Kid Rock

I always told myself that if Kid Rock ever got down to this area, be it south texas (San Antonio, Austin, Houston) whatever, I was going. Turns out he was here in town last night and a friend of mine (thanks Jeanette) hooked up some Pit Tickets. Damn... there is a reason they call him Kid Rock... that white kid can ROCK!!!! Show was awesome. doors opened at 6pm, and for those that always take their time because they think the artists always start late, think again. by about 7pm or 7:30pm Kid Rock was on stage and making his presence known in the Rio Grande Valley.

Kid puts on one hell of a show and did not disappoint in the least bit.

Also... Rev Run was on stage with Kid and it was just fucking awesome.

Good music, good booze (yeah, I snuck a flask full of Glen in) and great music and show.

couldn't ask for anything more.

Will post pictures of Kid later

Update

So I've been told "Yeah, but you never update your blog!"

read that as "whining"... so drink ya wench!!! hahaha

Here's an update. I'm still in school. Still kicking ass although my last exam did not go as well as I planned. Although I passed, I realize that a little more study time is in order, which I'm going to do today after I finish cleaning up and washing my clothes.

Other than that, not much going on.

Can't wait to be done with school. Might be looking at work up in the hill country... Kerrville to be more exact. Its a great area of Texas, has a very good hospital and some very good roads to ride my motorcycle on. That and I'll be closer to the track in Bryan/College Station, I think... let me look at the map hahahaha.

Anyways, that is all for now.

I will try to update this more regularly to appease the peanut gallery.

Yeah, that means you...

Another year .... meh... whatever

So today I turn yet ANOTHER year older... Oh well. 34 is actually not that bad. Why? well cuz Rick is older so I'm okay with it. hahahahaha

Actually spent some time on the Island yesterday drinking beer and hanging out with some friends. Went well. Came home and chilled.

Today I'm going to finish my pot, yes I said pot not cup, of coffee, go and treat myself to breakfast and then my friend told me to come over to his house, pick up one of his motorcycles (either a 2001 RC51 or a Ducati 916) and take it out for a ride. So today, for my birthday, I will ride until I'm either too tired to do it anymore, or the wheels fall off, or I run outta gas money. I ain't running outta gasw money, I'm not going to get too tired, so we'll see how the wheels do.

I'm off.

So last night I set my alarm for 06:45... to fucking early apparently as I kept hitting the snooze button because I didn't have to be at school until 09:00 for the first exam of this 8 wk block... So as I wake up at the crack of 08:48, I'm in a panic. FUCK!!!!! I have an exam today...

Raced out the door and down the road to the school, showed up 20 minutes late and got to take the exam. finished in 15 minutes and baffled everyone by walking in not only late, but before anyone else had finished. Got an 87 on the exam. Shoulda done better, but they were acceptable mistakes and helped me learn.

Now I'm on vacation.

Nutz to school for 12 days.

Sitting in my first class of the day, a thermos of coffee at my side, my trusty new computer always at the ready due to the fact that our overzealous teacher knows exactly how to bitch about everything EXCEPT for her habitual tardiness. Oh well, more computer time for me.

I'm wondering if I can sneak in a kidney punch every time she is late.


Must have more coffee.

My Fatass... un-fattening

So after the Machete Hash, I figured my fatass needed to get in better shape because had I needed to run (after unloading 3 magazines full of .45 caliber of course) I probably wouldn't have gotten very far as I'm overweight, out of shape and usually not very inspired to run (not even at a hash). I had mentioned this to JD and really didn't think too much about it afterwords and started trying to figure out how to go about it. A couple of days later I get a call and a webpage from JD telling me that it just might help. I was like "great, I'll check it out". Turns out that it is a web page to help you count your daily caloric intake. My first response was "Calorie counter? I don't need no stinkin calorie counter!" (if you don't know the original line, or the original accent to that, rent Blazin Saddles and get back to me) but then I realized that anything would be worth a shot.

So I started counting calories. Input my info and came to the conclusion that I'm "clinically obese" due to the fact that I weigh too much for a man my age and my height. So I said "fuck it" time to fix it. Started counting that very day and here we are 10 days later and 7 lbs less, and I'm feeling great. Started working out, weights, cardio (spin class is the work of the devil) and just eating a much healthier diet (not dieting). I've gone from a possibly 3,000-5,000 calorie a day diet to under 2,000 cals a day. I've cut out as much red meat as possible and more than anything I've cut out fast food. It is what was killing me the most. Pants are fitting me very loose, my gut is not as visible and my riding jacket actually goes on without me having to suck in my gut.

Yeah, I'm feeling awesome.

I'm still not anywhere near Trojan level with my workouts nor do I think I will be for a while, but hopefully someday pretty soon, the change will be readily noticeable and permanent.


Thanks JD.

New Day, time to ride... kinda windy though

I think that today I will ride. Its been kinda windy here lately and pretty dangerous for motorcyclists as of late. 3 fatalities in the last month due to ignorant drivers and what not. Just last week one young cat was killed when a woman pulled out of Burger King, failed to yield the right of way. Died at the hospital. She was arrested and charged with involuntary vehicular manslaughter, I believe if she is convicted it carries a 2-20 yr sentence. Sucks to go to jail, but you shoulda been watching where you were going.

So with that said, I'm gonna ride. Why? Well, it was best said in "The 13th Warrior"... Our Destiny's are Preordained, Fear profits us nothing. So I cannot fear the unknown. But I DO have to ride. :D

Had a bad ass omelette this morning, gonna play my guitar for an hour or so because its just sitting there and if its not getting used, might as well get rid of it right? I'll just keep one of them, liquidate the rest. Need to finish up a research paper for school and a care plan for my clinical class.

I didn't get to go see Rambo the other day, so I might just roll out tonight to check it. The reviews that both GLF and Brownie have given it are too good to pass up, so I'm on it.

Trying to be healthy

Went to lunch with my kiddo who for some reason loves miso soup and fried rice with chicken and veggies. She hasn't stepped up to sushi, but we have discovered that she loves shrimp and crab, yet is allergic to both.

This is her eating her soup.







And this is my salad... she was not happy that she couldn't eat the crab on my salad. :teeth

How fucking crazy is this?!

So the above link is a story about this couple that met someone, hung out with them, then brutally murdered that man with a machete. From what the news says, she hacked him while he was kicking the shit out of him. That was in San Antonio I believe. They somehow ended up on SPI, and by some silly coincidence at the same campground where we had our 2nd Analversary ICBINMH3 Hash. When I arrived, these trolls were already hanging about and I could tell they were not exaclty hashers, but were not being run off. They spent all of Friday night hanging around, having a good time, enjoying keg beer and the company of good hashers.

Saturday I had to drive back to McAllen for the food and for some other things I had to do and I saw this couple in Port Isabel both when I was leaving and upon return to the Island.

That evening they were hanging around the hash again and even enjoying tippy cup as they had the night before. Only this time they had brought their own beer as they were told that the hash was a paid event. These two never gave anyone any trouble that I can recall or think of. They just hung out, drank beer and got drunk.

So when Guam calls me today and asks me if I remembered the Trolls from the Hash, I was like "yeah, what about them?" He tells me, "Dude, they were arrested for murder" and I was a bit in shock and then started doing all the what ifs and what not. Just a good thing that it turned out that they were not in the mood to machete anyone to death.

ONON,
Dude!





And by "these two", I do NOT mean Joto-Cicleta and Toe Jam, I mean the two on the Far left

2nd Analversary

Although this weekends Hash was damn near wrecked due to a last moment change in venue, I think Butter Bling and the other, more active ICBINMH3ers pulled off one hell of a weekend.

We had a total of 36 out of towners and I think 8 locals at SPI for a great time had by all.

Next year we will certainly have more than just plan B, I think we'll go to at least plan F to make sure we don't scramble as much as we did this weekend.

Had a new naming this weekend. Our friend from Mexico who has been hashing for a while now and was one of the original masked men at TXIH (yr? glf?) was named Joto-cicleta (Homo-Cycle). Good times

I'll try to get some more fotos as I was too busy to take that many.

BBQing

Sitting outside in Allen's backyard, grillin up some dead cow and pig, telling tall tales and lies of course. Talking Allen into coming out to the Hash this weekend for our 2nd Analversary and he just agreed that he would even though he works the next 5 days. No worries, he can come out after work and make it to work in the morning.

Butter Bling is all whiney cuz I'm on the computer... I think he has LapTop envy. That and Sprint Wireless card envy. HA!!!

The night has a cool breeze to it which is odd for this part of the country, but we'll take it anytime we can get it.

Damn that food is awesome.

More to come... standby

removing word verification

Took the word verification off for those that are sensitive and have trouble spelling.


Yeah, that means you cake eater

Its Tuesday and I need to get to the school. Have a lot of projects I'm working on right now and hopefully things will come through and I can be more comfortable in my life.

This weekend we laid some friends to rest and now that there has been closure, its time to move on and honor their memory.

You will be missed guys.

Turns out that its 3 after all...

I hadn't heard the first name of the pilot that went down last night, and the spelling and my pronounciation of it were off. Turns out that it was Robert Goss, I man I knew and flew with on several occasions.... so alas, I've lost another 3 friends.... sucks.

Sucks that I quit smoking 8 months ago, I'd like one right about now. Wouldn't fix anything, but it sure would be kinda justified. or not.

A bitter sweet night last night

So I finally decided to go back to shooting as I'd been telling myself I would for a very long time now. Shot USPSA match and came in 5th place out of 14 shooters. Not bad for not having competed in about 3-4 yrs. First round didn't go all that well as I had several misses but the hits were dead on.

That was sweet...

Bitterness struck as I was having dinner later that evening. I got a text message that the news was reporting an air ambulance had crashed into the South Padre Island bay. I was very concerned as I have friends that work there. I started making some calls. Decided to call my friend Raul to see if he had any details... turns out that it was him and another one of my friends that were the victims of this crash.

10 yrs ago, on June 5 of 1998, we lost 3 friends in a helicopter crash with the same company.
Carlos de la Fuente RN/EMTP Brenda Leinweber EMTP and Tony Martinez Pilot were lost in a senseless wreck that never should have happened.

Today I mourn the loss of two more friends to the same fate...

RIP Raul Garcia
RIP Mike Sanchez

I did not know the pilot, but my thoughts are with his family.

How could I not mention...

This weekend was a very good weekend. I got to spend the ENTIRE weekend with my amazing daughter Natasha. Shes been a little under the weather with a cough and what not, but its amazing to see that she never loses her smile and always gives ME a reason to smile no matter what.

We have found that she now LOVES going to the public library and going through all the books that are there for her.

First time....

Well here we go, have no idea what to say/write as I've not done before so I'll just ramble since I'm so good at saying a lot without saying much... ahaha. Or I could follow The Duke's advice and "Talk low, Talk slow, and don't say too much"

Well, lets see where this leads us.

Worked out today, hadn't done that in a while and my fatass is feeling it. Hopefully, with continued workouts, it will get better. We'll see.