Mike at his best

Mike at his best
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Here I am at my Heaviest back in April 2006.

April Fools joke on Gretchen Wilson

We were Impersonating the Van Zant Brothers

Bethany, Sydney & Darlene

So Darlene wants to cruise in Jan 09. I do too. She has entered into a fitness challenge with me....We will both be posting new photos on Feb 3 2008 to see if we are both serious enough to continue the challenge. We will see.....She says shes competitive. I hope she is. Bikinis & Speedos on the Lido Deck!

Saturday

I got up this morning and went to gym
trained on the ET for 21 min. 1.60 miles
then came home and headed to the gun club for the monthly sporting clays tourney

one more

just got back from gym
30 min elipitical trainer 2.24 miles
some nautilus

Where's the Photo------

The photo will appear again in 12 weeks (APRIL 3, 2008) and for those who saw the infamous photo with that image forever burned into your brain count yourself blessed.

I should not of done it but I got on the scales today and I am already below the 290 mark. All the guru's tell you to only weigh once a week. so i will post actual weight on wednesday morning.

I am on my way to the gym now...Hope everyone has a great day

Darlene stay out of the restaurants at lunch and get to walking.

I must lose some weight

I am 293 lbs now which is unacceptable, I took this photo in October 2007 and I thought I was serious about getting started then....but with the Holidays and all the good food the end of the year brings it did not last very long. So now is the time to do this. My sister-in-law Darlene thinks she can get in better shape than I can by the end of the year. So we have a pseudo side bet of a cruise ticket. We are also planning an alternative redneck version of the Belle Meade Bolt 5k run which will be known as "The Burns Bolt" starts at the 4 way flashing light on Hwy 96 and goes to the quick stop store at the bottom of the hill. Please join us for this on Thanksgiving Morning 2008 no registration required just show up at 9am in your Speedo's and Bikinis. One of my best friends Mark Horne will be officiating The run he has actually competed in some marathons and is well qualified. He is a top lead guitar player in Nashville and has been on Jay Leno & Letterman. One of the highlights of the "Burns Bolt" is a photo op with Darlene & Me and Autographed 8X10's of Mark Horne.


As far as training goes, I went to the gym today and trained for 30 minutes on the Elipitical Trainer and did a few dumbell curls.

I AM ON MY WAY!

ABS BY CHRISTMAS!

I have lost my wife.

Well something pretty funny happened the other night in Raliegh NC. This was at the Rowdy Frynds show during an intermission. I was up on the concourse and I noticed this plastered redneck talking to a security lady. He was exclaiming he had lost his wife and needed help finding her. She asked him to describe her. And his only answer was " SHE's BROWN HEADED!" I died laughin. Then he gave one more piece to the puzzle.....She is wearin a Bocephus shirt and on the back it says "If you don't like Hank Jr. you can kiss my ass" I continued laughin and walked on.

First week behind us!

I am back in Nashville tonight. The weekend was a big success. Had shows in Tampa on Friday the 13th and down in Pompano Beach Fl on Saturday night. Ronnie and myself vended the pompano show. It was fun. One of the more memorable comments. This lady asked me if a large was bigger than a medium. Here's your sign...We leave for Indy Thursday for shows there and then Peoria on Saturday night. Till next time............see pics from the Tampa show here.
http://flickr.com/photos/fishbigfish/sets/72157600085024958/

FIRST SHOW

BIG STAND
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Well we have the first show under our belt. It was a huge success! There is an unbelievable amount of product styles on this tour. 25 shirts 12 Skynyrd, 6 Hank Jr. & 7 for .38 Special. Sales were brisk. Great looking product line. Ronnie & myself finally left the venue at 2:15AM It was late and we drove 240 miles to Atlanta. You get some strange looks when you are checking in on the same day as people are checking out. Then checking out at 2pm and drove 500 miles to Tampa on Thursday. Show in Tampa on Friday the 13th. We are wore out the Penske is no Caddy.

Pickin' up the truck

So it starts....All the simple things that turn out to be Brew Ha Ha's. I call Penske in the morning around 8:30am. And he says everything was Great and he would see me at 10am. So I get dropped off at Penske at 10 and he has no truck. Then 10 minutes later he informs he finds one. So in my own joking way I exclaim, "as long as its not a piece of crap". Then immeadiatly the young lady beside my reservation specialist exclaims "We do not have those here sir". At this time I want to break into one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes when Jerry is at the car rental desk waving his hands in the air saying " You all are great at taking the reservation you just have a problem holding the reservation".(See Video below) but I refrained. So then he points out the truck he has found me.....right outside the door, he tells me it has 69K mikes on it. then I look out the door and see a puddle on the asphalt which turns out to be transmission fluid from the "NOT a piece of crap they were wanting me to take". So NO truck for me. So then my Reservation Specialist informs me he has me a truck 15 miles away. So he has to check another truck out to me so I can drive over and pick it up. Now the silver lining comes I get a brand new truck with only 1100 miles on it. I Love my job.