Happy Easter, Happy Birthday, Reeb Bros

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Happy Easter... and happy birthday to Elizabeth. We also celebrated Audrey's birthday since she will be in Texas for her birthday. JR & Meg are moving to Ft. Worth... UHaul's leaving Merced in one week and this is probably the last party at the Decko's house... at least this one (the next one's up there) Reeb bros! (click here for pics) easter06shot

Also, here's a video of Rae Rae (slow pipes will suffer... 33 MB)

And All I Have To Do Is.... Act Naturally

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Today started as any other March 25th would start... crank up the Elton John tunes! In case you didn't know this about me, I am a huge Elton fan. Today is Sir Elton's birthday (and Aretha Franklin's and Danika Patrick's)... which means I will listen to Elton music for most of the day. Picture 4

I can't bring up my taste in music without mentioning that I am also a huge honky-tonk and classic country fan (the Possum reigns!) and have been a crazy Kiss fan since I was very young.

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Today also brings sad news in the music world. Buck Owens passed away at his home in Bakersfield this morning. Bakersfield, as a city, has a crappy reputation up here in Nor Cal, but as a "sound", Bakersfield is awesome! Dawn and I actually got to sing Happy Birthday to Buck years ago. Well actually, Dawn and I and thousands of others at a Garth Brooks concert. It was a few days after Buck's birthday and Garth asked everyone to be quiet while he called him from a cell phone on stage. Then, 17,000 of us joined Garth and his band in wishing Buck a happy birthday. What a great memory!

Sir Elton, Happy Birthday!

Long live Bakersfield!

Twin Disclaimer

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Rockin' out - Folsom ABCT 2002

If you are not a twin, please do not ask me what it is like to be a twin... that is the same as me asking you what it is like to notbe a twin.  I do not know what it is like... it is just how it is.  The next time you see a twin, don't ask that question.

Just in case you don't know this already, identical twins are not genetic and are caused when one cell is split into two.  The term, identical, as it relates to twins, does not refer to our appearance.  Our similar appearance is a natural by-product of being twins.  Also, since it is not genetic, we have no more chance of fathering twins than non-twins.

No. Mike and I have never tricked girlfriends or wives.  Although, there was one time, years ago, when I just met Dawn, that Mike and went into the men's room at Pizza Hut, changed clothes and then I went and asked Dawn's friend, April, if Dawn liked Matt.  She didn't know right away and gave me the confidence to go after (and some say stalk) Dawn.  You may think that we look so much alike that no one could possibly figure us out however, people we are intimate with can usually tell the difference.

Of course our parents could tell us apart... after all, they have known us a long time.  That is also a stupid question.  If one of our parents called us by the wrong name is was because there were so many kids it was hard to tell.  For years, I thought my name was really MikeKenJrLanceMatt.

Mike could not dress like me and walk into my work and convince people he was me.  He would have no idea where the TPS reports went.  (Let me know if you get that one)

We are not a freak show, but if you want us to entertain you we certainly have several tricks up our sleeves.

Never, ever, under any circumstance, with any cause or not, regardless of manpower, resource or weaponry, pick a fight with a twin.  This goes for almost any twin!  You get in my face, you'll have two twins in yours quicker than you can rub your eyes to do a double-take.    That might not be fair, but that's the way it is.  Mike is my best friend and my brother, and my Mom always told me that I was my brother's keeper.

Yes, we do have "twin power"... I do not know how to explain it, we just do.

To set the record straight, Mike is the older one... by two minutes.

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My womb mate ~ at 60!