Just checking in. Spent Sunday at a picnic / water fight with my wife’s family, including my brother-in-law who is back home for a brief time before he heads back to fix helicopters in Afghanistan. He signed up for two years in the National Guard. His Basic Training started on September 11, 2001. Thanks to stop-loss, he’ll be serving his fourth straight year on Active Duty in Afghanistan. Mmm, I love the smell of backdoor draft in the morning… smells like… victory?
Sunday night was spent with my wife’s friend in Boise, enjoying her wonderful home and back porch. Monday I took my bass in to my former classmate, Jack, who I saw at the reunion. He was the guitarist in my high school jazz band, and now has a music store. He’s going to fix up my bass (it needs a tune-up, bad!) so I can play it this weekend at a gig I picked up while I’m here (subbing for the bass player for a friend’s band.) It’ll be nice to earn some gas money for the trip home.
Monday we also went to the Roaring Springs water park — had a blast and got a sunburn. Monday night we had drinks with two friends who’ve recently expelled a fetus — they have a beautiful new two-month-old baby girl.
Apparently, I’m not the only one who has been busy. Our half-witted friend The Angry Redneck, a.k.a. Red Peters, decided to spend his whole Sunday putting a comment in just about every post in the blog to let me and the rest of the world know that I am now bald and fat. I know it was tough for everyone to tell from the various photographs I have posted. This is what passes for a stimulating debate among angry rednecks, I suppose.
So, I have banned Red’s IP address and instituted comment moderation. I’ve got too many well-intentioned, intelligent, thinking conservatives posting here (Adam, SFC McElroy, among others) to waste my time with subliterate trolls like Red. His comments have been scrubbed from the site and his comments will never again appear on this blog. I’m willing to accept fiery debate and controversial topics, but if all you’ve got is “HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!” and “You’re fat”, well, then, you’re way over your head here. Call in to Rush Limbaugh’s show or go post over at FreeRepublic or Little Green Footballs, where you’ll be appreciated.
