Some sad news… You may have seen him on Throwdown with Bobby Flay a few years ago, beating Flay at BBQ which is (by all accounts) something he was very good at.? Butch of Butch’s Smack Your Lips BBQ passed away recently.? Why am I mentioning it?? Well, he was one of my customers.? One of the nice ones.? Rain or shine, hail, sleet or snow, if he came in and was buying meat… there would be barbecue.? We talked everytime he came in during my shift.? He was one? HELL of a nice guy.? Gave me tips on BBQ and grilling in general when I asked and even asked about stuff I like to grill and said he might try some of the grilled veggie dishes I mentioned.? Nothing but smiles and hugs from the man, and it was really sad to hear that he’s gone.? My heart goes out to his family? and friends.? Such a vibrant person will be sorely missed, especially in the lives of those who knew him best.
I’d like to move on to the Mosque issue.? I rarely get political, because I really don’t care to deal with the shitstorm that tends to follow, but here goes.? Give it a fucking rest people.? First of all, I don’t care that there’s a Mosque being built near Ground Zero.? Yes, it was a tragic day in history and it still makes me sad that 9/11 happened.? But acting like a group of Muslims building a Mosque near Ground Zero is like kicking sand in our faces?? I call bullshit.? Seriously people?? So because they’re Muslim, they should be more respectful and build it farther away?? Ok, so does that mean that if a black man commits murder in Philadelphia then all the black people should pack up and move out of town to be more respectful of the family of the murdered party?? Newsflash, the majority of Muslims, ESPECIALLY the ones who live, raise their children and pay taxes in the United States DO NOT AGREE WITH THOSE WHO PERPETRATED? THE 9/11 ATTACKS.? Don’t you people have better things to do with your lives?? NO?? Ok, well then let’s move on to another important fact.? In the US, you have religious freedom.? That means that if there’s an available location to build your church, temple, mosque, cynogog, etc… and you have the means of securing that location for said use… TADA!? YOU CAN DO IT!? If you want to play the “you can practice your religion, but not here because of what happened here” game… well then we need to move an awful lot of christian churches that are down south.? It’s awfully insensitive to have them so close to the sites where white christian men did awful things to black christian men, women and children.? Get over yourselves people.
Only a couple of weeks left of summer, then it’s back to school time.? Gotta start taking my little out for some walks and stuff.? I’m thinking I wanna get him a decent digital camera so he can take pictures when we go out.? I think he’d have a lot of fun with that.? Also gotta get mom to show me where that fishing spot she keeps talking about is.? So I can take my little man fishing.? Gotta get that in before it gets so cold neither one of us wants to be messing with wet fish.
Work is work.? Which is why it’s not called vacation.? I could use another one of those.? That’d be good.? Keep? deciding to go? to culinary school… and then talking myself out of it.? Mainly it’s the idea of all those financial aid forms.? And finding classes that fit into my schedule while allowing me to still work some.? In the end, I think I’ll be going.? I want it too much.? Probably register to start in the spring.? My boss’ll be thrilled when I limit my hours even more than they already are.? LOL
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