So far 2010 has been pretty damned cold.
Nothing going on around here. New Year's Eve came and went pretty uneventfully. The kids went out and made it home safely. The wife and I went to a friend's house for an early party, then came home to watch the Blackhawks kick the collective shit out of New Jersey. Those Hawks are awesome to watch. We got tickets to see them play Detroit in March. Should be fun.
The party was very nice. The host, Rod, was pretty well lit by the time we arrived. He's a real outgoing dude with a booming voice and a more booming personality. He was making some wicked Cosmo's, and their effect on him was apparent. He was a busy bee, and the Cosmo's made him a most entertaining host.
We met the new superintendent of schools for Libertyville High School. He was nice, and so was his wife. He got me talking about flying small planes, so I was in my element. I couldn't shut up (insert your "Duh!" here...) and yapped for an hour or so. They wanted to hear all about the engine failure we had in my dad's plane a few years back, and I indulged his curiosity until I was hoarse. Then he and his wife wanted my opinion on just how the Hell did John John Kennedy screw the pooch... he looked out the window too long, then didn't believe his instruments when they told him he was rolling upside down. Rookie error -- and a fatal one, at that. Too bad -- that was a nice plane he wrecked.
The party broke up about nine, as it was a "starter" party. After the hockey game, we both fell asleep, but woke up just in time to ring in 12:15 a.m.! I hope that's not an omen about the year to come.
Played a Led Zeppelin tune right away -- Ten Years Gone, off the Physical Graffiti album. Thirty years ago, we played that tune to ring in 1980 at "the white house" I lived in with two of my buddies. It seemed poignant back then, so every year I play that tune, especially to ring in the new decades.
If you notice, the ads next to the blog changed since my last post -- at least one of them did. It's now about snowmobiles, so I'm pretty sure I was right, that Google looks for keywords and posts ads to match the subject matter. No luck on the naked Asian chicks, though.
But I'll keep checking, cause they seem to keep changing. Never give up hope. Naked Asian chicks. There -- I said it again.
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The rambling musings of a 50ish construction superintendent. Schooled in the Midwest as a journalist, consigned to a career in construction by personal circumstances, our hero has a novel inside of him -- which is where it should stay. In its stead, he offers this blog to the thronging masses, both washed and unwashed.
