Here is my old posts on the Nutri-sysytem site, back when I had hope of 1 day losing weight thru proper eating and possibly using NS to it, since Dan Marino was the spokesman for it.


http://boards.members.nutrisystem.com/search.php?searchid=1219401


it may bring up 1 old thread of mine

and my blog there

http://members.nutrisystem.com/Community/MyPage.aspx?UserID=4932349


see ya

Okay another work day that seems to be a day I wish I stayed home, but maybe just maybe I may make 25.00 today, if lucky, and that is for a 12 hour shift, wow 2.00 an hour.

Anyone have a job out there for me, I work for super cheap wages, PM as they say...lol

Tuesday

Nothing to report other than the same old shyt, sadly...today was not too great at work, still hoping for better days ahead as I try nites next week Mon-Wen, or after the 4th I mean, still 2 weeks away I guess, maybe more money will be there, but still not that much, so soon I guess going back on the raod is in my future for too many reasons, dang it

Monday in Saratoga

It seems that finding out about being homeless soon was a big time blow to me psyche and has thrown me for a loop scrambling on what to do if the scenario comes sooner than expected, as my earning have barely been enough to keep up with my bills, nothing left over to save and put away, sadly.

I will need to keep watch now for someplace, but with track season upon us that will be impossible now at a reasonable price, yet I may still be able to get thru track season, I hope , but then I need to acknowledge my house will be sold and I will have to leave, as it seems house's in Saratoga are selling again, and I do mean alot of them all over, trust me on this I see the sold signs on them now where before they sat all last summer and thru the winter, but now they are selling like hotcakes again, and our house is a great property for investment, for under 400k you get almost 4 huge size lots , right next to the hospital, with great potential for just leveling everything and rebuilding 4-8 pieces of property for a a few hundred thousand easy enough , we are 2 blocks from the hospital and across the street from the country club, heck even if 1 built 3 houses on the property, for 250k or so it would be a quick profit, so I am going to be homeless soon, for sure.

Any idea's anyone, of course not no one reads this blog, except a few people who I talk too regularly anyway, maybe back into the truck and over the road , but my OSA may prevent that too, we'll see.

As you in the picture this is about 1/2 the property's size , pretty big for downtown Saratoga

Sunday, no rain yet

It seems that I want a convertible because I keep leaving my window down to get my seats all wet, car now smell of mildew, really smelly, any Idea's on how to deal with this, other than keeping windows up?

Today I volunteer at BEST, but must use my car today as the van is down for awhile, so I may start earlier than usual, and hope the smell does not bother my passenger's too much.

It also seems I may be homeless again soon and that will be scary again, as the house I am in is being sold, but this time it seems that we finally have some serious buyers and no telling how long it may be before I am booted to the street, and I have no saving and no plan of attack on where to go, either, life may get very hectic soon, and yes maybe before Saratoga Gets here too, so I may miss it again, great...something else on my mind to worry about, how do you not worry about this and stress over it, wouldn't you if you could be homeless any day...of course you would, and yes people I been looking but it is Track Season now, there is nothing and I have nothing, ( money 0 FOR 1ST, LAST AND DEPOSIT,) so yes I am stressed out again, dag nabbitt, just when things were trying to settle down a bit... life kicks in again, oh well , God Bless the fact I woke up today, and he will help me with all else, so why should I worry, right??

Saturday and raining all nioght and looks like all day too

It seems that I must work driving the truck today from 1pm to 1am , so I must get ready to go , because I had other plans today, but must be ready to go by noon as I must drive north to South Glens Fall to get the truck, about 2o some miles to SCA. But work instead of spending is okay I guess, I do need the money, when 1 is not even a Thousandaire yet , then you need the money, man that's funny, and sad too, oh well enough today, gotta go


Picture is more from the herd called LR, schooling at the gates

Getting ready for a little gate training Thursday morning, but no Linda Rice this morn, but plenty of her horse's, some even seem a little nervous , if you can believe that, amazing to watch.  Today is an off day and most likely a wet one too, which means like always I sit around the house and do nothing, sad but true, even with the big Equestrian event and the Jazz festival in town this weekend , I sit at home, help help help help help help me please

2 Pictures equal 2000 words, wow this was easy...

Me and my old truck

Today is a copy from another post, but I think relevant to my life so here it is

 

Today's picture is a smile from God, please enjoy

Yes Mike it seems that on the weekends and track season Taxicabs from over 100 miles away come here to work illegally and they get away with it, while year round City Licensed cabs get screwed over, but hey this is a dog eat dog world and well it is what it is, still a night cabbie does better when the summer season comes, period.

I want to thank you all for your posts, I do love horse racing , would love it better if I was winning more, of course, and I have some of the best teacher's, and a pretty dang good mentor too, and we will have the Spa season to turn things around, but it seems that even now we are preparing to rather enjoy the meet more than beating the meet, thou winning is in the plan this year.

Mike I am looking into trying to get on out at the new Plant and put in 23 applications so far and nothing back yet, I think it will be a New York style of hiring and that comes down to who you know, and I , well know no one there of influence, yet...never give up.

Now as far as changing my jobs situation , I am always looking and thou my skill set and age make it a bit difficult to convince someone I am right for the job, that does not stop me from bombarding people all the time, and on my blog I mention just a few entrepreneur idea's that I have but with 3 failed businesses' and my credit not too good because of it , I keep trying and again never give up, but reality is getting tougher these days and to be honest I am beating a bigger wall than ever before.

Some of my dream retirement job were

1. a Bait shop in south Florida, near Gulfstream park of course

2. Own 3-4 Lincoln town cars , an lease them to a established car service

3. Buy 2-3 vans and also sign them on to a cruise ship shuttle service

4. Buy 1-2 Medical wheelchair vans for medical appointment transportation

5. Open a Chicken Teriyaki Restruant or 3 or 4 of them

6. Open a driver service company, providing jobs to certified drivers, and this would be for all types of driver

7. Hot Dog Carts in some choice spots and also a few Home Depot's and Lowe's, like there are in other parts of the country

8. Real Estate Management , location and development, as well as finding a rebuilding older homes. Buying land for apartment development and Mobil Home Park development

9. T-shirt marketing and fund raising , yes profits are allowed when money for charity is being raised , and I have a few great idea's, but no money to start up, even have the Charities signed on, but no venture capital

10. Put in a Papa Johns here in Saratoga, easy money, look at what we got


So you see there is a mind here trying to do things, but the money to start up is too hard to get, even the SBA now wants perfect credit scores of 800 or so, I've never had and may never have a 800 credit score, me I am low 600's , was up to 700 once but then well life happened..but that is another story.

So winning at the horse was an easier thing than what I am trying to do with other parts of my life, and the start up was less, so I need it to be fun again and refocus myself too, but time will tell...

Sunday

Why do this anymore , is anyone really reading this stuff, I think not

Opportunities

Not sure how many read this post but I think it may be 2 people me and my Mentor, and yes maybe Dave too as he seems to find time to do everything, amazing really, I could learn alot from that guy.






Now I have a few idea's but absolutely no money to follow thru with them , and was afraid that maybe others will take them from me and make money, but then okay why not.

 I was hoping to make a PINK DAY at the track for Breast Cancer, but finding Pink POLO Shirts is not the problem, the problem is not getting Susan G Komen to jump on board, as I have contacted them, now settling on the percentage was not yet discussed as I am in this to do 2 things donate and make money, but so much can be done, until it comes times to pay for the inventory needed to make this happen, as NYRA and Stewart's and area eateries and pubs would help, who doesn't like to help this charity, except no funds available, so what then.

Also I have a ton of pictures that I see being sold for 75.00 or more some up to 500, I could sell them for less and not sure the how really, but my little camera does take awesome pictures, and you only need a few nice prints to sell, just another idea.


 Then there is Chicken Terayaki place like out west in the Seattle area, places like these
http://www.teriyaki-madness.com/index.html    and or this one
  Happy Teriyaki

"I LOVE THIS PLACE! My family and I have been going to Happy T 11 for YEARS, and it has yet to disappoint! I don't live in Puyallup anymore, but when I come home I get at least 3 orders of Tonkatsu and Chicken Teriyaki to take back home to the east coast. ..."‎ ‎ - Dec 15, 2010 

 

It would be nice to do this here as I am sure people would love it, but money is not here 

~~~Hi Lord ~~~

Simple but true.

Hi Lord, its me.

We are getting older and things are getting bad here.
Gas prices are too high, no jobs, food and heating costs too high.
I know some have taken you out of our schools, government and even
Christmas, but Lord I'm asking you to come back

and re-bless America .
We really need you!

There are more of us who want you than those who don't!
Thank You Lord,
I Love you.

A day off and what will I do with it

The neon shirts of Linda Rice's workout rider's, signs of how well the mind of the woman works, she wanted to see her horse's and workers more easily and well now she can, just 1 of the many reason's she is one of the best in the business, and it seems to me this year she has a huge army of horse's under her control, I may be wrong but each day many neon shorts are on the track each day, up a dozen at a time it seems, maybe less but ...

Well a little shopping today and maybe a few applications made too, a food bank visit, and a drive around a for few yard sales if the rain holds off ?

Later I will do some filtering and studies too, but then a post or two to irk a few here and there, naw just kidding, a question or two needs answer , that's all. Ok shopping and scratches need to be done now, more later today , maybe..

Okay after a day of being up and down I will just post that I am still a little down, and well I think the reason may be lack of active friends, yes friends who I actually do things with, of which I have almost none, sad when I look at it that way, but honestly I only have people I know from the Laptop, online , and of course my co-workers, but there is no mingling among us, any of us outside of work, yet...I am dying of loneliness and yet I have job where I meet tons of people everyday, yet nothing goes further than work only.

I been to the OTB here at the Harness Track 3 times , since the Flat Track closed last Sept, why, no reason that I can come up with, if I went more often no telling how many people I could have met by now that do what I love, but I been here a year and how many do I know, now, NONE AT ALL, sad it is.

I do volunteer at the track now and the people I am getting know do not speak English, most of them, and they are deep within the track where I could not go anyway, grooms and hotwalkers, etc..so they are not likely to invite me to lunch, nope.

I managed to stay out of Church and yet I went to a few and felt unwelcome  there  sadly enough, it just did not make me feel comfortable and this would be a vital part of y balanced well being, a spirtual well being, and 1 I do need, and I want also, so what is the problem, why again am I not there in a Church by now......why why why

Part II of my earlier Post

Last year this time I picked up two wonderful people who were going on there yearly vacation. We discussed alot of things on the ride to airport, at the time I was living in the Shelter and looking for a place to live, and these two people remember every detail of our ride together, and I did too as we rode to the Airport, where I wished them a very very awesome and wonderful vacation , and I get to think back on if I made any progress from last year till now, and I guess maybe I did.

I have a roof over my head in a house where I lock my own refrigerator because we have a drunken thief living among us, and yes we know who he is, but we can not beat him up or really do anything about it, this is not the old west where we can just shoot him, a thought we all had , but we also know that our lives are not as bad as his, and in time he will be gone from here and hopefully we will be a happy house again.

I now have a car this year , where last year I did not, and I have found a few things about my health and thank God I am not yet diagnosed with Diabetes and or any other thing other than my sleep apnea, which has gotten better, but is there still.

I survived here in Saratoga Springs thruout  the winter working and driving day and night and yet after a year I almost feel a FAILURE, yes I am afraid I kinda do at that.

Over 1 year away from being on the road as a truck driver, living in the truck and getting unhealthier by the day, but here I am a year here in Healthy Saratoga and I am not 100lbs skinnier, or walking over a mile a day, or eating better, I mean really better, being broke is no excuse either to eat healthy, because Biscuits and Gravy are in-expensive and eggs and Ham and other convenient foods, but being around 400lbs still is not to me something to be proud of even thou I was nearly 500lbs, no, being around 300lbs might be something to say was a success, and possibly the Sleep Apnea may go away and walking and excersise may be easier , but they are not easy and chaffing , and other things keep from what I need to do, walking, what excuse do I have, none, well some are , no one to walk with, chaffing if not very careful, feet ache ,  charlie horse's when walking too much, which is not actually confirmed to me, I feel they come from being couped up in the cab all day and no excersise, no friends or support groups, why, because I am a HERMIT, I go no where, as there is a YMCA, for which I got a scholarship for 3 months and still do not go but 5 times, and now I owe 35.00, for which I do not have currently , I will yes but this serves as a excuse not to go. 

Sorry I got carried away looking back on the year I was here, when this about two great people who were my 1st fare to the airport that tipped me and talked to me like a person, and then to have them 1 year later was a blessing for me and them too they said, and yes they too had a rough year but, they made it thru and now will enjoy there hard work for the last year with a 3 week vacation, God Bless them, and me too, but seeing what real people do and then seeing what I have done was kinda sad to me , a silent wake up call to do something soon a s my life is slowly fading away, or so it seems, and I am in a City where spoiled brats and rich people come to play and flaunt what they have to others and I am the one who if they are smart, and most of them are , I drive them around after they drink some, and I am talked to in ways that few people should be, and I just take it in stride not knowing what else to do, it is the life I have chosen to live and until I CHOOSE OTHERWISE, it will continue to be that life I lead...happiness for my friends and sadness for me, and yet I still have the opportunity to become healthier, and find some career to enjoy or a business to open, but no I stay down where I am, like our drunken roommate who is slowly ruining his life, but I am not so drastically ruining mine, but then, yes I am kind'of.

I better stop before another book is written, take all and if my friends read this enjoy your vacation tremendously, you earned it, remember that please, and some day I will earn it too, that is my hope, a goal set in the future someday to accomplish..yeah right, later

I have a awesome cab driving story to tell you about two people I picked up this morning, nothing but a nice statement about two people I picked up last year, gotta go now more later.

This people is what I want to do with my life, chase this beautiful fish all over the world and keep only the ones I eat, and release the rest. They are in practically every Ocean and pretty reasonably caught, besides being delicious to eat, what can a man want, other than a winning horse pick now and then.

I have class tonight and still have not got caught up to where I should be, no not from not doing my homework , no, but from not understanding what is in front of me and the too much OOP's and mathematical equations and constantly switching from 1 hrse in one race to the 2nd or 3rd horse in other races but never really explaining the WHY BEHIND IT, ??

But it is my hope in time it will come to me as I have them copied and watched the classes a few time each already and well it seems a few more will be needed to say the least.

Here is what I do understand- I hope , not necessarily in order

1. keep very good records of you wagers

a. of the race type, results, confidence level, track,
b. keep track of how your contenders and non-contenders are doing
c. also if you wager on only a few contender's , keep track of how your passed on contenders' do
d. learn form this info on how to wager more wisely

2. here is where I get kinda confused, as the wagering process is presented to us
a.  decide what odds you are willing to play your contender's and how low you are willing to go, 2-1 , 3-1, or 7/2  and then stick to it
b.  also set odds on your natural odds, to me your overlays that are considered to be longshot contender's, and limit your play here but do not miss the opportunity when it arises, here your records will help you, somehow, but I am unsure about that part
c.  It also states that you can bet low odds horses and win too, but for me I can not , and did not see how I could do it regularly and I did not have an OOP thingy to help me decide when to play low odds horse's

Okay dinner is calling more later but , this was to give a synopsis of my learnt stuff from the class so far, learnt ain't a word I guess, but then I am not not too bright myself, but each day I am getting brighter, and slower too.

A new week , June 13th

 Well nothing like a beautiful sunrise to get you up and going so get up....




Well I hit the Belmont winner, but really nothing else due to insufficient funds to wage a proper assault on the day, like an exacta wheel, which woulda paid , for a 1.00 about 450 or so, as I did not have the 2 horse or 5 horse on my radar, yet the 3 was my standout, and I trusted it and only wheeled it to the 1/6/9/10/12 , oh well I am still fine tuning my new tool as my older one is on hold  for now, except for testing and a few filter studies, and demographic's being run and it looks like a few nuggets are being mined , but only time will tell.

It seems that there may have been a Live Play associated with my BOW classes and I was not invited, but maybe they taped it and I am able to see again after the fact, of how someone else wins money betting horse's, but you must have an OOP, lol.
I think  I am again on the wrong end of a paid for class that went over my head or was not meant for me to begin with, yet there is 1 more week to go, but it seems that I may have wasted my hard earned money again, but let's not call it a waste yet , as I believe I have eah class on video and maybe get the time to go over them more slowly 1-3 more times , as I can say the first time thru was not connecting to my brain waves too well, kinda seems to be for someone who wagers big money , and well I do not. My bankroll was recently blown on some session plays that went bad quickly, way worse then when you go out to Vegas and wish to sit down at a Pai-Gow table and play for a few hours, but instead, you lose your money within a few hands and you feel robbed of your entertainment experience for the evening, and yet you did not sit down expecting to win big, just to be able to play for a few hours, well my Session play went like that, whammo, all gone before I could wink my eye, that people is real horse playing, from someone who spends too much trying to learn and not quite getting it, but yet I do have a great Mentor and he is helping me, and with his help I believe I am getting closer to winning, I truly do, till then my path is well unsure a little, but maybe I an smooth it out and try planning ahead for one, instead of stumbling thru with no rhyme or reason, this summer will tell alot about my future...

Sunday, day after, what could'a been

Yes today is a great day, as I woke up with no pain or aches, yet...lol, but today I am getting out again and cashing the tickets I got from my wp bet on Ruler , but RDSS gave me the #3 on top and , well I just trusted the program because of a few variable were in place, the major one being the fact I was able to use the 1st Paceline for each horse, thus giving me a great look at them all, and this was the same for many race s thru-out the day, of which in those sad to say were only capped races not wagered races, except 5 LS wagers for 2.00, of which I hit 3, well 1 was at Monmouth, 2 at Belmont, and then there was the 5th race where I had all 4 horse's and could have crushed this race, and made over 20k or so, but instead , maybe someone else did as I posted my picks on the PA board, and guess I hit 8 out 13 at Belmont and 8 out 12 at Monmouth, not too bad.

I still need help with the modeling I am doing at RDSS, but after asking I got no one willing yet, a few nice replies but no one willing to email a few times about this or that, so I will keep emailing the Big Kahuna, but try to keep it limited to a few most important questions, as sometime a search does not find what you are looking for, but mostly it does, but sorting thru it may take a few days for me, like horse for course scenario's, when power moves or trouble trips are worth noting and when they should be dismissed as the horse is just bad, and then there is the "Mind's Eye", which always had me fascinated, but then there is "wagercapping" and how best to make use of this too better my game, and a few pointer's on how best to find eliminate those races I am not good at, as I am writing down each race played, ( let me say I am playing every race on the card as i download only 1 track right now, Monmouth ) and this way I can hopefully do this on my own soon enough

The picture was during the good old days when trucking paid me money, and taking a fishing trip once in awhile could still be done, well 1 day I hope to do this on a more regular basis , and moving to Florida may help me too, wish me luck, please

Rainy Day Saturday

It seems I live in a miserable place full of drunks and  1 druggie, why because I can not afford anything better yet, both of which I do not partake, nor do I smoke , my issue is obesity, lack of excersise, both are things I have made very little progress, but once in awhile I do get out and walk, my eating is better , but still needs work. It seems that I will post some plays on PA board for all to see, these are just handicapping , not actual plays , as I am not able to play lately since I went on a terrible losing streak using a new program feature and lost my bankroll.  I am now trying to rebuild my bankroll for Saratoga, but it seems that i may not make it, we'll see how it goes, as August is a long ways off.

I have cut off my data to 1 program due to funds issues, but have paid the other one up till August, playing only 1 track mostly, but still I am having fun and learning more I hope. It seems last year I was given a golden opportunity to make something happen with my RDSS program and I blew the opportunity bigger than poop blows out a chicken, yep and looking back I can see how totally stupid I was , main reason for failure of this opportunity, was proper communication on my part , and 2 main reason was not following directions other gave me, instead I was stubborn and consistently trying to beat some place I could not and instead of moving on to something I could better at , I stayed put and continued to lose , really smart, oh well , another opportunity blown, hopefully a lesson learned, but was it, truly , have I learned from it.

Friday is here, and I am losing again

Monmouth Friday , and I have hit the Odds on Fav's , but nothing else it seems, so with that I must rethink my strategy and find what I am hitting at and if they are good prices.

Modeling is helping if I can use it properly and not rely on it too much, just use it to help decide when 2 horse's look really close, then I can use it for a tie breaker, maybe...


As you see I am still on the other side of the fence, oh well, it is not that bad actually, this was taken from the inside of the cab, it may be why it not of better quality, sorry.

Hard to believe , but that is Linda Rice sitting on that picnic table, I chose to not take her picture up close out of respect, but next time , why not get closer than this.

One thing about her is she is methodical, yes and her winning is thru hard work and planning, not luck and chance, well maybe a little bit of luck, but honestly she works hard and plans well, some say her "Spa Training Title", was fixed so she could win it, but didn't those horse's have to win the race's they were in, of course they did.

Moral here is her good looks are, well true, but her persistent hard work pays off too.

A misty morning at Oklahoma Track , but that does not stop the workouts, if anything it probably gets more action on the track in the cover of the mist, then again maybe not.

Last night I did Dave's BOW class and I am sorry dave but to me the class had no impact on how I am to become a winning player, yes there was stuff, and more stuff, but the stuff that I think I need is not there....and what may that be, well let try to explain it

1. The first thing I need to do is make sure I pick the horse that can and will win the race, not 4-5 contender's who may win the race, even if they are at sweet spot (7/2 ) or above odds, and still lose the race betting too many losing horse's, even if they were my contender's, as that makes my contender's selection process very flawed then, right.

See how it comes back to being able to narrow down the winner to 2-3 horse's maximum and do so very frequently, which may mean lots of studies and such things like modeling to help me find out what races will allow me to do just that, find my best possible race's to play consistently , like 50k al dirt sprint, or maybe 100k OC dirt.poly route's 4u, but finding this info will be the biggest step to me being a winner instead of a loser most of the time.

2. Then once I do that then the way to wager properly will be more helpful, but until then it is a waste of time if my contender's are not the winner of the race enough times, that said we move on to wagering and record keeping, and man are there so many various ways to do these things...where do I start, actually I will hold off on that for now, as time is getting short for me again.

Dave still it was and is a great class for other's maybe, but for me yet it is not and I do not see how it will make me a better winner, unless I get a better selections process, object/analyst, or what ever may be needed to choose winning contender's more often ,