Can you believe how much snow we've got this year? Maybe it doesn't seem particularly amazing to anyone else. Maybe I'm just easily amused. Where I'm from you have to drive to the mountains in the winter time to see any snow. Here it just falls everywhere. I like snow. I've heard enough to believe that I might be the only one in the state that likes snow. Everyone else complains about it. I like snow because it stops the whole world. It's just a bunch of tiny ice flakes and it stops everything. Time stands still.
I look out side and think to myself, "Self, I couldn't get anything done today even if I wanted to." My self replies back, "Well then, just sit your lazy butt down in that chair and light up that play station!" No time for that. I'm on my P.C. doin' band stuff. So ya, snow stops everything but the band. What I really love is driving in it. When we get dumped on by a sky full of white, I live for a phone call that puts me in the drivers seat whether I like it or not.
Stick the burban in 4 wheel and go!! God help me if I see an empty parking lot after it's nice and packed. I'll shut the 4 wheel drive down and do doughnuts until I barf!!!! I always have some trucker come up to me and say..."You know if you hit a dry spot you'll tip that thing over right?" If the truckers think I'm nuts.......hmmmm. Not like it's real dangerous. I have a friend that use to have a VW bug. When it got icy out he'd load up his bug with friends and off they'd go. His favorite thing to do was to get up to a good 35mph and pull the E brake.
Uuuuu....ya. That's kinda' what I said. For those that don't know, pulling the E brake on ice puts you into a spin. Consider this.....Bug+E brake+35mph=time machine! It took me awhile to figure it out but I'm pretty sure my friend is actually me. I just spun one too many times and wound up stuck in the recent past. Don't think about that too hard. You know what? The first thing I did when I moved to Kansas was play in the snow. I was 19.
I moved out here Jan. of 93'. Blizzard!!!! I thought I was dreaming! I flipped out and built a massive wall out of snow that was about 9ft tall and 3 ft thick. Amy's sister Jen might remember that. I had to put her on my shoulders so she could finish up the top. I think we tried to build an igloo too. Snow days are awesome too. They didn't have snow days in California. They had what they called rainy day schedule. If it rained they'd cut the day short and everyone would be sent home at lunch. Wild, right? It wasn't really rain either. It was like a sprinkle in Kansas.
I remember one time it actually snowed in Modesto. You couldn't really see it but they said that it was snow. They practically declared a state of emergency. It was awesome. None of it stuck and everyone completely lost it! Aaaaah, the power of snow. Check this out.
One time me and my boy Jamie were on our way to work in his Jeep. This thing had a soft top and no real heater. We're haulin' arsss down an old highway between Mac and Hesston when this oncoming van looses control and heads strait for us. We had nowhere to go so we went off the road into a creak. The creak wasn't deep but we did find our self literally buried in snow. We couldn't see out of the windows. After a few minutes in FWD we decide we're stuck.
Jamie tell me I should call into to work and tell them we won't be in. While I'm on the phone leaving a recording for our supervisor he's trying to get his Jeep out. Several times I go back and forth telling then...."Ya, we're not gonna' be there....oh wait a second....we almost got it......nope, doesn't look like we're gonna' make it......no no, hold on...ok we're good!.....scratch that, we're back under a drift again.......Finally we got out of there. My props to the almighty Jeep. We were late but we made it.
Unfortunately at AGCO late and absent were the same thing.
Well, that was all pretty pointless.....YAAAAWNnnnnn.....RAARrr.....Bed time.
I look out side and think to myself, "Self, I couldn't get anything done today even if I wanted to." My self replies back, "Well then, just sit your lazy butt down in that chair and light up that play station!" No time for that. I'm on my P.C. doin' band stuff. So ya, snow stops everything but the band. What I really love is driving in it. When we get dumped on by a sky full of white, I live for a phone call that puts me in the drivers seat whether I like it or not.
Stick the burban in 4 wheel and go!! God help me if I see an empty parking lot after it's nice and packed. I'll shut the 4 wheel drive down and do doughnuts until I barf!!!! I always have some trucker come up to me and say..."You know if you hit a dry spot you'll tip that thing over right?" If the truckers think I'm nuts.......hmmmm. Not like it's real dangerous. I have a friend that use to have a VW bug. When it got icy out he'd load up his bug with friends and off they'd go. His favorite thing to do was to get up to a good 35mph and pull the E brake.
Uuuuu....ya. That's kinda' what I said. For those that don't know, pulling the E brake on ice puts you into a spin. Consider this.....Bug+E brake+35mph=time machine! It took me awhile to figure it out but I'm pretty sure my friend is actually me. I just spun one too many times and wound up stuck in the recent past. Don't think about that too hard. You know what? The first thing I did when I moved to Kansas was play in the snow. I was 19.
I moved out here Jan. of 93'. Blizzard!!!! I thought I was dreaming! I flipped out and built a massive wall out of snow that was about 9ft tall and 3 ft thick. Amy's sister Jen might remember that. I had to put her on my shoulders so she could finish up the top. I think we tried to build an igloo too. Snow days are awesome too. They didn't have snow days in California. They had what they called rainy day schedule. If it rained they'd cut the day short and everyone would be sent home at lunch. Wild, right? It wasn't really rain either. It was like a sprinkle in Kansas.
I remember one time it actually snowed in Modesto. You couldn't really see it but they said that it was snow. They practically declared a state of emergency. It was awesome. None of it stuck and everyone completely lost it! Aaaaah, the power of snow. Check this out.
One time me and my boy Jamie were on our way to work in his Jeep. This thing had a soft top and no real heater. We're haulin' arsss down an old highway between Mac and Hesston when this oncoming van looses control and heads strait for us. We had nowhere to go so we went off the road into a creak. The creak wasn't deep but we did find our self literally buried in snow. We couldn't see out of the windows. After a few minutes in FWD we decide we're stuck.
Jamie tell me I should call into to work and tell them we won't be in. While I'm on the phone leaving a recording for our supervisor he's trying to get his Jeep out. Several times I go back and forth telling then...."Ya, we're not gonna' be there....oh wait a second....we almost got it......nope, doesn't look like we're gonna' make it......no no, hold on...ok we're good!.....scratch that, we're back under a drift again.......Finally we got out of there. My props to the almighty Jeep. We were late but we made it.
Unfortunately at AGCO late and absent were the same thing.
Well, that was all pretty pointless.....YAAAAWNnnnnn.....RAARrr.....Bed time.
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