And I mean that in a good way!

Last week I tried to write an email in Italian. I had to use Google Translate to help out as a bit of a phrasebook, but I think I got the idea across without too much ambiguity. If you type a whole sentence into it, you get some weird things back that just don't make any sense, but by doing phrases and little snippets and making up the sentences myself as correct as I remember how to, I think it came across OK. I got this response back from my Super Dave Osborne/Evel Knievel cousin Massimo:

"sei stato molto fortunato nell'incidente ma noi Faccin siamo dei duri,mai paura!!!!"

This translates roughly to "you were very lucky in the accident, but us Faccins are hard as nails and afraid of nothing!!!!" This ties in nicely to what I said in a post a couple weeks ago:

"I've heard a few "you're not invincible, you know." To those naysayers, I say this: "I was hit by a car at about 25-30mph while I was doing 20-25mph and more or less walked away from it. I FUCKING AM invincible! Aside from the cuts and scrapes, bumps and bruises, shock and road rash, I didn't have one broken bone, not one fracture. Jesus H Christ, my bones might even be made out of Adamantium for all I know! I'm just waiting for someone to really get under my skin and see if blades pop out of my knuckles! I've already got the sideburns for it!"

Carrying on this tradition, is my cousin Antonio, who's pulling off his best Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson impression:

If this picture doesn't look like it belongs in the dictionary under attitude, then I don't know what. Following along in the footsteps of daredevils like my dad (motorcycle accident scars on his left arm and leg), my cousin Massimo (multiple motorcycle accidents and a spectacular Ferrari crash), my cousin Francesco's car accident, my little brother Tony's escapades and my own multiple road rash scars and permanent bumps, I'm sure Antonio will be leaving his mark on the world soon enough. To get the next gen going, I just found out that I'm going to be an uncle this December to a little boy, tentatively named Anthony, who I'm sure will be an ass-kicker and name-taker as well if his father is any indication. :)