Nascar Redneck

So as you may have noticed my lovely wife has joined the blogger nation. That means my whole family now has a blog.. Waht a techno geek family!!.. at least we're not redneck trailor trash..
Like we don't drive pickups... wait I do
We don't wear cowboy boats... wait I do
We don't own rifles... Wait I do
We don't wear Daisy dukes and halters... wait I ... well ok just around the house I do!
We don't LOVE NASCAR.. WAIT I DO!!!!
So I may be a redneck... but at least I dislike all people equally.. But.. I do love Nascar especially Jeff Gordon the #24 Dupont car. I love watching cars go fast turn left. I love watching crashes that don't involve stupid drivers on the deerfoot. I love the hype.. I love the Noise..I love the speed.. Now sadly I have never been to live race.. No time No money :( But My %$#%$# brother got a free all expense paid trip from our company to goto Indy and see the brickyard 400. Never even knew what a Nascar was.. Or who Jeff Gordon was ( LOSER!!) And I was suposed to go but he pulled rank on me.. Oh WEll.. ( just kidding by the way he is my boss and I LOVE MY JOB) LOL

Bu in his defence he did bring me back a bunch of stuff from the race like..

This beautifull 24th scale Jeff Gordon Car from the 2004 season















And a Hat














And a Program.

I am so happy.. I spent 3 hours tonight sitting on the floor going vroom vroom and driving my car.. You got it.. it circles going left.. LOL

Camping Frustrations

So the wife and I head off to beautifull Banff to spend some quiet time in the mountains for the weekend. We get there Friday afternoon.. Nice and peacfull.. setup camp.. Doe deer walks into our camp.. So quiet so peacefull.. and then BOOM!! Stupid damn kids move into the 2 sites beside us.. NO MORE QUIET.. NO MORE PEACEFULL... Drinking and noise and yelling and swearing.. Oh the inhumanity... why do some voices carry so well.. why do people not respect people beside them why oh why. Friday night I drink enough that I finally fall asleep but Bonny is up till 2:30 or so. Saturday I think maybe they will be tired and quiet.. WRONG... more drinking, more swearing more yelling. Bonny startsyelling at them to be quiet. I just swear under my breath. They finally got the hint and went to bed.. So I am lieing in my tent thinking finally some sleep. WRONG!! the nieghbours on the other side are having a chat about her grandmother dieing and all that crap BOO HOO.. go to sleep.. So after al that everything quiets down and then BOOM the camp aways away find the volume button on the Stero and they start yelling and screaming.. I am so glad they do not allow guns in camp .. or they may have been a shooting.. Finally around 4:30 or so they shut up. Needless to say I was very happy to get home Sunday and sleep... On a lighter note

The couple beside us are geting into bed... I think they were just dating becuase of the discussions they were having. I think they are crawling into bed and the they are going to DO IT!!.. and I think GREAT I will have to hear go baby go baby oh yea oh yea.. for the next 10 mins or so.. BUT... all I hear is this huge FART... !! LOL and the ladysays GOOD GREIF Brian that stinks you pig.. I burst out laughing and I am sure they heard me.. What a mood killer that was for him cause it got really quiet after that.. So note to self.. Farting is not good for foreplay.

Oh the things I learn late in life camping!!!

And another thing that ticks me off

Soo.. here is another thing that ticks me off. I hate it when people do NOT know how to train other people. I was at my local Esso and behind the counter is a older lady (we will call her the shrew) and a sweet looking young (like 15 or so ) the Shrew was attempting to train the sweet young thing. BUT she was talking down to her, barking at her, rolling her eyes and generally just being a big bitch. The poor young thing was embarassed, her face was all red, frustrated and getting pissed off. All the Shrew had to do was explain things without rolling her eyes or being a bitch and I am sure the young thing would have got it. AND another thing.. when your traing someone to handle customers and I am that customer.. PLEASE do not treat me like I am not there. For example.. she says, looking at the girl, now ask him him if he has an esso extra card.. well holy crap just ask me and she will learn to ask the next customer. Then she says now ask him if he he wants a bag? now ask him if he wants a car wash? Holy crap I am right there. I felt like I was back in high school and was having a fight with my girlfriend.. So.. People please get some friggin people skills and learn to trin people with some dignity and respect.


On a lighter note.. We had a great weekend at the Dragon boat races watching Craig (Our son) here are some pics of the handsome lad..(mad?) still me little boy sometimes..


Here is url for all the pics from the weeked racing and a nephews wedding we had the great joy to attend.. ( ok a little sarcasm there)

http://public.fotki.com/gesau/?cmd=neweditalbum

Here are some more pics of our trip to radium.. I am still trying to figure how to make pics look good here

This is a Picture I stitched together from 6 pics.. Looks great full size

This a Pic of more berries.. I know I seem to take a lot of pics of berries

Here is a pic of a moose that we saw as we were careening ( yes that is right CAREENING) down a mountain road

This is a pic of Crystal and Carmen as we hiked from the campground to the pool ( the whining was unbeliable.. My feet hurt.. my legs are sore.. and of course.. MY BUM IS ITCHY!!LOL)

And of course a pic of Bonny and I.. She is looking ravishing as ususal and I look.. well tired and ready for a swim

Pics from Hiking

Hi Here are some pics I took while hiking at Johnson Canyon with the wife... I tell you I love my new cam!!

Check out Moms face.. LOL

So time for my 2nd post. Wow this is sooooo fun. As I was driving in today I was thinking about things that tick me off.. Oh the List is long but here is my main one for today.

People that cannot merge. On Monday coming home from Banff in heavy heavy fast moving traffic( holiday and all) there is the LADY!! yes I could tell at 140k she was a she Stopped ( and I mean totally stopped!!) at the begginning of the merge lane from Calaway park onto the #1. Really?? I mean Really???? holy crap.. Traffic as far as you can see... all moving at 120-140k and she stops. Of course there is traffic backing up on the merge lane so now all of them are stopped as well. People in the "slow" lane could not move over so I am sure she is still sitting there.. probably crying in her broken english.. traffic so fast i velly velly scared. ( Ok that was a bit harsh) and yes she was also asian.

First Blog HERE WE GO!

So after much pushing from my kids I have decided to venture into this world of blogging. Do I have anything intelligent or interesting to say.. Probably not but it could be funny!
I need to explain the name of this blog. In our family whenever someone mentions they have an ailment like a sore toe or they banged there knee or they have wicked gas.. my standard answer is.. Well my bum is itchy!. It alwasy makes my daughter laugh, my wife cringe and my son roll his eyes.. but at least it gets a reaction!. Now if the ailment is actually serious we look after it. For example if someone had an arm cut off.. They would say OH Dear my arm is cutoff!! and I respond... really!! well my bum is itchy! ( it always has to be about me of course) after the correct amount of time giggling and eye rolling we then look after the serious ailment.

Of course I have to scratch first.

So that is my first blog.. read it.. don't read I don't care... so for now I am off for a little me time scratching.. and then back to work