Quiz time

Ask me any question you want. I’ll answer but I don’t have to answer honestly, but I have to answer. Then you decide which answers are true and which are false.

What fun

Mrs. Thunderfish and I had a really great weekend. Since her horrific experience at Pizza Hut Park trying to see Kenny Chesney and my near bar-room-brawl at Smirnoff Starplex, I took pity on her and said she should really try to see some of her favorite bands outside the Dallas area.

You may mock and jest, but really, it’s almost too hard to see anyone you really want to see for less than a small fortune. On August 18 Pat Green was going to be in Athens, Texas at a rodeo, so I bought tickets – on line no doubt – and we made the trek to Athens on Friday. Athens has about 30,000 people and a Brahm’s.

To give you an idea of what a concert is like in Dallas I’ll post a financial breakdown. Tickets for 2 on the lawn at Smirnoff are usually about $120. Water is $5 and a coke is about $6. Parking is usually $15-$20. Dealing with the drunks is priceless.

Athens is a different story.

First the concert was at the Henderson County Fair Complex.
This is about the location of our seats.

And here was the view of where the stage was.

It’s a very odd feeling when I see Pat perform. Here’s where I drop names. Pat and I were in the same fraternity in college at the same time. He was a goob then and now, but I am really happy he’s doing well.

But back to the concert.

Here’s the financial breakdown. Tickets about $40, parking $2 and drinks 2 Cokes and a water $3. Hmmm, ya, I’ll drive about 80 miles for that price.

The rodeo was not something either of us usually do, but it was fun. And hot. No A/C so it was about 90 degrees in the building.

Not bad. But the best thing happened Monday morning at the Albertson’s parking lot. Check out the slogan for this guy’s company on the back of his shirt. No JOKE!!!

The Trouble Is

In deep contemplation this morning I had the “Ah Ha!” moment to discover that the people who need children don’t have them and the people who have children do not need them. Exceptions abound in this case, but by and large, I think this axiom holds true.

Take for instance your single boss who is not married and has no children of his or her ( in some cases “its own” ). They have loads of money and no sympathy whatsoever for the poor schmoe who has 5 kids; 3 of whom carry around chronic “itis” in some form or fashion. For once, I wish these single boss types could spend 3 years with 3 – 5 year olds to soften not only their views on life but also to decrease their liquor consumption and money flaunting abilities. Seriously …

On the other hand, I wish the trailer-park-trash-over-procreators would find a hobby other than recreational sex with their brother’s wife. In short, Mr. Redneck White Trash, please stop procreating and clogging the toilet of social welfare. Not to say that the poor should not have kids. Hey, if that was true I would have been governmentally sterilized for lack of funds. I am saying if you can’t hold a job, teeth in your head or hold anything more than a Pabst Blue Ribbon at 8:00 AM, please abstain from Wanda in trailor #18 at the Shady Oaks Mobile Home Park.

There was a time when it meant something to bring a child into the world. And there was a time when your boss was more understanding of your family situation. But that’s not today.

The greatest ever

I was wondering this morning about the greatest invention of mankind in the past century. What has really propelled us further than anything else? Computers were supposed to decrease our workload, but instead we do more work than we ever have much faster.

So I moved my attention to the greatest moment in history in the past 100 years. What do you think the most important historical event in the last 100 years has been?

From my shoebox

Did you know there is a folder on my desktop I have labeled “Desktop Junk Drawer”? No, you didn’t. Now you’re informed. It’s where I stash stuff to keep my desktop uncluttered. Let’s rummage around and see what we can find.

Here’s why I think Hope looks like Anne Hathaway.

Oh look here … this is the beginning of one of my favorite sadwiches. I keep a pic on my cell phone of it. Peanut butter and marshmallow and honey sandwich toasted.

This is a panorama of TFM’s back yard. I was bored so I put it together today.

Here are my awesome Journey/Def Leppard seats. To all the drunk 18 year old girls at the show, I hope you got so busted your mommy and daddy never let you leave the house again. I’m never going to a venue that does general admission seating again. Thus our trip to Athens, Texas on August 18th to see Pat Green.

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My wife in her hot black linen dress!

For those of you unfortunates. The summer goodness of Sonic!

Little a goes to the circus

And what a time we had. The story in pictures.

Here we go to get on the TRE ( Ft. Worth’s DART light rail ). From l-r SIL, A, a2 ( green plaid) little a (white hair bow) and BIL. Notice the little girl in pink shoes with her dad in front of BIL. Well, they got the GOOD tickets – the over $100 tickets – and got to go on the floor during the circus and meet people back stage. Probably why her mom isn’t there – becasue they were like $120/ticket. I was so mad at A because the train was going to leave in like 10 minutes and she had to pee. I had to drive like a bat out of hell down the street to the 7-11. Ugghhhh! Well, we made it. SIL and BIL almost didn’t. The train pulled up as I was getting their tickets and they were running to the station.

Little a and A’s first train ride. Mommy’s booty or daddy’s booty? Ya, daddy’s booty.

Little a enjoys time with mommy on the TRE. Every stop was, “Is this the circus?”

Nirvana! Little a enjoyed her cotton candy and A and I ate $12.75 chicken strips. Ya we loaded up on the 3 they gave us.

Before the show you can go to the animal area and see the animals in the show. Here’s little a in front of the elephants. You get a pamphlet that says how humane they are to the elephants which I don’t doubt, but left SIL and I wondering why they branded the elephants with stars if they were so humane. See last couple of pictures.

Camels, but no camel toes.

A2 and little a by the elephants. “Little a, what’s up with you wanting to show people your boogers?”

I have 2 circus memories. At 10 I saw the same circus as a kid. At 19 I dated a 24 year old and we went to the circus a different one. We broke up soon after. It is one of the best shows on Earth – the circus not the 24 year old. There are even dancing girls who we all had questions about after the show.

Seems there is no segregation in the circus any more. Elephants and horses. Horses and zebras ( who are the most ill tamed animals you have seen. They never want to do what’s told. ) Notice the star brands. They mix lots of animals together for shows and it’s very interesting to watch.