I'm a grandpa

[RayTheRat]

Nancy and I send our best, Ray -- especially considering that you took the time while sick and anticipating the birth -- to drop us a note about our mundane request for help with the new printer.

Best wishes to Mom and Dad and Josie and even you, old fella.

Thanks, Jon.  Wasn't much difference between feeling lousy in bed and feeling lousy at the keyboard, once the worst of the symptoms were past.  So I figgered I might as well do something constructive.
I hope the info I gave ya helped out a bit.  Yer gonna send me wonna them Xmas cards, right? 

Grandson gettin a driver's license, huh?  I bet he's got his eyes on them fancy wheels and motor scooters of yers. 

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Generations change, Ray.  My daughter just called to say that he passed (Hooray!) -- and also to report that he's not very interested, at all, in driving.  Dang -- certainly not my grandson.  I remember being stopped by a guy from town that passed me and my dad as I was driving the old Plymouth one day -- the guy stopped 'cause he could barely see me sitting in the driver seat I was so short.  Heck -- I was ten or eleven at the time.  Dad drove home -- I was kinda nervous that the guy was going to bust me to the cops and I'd never get a license after that.

I'll tell you the card story later.  Best to the family.

[floydjer]

Congrats Ray, Being a car guy, I can tell you those come standard with constant flow- variable intake and free flow exhaust. And a really loud sound system.

[theazoldcrow]

  Congratulaions Mr. Ray!   Those Grand kids are the blessings us old farts are given when life seems to be slowing down.......They speed it up again for us!   Glad Mom and Grand Daughter are fine.    Bless them!    crow.

[Milwaukee Midget]

I've been called a lot of things in my life, but "Grandpa" ain't one of 'em.

Congratulations, Ray. 

[Stainless1]

Ray, what is Josie's middle name? 
Caroline... JCB... sponsorship maybe... 
Anna.... JAB... she will be better off with a good left hook....
Olivia... JOB... now there's a worker
Isabel... JIB... make a good sailor....

Congratulations Ray, when you get some pictures and maybe a little more data, post it up.

[Bville701]

Congrats Ray!!!!     

[Peter Jack]

Congratulations Ray, to you and your daughter. If you work at it you can be a very effective bad influence in a good way! My daughter rides sport bikes and she's got her kids racing karts. She works on her own stuff too.

Pete

[RayTheRat]

Again, thanks for all the kind comments.  I'll just try to address a couple of 'em real quick:

Floydjer: While your analogy is apt, I'll mention that since this is a grand child....well, been there and done that.  For the last 31 years, I've been waiting for a chance to tell my son, "NOW can you understand what you put me and your mother, through?"  (He had colic for 13 months and I thought I was gonna die from lack of sleep.)  But I may only do it if he starts complaining...and in a gentle way.

Crow: Thanks for the blessing.  That means a whole lot to me.  Mebbe you and I will camp in the same location as we did in 08 and I can explain the depths of my statement.

Stainless: Nice acronyms.  I'll have to check on the middle name.  As soon as I get a photo or one appears on Desiree's blog, I'll post it.

Y'all have a great turkey day, k?

[theazoldcrow]

 Ray,,,,,,,see you in 2010!   Happy Thanksgiving!  ( Probably pretty special thanks this year, huh?)   Crow.

[DavidinDurango]

Dang, Ratman!

Don't you know that granpaness will affect your dating life?  I usually tell women that have achieved that status that I couldn't be seen associated with them becasue it might harm my reputation.

What should I do now?  tell them, Yes he's a grandpa but he's my friend?

All the best, my friend.

"never date a woman more than 1/2 your age" (not the only thing contributing to my "social" life)

[RayTheRat]

What means "dating life?"  Don't need no wimmins in my life at this time.  I've had enough.  Don't need no mo'. 

[Freud]

Probably can't get no mo.

FerD

[Glen]

The truth is he is to old to train and don't have the ambition to try and train a women, which is probably smart.

[DavidinDurango]

Amen.

The truth is he is to old to train and don't have the ambition to try and train a women, which is probably smart.