Last night, I took a nap as predicted...then hung out with JL Clyde & Filly. They convinced me with a meal of rice, bread, and cheesecake to drive across town. Let it be known, offer me good food, you have just purchased my company for the evening. We ate, watched "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" (reviewed here) and then a few episodes of a TV series that I watched the few months that it was on...but I may have been the only one, "Tru Calling" with Eliza Dushku (Hotchuma hotchuma) and apparently half the case of the new Battlestar Galactica series. It's about a young college graduate hottie who takes an internship at a morgue...but the corpses ask for her help (because she hears dead people) and then she "propels" back in time to that morning with a chance to save them from their death later that day. It's like Quantum Leap...but with a hottie who runs everywhere (oh yeah) and even when the dialogue's a little ridiculous...it doesn't matter...because you get to look at Eliza Dushku the whole time. Anyway, I highly recommend it. Can't wait to see all the episodes that I missed back in the day...like the one where she gets "propelled" back in time but without her clothes (don't ruin my dream).Today was a standard day at work...but the next few days will be managerial training classes, so that's groovy. By groovy, I mean different, which is great for me. I'm also really thinking about a trip to New Orleans for Halloween...but we'll see how my living & working situations are that ten weeks from now. Worst-case, I may just have to settle for Halloween in Las Vegas, which may be just as groovy. We shall see. Other than that, not really much going on. So here's some news starting here in Utah...
Keepin' Out the Neighbors - In the home of my junior high school (Hooper, UT - GO GRIZZLIES!!!), farmer Rhett Davis has erected a backyard fence made of three old cars sticking up in the air to send a message to new neighbors that he can do whatever he wants on his property. "This is just a fun way for me to say, `Hey boys, I'm still here. This is my redneck Stonehenge." Davis came up with the idea after neighbors who recently moved into homes next to his hayfield complained about his farm. "The people who bought the homes say, `Well, we love looking into your yard and seeing the horses and the cattle, but we don't like the flies, and we don't like the mosquitoes,' and when I cut my field to bale it, they say, `We don't like the dust in the air,' " Davis said. Now, knowing exactly where he's talking about, they basically took an enormous amount of farmland and turned them into little subdivisions...surrounded by farms. It's actually kinda sad because there were many a beautiful sunsets that I saw out there in the open cow pastures that are now full of cookie cutter homes. Oh well, it may be the redneck in me that says, "Git 'r done!!! OOOOOWEEEE!!!" By the way, he doesn't intend on keeping them up permanently. I just like the redneck picture...and the fact that I probably bagged this guy's groceries a decade ago. Awesome.
Local Lucky Guy - In the city were I bagged this guy's groceries (West Haven, UT), a 23-year-old man who left an engagement ring on the hood of a car went from extremely unlucky to lucky when another man riding a Harley-Davidson noticed a little black jewelry box in the middle of the road. "I never thought we'd see that ring again," said Karen Jones, whose son Tyler forgot he had put the $3,000 diamond ring on his girlfriend's car. After some frantic days, turning the house upside-down looking for the ring, the Jones family had just about given up hope. They placed a classified ad in the Standard-Examiner (a.k.a. Standard-Exaggerator) knowing the chances of anybody seeing it (or wanting to give back a diamond ring) were slim. What they didn't know was that Monte Kirk had found the ring as he was riding his Harley one day. "I opened the box and found a diamond ring inside," he said. "You don't find that every day." Kirk took the ring home to his wife, Debbie, and she said they would watch the newspaper for anyone missing a ring. Jones waited all week and decided to still propose to Amanda Anderson — with or without the original diamond. He decided to buy another ring Saturday afternoon and be more careful with this one. However, Kirk and his wife had noticed the ad and were trying to reach Jones and tell him. When Kirk finally got through, he said Karen Jones answered. "She was so happy," Kirk said. "Her son works two jobs and was going to propose that very day." Kirk asked Karen to describe the ring in detail to make sure it was the right one. When he was sure it was the same ring, Kirk and his wife hopped on the Harley and met Karen Jones at a nearby store. "He suddenly brought out the ring from behind his back, and I just started bawling," she said. "I asked him to follow me over to the bank to give him the ($100) reward. He wouldn't accept the reward, though." Kirk said he never thought of keeping the ring. "I know my wife would be sick if she lost her ring," he said. "There wasn't anything else to do. It wasn't rightfully mine. I had to find the owner." Later that day, Anderson said "yes" to Jones' proposal. Tell me that's not a heartwarming tale. It just goes to show the kind of moral base that you're raised with growing up in cow country. Just remember to keep your engagement ring on you at all time...not on the hood of your girlfriend's car.
New Career as Porn Inspector? - A man suspected of posing as a police detective and telling an adult novelty shop to give him free X-rated videos so he could check for underage performers was arrested Tuesday. 33-year old Drew Libby of Longmont, CO was arrested on suspicion of impersonating an officer, possession of an illegal weapon and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Investigators said they believe Libby made three unsuccessful attempts to get free videos from the store, showing a badge and leaving a business card from the Longmont police "age verification unit." There is no such unit. Libby was identified by a police officer and tipsters after photos were distributed from a surveillance camera in the store. Now, I wonder if that would actually work in Evanston. It's worth a shot, right? As long as I don't flash a gun or a badge, I should be in the clear. It's all about charisma. Honestly, why wouldn't the guy just get a job at an adult novelty store? If that's what your fix is...and you know that a chunk of your earnings is going to something like that, why not go for the employee discount and work a couple weekend nights? He obviously wasn't doing too much other than smoking and firing off a few rounds (I mean on his illegal weapon, by the way) and probably playing some video games. You can do that and help point out to other perverts where to find the buttplugs. Watch out for the real Age Verification Unit though.That'll do it for tonight. Have a great night everybody!!! I'll keep you posted on the happenings when and if they happen. Shipoopi!!!
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