Monsters Return

Last weekend the Monster Jam show made its stop at Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford Springs, CT. Noah and I went to the Sunday afternoon show, which was preceded by the Party in the Pits.



We had a great time and the drivers were great with their fans as usual.

The shots of the trucks in action where taken in the middle of the grandstand with my zoom lens set at about 150mm to avoid all the mass of humanity that surrounded us. Yes I'm still shooting film.

Noah cracked me up while we were standing in line waiting to get into the Party in the Pits. he said " Even though you are a 50 year old man you are still the best Dad."

Tickets for both of us $25.00
Hat and Shirt $45.00
Sending fun time with my son, priceless.

New Toy

The UPS man delivered my new toy today. It is a Garmin nuvi 660 GPS. This my first stab at using a GPS besides the one time I used one in a rental car. Since electronic devises tend to updated every 3 months, I went a little over the top with the features on this puppy. It is pretty amazing what it can do. Besides directions and maps it can be used as a MP3 player, an audio book player, bluetooth and more. I do not own anything else that has bluetooth, so I'll have to wait on that. This thing has more computing powder than Apollo 11 had in it's Command and Lunar Modular combined!

What's more I figured out how to load some songs on it and downloaded 3 Audio books from audible.com that Garmin threw in. The three books I chose were River of Doubt, which tells the story of TR's last adventure in South America. Never Give In, the speeches of Sir Winston Churchill in his own voice. And A Few Quick Ones, which is about seven Jeeves short stories by PG Wodenhouse. So now I have 20 hours of audio books to listen to in the car.

I live 2 miles from my office which takes me about 5 minutes to drive each way. Doing the math quickly it should take me about 24 weeks to listen to everything.

I guess I'm going to have to find a longer way to get to work because I'm not moving!!!!!!!!!!

Made in the USA

My niece is getting married next month. It is an outdoor party in New England, so changes are it will be a hot and humid day. So I decide to treat myself to some new light weight clothes for the day. I try to buy things made in the United States. In stores it is almost impossible to find anything made in America. Since I have to shop in the short fat white guy department, the pants I purchased were not made in the US. Even the tailor who measured me most likely was not made in America either. I was not to sure what part of the globe he was from.

Growing up all the tailors were first or second generation men of Italian heritage. Except Andy Taylor, who was made in these United States in Mayberry, NC.

The shirts I purchased on line where made in several countries other than the US. I still haven't made a choice on which one I'll be wearing but they are all bowling shirts big and loose. As the invitation states "casual dress, comfortable shoes, ties not required food , drink and merriment to follow"

Comfortable shoes hmmm I thought, I could use some new comfortable shoes. I found some on line made in Minnesota by Footwear by Footskins . To top things off I found a made in the US straw fedora made by the Bailey Hat Company .

I'm not sure if It will made a big difference but I'll keep trying to find more things made in the USA.

Time keeps marching on

You know you are getting older when people that were a big part of your youth, keep turning up dead. Just the other day it was George Carlin, not too long ago it was Harvey Korman. Today I read that Bozo the Clown has gone to meet his maker. Well not Bozo but the man that was behind Bozo, Larry Harmom.



The Firesign Theatre stated it best in the '70's when they released their album "I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus".

It is up to all of us to continue to be Bozos