I am VERY remiss in not getting this out sooner.

I was recently gifted some very cool swag from Millerized. If you are of the Patriot Persuasion, he should need no more introduction.

A very cool and VERY talented guy.

He sent me some customized Bottle Openers that he engraved with the BustedKnuckles.net logo.

He told me they don’t cost a whole bunch and it doesn’t take him very long to knock them out.

I didn’t really notice the extra K in Bustednuckles until after I emailed him my thanks but that’s fine, it’s very common for people to not notice that I spell it a bit different and thankfully he just sent me a few samples.

Damn nice of him to even think about me in the first place.

I am quite honored!

He has an engraving business and he makes custom guitar stands but he says he can do custom engraving on just about any dang thing.

Here is a small sample of his guitar stands.

This is what he says he can do,

” Engraving nearly anything anyone can think of. Motorcycle parts, firearms, cutlery. Hell, did a Marine officers sword many years ago.”

So if you have something you would like to doll up with some custom engraving, Miller is your guy!

I’m still toying with the idea of ordering a batch of these bottle openers, they are really pretty inexpensive but it’s the giant can of worms of mailing them out that is causing me to hold my fire.

It’s not like I don’t already have a thousand things clamoring for my time.

But anyway,

Thanks again Millerized, sorry it took me so long to give you the Shout Out you deserve for thinking about me and for being a Stand Up Guy.

(Lol, pun not intended)

It saddens me to announce that the Grumpy Old Bastard across the street has kicked the bucket.

Chuck would have been 87 in April so it’s not like the old fart didn’t live a full life.

I had known he was in poor health for a while, I think the last time I got to talk to him was around Thanksgiving. Then me and the wife were sick for most of December and come to find out something kicked his ass around the same time.

He wound up with a UTI, fucked around with that long enough for it to go into sepsis and that was the beginning of the end. The last time I saw him besides the day they hauled him out on a stretcher a couple of weeks ago was a glimpse of him sitting in the front room on Christmas day, watching his Granddaughter open presents when I stepped out to have a smoke.

The sepsis caused blood poisoning and fucked up a replacement valve in his heart and fucked up his kidneys. When he went into the hospital they did a bunch of MRI’s and discovered he had lung cancer on top of all of it and it had gone into his brain.

Of course he didn’t smoke.

At that point the pill pushers threw up their hands and they moved him into hospice. That was two weeks ago, I just now talked to his ex wife and she told me he had passed away last Sunday.

I am pretty bummed.

He was basically the only one in this neighborhood I would talk to and he used to tell all the stories guy’s his age like to tell.

We had a few things in common like wrenching on old shit and for his age he got around pretty damned good. Kept his lawn mowed and his bushes trimmed, did his own oil changes and all kinds of shit.

I was already missing the old fart but now I’m double sad because I didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye.

His daughter sold his car before he was even dead and now they are wanting to get rid of his 93 Dodge 3/4 ton 4X4 with 113k on it that he kept up pretty good.

I seriously considered buying it until I just went and spent damn near $90 to fill up the old Chevy.

That Dodge 4X4 would eat me alive as a daily driver.

Just pricing a set of tires for the thing would give me sticker shock so I’m going to give that one a pass.

He already gave me a bunch of his old tools that I cleaned up and put away so I will always have something to remember him by.

Rest In Peace old man, you can be glad you are going to miss the Shit Show coming down the pike.

Because this is the kind of shit he seems to deal with on a semi daily basis.

Even though he’s not a Chrysler/Jeep kinda guy.

Because they are ALL like this now and HAVE BEEN for the last thirty years, at least.

You can also be assured that I agree with every word this guy says.

Warning, there is real pissed off mechanic language here.

In which I am extremely fluent as you well know.

Because of shit like this.

BTW, he’s so mad that he keeps saying he can’t take the valve cover off when he means cylinder head.

The valve cover is up on top and easy to get off.

I’m sure you are well aware of the ecological disaster currently unfolding in Ohio.

I’m not sure if everyone is really comprehending the scope and the ramifications of what is happening though.

You may have seen this picture that gives you a pretty damn good idea of how big it is but be aware, that was early on.

Here’s a view from altitude, Chinese Balloon type altitude,

It even LOOKS like a malevolent, cancerous sore.

This gives you and indication of where the bulk of it is heading.

That was LAST WEEK.

Government officials keep insisting that everyone can return to their homes and that the drinking water is safe.

Let me ask you something after watching the government over the last 3 years.

Do you actually believe these lying motherfuckers?

I sure as fuck wouldn’t.

Let me put it this way, when I started seeing pets and livestock dying I would have been gone immediately.

Fuck, everything, bye.

Just for fun, the stuff they burned, Poly Vinyl Chlorate is one of the most vicious cancer causing chemicals on the planet.

Take a look at this picture again,

Every bit of that is eventually going to come back to earth somewhere.

Literal truck loads of it have already blanketed a huge area, has gotten into the rivers and coated miles and miles of farm land.

This is in my opinion, the biggest ecological disaster to ever hit the Mainland United States.

The effects of this are going to manifest for generations.

Meanwhile, the finger pointing and ass covering is more frenetic than two horny

ferrets trying to fuck inside a Pringles can.

All of which is doing exactly Jack Shit to help anybody.

It’s exactly like somebody said, they just nuked that town.

And SEVERAL other states.

Once that shit got up into the air and the wind caught it , EVERYBODY around is going to be hosed.

Not to mention it’s in the waterways now.

This is going to make The Love Canal look like a mud puddle before this is all said and done.