridge. We played chase on the elevators and escalators. You always saw drunks and hobos begging for a dime or a quarter. Our standard line was always, we only have our bus fare. This was often true. I love to go to New York now and just walk around like that, but it's not near the thrill that Atlanta used to be. I wouldn't trade it for all of the video games and ipods in the world!
Well, you probably don't feel any better, but this trip down memory lane has loosened me up a little! Say, why don't you take a trip down memory lane? It could do you some good! You should take a bus somewhere or drive somewhere, park your car and get out and walk around. Take in some quaint little shops, antique stores. Watch a little league ball game. get some bar b que! Call me up when you do, cause I want to go!

Good night everyone! Sleep tight friends!!