It was a good time. Not bad at all. Unless you count all of the behind the back talking that goes on.

They don’t care for me calling Porkchop, Porkchop. They really think that I am underclass. Hmm. It is strange that they would think that considering that their granddaughter does have to work right now. It is not like I’m not providing for her.

Sure I didn’t go to a University. I don’t even have a degree or any certifications. I just have worked my ass off the old fashion way. I have made it on my own with the help of good friends, co-workers, and family. It has been a long road, but one that I have traveled.

I don’t really have a name with that side of the family either. I’m known as the daughter’s husband, to her mom and granddaughter’s husband to the grandparents. I can’t believe that they can’t even call me by name.

I attempt to not give a damn about it. The problem I have is just that they cut at me every chance they get it seems, and not in a joking way. They do it not so much to be hurtful to me, because they do not think that I know about it, but I guess to be hurtful to Sydney, my wife. I just don’t understand it. Why, would you do such a thing to your own family. I can understand expressing an opinion about someone and then dropping it. Everyone is entitled to those. After more than 2 years you think that it would have stopped by now, but it hasn’t.

Fuck them! I care because I feel that it effects my wife. I could give a shit less what they think about me. I know what type of person I am and so do many other people. If they could get their noses out of their asses for a little while, they would be able to smell their ass and realize that it too stinks.

As for the rest of the weekend, I had a blast. Knowing that I will not have to see them again for a while is joy in my heart.

FYI, these grandparents on Sydney’s mothers side of the family. Her dad’s side seems to like me well enough.

I’m not missing this weeks ASMW. I think that I missed last weeks but I’m really not sure. It really doens’t matter and I’m not going back to check.

I was feeling down yesterday when I came across this song. No it didn’t up lift me and make me want to get naked and frolic though the meadow. It reminds me a little of Smashing Pumpkins. It really suited my mood yesterday. I would really say fuck it all and go live out in the woods if I wasn’t married. So I go though the shit I do for my wife, and she puts up with my shit. Strange? Maybe.

So lets get to the music. Close to you by Reality Addiction.

Slammed – a term used by many people in different professions to mean really busy.
In the Weeds – Means the same as Slammed.

It really doesn’t matter what term you use to get the point across. It just means that you have been busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. Unless the one legged man is just getting his ass kicked, then he is just beat down.

That is the point that I am at. I have consumed more High Fructose Corn Syrup today then I think I have done in 2 or 3 weeks. I even ate at McDonnalds because I knew that it was nothing but energy and I needed to get moving today. Sad, is it not? Of course it is. It does just go to show how much energy you can get from the fast food when you don’t eat it every singe day of the week. It has its place, and it is in my belly about once a month if I get much say in the matter. My batteries were just running really low today, that is why I did it.

I have a busy week of my day job and working on servers at home tonight. It will be very fast paced for the next week. Getting all of this done, up and running shouldn’t be too hard, but it is a challenge none the less. I’m having a blast, or is it that I’m being blasted though it.

I keep saying that I need more time. I don’t know if I need more time or I just need to be less busy. Busy is good though, I don’t mind the work, it is just everything else that keeps me from working that is a pain in my ass. It will all get done though. Once it is done, then I can relax, if just for a day.

So I went camping this past weekend and this is really the first that I have had to write about it. Well I guess there have been other times but I have just been tired or busy, so you just had to wait.

Moondance this year was a blast, like the past years. this year was different though. I went out on a Wednesday night and not a Thursday afternoon. I also didn’t leave until Monday. Even though I didn’t make it out until about 8pm on Wednesday, it still felt like I had 2 extra days there.

Wednesday night we, Will and I, scoped out the camp site. There was a tree that was laying down across where I normally camp. We popped open the bottle of whiskey and sat around drinking with Wade, another friend of ours. After a few hours we all passed out in his camper.

8am Thursday: Will and I got out of bed and went to work on the camp site. We cleared the tree out of the way with hand saws. That is right, I had a 12″ bow saw and he had a 12″ wood saw. No power tools. We cleared the tree out of the way cutting it in half and then trimming off the branches. We moved the trunk of the tree, about 15 to 18 feet worth of tree, out of the way and dragged the top of the tree and limbs over to another area for further dismantling. We raked the sticks out of the way and unpacked the car.

10am Thursday: Camp was completely setup now. It took us about 2 hours to get the tree out of the way and camp setup. It was time for something to eat. Headed back to the camper for some coffee and to check to see if Wade was up yet.

The rest of the weekend was relaxing. We took care of gate duty on Thursday, so that was out of the way. When we were done with gate duty, Will’s wife showed up and we had to unpack her car. That didn’t take to long. Jason and Kurt arrived on Friday evening and we got their tents setup as well. We all enjoyed a bottle of home-made shine. It didn’t taste like shine though, so it was gone in a matter of minutes.

To Amber – your fire spinning was wonderful. Truly a fire Goddess.

That was the weekend. There are a ton of parts left out. I mean, do you really want to hear about how they have flushing toilets out there now? I didn’t think so. The drumming was good, as well as the stew that I make every year. It was a wonderful time. I can’t wait until next year.

I really meant to get this one out last week, and I failed. So I’m getting it out this week for everyone to have a listen to.

Personally I do not listen to much HipHop and Rap. I find a lot of it is just to ‘Thugged Out’ for me. Maybe I’m not hardcore enough to get the meaning of music that repeats 5 to 10 words over and over again talking about bling, bitches and hoes, and popping a cap in someones ass.

I do how ever love the beats that are laid out behind most of these songs. I will often listen to a song just for the beat and the way it sounds. It is really messed up when someone is rapping about gum stuck to the bottom of their shoe or something like that.

So I bought Extra Kool’s albums, I think that I was searching around for something like Sublime or was just bouncing around the ’sounds like’ area. After hearing the sample tracks, I picked up both albums.

I have enjoyed the music a lot. I feel like the dude in “Office Space” that was listening to gangsta rap when the thugs pulled up beside him. It is all good though.

Enjoy the Music!