Billy Bob!



I made it to the Show. He had a pretty rough interview with the Jackasses from the local paper. He may not of at that time felt good about doing a show here, but he never showed it on stage. He was a class act all the way. The people who made it to the show, seemed to absolutely enjoy the show. I was talking to people and no one seemed to know a single Billy Bob song. By the time the show started and by the end of the first song, he owned that crowd. He played to the crowd, and they gave him all the love back. Actually the numbers may not of been what he expected, but the people who were there, Loved the show. The Band was tight. Those Musicians appeared to have been together for some time. Very well done on their behalf too. It was funny, Billy Bob was his own opening act. That was hilarious. The people were very respectful, I didn't hear one flippant comment the whole night. I know in the interview they eluded to the fact he may of expected to get some. It was all love and I hope he comes back again.
I just hope the small turnout, show on a Monday Night, school had just started, the State Fair was here all weekend, doesn't discourage him from roaming back this way. I would definitely go see him again.
I am also going to write to the Local Piece of Shit rag, and tell them, If you Assholes want to talk to someone who did nothing to you but perform his ass off to entertain you, someone who didn't start up any shit with you, that agreed to take time out of his life to humor your sub par, uninformative, biased, piece of shit. Let it be a guest piece. Let someone who appreciates what others do for them do the interview and submit it to your paper. I didn't appreciate the fact they pissed him off from the first question. GOD!! Idaho has some real assholes.

Errrrrrr What?

What do you say? I mean really.

This is Classic

The response of these people is classic!

Hey I found this

After I made the blog about a Landing on the Moon. It inspired talk amongst some of my friends and I. Well I decided to Google "Why we have not been back to the Moon."

I found this interesting Comments from the Japanese Scientist heading up the SELENE Mission that was supposed to launch in 2005. Apparently, after aaaaaall these years, NASA is going to go back to the moon on a future manned mission.
Another thing, allegedly all these telescopes that can see all the way to the edge of No-where, cannot get a clear shot of a Moon Rover, A Landing Site, or one of the Special NASA American Flag stuck on the Moon, that was left behind after any one of our 6 manned missions. This program of the Selene Explorer they think should be able to tell us many things. Should be interesting to see what they can tell the world after this "Scientific" Mission. Apparently Nasa used to be a Political affiliate of our Government and not a Scientific one according to some Moon Landing Theorists

Just so you dont have to go to the website, I placed the article here.

The launch of KAGUYA (SELENE, SELenological and ENgineering Explorer), which opens up a new age of lunar exploration in the 21st century, is coming soon. Preparations are underway at the Tanegashima Space Center.

Many lunar explorers, such as the Apollo program, were launched to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s. These explorers collected a large amount of data regarding the moon and led to new discoveries - such as the geological differences between the near and far sides of the moon. However, lunar exploration in those days was undertaken in the context of a race to land a man on the moon's surface and the data gathered were not intended or sufficient in support of serious research into the origin and evolution of the moon.

KAGUYA will globally gather data on chemical element distribution, mineral distribution, topographical/surface structures, gravity field and the environment of the moon, all with higher resolutions than past lunar missions - by 14 sophisticated scientific missions. All of the data gathered by KAGUYA will bring us new scientific knowledge for research of the origin and evolution of the moon.The lunar missions of China and India are scheduled to be launched in 2007 and 2008 respectively. Both missions also aim to collect data for the research to the origin and evolution of the moon as well.

Meanwhile, NASA is planning to deploy a manned lunar mission in the near future. As part of its preliminary research, NASA is going to launch a lunar orbiter in 2008 - to obtain data (we have been there 6 times! Remember?) for the planning of the manned exploration. NASA will also utilize data from KAGUYA for preparatory study of the manned lunar missions. Thus, KAGUYA will also contribute to the manned exploration of the moon.
In addition, KAGUYA carries a high-definition television camera and will take a movie of the beautiful Earth rising from the Moon's horizon for broadcasting on Earth.

We interupt this program for Important information



Hey. You know somethin?

My summer of multiple visitors

I just thought about making posts of these, I will have to ask them as well. If they look at these posts first lemme know if I can post about our visits. I would love to.

My Norwegian Visitor



OK I got the permission I needed to post. I and some other had planned to meet over here in the U.S and celebrate an event. Well dates got tossed around, peeps got tossed around and it was slowly coming apart this event. A few things happened or maybe a few other things didn't happen, but my Norwegian friend Linn stuck to her plans and made it! She never wavered from the planned date of the end of July thru the first weekend of August. Following is a play by play of how Linn came and stayed with my family.

For the whole month of July my kids kept counting down the days until Linn was coming to stay at our house. Well during the week leading up to her arrival, I had taken time off and was finishing up projects that had been put off for about a year. The kids getting things ready, asking me how many more days, how long will she stay, does she speak English. You know the general questions kids ask.

Well the day came our Norwegian friend was due to arrive and my youngest Ava wanted to head to the Airport with me. She was talking the whole way to the Airport and as we sat patiently waiting for Linn to arrive, Ava asks me, "Have you ever seen Linn?" I told her I have seen pictures of her and I didn't think I would have any problem seeing Linn if she was to come walking out of the gate. She had seen pictures too of Linn, but was filling up nervous time with chatter. Well here comes Linn and of course we have no problem recognizing her. Ava greets her bashfully right along with me. Well its late, somewhere around 11:00 PM and we have a 28 mile drive from the Airport to get home. We arrive and Diana and Tess are waiting for us when we arrive. Actually I think they were in bed but got up when we got home. We showed Linn where she would be staying(the Master Suite) and showed her what we thought she would need to know and got her situated. We talked a bit and got to know each other a bit, then went to bed.

We started out the next day kind of laid back. We waited for Linn to get out of bed and get around before having breakfast. We didn't do a whole lot that day except hang around the house and goof off mostly. We had stuff planned to do but didn't want to hit the ground running since we have never traveled that far, we didn't know how the time change, the long flights, the time spent in airports, all that would affect someone. Well she came through all of that just fine. I cannot remember what order or what days the events that took place happened on so I will just tell you what we did while she was here.

The next night after her arrival the Kids still had fireworks left from the 4th of July, so we lit those off on the back Patio. We went shopping more than once. Not like power shopping, but places Linn wanted to go. The Kids kind of took over Linn's exercise regimen. They had her jumping on the trampoline almost daily. Water fights were also on the agenda. There were some firsts for Linn while she was here too.

We went to the Horse Races and Linn Bet on a horse that paid out big for her.


Obviously not enough to skip College and go straight to retirement, but a pretty good amount for a first time wager. It was ironic that the Horses name was Bruneau as that was another place we took Linn. Bruneau Dunes was on the agenda where we took Linn so she could see the tallest Sand Dune in North America. Hopefully she had a good time there. It was Hot! We climbed the Dunes,

the kids played in the water,



We took her to a good old fashioned drive in Movie. That's so American. We were at the mercy of their schedule obviously. We saw Cars which none of us had seen. We now own the DVD and the kids mention Linn every time they watch it.

We Barbecued several times while she was with us and one night I started a fire and we had S'mores. That too is so American. We took her to my favorite Coffee Bar and we had an awesome time. Actually the Flying M Coffee House had just expanded and opened up a 2nd shop closer to home so we visited both locations many times.

We Flew Rockets. That's something I take my kids to do and they enjoy it. Linn wanted to see it, well at least she said she did. So we went and flew Rockets.


We lost 2 Rockets that day. One crashed and destroyed itself, and another one went into a Farmers Bean field and we never could locate it.

My daughters have this Chinese restaurant they love to go to. They had to take Linn and let her have the experience. Hopefully she liked the Buffet Bar Chinese style.
We have since moved and are no longer close to that place any more. We will probably drive over there and enjoy the place anyway.

We spent some time in Boise(Idahos Capital City) and walked down a Historic Blvd and looked at some old houses. Some of the oldest houses in Boise. Went to the Flying M Boise this time and enjoyed the atmosphere of the original location. We went to the Outlet Mall where it isn't really any big deal after you figure out its just another Mall of over priced crap, but we looked around and still ended up buying a few things. While we were there we had lunch.

At the end of her 10 day stay, We went to Hailey for the Music Festival.


My Wife and I have been going up there for a few years during the festival and enjoy it. We got into Hailey and checked into the Hotel. A cheap but clean place. Its not much to look at, but really who is in their room any way? We went to the festival and enjoyed the first night.


The music wasn't too bad. We had brought some beer with us and had a few of those, ate some food we had brought, and watched people, watched music, and watched security(that's always entertaining). There is always something entertaining even if its not on the stage. After the Festival ended we went to The Mint bar and had a couple of Drinks there before heading back to the Hotel and off to bed. While we were at the Mint, my Mother in Law who went with us to Hailey, got hit on. this guy used a classic line Ive never heard. He said," Hey do you want to dance? Or anything?" what is she had said, "Sure, lets go bowling!"
The next day we got up and ate Breakfast at Shorty's Diner in Hailey.


Its not bad, but its one of the only places to eat breakfast in Hailey. After breakfast we went to Ketchum(which is in the middle of a huge forest fire right now and parts have been evacuated) and did some shopping and walking around. Linn even got a call from her Dad up in Ketchum.

Ketchum is a great town for looking around and shopping. After a Day of shopping there we went back to Hailey to get ready for Day 2 of the Festival.
We got there a little later since we went shopping for some food to eat at the Festival. We had some stuff left from the day before, but we got more at the local Grocery store we all thought was awesome. They have a play structure at the Park where the Festival is held, that has everything a kid could want to play on. Its huge. After the Festival, we went back to the Mint again, this time my wife went with us and shot some pool, had some Beers, and went back to the Hotel.
The next morning we got up and got everything packed up. We spent one last hour or two milling around Hailey before heading to the store and getting something for everyone to eat because we had to get Linn to the Airport. We took her into the Airport and I had Tess with me this time. We said goodbye to Linn and watched her wind through the Security ropes and head to her plane.

We hated to see out guest leave.