And thus it ends

Nothing major has ended :-P Just the All-Stars season of the Amazing Race. Eric and Danielle took it. Bah. 2 of the 3 final teams were all-female, an all-female team has never won...and friggin Eric and Danielle!?! Bah. The blondes should have had it. I guess I probably would have broken the TV or something if Charla & Mirna had been the big winners, so it's a good thing that didn't happen. I'm down to really only one show I care about on TV not in repeats and that's ever so helpful for productivity in the rest of my life.

Cinco de Mayo kicked ass this weekend. Headed down to the big celebration w/ Steph and the kids. Got there in a nice break between rains and wandered around for a couple hours. K1 and K2 both got turns on my shoulders, depending on what there was to look at and such. Fun times. I think the highlight was seeing semi-professional cage fighters go at it in those big inflatable sumo suits. They're funny when it's after-prom and people are screwing around, but actual big tough muscular guys in them take it to a whole new level of hilarity. K1 almost shook himself off my shoulders laughing.

The evening was even better. Finally had a first date with Steph. "First date?" you say? Well yes...we have been dating for 5 whole weeks now, but we've never actually had the chance to go out with just the two of us. We've met each other's parents, we've done dinner w/ my best friend and her man...but we'd never just had us-out time. Stephanie thought it sounded like a good way to spend the evening and she was correct, as usual. Mexican for dinner, then off to the Church where we were warned by the uber-whitey bouncer at entry that it was "Salsa Night" and "It's probably going to be 95% Hispanics in there. You OK with that?" Um...ok? But thanks for looking out for us dude. We were there waaaaay too early in the evening and nothing was happening. That meant we got in on the salsa lesson though! Free lesson, maybe 30-45 minutes of that, then bailed after the music failed to move our respective groove thangs. Braved the rain to run to Vinyl where Josh Wink was spinning. Lots more dancing, and the only other thing I'll share about the rest of the evening is that when we were running back to the car in the rain we saw a couple guys fly out of the Church and bolt across the street with 6 or 7 security guys after them. We stayed away obviously, but the last thing we saw was a guy on the ground being punched in the head and a bunch of security types watching. (The guy punching may have been security at that point...really couldn't tell).

So that was a great day, and today was quite happy-making for other reasons I won't get into here. Let's just say I'm a very lucky, very happy boy in many many ways. Life, she be good.

"Words can't define what I feel inside, who needs them?"