Lookin' good

When I told the lady whom I was seated next to at the play Saturday night that I had had one of the actors in class over 40 years ago, her first reaction made my day-"But he's older than you; how can that be?" I told her I had at least 6 or 7 years on Mike, the actor, but she still wasn't totally buying it. I guess I aged better than Mike or Mike didn't age well at all. I took it as a compliment, however. Now if she had just said something positive about my progressive lack of hair, it would have been a perfect evening.
Hold off on the drug testing: The Casper Ghosts went back to their losing ways last night.
More from the calendar:
May 29: " You might be a Redneck if........... you've ever run a business from a pay phone."

Good Guys Bad Guys

That's the name of the play presented at the dinner theatre I went to last night. The background of the play is a supposed Wyoming Law Enforcement convention in Last Whiskey, Wyoming. It started with cocktails in the lobby where members of the cast would come by the tables and drop hints of possible crimes. We then moved to a dining room where a banquet dinner (prime rib no less) for the attendees of the convention ate and awards were presented. A member of the cast sat at each table and we all had to pretend to be in law enforcement types. I was a juvenile probation officer. Our table cast member was supposedly the chief of police. They talked about work shops (fictitious) which we all supposedly attended such as "assuming the positions (not well liked),"Tazing Technique Workshop (everyone supposedly was tazed)," and "Body Cavity Searches (a big favorite)." Awards were presented. A friend of mine won the "best fish flopping after being tazed" award. I won the "The Quickest Draw" from the Tazing Technique Workshop (one of the cast members knows me and saw my name on the reservation list). It concluded with a couple of murders, solving some crimes and then dessert. A fun evening.
The cast of eight included four people from either the local police department or the local sheriff's office. The "chief" is actually a police sargeant. They knew what they were talking about at the tables. One actor I had in class over 40 years ago and another went to CY and graduated with the son.

The Casper Ghosts (4-12) have now won two games in a row. Steroids? Drug testing may be in the future.

One-eyed Jack's

Last night I watched my favorite movie Giant, all 202 minutes starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, et. al. The first time I watched Giant was in 1956 at the Tepee Theatre in Thermopolis, WY. I think I paid 50 or 75 cents. When the theatre closed years later, a friend named Jack, who graduated with me, bought the building and opened a bar. Jack had lost an eye in a construction accident and named his bar One-eyed Jack's Saloon. I think I was in there only once but I liked the name. Jack sold the place later and retired like the rest of us.
The Casper Ghosts are now 2-12 (WTNY, WTNY.....)

All in the family

I realized that when I talked to David after he returned to the Twin Cities that the second question after "You're home?" was "How's Stooey?" After I handed the phone to the wife, that was her second question. Stooey is a year old dachshund. Webster defines a dachshund as a long dog with short legs and droopy ears. Stooey matches the definition except for the droopy ears. While the son and D-I-L were out-of-town, we went to the Doggie Daycare website in the Twin Cities to see how he was doing. He likes to run with the big dogs which means he is difficult to spot at times on the Doggiecam if he gets in a crowd. It's amazing the attachment we formed for him although I'm not sure he even likes us unless we're feeding him.
VERY GOOD: there is a gas war in Wheatland so we bought $2.13.9 gas going to Denver and $2.09.9 gas on the way back.
GOOD: hopefully the Michael Jackson hoopla will end today. A question: Why should the City of Los Angeles be paying for all this? No wonder people keep voting down tax hikes for "basic" services.
More from the favorite calendar:
July 4th/5th "You might be a Redneck if.......your yard is covered with empty shell casings on July 5th."

I'm baaaack

Took some time to spend the 4th in Denver with our daughter, son, and daughter-in law (now known as the D-I-L). Son-in-Law (S-I-L) Eric had to work as a pilot over the weekend. We made a trip to Cheyenne on Saturday to visit their grandmother. It really made her day.
Saturday night the rains stopped at game time and we watched the Rockies lose to the Diamondbacks. We did, however, have the best seats in the house in the third deck on the first base side for the fireworks. We had a great unobstructed view of the show. This was part of my Father's Day gift and so we actually ordered the seat location for the display rather than the game. It was a fireworks crowd with lots of little kids who grew restless by the seventh inning and had to made several trips to the concessions and restroom. So did the rest of us-just not as often. The seats were so high that at a non-fireworks game, people in the Federal Witness Protection Program are located there as no one could find them that high and far away from the plate. Actually there were good seats for the game.
Saturday afternoon we learned they had had a terrific rainstorm with considerable water damage in Casper so I called a couple neighbors to see if there had been any flooding in the hood. They thought our house was fine and when we got back last night, everything was dry.
A great weekend.

Hostage exchange

I finally got the correct tickets for my reserved seat at the baseball games. It reminded me of of a hostage exchange. I put down the incorrect set of tickets and was handed an envelope with the correct tickets.
GOOD: The Ghosts (2-8) split their double-header last night. In the first game they blow a lead with three passed balls with runners on third. They lost it in the last two innings. I left after the first game so I had to look up the score of the second game on the Internet.
GOOD & BAD: There was a 50 minute rain delay in the first game. Luckily I had my rain gear although I was wearing sandals. We need the moisture so the rain was OK.
SOMETHING BORROWED: I've decided we Ghost fans need to borrow the mantra of most Chicago Cubs fans on opening day-"Wait til next year; Wait til next year; Wait til ............"
More from the favorite calendar"
You Might Be a Redneck If...........you've launched fireworks off a propane tank.

Wrong ticket

BAD: Sixty minutes before the Casper Ghosts (now 1-6: don't ask if they won) were to open their home season, I finally took my tickets out of the envelope and discovered they had sent the tickets for the wrong seat. What I got was in an entirely different section and was a handicapped accompaniment seat-in other words I was supposed to have a wheelchair or something similar next to me as I was responsible for that person. Do I really look that bad? DON'T ANSWER! Defiantly I sat in my old seat. This morning I headed for the Ghosts office and spent forty minutes trying to get the ticket situation resolved. Hopefully, by tonight I will have tickets for the seat I have held for years. They did give me an extra $10 worth of Ghost bucks so I can buy more beer, soft drinks, and other unhealthy items. I suppose I could buy something in the souvenir shop. Naw!
May get rain for the game tonight.
From my favorite calendar:
May 30/31, 2009 You might be a redneck if.........."You've ever requested 'Seventeen cents on pump four.'"
June 30, 2009 "Babysitters never work for you more than once."