Read about the show here. I am planning to arrive just after 9, so I am still awake for Rooney. Safari has 8 seats. I’m driving, and Steve Va from IL is coming, leaving 6 seats. Post bellow with interest. I’ll call you with details.
Hurray. Summer is great. Today started with a nice run, then making cinnamon rolls. Although I made the rolls upside down, they proved to be quite pleasing. Steve and I went to Mike Op’s where we had the sequel of yesterday. I found my way behind a control of some more fun Play Station 2 action, losing to Mike in a decent game of ping-pong and such. Joey and David hung out with us, and Derek joined us a little later.
It just does not seem like this all took place today. We left before Mike had dinner, and when we got home I made a business call. This made us late to meet Dad at El Vincino’s for some good pizza. Which reminds me today a tow truck and a cement truck had a bad accident today at Ken Caryl/Mineral and Santa Fe. Oh, and the tow truck was a large one, towing an RV! Now the joy was not only cleaning up an accident, they had to clean up the cement the rolled over cement truck dropped and the fuel from an RV, tow truck, and a cement truck! Only closed the road for like five hours.
On the way back from dinner I talked to Steve Dod on the way home, and detoured to Nick R’s house to join in some fun. I helped Doug R with mastering a DVD he made for his recently married sister and now brother in-law – it came out fine in the end, but not with out some hiccups. I played a little more ping-pong for the day there, and just hung out. We found our way to the side of the pool, around the fire. Doug is leaving tomorrow to help at a young life camp for a month, so he had a few people over tonight. By the end of the night I had seen Steve D, Maggie M, Nick, Doug and their sister and new brother-in-law, Brian Y, Collin L, Richie, Teri (doug’s GF), Fat Ben, Chase, and a few others. Doug and his friends were in the pool and were some good entertainment as we watched from the fire. It started to rain and Nick expressed his hunger, only to be echoed by everyone else –surely a situation for the party Safari! We filled into the van and made our way to Wendy’s for a late night snack. The rain was really coming down, it seemed real late, and not like a Colorado rain storm at all. Now the power window for the driver does not work in the van so I had to leave the door open as we ordered. That was mostly just dandy; although Maggie didn’t get her order in when we did, so I had them add it to our order at the first window. After we pulled away from the second window with our food, we saw we were missing Maggie’s food. I walked into the place and talked to a nice kid who spoke English. He understood and tried to solve the problem, next thing I know there is a trilingual powwow going down discussing why there is not a bag waiting for us, and what happened. After about six minutes that felt like twenty, a lady gave me a bag of what we ordered for Maggie. I left the dinning room as Maggie came in, leaving as I could still hear the powwow. After an entertaining meal picnic that was retained to the Safari due to the inclement weather, we went back to Nick’s house.
The plan was to watch Stuck On You, only to find that Nick’s Mom had returned it today. We then decided to watch Blow. I really enjoyed it, and I think this was my third time seeing that movie. I relearned drugs are bad, once a criminal probably a criminal, and don’t let your woman be your business partner. As that ended, Nick surfed the satellite channels to find the last half of BASEketball. I forgot how funny that movie is as a late night, just need to laugh film.
With Steve V here for the week I find myself sitting back and thinking I wonder what he is thinking; My thoughts then were replicated on his weblog hours later. I am pretty down on my situation sometimes, but these last few days show some nice fun and caring friends.
I don’t know where to leave this post. I will leave you with the last funny thing of the night. Therefore, as we all left the Reilly’s house, Collin L needed a ride. (To clue you non-followers in, Colin is the brother of my brother’s girlfriend, and the totaller of the GMC Safari van.) I enthusiastically invited him to join us for the .25 mile drive up the street to his house. I decided to resign the keys to him, and he navigated the beast home. Now on the way he had to explain the whole story of what really happened when he totaled our van to Steve and I and how the deer was on the side of the road choose his fate that night. The deer was having a bad night and was all down and such. Collin explained this quite well, leading me to tear up for the deer’s feelings. Collin detailed the jumping of the deer to the center of the Safari’s front end, and the repeated hits as the car came to a stop from 80 or so MPH. Collin is a great storyteller.
Current status we are meeting at Matt’s at 5. There are 6 open seats. Who wants to come to the Matthew Moon and Mission 19 concert!! Just post a comment and I’ll get ahold of you.
Update- looks like there is not much interest. I am still over at the Opland’s, we just got back from the pool. I think Mike is ordering a pizzia and I guess we will make the very end of the concert… Give my cell phone a call if you are interested and we can take the light-rail.
Tonight I had some good entertainment hanging with Danielle. We meet at her house to watch School of Rock. Georgia and Chelsea joined us in watching. By the time the film was over Andrew, Ashley and another guy had joined us. After the movie we decided to go to Krispy Kream, as we walked out from Luke showed up to join us. We had a good adventure in the Lillo diesel Club Wagon with everyone in it. Luke said something to get our second dozen for free, so I just paid for the two dozen donuts. By the end of the night we had played with the baby cat, I had wrestled Luke, used Danielle’s new iBook and some other fun stuff. I took a few pictures, this whole no picture sever is quite a bummer.
Tomorrow I am still going to try and run with Steve here, he didn’t care to join me. I am hoping we can get ahold of Mike Op and join him for some pool fun.