Sunday, February 26, 2012

A lot about nothing

Today I had a great human experience. It was getting late, I was just settling down for the evening when my brother called. He was going to be driving through the town about 1/2 hour from my house, so I decided I would drive up there and meet him for a cup of coffee. We decided instead of grabbing a cup at the gas station and standing out front talking we would go over to the Waffle House. This is where the human experience began. My brother and I sat down at a table at the end of the restaurant and started talking. Of course anyone that knows me knows that it doesn't take long for the conversation to turn to racing. Well we started talking, then one of the guys sitting up at the counter rang in on the conversation. So the three of us had a good conversation about racing until he had to leave. My brother and I continued our conversation. After about an hour the other guys that were sitting at the bar started singing "I've got friends in lower places". It was quite amusing, but there was background music to it. I just figured it was the jukebox playing. We got up and went to pay up at the register, which coincidently was right next to the guys blaring out Garth Brooks. Then I noticed one of the guys had a guitar in hand and was strumming away. He actually sounded good, completely unexpected. Of course my debit card wouldn't run so I stood there for a while until they figured out how to manually run my card. I don't know if they were drunk buy, it dawned on me that the Waffle House is a good place to go to strike up an idle conversation with people that you don't really know. While I was waiting for them to get my card working I ended up talking to this pretty cute guy sitting at the counter. Actually two of the three guys there were really cute. Anyway, but the real experience was not how cute they were, but the fact that the Waffle house seams to be an environment where the barriers we put on ourselves magically disappear.

Another thing I have been meaning to blog about was the area in which I live. Although I love the summer weather, I really don't like the winter, and I want to see palm trees on a daily bases at some point in my life. I wanted to discuss the semi-small town life. Since I have been here I have always felt that I don't quite fit in this town, but all that has changed in the past few weeks. One day I came out of the gas station and this cute guy waved at me and stared as I was walking to my car. I looked at him, knowing that I haven't ever met him before, but he looked at me like he knew me. I soon realized that I have seen him before on one of my gay dating websites. Then the other day I came out of the bowling ally, and I got stopped by a guy that I worked with a couple times three years ago. He recognized me, and I recognized him once he stopped me. After that incident I realized that I am starting to become a fixture in this town. Not just with work, but with everyone in the area. I think more people know me, then I know them. I can't go anywhere in town without running into someone I know. I bowl on a league, and run into these guys everywhere, I am a member of the ham radio club and run into people from that all the time, plus my call sign is so recognizable. The last three letters is BLT so that is what I am known by.

On top of all that I have made some very close friends, and some strong acquaintances in this town. I want to thank all my close personal friends for being there for me, and helping me to fit in, in this town.

Now I am thinking that this town can support me for a good long time, with that being said, I think it is time I start looking for a house in this area. I am close enough to Nashville if I am looking for a little excitement, and of course the Autocross is down there, which starts up in a few days. I am so excited.

Well I need to be getting to bed it is well after 2am and I need to be getting to bed. I have a lot of work to cram into the miata in the next week before the first race.

Night.