I am a giver, I like to think that I will pitch in where needed. I try not to hit up too many for anything.
However, I think this cause that my friend Don Allan is running is very worthwhile.
Here is a note from Don. If you can help, that would be great….
Thanks for taking a minute to read this,,,,, AND thanks to all of you that helped out last year. All the kids and parents @ Point Allerton CG Station could not believe that all of us as a local group got together and helped their families out the way we did last year…As you know I hate to ask anyone for anything, but, this in my cause and I really believe in what these guys and girls do.
Christmas in approaching FAST and I wanted to get a head start on collecting and buying gifts for all the kids at the station….In total this year we have 16 children 10 yo and under. We only have 2 kids in diapers this year.
2 girls 10 yo
1 girl 9 yo
3 boys 7 yo
1 girl 6 yo
2 girls 5 yo
1 boy 5 yo
1 girl 4 yo
2 boy 3 yo
1 girl 3 yo
2 girls 1 yo
ANYTHING, ANYTHING, ANYTHING you can do is so appreciated. These guys and girls of our armed forces that keep us safe in the Boston Area do not make a lot of money and most of the coasties that have children of these ages are just getting their careers started and really struggle financially. If you can pick up a toy, or a sweatshirt, an outfit or diapers and wipies…ANYTHING or send me 5 or 10 bucks I will insure that every coastie kid has a great Xmas….If you get them a gift please get a hold of me and I will pick it up or just drop it at my garage.. I would like to see it done annonimously as everyone I send this email to will be on the card. So whether you send something or not they will know that you got this email and as my friend, thought of them.
Thanks so much,
Don
183 Whiting Street Hanover ma 02339
don@allankitchens.com
You are all awesome… I sent this just a couple hours ago and have 22 responses already.
I failed to mention. My garage is at 183 Whiting St Hanover. It is the corner of Whiting St and Homestead.. you enter my driveway from Homestead. The house is cream yellow with a Large unattached garage with 3 garage doors and a regular people door all green in color on the right. The people door is always open and you can drop items off there. The address to send a donation is the same
Don Allan
183 Whiting St.
Hanover MA. 02339
I can not thank you all enough for your response……….
Thanks
Don
If you could help our servicemen and woman, it would be great.
Got up at 6 and met the limo @ 7:30 Dennis Clarke picked us up. What a great guy. we went to his house and got the tailgate party. booze beer and fried chicken, along with the lounge chairs and the nerf football. Dennis had it all set up.
The drive was 6 hours, we did not start drinking till 11:00 AM. That is about when the cobwebs from the night before ended.
We went through and stopped at the Hoover Dam, we went through the-mountains, and miles and miles of desert. At one point, you see nothing but the caballero cactus. It is really beautiful.
We stopped at a country diner to piss and met this crazy redneck lady. Got a slice of pizza. I think we may have been the only customer of the day. Why eat pizza in the desert. I will tell you why. it was friggin freezing. it was intermittent rain, sleet and snow.
got to the game at 1:30. we connived our way into the best spot right next to the stadium in a $300 lot. We did not have to pay either. Dennis is smooth.
And then
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Our hearts were broken………….
after the game, Craig was bullshit and it took us some time to calm him down. We got out of the stadium in 3 minutes. I swear we were the first ones gone.
We decided to drown our sorrows in booze. we drank all the way back. we got back to Vegas at !:00 decided to stay up till 5:30 when we took a limo to the airport.( compliments of Dennis) . WE played craps and drank till 4:00. By my calculations, that was like 15 hours. Jr had another great roll on the table and won everybody some more money.
12 hour flight home ugghh.
Game analysis later when I get through my therapy sessions and I can talk about the game.
WOW what a day. we go to the casino, and hit a slot machine for $25,000. the hotel put us up in their luxury suite, and had three girls come to our room. Jr could hardly keep up. The hotel is sending us to the Super Bowl in a helicopter to be a guest in their box. jessica simpson, Jay Z, and Donald trump will be with us.
HAHA End of the dream sequence………………….
what really happened was that we got up played some roulette, won a little, we walked around and did some shopping and visited a few hotels we had not seen before. we met up with my bro and my nephew at the palazzo. we had lunch and drinks, and then went to the carosel bar @ Harrahs. great time. That is the bar, where they spin the bottles and do other bar tricks. we drank a few yards of whatever.
later we went back to the Mirage where Jr played craps for the first time. His first time with the bones, he had the dice for twenty minutes. we made enough money on that roll to cancel the rental car and get a limo to the game.
after a terrible dinner at the Samba ( a brazilian steak house) note to self- never again. we took Jr to the spearmint RHINO for his 21st birthday. Problem was that the guy at the door figured out that he does not turn 21 till next week. so we were turned arround and sent on our way. that saved me some cash.
I went back to the room and was in bed before midnight.A symptom of my age. Jr went out with the young guys to some clubs. He can save that for his blog
VIVA LAS VEGAS ! What goes on in Vegas Stays in Vegas! unless you have a blog.
The pats are 12 point favorites out here, I like the pats by 21. Lots of Pats fans out here. You cannot find a Giant fan anyplace. they are in hiding.
Ok here we go.
i worked till 3 and Jr went to school
we were flying out at 7:30, but i was so jiggy, I had to get to the airport at like 4:30
Note to self-do not ever eat at familigia in the airport again.
watched mr woodcock in the waiting area. note to self-next time just watch the first 5 minutes
on the plane i met an agent from belmont. quoted some stuff in cambridge for him. now i can write off the trip haha.
JR met some guys from New hampshire. We all did our part to drink every last drop of beer and booze the plane had. we even drained first class. i was hammering the Amerillo at the end. Overall it was a looooong flight.
In Vegas we met the funniest ( bigoted and racist cab driver) EVER, his card read :
I AM WE TOD
DID I AM SOFA
KING WE TOD DID
702-809-8914
Went to mirage, had 2 rediculously large sandwiches from the Carnagie deli.
Played Craps. won like 3 hundo. met a funny guy from NC. went to bed at 5:00AM eastern time. serious acid reflux. More tommorow.
Please take this post as a place to stop by and get informed and mostly amused. I hope to add some of my daily thoughts on a a million different issues. Like my personality, it should be all over the place. Adult ADHD has secured that for me. sit back and enjoy. thanks to Damian for his help, and to my two wingmen Artie “the one man party” and Mike
I am off to vegas with Monty Jr. we are going to spend a couple of days in Vegas and then head south for the Big Game on Sunday.
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