I am quite excited, it looks as if I just may be able to dig the scooter out of storage this week.  Might be pushing it a little bit, but I am so sick of riding that bus I’m willing to knock a few degrees off my “low temp” rule for riding.  We shall see what the week brings.

Not a bad weekend, all in all.  We kicked off Friday with a bit of Happy Hour celebrating down at the Flying Saucer.  Just the two of us, for a romantic game of darts.  We hung out there for a  short bit, and then went to yet another “Grandview High School Get-Together” thingie.  Geez I’ve seen those people more in the last few months than I did in High School.  This time the location was “Howl at the Moon,” which is a piano bar down in the Power & Light district.  It was OK until the piano players started;  That’s just not really my kind of entertainment.  Must suit a lot of other people though, because it was packed.  We didn’t stay very long after the music started though.

Saturday we got up and headed out to Cabela’s for a little light shopping.  Picked up a copy of “Big Game Hunter” for our Wii, a few new chairs and some disposable propane bottles.  Good sales!!  After that we stopped by Amigos in the ‘Dotte for a little lunch, then went home and played the new game for a while.  (It’s fun by the way, if you’re thinking of getting it.)  For evening entertainment, Donette headed down to the Sprint Center for the Billy Joel & Elton John show, with her friend Katie.  Meanwhile, I headed out to (gasp) Overland Park and met up with some out-of-town friends.  My ol’ Army buddy Scott & his wife were in town for a meeting out off College Blvd, so instead of trying to describe how to get to our area of town I just drove that way.  I stayed quite a bit later than I intended, but what can ‘ya do, we were having fun.  After that I headed back home and closed out the evening with some solo Rock Band.

Sunday I slept in a bit, relatively speaking, then headed out to the big gun show with my buddy Mark.  YEEEE HAW!!  Good grief.  I think I’d take the “bus crowd” over the “gun show crowd” any day.  I thought the admission price was a little steep but after checking out the quality of the people-watching, I felt it was well worth it.  Just remember to strictly heed the “no touch, no talk, no eye-contact” rule.  We must have found the show (or the people-watching) pretty engaging, because we wandered around looking at stuff for 3 hours.  Bought a grand total of nothing too.  I had myself talked into a fancy new flashlight, but just couldn’t part with the cash.  Mark dropped me off at the Brooksider after the gun show, and I walked in to find the place was absolutely packed.  I wouldn’t have guessed it, but everybody was there to watch the big hockey game.  They were fired up too;  I can honestly say I have never seen a reaction down there anything like when the USA team scored that goal at the end of regulation.  Unfortunately it didn’t work out in the end, but it was still pretty exciting to watch and I was glad I lucked into seeing it.