I don't usually do these type of thingy's but since I did one on FaceBook I thought I had better play along. This was sent from that crazy Marissa over at Whahappen? Here's the scoop:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. List 6 random things about yourself.
4. Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they've been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

1.) I don't drink coffee and have never had a full cup in my life.
2.) I graduated college and worked 4 years before I knew how to turn on a computer.
3.) My sister and I were born in the same year but we're not twins.
4.) I'm a cartoonist but I've never seen a complete episode of The Simpsons
5.) I want to write a book based on the adventures of my friends and I growing up in the 70's
6.) I will soon be a millionaire, so get to know me now

I have tagged these folks and their blogs...
1.) Field Notes
2.) Digital Grasshopper
3.) The Happy Homemaker
4.) Girl Returns Home
5.) Diaper Changin Maniac
6.) Retro Finds

Labels: blogging, Curtis Tucker

As a family we've been on several vacations and out of town weekends. A few weeks ago we stayed at one of our favorite downtown OKC hotels. I was remembering back several months when we had stayed there and I had noticed two young kids looking out the window of the hotel across the street.

These two kids had binoculars and they were scanning our hotel for open windows. They caught sight of me just about the same time I spotted them. I could see them laughing and talking to each other. I waved and they waved back. You could tell they were pretty happy that they had connected with someone across the way.

Jump forward a few months and I found myself looking out at that same hotel again. I wasn't sure what I was expecting to see across the street but it sure wasn't what I saw. There standing at the wide open window was this nude dude! He was as naked as a jay bird and was putting on his deodorant.

I started cracking up and my family ran to the window to see what I was laughing about. About that time he came back to the window and did a few stretching moves. Luckily my daughters couldn't find him in all of the dozens of windows.

After a few minutes he disappeared and my hot wife spotted an old fat dude sticking his ugly mug out of another window. He too, was unclothed. What a hoot!

The lesson to be learned is to watch what you do in your hotel room while the window is open. You never know who might be watching.

Labels: Family, funny moment, Road Trips

Remember those great old family vacations? You know the ones where you would load the kids into the station wagon and you'd head off for a ten hour drive with no air conditioning. I remember laying on the floorboard in the back of the car on the "hump". It was the best place in the world to nap. It was warm and there was a steady hum that was very soothing.

Nobody had to wear a seat belt and you were free to roam the car. You'd drive until you wore out and you'd stop at the next motel. There were maybe three suitcases and you had everything you could want.

Today's vacations are so much more complicated. There's the planning, the reservations, the mileage and the over abundance of suitcases that barely fit into the one ton SUV.

We are currently on vacation in Breckenridge, Colorado. Our girls are skiing for the first time and they went up the lift and skied down on their first day. It was so much fun watching them cruise down the slope hanging onto our ski poles.

All is well and I will post a few photos from Breckenridge in case you have never been here.

Labels: Family, Memories, Road Trips

Labels: Daughters, Fun Events, Photo, Road Trips, Sisters

Update! No skin cancer! My bump was actually a sebaceous hyperplasia. All is well, stitches are out and the healing is on.

Way back when, maybe in the late 70's, it was all the rage to bake in the sun and get as dark as humanly possible. There were no warnings about using SPF-95 and staying out of the sun. And you sure didn't hear many people talking about skin cancer.

Fast forward to today and see what that sun may have given you after all of these years. As long as I can remember, like the late 70's, I've always had this "growth" on my forehead. I went years just ignoring it and never thought that much about it. As I got older I grew tired of looking at it and assumed it might be some kind of super-human wart. So, I began to use all sorts of home treatments to remove it.

Trying to remove this thing went on for years. A few times I thought I had it burned or frozen off until it was almost gone only to have it return once more. It never really spread or hurt so I wasn't worried about it. Late last year a doctor friend of mine walks up to me in the mall and asked what the thing on my head was. I explained I wasn't sure and he nonchalantly told me it was basal cell carcinoma and I had skin cancer. Wow!

After the initial shock he informed me it was not really dangerous but should be removed. Well, last night I had him remove it and just for grins told everyone I was going to have him cut out a lightning bolt design to look like Harry Potter's. See photo above.

The moral of the story is watch your kids and their exposure to the sun. We didn't know as much about skin cancer in the 70's and all loved to get that dark, rich tan. Many of us will be paying for that exposure as we get older. Get yourself checked out if you suspect a growth anywhere.

(P.S. The photo above may have been tampered with in PhotoShop. My doctor was not to keen on giving me the lightning bolt design.)

Labels: 70's, Curtis Tucker, Getting Old

It's been almost exactly a year since the Hot Wife and I ran off to Las Vegas. That trip was for nothing more than site seeing, eating, shopping and hanging out. If you have not been to Vegas or it has been a long time you might find some fun photos in this bunch.

Vegas has come a long way since the old Elvis days but if you look hard enough you can still find many of the old strip reminders. Being a kid of the seventies I really wish I could have seen an Elvis show in Las Vegas.

While there, our morning exercise was to walk from the Venetian, almost in the middle of the strip, to either end of the strip. In two days of morning walking we pretty much walked from one end of the strip to the other. Many of these photos are what you would see walking along the strip and many things in between.

Las Vegas 2008 Photo Album
(Just click on a photo to move to the next)

Labels: Fun Events, Hot Wife, Photo, Road Trips