Well.............

After talking to some of the guys in the hobby we have decided to form our own team. ODZ 001. Let the fun begin!

A New Hobby!

Well as some of you know I have been into living history aka reenacting for around 26 years. This has included everything from the war of 1812 through Vietnam. Recently I have decided to really scale this back. I have found the politics involved to be tiresome along with some other stuff that doesn't warrant mention here to no longer make the hobby fun. I think allot of it comes from hosting large events and all of the stupidity that goes along with them. Anyway I will still be doing selected time periods on a very part time basis. I recently have discovered the hobby of MILSIM air-soft. I went to my first event this weekend and had a great time. The guy's are safety minded as well as focused on developing real-world skill sets. While not a member of their team they really made me feel welcomed. I will continue to post as things go along. Work is the same old thing. 2C (a local amendment to increase taxes) failed last week so the entire fire department is pretty upset. That can make work a bit of a challenge. Interestingly we have been advised at work that blogging is verboten. Not sure what to make of that.

"Cause That's How I Roll"

OK, Im not even sure how to start this. People who use this term drive me fuc*ing nuts. ever since 911 this term has been in vogue. It's right up there on my list of overused, misunderstood, undervalued words, sayings between hero and fireman. Let me give you a perfect example of just how stupid this saying is. Last shift we were dispatched to the local elementary school for an "assault". Any normal person would construe this to be a couple of school kids getting into it on the playground and some teacher going off the deep end for no other reason then she is incapable of dealing with two angry nine year olds and a bloody nose. BUT NO not in my line of work. Let me paint a picture for you. The day at school starts with two kindergartners (Yes we are talking about two five year old girls here.) getting into some retarded five year old argument that results in some hitting. So five year old A hits five year old B. Over the course of the morning the school notifies mom A and mom B that their precious spots of sunshine have gotten into a tussle at school and they all need to have some kind of metro sexual meeting to resolve the anger issues of the afore mentioned five year olds. Now the stage is set for some hard core white trash Jerry Springer shit. Low and behold mom A and mom B meet in the parking lot on the way into the liberal hug fest that is now our way of dealing with things in this country and out comes a little bit of good old Americana! Somewhere between the car and the entrance to the school words are exchanged between mom A and mom B resulting in mom A punching mom B in the suck with a pair of BRASS FUC*ING KNUCKLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ya baby!!!!!!!!! Take that! As we are loading mom B into the ambulance with a shattered jaw mom B's in the back of the police car. What was her reason for this reaction? That's right you guessed it! "I'm from east L.A. and that's how I roll". Are you fuc*ing kidding me? Well madam why don't you roll right on over to jail while your precious little spot of sunshine rolls into foster care for Christmas. I swear to God I hate people. How could you destroy your child's Christmas because "that's how you roll"? What a maroon! Anyone useing the term "that's how I roll" probably should just roll off a cliff and die. But that's just my opinion because ya know.............................thats how I roll.

OK OK I will start blogging again Christ!

Well a promise is a promise. Erica went an entire day without taking a picture of anything. I know, I know it's hard to believe, but it's true. So here I am keeping up my end of the deal. For the uninformed things have been status quo for the last few months. Erica and I decided to push back the wedding until at least early spring. Once again I know, what's new! I should have some good stuff to run my suck or fingers as it is about in the next few days.

Anybody seen this guy?

OK this is one of the dumbest things I've seen lately. REALLY? Does anyone really think this helps? I'm am progressively more and more convinced that the U.S. Postal service is run by morons. Not only are the incapable of getting your mail anywhere with any reliability they obviously suck at law enforcement as well. EEHH lets see if anyone recognizes this guy!

Back to Colorado!

Well here it is! As I pack up my books again and talk to my sweetheart / soul mate on the phone. I'm contemplating an October 25 wedding and a new start. I have been lucky enough to meet the person who makes me complete. I'm ready to move on, I'm done with the drama, I'm done being unsettled, I'm done being alone every two weeks. Honey lets skin this smoke wagon! I love you.

Sturgis Bound Baby!

Here it is Saturday morning and I'm sitting at work looking at the upcoming Sturgis trip and trying to plan all of the stops. Lets see.......

1. Waterford MI @ Aunt Pat's house for cabbage rolls.
2. St Paul MN @ John Martin's for all around shananigans.
3. Whitewood SD @ Mr. & Mrs. Westburg's for STURGIS

Holy Shit I can't wait! We will be leaving on the morning of the 31st and returning between the 10th and the 12th. 4000+ miles, a sore ass and an all around great time! We will be hitting the following places while there and I will do my best to post pictures and comments as we go.

1. KISS at the Buffalo Chip
2. Jackyl at The Full Throttle
3. The Broken Spoke Saloon
4. Little Big Horn
5. Devils Tower
6. Mount Rushmore
7. The Stone House Saloon
8. Deadwood

And whatever the hell else strikes my fancy like the worlds largest ball of string or something similar.

The bike is ready ($431 10,000 mile check up and lube) The bags are almost packed and I just want to get the F&%K out of here and ride!