Catching Up and Saying Hello
90+_Irishman
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Hello All,
Been a few moons since I was here and said hi to everyone. Hope y'all are doing well and I see that there are many changes since my time away. Not planning on getting back into the swing of things with the games or bombs or trades etc, just wanted to see what was going on and catch up with a few folks here and there.
Bit of an update on what the world is looking like at the Irish household... Cael my son is now 3.5 years old and is huge, already up to 3'5" and 41lbs if you can believe that! He started preschool in late February days after he turned 3 and just wrapped up his first semester and is absolutely thriving. Amanda my wife, just wrapped up her course to become a CNA and has her state test at the end of June so that she will start getting paid to be a full time caretaker for our son since he has some very unique and specific needs and requires full time care. I am coming up on 4 years with Apple and this last December was promoted to a Team Manager Apprentice, which is a fancy way of saying that I am being fast tracked into Management in the next 12-24 months. Another very big change in our lives was that we just wrapped up a move to a much nicer and better place. We moved to Loveland, CO into an actual home and not in a crappy apartment anymore. It is a duplex one story ranch with a huge fenced in backyard that Cael is absolutely in love with, huge front yard, a large open floorpan with open kitchen and dining room into a large family room. Best of all it has a garage, one car but it is more than 1.5 units deep so I can park the new car and the motorcycle in there as well as all of my toolboxes, workbenches and all of my “stuff” for working on motorcycles. Oh yeah, most probably hadn't heard but last August some idiot lady tried to kill us and totaled our car, luckily we were all a-ok and no major injuries. So because of that we had to get a new car so we picked up a 2015 Nissan Sentra SR and has turned out to be a perfect family ride for us. This past March when I turned 28, my wife bought me my motorcycle since last year I got my moto endorsement and started riding heavily. Picked up a 1985 Kawasaki GPz750 with 15K original miles and was a beautiful survivor! Been rebuilding and restoring it as well as doing some custom work on it as often as time allows.
There is lots lots more that has happened but way to much to put in a short post, well short for me at least 
Keep the rubber side down,
Brett
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Brett
Brett
And good to see you posting.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
How are things in your neck of the woods?
brett
Cael is doing very well, he is thriving in the new house and in his special education classroom. He was diagnosed formally with moderate to severe Autism and his school has had to bring in a team of specialists three times in three months because none of the staff can keep up with him. Blows every IQ test out of the water and can't accurately measure it and in preschool is already teaching himself math and reading/writing, scary as hell but very exciting too
Brett
Brett
"I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
Nice to see you posting. Keep living life one foot in front of the other. Keep the front end of that bike squarely cemented on the pavement! Have fun! In 76' I had a Honda 400/4 and I managed to keep it down!
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
<<<-------- The newbie welcoming thread is over that way.
hahaha
what up irishman? good to hear from ya
* I have a new address as of 3/24/18 *
Would love to jump on Vherf sometime, been way too long and now I can head out to the garage and have a smoke while I work on the bike and Vherf with some of y'all... I am off work Fridays and Saturdays now.
Brett
LOL yes new addy but no won't be sharing it, I haven't been around for a long time and haven't been in the mix sending anything either, no reason for anything to show up for me as I haven't been participating and that isn't kosher to get but not give, so not playing in the reindeer games as of now
Brett
Brett
Addy up buckeroo.
Family slaps family around.
That is how it is and that is how it always shall be and you're the little brother in this family, so take your punishment and smile about it.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Something like, "I'm sorry I went away and I'm sorry you don't know my addy now" :P
Brett