Food trucks are great; even better are food truck stops with live music and cheap beer. Nothing like a "build your own" 6 pack for $2.50 a beer/IPA. Pulled pork/Mac and cheese sandwiches are amazing. Life is good. Especially with a good beer.
I got to drive to Los Angeles and back today. On the way down about 40 miles from my destination, traffic stopped dead. It seems a truck had overturned and blocked three lanes of a four lane freeway. Two hours and 4 miles later in 109 degree heat, I got by the overturned truck and completed my mission. Normal traffic coming home but with the delay following through it is now Saturday morning (12:30) I am amped up on Ice tea and it is still 80 degrees. I need that beer.
Just taught my son how to go piss not in his diaper. He pulls out his dick and pisses in my spot in the grass now (two people better than one to keep the hogs away). Maybe I'm not failing at this parent thing after all.
Looks to me like that little fucker is trying to challenge you. You better nip that in the bud real quick or before you know it he'll be drinking your beer, shooting your guns, and screwing your wife.
Jesus. This fucking town. This is how fucking Stepford my city is: out last city council banned food trucks completely in our city (which is bigger than Tulsa) because it would "bankrupt the precious restaurant industry". Yeah. Most people downtown still only get a half hour lunch and don't feel like eating garbage every day, but fuck them. So now they allow them, but this town is so fucking tight-assed about letting normal people have a good time. You can't play amplified live music on patios in this city. FOR FUCK'S SAKE. I just spent a week in Niagara. And in the city of Biagara Falls, every downtown restaurant and/or bar patio has amplified live music. And all those places have people out on the patio, drinking and dancing and having a good time. People LIKE that shit, the weather is nice only six months a year up here. But no, you still can't go ANYWHERE with an alcoholic beverage, you can't get live music on a patio, and a dozen food trucks for half a million people. My town is immaculately clean, safe and normal but fuck did Nett have the right idea getting away from here. Ontario fucking blows. You see here in Canada, out west we have pure beautiful awesomeness. Out east we have pure beautiful awesomeness. And here I am in the Delaware of Canada, getting sandwiched between their asscheeks. At least the Great Lakes are forty minutes north or south of me.
Unless you live in Vegas you probably can't relate to this, but sweet baby Jesus are gamblers annoying. Not only is every single one "Slightly ahead of the house" in their gambling, but they love to recount (In great detail) about their latest great victory on a poker machine. My father's wife was one of those people, so I've seen exactly whats up with that bullshit. Every now and then she'd come home with $5k, this happened once or twice a year. My father showed me the bank statements of her pulling at least $2k a month out of the bank to go gambling. Every. Single. Month. Yet, she honestly believed she was slightly ahead of the house. Those casinos are not in business to give away money and they sure as shit don't fund their expansions by losing.
I had a good buzz going earlier while I was cleaning house and drinking mimosas. Now I'm sober as a judge and bored. This week I've watched all 8 episodes of Stranger Things and since I have Showtime for the weekend I watched the four episodes of Roadies. Now I'm lost again. I need something good to watch. Speaking of Roadies, The Head and the Heart were in the first episode. I just saw them play on Sunday and they put on one hell of a show. Plus their drummer has Johnny Bravo hair and somehow it looked perfect at the end of their set. I don't know what kind of sorcery made it hold through the head banging but I really wanted to touch it.
Now I'm watching The Duff. Yes I'm a teenage girl, yes I've read the book, and yes I saw it in the movie theater. No, it's not good.
Ok, this week's Saturday Night Lost Awesome Song brought to you by yours truly is this one: Of specific note, the reggae break is cool, but followed up with a tremendous solo. It just rips. It's a fantastic transition, going from light to heavy in about 10 seconds. Really well executed.
We used to use Aqua Net Blue to get slicks on the rims of our race car... it was slippery as fuck for the first two minutes, better than tire lube, and then it fucking stuck like epoxy after that. If we used normal tire lube the tires would shift on the rim as we put down serious power... Aquanet Blue? No fucking chance. Learned that trick from Penske's Crew Chief at the 24 hour one year. The really funny part was his warning... "don't try and get all expensive and splurge for the fancy Aquanet... get the cheapest stuff they have... the blue stuff... it works way, way better than the other ones."
Best reggae group around? The Police. Just love their off-time guitar and drum stuff. Copeland and Summers were fucking geniuses. And while some people might shit on Sting, I think he's amazing. Bring On The Night was incredible... if you haven't seen it, I recommend it...it's a documentary that follows him while he transitions out of The Police and into a solo career.