Well kiss my momma and call me daddy! I haven't been this excited about anything since I tickled those three fat girls at the frat house last semester, GO TECH!  I love TEXAS!  HOT TEXAS WOMEN FLOATING DOWN A COLD TEXAS RIVER DRINKING COLD TEXAS BEER!  Man, ya'll are getting me all excited, you know that means, better run down to the store and buy another case of lone star to keep me settled down.  This waiting around all week is driving me nuttier than a porta pottie at a peanut festival!  Yeeehaaawww!

So JASON BOLAND is really playing!?  Wow that's awesome! Doesn't he play a song about whiskey and pearl snap shirts? Just add the word "lone star" into that and you've got a song about my life!  Well, that and all the fine tech cheerleaders i've been gettin with lately! HA, you know that's right! Get your guns up!!!!!!!!

Until Saturday, ya'll GET ER' DONE!

(still crossing my fingers over a can of cope hoping pat green will make a guest apperance!)

got my ticket.  i'm going to be there friday evening and saturday for the float trip.  see y'all then.

if i get there early, where's a cool place to hang out?  i'm flying solo, so i'm up for anything.  well, not anything.  i'm just looking to get away from dfw for a couple days.

bw

Do any of you ever what kind of weirdo would drive four hours and hang out of a day and a half with a bunch of people he barely knows?  Now you know, and that guy is me.

I had a great time.  I wish I could have stayed for Saturday night, but fame and fourtune was calling my name in Waco.  By fame and fortune calling my name, I mean someone said "will you play for an hour and a half at my part for $50?"  If that's not fame and fortune, I don't know what is.

Friday night was really cool.  I hadn't seen Mike play solough in an extended period of time.  Houston was one of the first songwriters I ever really listened to, and he's always cool and kickass.  I just think that Mike should realize it's an honor to play with anyone that's been a pallbearer at a serial killer's funeral.  Jimmy would have wanted it that way.

I think Ed and Skinny Boy Raines shoud start a band that's a knockoff of big and rich. They could call it Big & Smalls.  I think the song "You're a whore, I'm a Cowboy" would be a great hit.

On an unrelated note, I was up to $5.47 by then end of the weekend.

I can't eat queso anymore because of the connotation.

Lots of friends of Mike have some really serious scars.  I'm sure any of those incidents hurt worse than having a baby.

I believe that you have to take a drug test and turn up positive to drive a bus on the river.

You can make decent taquitos with ingredients from the local grocery store.  Speaking of the local grocery store, I was listening to the radio on the way home, and they player "The Road Goes on Forever and the Party Never Ends" by singer songwriter Robert Earl Keen, Jr.  I noticed at the end of the song, the verse says "It's mainstreet after midnight, just like it was before.  21 months later at the local grocery store.  Sherry buys a paper and a cold six pack of beer, the headline reads that Sonny is going to the chair."  Then and there, I lost faith in the sincerity of Texas Music.  YOU CAN'T BUY BEER AFTER MIDNIGHT IN TEXAS.  AND THE WHOLE TIME I THOUGHT THIS MUSIC WAS ABOUT TEXAS?!?!?!?!

Sorry, I'm substance free, but my mind's still not right.

I have to make sure I give great thanks to my gracious hostess for letting me crash in her kitchen and drink all Diet Cokes.  I really had a great time.

BW

Since I was in Vegas winning money (it actually can happen) would everyone please submit to me in 500 words or less their best/funniest/weirdest stories of the float trip.  Use of photos and or illustrations will receive bonus points and any really compelling story of Ed will be graded especially high.

Winner gets a free beer or two next time I see you.

*Winner shall be chosen by me.

**Winner shall receive beer of my choice.

***Beer may not actually be cold.

****Beer may not actually be beer.

*****Beer can be substituted with other alcoholic beverage.

******Failure to accept said alcoholic beverage will nullify all agreements between all parties involved.

For complete contest rules send a self addressed stamped envelope and $2.00 processing fee to:

Float Trip Essay Contest Rules

c/o The Great JoBob

Hwy 108

Backin Stephensburg, TX 76401

Please make all checks out to "Cash"

ed's a Big Hairy American Drinking Machine!

float trip, just sounds nasty.

float trip, it's pretty much is.

float trip, music at the ice house.

float trip, ooooooooooohhhh.

i'm no Ray Hubbard.

bw