Hi

Have been doing a lot of thinking lately about the jackass. I am nit talking about the donkey / mule hybrid. I am talking about the red-blooded, American made jackass. I was driving to work today and had to stop for gasoline, Now, for those who have never commuted in Las Vegas, you will not understand that this is not a 5 minute process, this is a 15 minute commitment. Not only do you have to break out of traffic, but then you have to somehow, like charging the beaches at Normandy or a salmon swimming upstream, fight your way back into the fold. Sometimes, rarely, you will get the kind person who actually lets you in (then guns around you at their first opportunity). Today was one of those days for me, or so I thought.
I was driving down MLK JR BLVD, NDOT has decided that the free-way entrance just down the street from my house is too convenient, I passed one of the 14 gas stations, 12 churches and Pat’s Chinese Takeout Gas Station and Mini Mart (you think I am kidding, ask AJ and Scooge, ‘You like #6 unleaded with eggroll?’) to my favorite convenience store, Terrible’s Gas and Go. I bought my gas and my morning Amp and was fired up and ready to seize another 106 degree Vegas Day (actually, this morning it was a little cool, so I drove into work with my windows down).
As I pulled into the exit of the station, a man in a pickup truck flagged me in. As I pulled out, he guns his engine, proceeds to give me the bird and just laughs. That is the type of red-blooded American jackass I am talking about. Eventually, I fought my way back in, and in record time, but I was still in shock, that was just CRAZY! Daniel Tosh tells a story in his standup routine about walking by a truck just as it honks its horn, and he was startled. The guy in the truck calls out, ‘queer’ and starts to drive away. ‘What do you say to that kind of a-hole? Apparently he is ready to go to war.’
America is the last bastion of freedom, and God bless this guy for expressing not only his freedoms, but his age and intelligence as well.

I so need adult conversation instead of casino rhetoric.

We will be back in Salt Lake on Saturday the 6th and Sunday the 7th (until about 5PM on the 7th). We are thinking about taking the boys to Lagoon on Sunday from like 11 to 5, maybe you all can join us?

I think I will be seeing the Johns clan this weekend, so that will be fun for a visit!

I think the fall will be beautiful here, and I would love for the family to come down and visit. I think Jayme and Carey are coming in Rocktober, and wow, how cool would it be for more of the family to come and visit? I seriously have two wonderful rooms and bath, plus A LOT of extra space, and breakfast is included (on weekends) in the stay. Come on down to casa Hildebrand. If you are REALLY lucky, you will get a guitar show each night too!

I better go back to work, I am pretty lonely today and needed to talk.