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Okay, so tonight I did something that I have never done before. I went to a monster truck show. I know it is kind of a rednecky, white trashy kind of thing to do... but I had a good reason. We took our students, and it was just as much fun to watch ten kids who have been at each others throats for the last couple of weeks... open up, let loose and have a good time with each other. Just what the doctor ordered. The show was just okay until the second half when they brought out the shell of a school bus and several junk cars and lined them up. It was time for the freestyle part of the show. "Lone Eagle" came out first... a Dodge ram painted like the American flag. He did a few jumps and then flirted with the idea of jumping over the junk car heap. He was just teasing us! Then came time for Maximum Overdrive. As he jumped around the arena, we all wondered along with the announcer... "Will he be the first to try the school bus... let's tell him what we want ladies and gentlemen. Say it with me... THE BUS...THE BUS." He lined up with it several times and then chickened out at the last moment. Finally, the time had come. It was now or never. There were still five other trucks that had to do their thing. For "Maximum Overdrive"... it was time to poop or get off the pot. He lined up with it... revved his engine a couple times... started towards the heap slowly. It looked like he was going to lose his nerve and go around again. And then suddenly... he gave it hell!! The engine noise was deafening. He hit the heap... the front end went up in the air. The monster truck was in the air... vertical!!Just Hanging over the school bus for what seemed like several minutes. The crowd started to jump to their feet. by the time we were all standing, "Maximum Overdrive" came smashing down on the bus... still vertical!! The front wheels came down, and the truck bounced over the other side of the bus, almost tipping over. The crowd cheered and "Maximum Overdrive" came sliding to a stop. He sped around the arena and took a victory drive in front of the grand stand. waving to an adoring crowd. No matter what else happened for the rest of the show, nothing beat that moment. "Maximum Overdrive" was the king. He had us at "Hello... school bus." So... call me redneck, but I had one hell of a good time.

"Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart."
-- Jesus (1st century), Jewish teacher, prophet, Son of God, the Savior

Just got back from a little family get together. Actually Lisa's fam... I just realized something, I can't drink any alcohol in the afternoon apparently. It wrecks me. Headache from hell. Nothing to do now but head to the pool. Shrinkage or not. It's not too bad actually. Just a little on the cool side, but once you get used to it, it's great. It's so much fun to watch the kids in the pool. It's more fun watching them than it is to swim. It's funny how priorities can change in the course of a person's life. I never thought I would value someones life or happiness more than my own. Such is life I guess.

"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
-- Albert Einstein

I have spent the morning being very lazy. Just watching tv and sitting at the computer. On the subject of tv, by the way, I would like to admit a guilty pleasure that I have been enjoying for the last couple of weeks. Don't tell anyone... but I have been watching and enjoying "The West Wing". It is showing in reruns on Bravo now. It is a complete lib fest, but for some reason I find it entertaining. Surprisingly it hasn't incensed me like I always thought it would... Yet.
anyhoo... This was Shamus' last day of school. We are heading over to Grandad's house to celebrate by working on our tan and seeing who is brave enough to swim in the not quite full... colder than a well diggers ass... pool. Cowabunga!!

Just got back from work. Thank God I am starting a new job that isn't retail sales! This was a Friday night on a Thursday. I always said the freaks come out on a Friday night when you work at a music store. They were out in force tonight. My favorite was Mr. "I don't believe in personal space", who never got more than 1 inch away from my face the whole time he was in the store. I could probably write a book about retail customers. My alltime fave is probably the person who comes in and says... "I'm looking for this cd... I don't know what it's called and I'm not sure who recorded it". And then they give me a blank look like I'm gonna know right away what it is. Next time someone does that, I'm gonna say... "oh yeah, I know who you mean, that's a great album". And then walk away. Oh well, it could be worse... I could have been working at a fast food place for the last two years.

I guess I am a blogger now. I really just wanted to post a response to my friend Seth's homage to my BD, but I can't without becoming a damn blogger. We'll see how it goes.
I don't have anything inspiring to say today, all my creativity for the day has been squeezed out of me by my kids. Maybe tomorrow.