The Fair! The Police! Boston Madness!

Are you Ready for the Summer????


Our first weekend of Summer begins with a County Fair, then an outdoor Concert, with Sunday bringing us out to the Ball Game.


Not to shabby this only being the 5th day of summer.
So hang on, we have much to report!



First Nothing says County Fair Like!





The Ring Toss!
Can You believe it!
Just Because they liked my Face they started to have a sale on Rings. Normally it was 20 rings for two dollars. However, Just because....
They had a Five Minute special 40 rings for 2 dollars. Shhhh! Don't tell the others! This Booth could get closed down for slashing prices so low!

Good News. With double the chances, I was still unable to succeed at this Midway Game.




After the Tossing of the Rings I worked up quite an appetite. With so many choices of quality food at the fair, like Deep Fried Pepsi, or Deep Fried Oreos. I chose something a little less fatting.
Yes, a 10lbs Turkey Leg.

It is fun to look like Henry the VIII at the fair. I think it apart of the Carney Way of Life.






Eating all that Turkey can get you a little tired. So I needed a pick me up.
And the Fair is famous for some Super Tonic that not only give you energy, but grows hair thicker than a Carpet.
But I figured I have great hair I wanted something different!

Something that you can bye only at the fair and is probably free everywhere else you go!
So I bought something we all get for free. Oxygen. I was pretty excited. And the oxygen people got excited too when I asked if it was ok to smoke.

No Sense of humor when it comes to open flames and Oxygen.





Kind of a bad Photo, but this here is an article from the Friday paper in the Union Tribune. It seems that this group from Milwaukee, have found the musical "fusion" of the Beatles and Metallica!
Side Note "Fusion" a new buss word when it comes to joining two apposing forces like I don't know Communisms and Capitalism together and calling something like a French Fry a Freedom Fry. Not really a good example since the French are a Republic, but sometimes you have to explain that to people. Maybe a better example would be the joining of Barbecue Chicken on a Pizza. Why on earth would you need chicken on a pizza, but it seems that true Republicans still order Freedom Fries. (Mental Patients!) But, that is the Beauty of America.

Kind of a bad example, but these dudes combines the beauty of the Beatles with the Hard Rock of Metallica. Wow! Let me tell you it is exactly what the world of rock has been missing. There is something quite gratifying when you here the song "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles and having the Hard Rock Sound of Metallica with the new words being "I Want to Choke Your Band"

Much fun and a great show to see!




As you can see I am now the 5th member of Beatallica! I am the one with the short hair. Kind of a sell out for the band. That is probably why they kick me out of the group after or first photo together. Apparently the Thumbs up sign is too Fonzi for the Group!

No hard feelings, because it seemed that I had other adventure that needed attention and being in a band right now would interfere with my charity work!




But I just Couldn't get the Band out of my Head. I could always to Charity Work, but Now is the Time to be a Rock Star!

Now what to do? Being a Rock Star without a band! Even though I was only in the band for 6 seconds I had now had the fever of a Juke Box Hero!

As you can see, My only Solution is...
I need to start my own band!











So I came up with this great idea. A three member band! We would call ourselves Two Cops and a Son of a Con!

But, they said their real jobs as Police would interfere with Rehearsals, and they don't work with Con's Children.

Plus they said if they wanted to really be in a band they would want to be called "The Police!"




Silly Buggers! They already have a band called The Police.

So here I am getting ready to see the Super Reunion Tour of The Police.

A reunion is basically a polite way of saying, we were once a band, now I am better than you, and I see you need some more money from our earlier projects. So I agree to tour with you two dudes to help you get some coin. And hey, this time manager your money better, because I have more important things to do like sing about Russia's Children.







Anyway, See the Dude in the Yellow Coat. Well, he probably recognize me from my Photo Session with Beatallica.

I had a ticket to the show.
Just not a front row tickets. As a matter of fact if you turned the stadium around I was in front row, but it just seemed easier for me to come closer to the band than the band moving all the way up to see me. The Security Guard agreed with this logic and will only armed with only white pants, a camera, and a smile!




Front Row Center for the Concert!

THE ENTIRE SHOW!










Including The Opening Band

The Foo Fighters!

Who By the Way is the Band Chad Really wanted to see!

Wait you might be asking???

What happened to your date???

Where is the Chad???


Chad got a Sex Change and Now Calls Himself Malia!

Actually, I Told Chad "Hey, I know you bought the tickets but you can't go. I want to meet this chick!"

OK the real story!
See my date was to be Chad! But it seems that Chad had the business in Seattle. So, Malia, became the New Chad.

Except, while in the concert, The Guards liked my White Pants Better than her Black Trousers and while I was in front row center taking photos of myself. She was just Right of Center and we could not seem to find each other.

The Good news is that we did find each other at the end of the show. Since she had the keys to the car, my ID and of course Credit Card. It was a good thing. It is hard to start the car with white pants a camera.
We both had a great time! Fun Show!





Oh Yea!

This Crazy Dude was Had a Ticket!

He thought my idea of coming closer to the band rather than the band coming closer to me was a great idea.





Wait! I almost forgot! Brian from Boston was in Town!

And Why?

Well, it seems the Padres had a three game series against the Red Sox!







So while I was taken out to the Ball Game and the Crowd






A new Adventure Came Up!






These were our seats during the game until the 7th inning. When Ron's Guest Harry O asked me if I wanted to see something really cool!



Sure Harry No Problem!








So we took a quick tour of the Sony Dough out Lounge and Seats. Also a quick tour of the Cox Box and what tour behind Petco Stadium would be complete without going into the Broadcast booth for a few moments.

Yes, Only Armed with a Camera and this time White Shorts Another wonderful adventure!











The Bad news was the Padres Lost.
The Yankees Lost as well and as of this posting are about 11 games behind Boston!

But the good news is it was nice to see the typical Angry Bostonian Smile and Shave his Chest Hairs to let the world know what city he was from.

Fun People when they win! Probably the Best! However, when they loose.
Well, RUN! and Run for your life!




So to show I was a good sport and a good host of San Diego to our visitors from Boston. I bought them a round of their favorite Drinks. What is that favorite drink? I don't know! See everyone has a different favorite drink. Personally I really enjoy Club Soda with lime. I also do enjoy a good dirty martini.

But the Better News was that our waitress let me bye her a drink. And as a bonus, I got to carry the drinks to our table, and as a special treat, bus the table as well. She was from Maryland.


After doing our waitress job for about 15 minutes, of serving drinks and closing out tabs, she agreed to take our photo. Which was very nice.
What was not so nice is that she did not tip me out! (Not nice Ms. Maryland)

But here is our celebration photo of our victorious friends from Boston!









Good Night!

You have all been Beautiful!











Walter

Lets Go Camping in June!

Is it possible Walter is on the Road Again?


Why Yes he is.

And this month is dedicated to CAMPING!

So if you are ready for the Summer....

Please Sing along...
"Are you ready for the Summer.... Are You ready for the Good Times... Good Times! Are you ready for the Something Something, the Something Something. Are you Ready for the Summer Alright!" To get the tune down I recommend Renting Meatballs with Bill Murry!




Ok so here we go. It has been a while but we have many updates.

First off as you can see I am now a Life Guard, or at least I am certified in Life Saving skills.

Which is always good on a date. Sometimes it seems that I get the ladies a little sick with my non-sense. I have lost one already this year to this, but now at least I have the ability to administer CPR for bad dates.


So our first Camping Story involves Indoor Camping.

Indoor Camping involves, Rootbeer Floats, Pop-Corn and of course plenty of sugar!

These young people are Joe's Children. As some of you know Joe is a friend of mine moving back to California with his family.

So Joe is Staying with me while he sets up "shop" in San Diego. The kids and wife visited for two days and then went back to Arizona.

Being the Good "Uncle Walter" that I am I purchased "Meatballs" the movie and we played summer camp that night at the house. Yes, this is the movie with our theme song of this blog!



"So, what do you want to do with your life?"

Is the question posed to me on my super Camping month of June. The Camping god's came down to me and basically said "Walter, Well are you going to be a rock star or what?"


Well, Keep reading and we will come back to this fun question later. I promise.

But First...



Beach Camping.....

Yes thats right! The only thing you need for beach camping is Fire Wood Ice and Beer..

Unless your a Hirchag! Then you need....








An R.V.

Plus
Surfboards, Chairs, Whine, Cheese, maybe a little barbecue, Rope, Towels, Diapers, And Extra Vehicle like a pick up truck (not shown in this photo)

Oh Yes, Lets us not forget the olives. Well, I brought the olives. Whine and cheese is so empty without the olives.



See that guy in the back of the above photo?

Yea that guy, well it is also this guy. And who is this guy?

Well, it is Terry Hirchag the King Hirchag. He said to me at the beach party...
"Hey, Walter Want to do some real camping?"


"Yea, why not! I love eating olives outside."









Well, a week later I found myself with a 50lbs back on. It seems that maybe olives are best left for the beach.

For some of you more perceptive readers you might be saying "Hey aren't those the shoes Walter used when climbing the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Yep! These new Balance Shoes were made for Walking, and that's just what they do, and One of these days these New Balances Just Might Walk,.... Well who knows, but it is exciting to find out. Don't you Agree?








Now even though I looked happen at the bottom of the Hike as I do here! Probably because I just had some beef Jerky and a fresh orange...











I looked a little more like this at the end of the trip. even though My insides felt more like the above photo.

It was great... Here are some more photos of this super trip....









Trail to Lake Bishop. We climbed about 2000 feet in elevation this day. It was Great! Time about 3 hours.


Note this...
Hike home about an Hour. Pack from 50lbs to about 25 lbs. No more olives or beens to travel with.






These Next Photos are of the Camp Site we stayed at.

This is the back side of our site. With the Mountains. We climb a path up their to another lake an caught about 30 Fish between Myself Timmy, and Terry. I caught the biggest fish at this part of the trip, but there is a bigger and you will see that later.



Oh Yea, I keep singing climb Every Mountain like I did In Austria.

This photo is Austria. You can tell I am in Europe because of my Man Sweater. I am also wearing my New Balance shoes.

As you can see I did this part of my European Experience by myself.

But That is an entirely different story and does not need to be mention




Now Back to America.....


This is the lake! It was Beautiful. As a matter of fact do you see the snow covered mountains in the background? Well, When we were hiking we found water falls, and filled our thermoses with this fresh water. I am telling you it was the best water I ever drank. As a matter of fact, we also had "Snow flavored" Snow Cones. No paper cups, just our hands






As mentioned before I caught the biggest fish, Until Terry here angled a Brown Trout!


This Mother had to be about 5lbs. That is a big fish. As a matter of fact that is a huge fish considering we were at 11,000 feet above sea level.

I wondered how many cans of Olives this fish packed to climb up this high.











Now as you can see we are cooking our catch. Now this part is important. Terry above, reads some sign about no camp fires.

Now we need to cook our food. It is Saturday night and we make a small fire for two fish and 3 cans of beans. We are going to leave the mountain the next morning, because this just well sucks.

Sunday Morning Timmy here in the photo and Terry Sr. Go for a quick fish before we are to leave. They meet some other campers. It seems that Terry JR. was the wrong. We can have fires at this altitude, and because of this new found knowledge we stay Sunday and these fish die. I guess those fishes wished we never met those campers.


Here is the sunset from our camp site. It was great!

Also note this when the sun goes down in the Mountains the temperature, drops from a comfortable 70 degrees to a wonder 50 degrees in about 30 mins.

That is why it is so important to have a fire! Not only for food, but for comfort.









Just thought is make a nice photo. Anyway, besides Fish Assholes this place also sells bug repellent. Which is good. I just forgot to spray my forehead. Now I look like I have some type of crazy strand of the measles.










Another neat country sign we encountered on our adventure back down the mountain.



So in closing....



What did we learn!

Alot. Olives are heavy and fish takes longer to cook in hight altitudes.








Wait a minute Buddy? What about the earlier Camping man when you were going to tell us what you were going to do with your life.



Almost forgot sorry mountain men!









Are you Ready!

I am going to be

Audrey Hepburn

No! That is Crazy!

Actually I am going to be a tap dancer! Well, I already know how to do that!

But for real...





I have started a new Company for myself. I just today June 21st. The longest day(light) day of the year have been incorporated.

Named after my Grandfather's Soda Company

I am now Brookdale Enterprises Doing Business as...
Captain Wholesale (Well maybe)
But I am getting my wholesale and brokers license for autos.

I have also landed a job, your never going to believe this. YUP! I am officially a sailing Instructor. I also have booked an additional Training on July 20th -24th. I will receive two additional Certifications when this is over.



Tuesdays, at the Joan Kroc Center, I have volunteered to assist with swimming for some of there members.

My first day was very interesting. But after a few moments of realizing that watching them swim into each other, maybe I should not volunteer to watch them swim, but help their progress. It was neat looking forward to helping out more.

Finally I am going to See the Police this weekend and planing on a fun trip to Vegas with Chad.



Have a great Summer!








Love Walter

So I Sit and Watch..

Yesterday I went to the Padre Game. It was much fun. What was more fun than the game was watching the children play in the Right field Grass Area. If you are not familiar with PETCO Park behind the right field, there is a small park area for families and their children.

So there I was watching about 50 children playing baseball. It was quite amusing. As one child ran around the bases after he hit the ball, the other 49 children would chase him. Not very organized, but it seemed much more fun than an organized game.

So What? Why share this story with you the reading world. Well, sometimes as the bigger people we miss the fun of the little people having unorganized fun. Now, for those of you with the children, well you know, but us childless people it is fun to see.

Well, Now I am off to Bakersfield to do a dealer trade. Much fun today. Then I am planing a weekend trip.

That is all for now

My name is Walter

So I once went for an interview...And If Today Is Your Birthday!

I was 25 and met a man by the name of Ron Houston. I went in from a referral from an early mentor Jerry McClain. Anyway, I went in for an interview for the job of Sales Manager. After speaking with Ron for about 45 mins he asked me a direct question. "Walter, What are you looking for? Are you looking for a Job, or just shopping?"

Well, to be honest at the time I was just shopping. I was in escrow and very afraid to leave my position with my other company.

So What???
Well, today I went on an interview for a sailing instructor. Well, it seems that the company that was looking for a sailing instructor was just well, Shopping. The good news is this. I am qualified and certified.

And that is pretty cool to me.
But Beyond Me....



Have a great day

And Today is June 5th, 2007

So what does that Mean?

It Means....

Happy Birthday Marie Ward!

May you have a picture perfect year!







You Deserve it!


Because you are a Rock Star!




Love,
Walter








Marie, May you have a great day and let Your Summer Be Endless! Happy Birthday!











Oh, Yea..


Bon Année!

Have a Happy New Year! For today is the New Year of your New Birthday!