ALL I EVER WANTED WAS A STAYCATION

Happy almost summer. My most favorite season. One thing I tried to do every summer was some type of road trip. Up the coast, down old Rte. 66, over the 15 to Vegas. Well thanks to the Arabs and the oil companies I think this year I'll just have what I'm calling a Staycation. I'm just staying home.
It seems like everything has just piled up to make a vacation of any type just to hard and expensive to do. Drive you car? Forget it. The news is saying gas could be five or six bucks a gallon this summer. Then you have traffic when you do fill up and hit the road. I don't know how many non-readers read this but if you live in the So Cal area and try to drive to Las Vegas or Laughlin you'll average about 40mph. That means a three or four hour drive through the desert could take you five or six hours. Six hours of stop and go driving does not make me think I'm having a good time. Plus I'll be going slow enough for the CHP to see if I have my seat belt on or not. I know, I know. Seat belts are good. Seat belts save lives. But I'm not a big fan of government telling us what to do if what we're doing doesn't hurt anyone else. If I'm involved in a car crash and decide I want to fly through the windshield then that should be my right.
How about flying there then? How about paying fifteen bucks minimum for every bag you want to bring with you? How about paying a much higher price for your ticket? How about standing in front of a machine at security that makes you look naked? Even if you do make it to the plane for your flight forget about the free peanuts (I guess those little bags of nuts would bankrupt the airlines).
No dear travelers my vacation travel will be going from my wide screen TV to the Bar-b-Que in the back yard. I'll keep enough exotic drinks close to blender so I can close my eyes and pretend I'm in some far off location. I'll keep Halo 3 warmed up on the old X-box so I can explore strange new sights.
All this and I'll never move the car from the driveway. Cheers.

OK I haven't done a post in a long long time. I don't know why. Maybe it was just a feeling of loneliness. Maybe it was just all the effort it took to sign on. It could be because every time I turn on the computer I always sneak over to youtube. Poor excuses all but at least I'm doing it now. If any one's interested I did make a new years resolution to update this thing at least a couple times a week. I'm doing great so far if you consider the resolution will be for 2012. I think that's when the world is suppose to end so I should be able to get out of it.

Speaking of the world, what the hell are you guys doing? I've only been gone a few months and look whats happened: Giant earthquakes, giant cyclones, giant gas prices. Come on guys who watch is it anyway? I even heard Brittany might be pregnant again.

This is what happens when old guys get tired and don't give a damn anymore. Me? I just watch TV and play my video games. Let the younger generation have a turn at screwing up the world. Can't buy rice or milk at the market anymore. Can't fill my gas tank up to even get to the market in the first place. Can't water my lawn anymore because we're running out of water. Can't smoke my cigars because someone told me one cigar is equal to two packs of cigarettes. Man all the fun is drying out faster than my former green lawn.

One good note: I was watching 60minutes a few weeks ago and according to some scientist in about twenty years we should all be able to live to be 150. Great! Only a hundred more years of watching Clinton/Obama?McCain telling us how they're the answer to all our problems.

I'm outta here. Now get the hell off my dirt. (Fair warning, I WILL be back)