I'm a redneck... So what

She is coming home!

TC — Fri, 26 May 2006 12:35:49 +0000

Missy is coming home tonight – only for the weekend. But it is hard to believe it has been alomost two months since she started her retriever classes. The trainer says it looks like she has some good potential, we shall see. It will be good to see her again, I wonder how big she is now. She was 70 lbs at 6 months old. I will post pictures later.

Home Improvement Post 4

TC — Fri, 26 May 2006 12:33:31 +0000

Well it is all just about done. The pool table was redone about 3 weeks ago and all the stuff is on the walls. I keep getting more and more NASCAR stuff so I am still moving things around from wall to wall to make it look nice.

The kids room is now painted light blue like they wanted. We put up dinosaur borders around the top of the room and put in a ceiling fan. We just put the old foam flooring down for now, later on we will carpet it.

The storage room got new shelving built last weekend, so now we are in the process of finding out what really needs to stay and what is going to the dump. What I need now is a weekend with nothing to do!

Home Improvement Post 3

TC — Thu, 04 May 2006 04:30:08 +0000

Well it gets closer and closer to being done. The carpet was put in before I left for Talladega and I got some things put up. Tonight I put the pool table back together. We are still going to have it re-felted, but they want $150 to put it together so I just did it. I did put the felt back on and played a game on it tonight. It looks like it is pretty level already.

I got my old Navy stuff and the deer head up on the walls of the computer room last night before bed. It is finally starting to look like a home down here. I will be so glad when I get everything put away. At least there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Talladega Party

TC — Thu, 04 May 2006 04:26:00 +0000

What a blast the weekend was… They tell me I had a good time Friday night.

We left St Louis at 6AM and started the party before 8AM in the RV. We got to the campgrounds around 3PM and got all settled in before heading into Gypsy Row. I guess I should have either 1) eaten some more food or 2) drank less beer, because I have only some memory of the night.

Saturday the weather was beautiful, but a bit windy. We went and watched the end of the Nextel qualifying runs and then the Busch race. Watching the cars go around this track is beyond words. When they are racing and are doing close to 200MPH over the whole track less than a foot from the other cars is a thing of beauty. It was nice to see Truex Jr win the Busch race. We then partied away the night back on Gypsy Row.

Sunday looked like it was going to be a good day for the races. The forecast was for thunderstorms all Saturday night and then clearing Sunday morning. As it was, we got no rain all Saturday. We went to the track for the race and it started to get really cloudy. As soon as the cars took the track and made one lap behind the pace car it cut loose and rained. So they stopped the race before it started and ended up postponing it until Monday. It was a stupid decision as it really didn't rain again, at least not enough to stop the race. So we got more beer and went back to Gypsy Row. I ended up buying two diecast cars that night, one of Kasey Kahne's car from his first win and the other of Jeff Gordon's Bugs Bunny car. I also bought T-shirts for the boys and the wife.

Monday the weather was really nice and the race started on time at 11AM. It was a good race, even if Kasey did get taken out in the 15 car pile up on lap 9. I was hoping for anyone other then Jimmy Johnson to win the race… damn it.

We left the track at 3PM and got back into St Louis at 1:30AM, and back to my brothers at 2AM. After a quick shower and 3 1/2 hours sleep I drove back to Wichita. Man it was good to get home and sleep in my bed.

But … I can't wait until next year. And this time the wife will go too!

Off to the races

TC — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:40:32 +0000

Here it is 4:30 in the morning at my brothers house in St Louis. I finished up work on the basement yesterday afternoon and drove for 7 hours to get here. After finishing off too many beers I went to bed at 12:30 and got about 3 1/2 hours sleep. We will be driving to meet the rest of the group at the RV in a few minutes. We will then be heading for Talladega for the races. Of course now it looks like rain over the weekend, we will have to wait and see.
Either way it will be fun!

Update on the home improvement

TC — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:15:18 +0000

Well the drywall is going up. Too damn bad the price also went up on drywall. Thanks to the hurricane's last year and the "need" to rebuild that shithole New Orleans, the price of drywall went up almost double. But I have purchased and moved all 72 sheets to the basement. I finished all the electrical work early last week including new tracklights in the pool room. I put in high grade stereo wire in the walls ran to speaker outlets along with a master stereo box for connecting all of them. It will be nice not to see the wires running up the wall to the speakers.

The guy has already started to hang all the drywall. The ceiling is up on all three rooms now. The computer room has the walls on three sides up. He will be back tomorrow morning at 8AM to finish the rest and get the mud and tape going. I will shut the computers down at that time and move them up stairs so they are not ruined.

Today will be spent taking the pool table apart. It needs to come down anyway so we can get the carpet in. That should be a lovely task, taking the thee pieces of 3/4" slate down and storing it somewhere.

All in all it is turning out pretty nice. Now I just need to get my brother the turdhurder out here to put in the bathroom!

What does your daddy do?

TC — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:06:31 +0000

One day a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their
fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came up –
fireman, mechanic, businessman, salesman, doctor, lawyer, and so forth.

But little Justin was being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him about his father, he replied, "My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off all his clothes in front of other men and they put money in his underwear.

Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home with some guy and make love with him for money."

The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some exercises and then took little Justin aside to ask him, "Is that really true about your father?"

"No," the boy said. "He works for the Democratic National Committee and is helping to secure the nomination of Hilary Clinton, but I was too embarrassed to say that in front of the other kids."

Easter is cancelled

TC — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:05:45 +0000

I know this is old, but I still love it.

New law firm

TC — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:30:54 +0000

So true…

Home Improvement Post 2

TC — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:58:15 +0000

Well, all the walls are up now. Tomorrow I will head off to the Home Depot or Lowes and pick up the electrical stuff. The wife still worries when I do electrical work. It’s not like its rocket science or anything, just three wires. All I have to really do is run the outlets from the current ones. I do have to do one light switch in the storage room or I would just leave the light on the kids playroom switch. As of this point I have all my fingers still attached. I am tired as hell from finishing up today but it is worth it. Now I just need to get the guy in here to hang the drywall.