Male points-Gains/losses

Male points are best described as those actions/habits which define one's masculinity.
Last night I passed up a baseball game (loss) to attend a play (loss)-Peter Pan. It was a special performance for patrons of Casper College's theatre. We are patrons for the college; Stage III, a local theatre group, and have season tickets for the Broadway plays at the Events Center (big loss). The Ghosts [5-14] actually won and I missed it (loss). At the play, which is also a fund raiser, they served sausages, lemon bars, brownies (neutral) prior to the performance and chocolate coated strawberries (also neutral since all these foods are basics) at intermission.
To make up for my loss of male points I worked in the yard (gain), worked out (gain), serviced the car (gain) and this afternoon I plan to watch more episodes of Ice Road Truckers (gain) while I'm washing clothes (loss). I like football and baseball (gain). I like soccer (neutral at this time) and I watch Sports Center (big gain).
To really earn male points I might listen to a Country/Western radio station (gain) except I can't stand Country/Western music (loss). I like 60's and 70's music (neutral). I may also need to rent a dog with hound, pit bull, or German Shepherd in its blood line (gain). A dog of uncertain pedigree might also do (gain).
I like to read newspapers, mysteries, and sports magazines (gain) but not Readers' Digest or the New Yorker {except for the cartoon} (loss).
I think I'm on top of it but I guy can't be too careful. BTW I'm going to a ballgame tonight.
Blogging? (indeterminate at this time.)

Late life crisis

I watched the first couple of episodes of Ice Road Truckers, a History Channel series. These episodes dealt with truckers hauling supplies to diamond mines in Canada's Northwest Territory. I'm really getting into it. Too many more shows listening to the Canadians speak I might start saying "oot" rather than "out."
What I worry most about is watching this type of macho programming is I'm afraid I may trade in my van for a pick-up with poaching lights and Stooey riding shotgun in the front seat. It's a scary thought.
Ghosts lost again last night-WTNY, WTNY....

Identity crisis?

I just received a new disc from Netflix call Ice Road Truckers. It's a series about guys who drive rigs in Canada to oil platforms or just haul supplies to rural northern Canada and Alaska in the winter and there is no pavement-just ice. My problem is: does this make me a redneck?
Ghosts are at home tonight.
More from the calendar:
June 17-18th "You might be a Redneck if ..............You've bought your own car back at a police auction."

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."