Pride and Pejudice

Yesterday was Pride. I went. It was fun to be with my friends. It was fun to collect the beads. It was fun to see the floats.

But, remember me telling about the backwards tossers from last year who had a confederate flag up on their porch during the parade last year? Well, I sat across the street from their house again this year...and they were in fine form, let me tell you.

First, they had their flag up again, along with two signs. One proudly proclaimed that "Dicks are for Chicks!" while the other simply informed us that "Jesus is Coming!"

They were yelling and taunting everyone who passed their yard. They were being just as foul as you can imagine. One of them kept screaming "Jesus is the answer!!!" to which I would simply respond, "What was the question?"

Things started to get out of hand after a while...one of the guys got into a screaming match with one of the passers-by and went to his car and got out a folding hunting knife. He started pulling it out when people would walk past his yard. (this is all pre-parade.)

Well, finally the women next to our group had enough. The coolest lesbians in the world all pulled out their cell phones and called the cops. Over and over again. Until finally, 3 cars pulled up. The offending gentleman (more like Slack-jawed Yokel...with apologies to Cletus) with the knife was placed in the back of a squad car...and was then RELEASED!!! They cops did make him leave the area, but not before he managed to nearly ram his truck into a group of spectators across the street.

Then the parade got going. Having heard what had gone down at our end of the parade route, the floats were ready. Both of the floats that ejected rainbow confetti stopped directly in front of the house, and thanks to wind direction, COVERED THEIR YARD AND HOUSE in rainbow confetti.

Then, every one throwing out beads gave it to them.

The best moment, though, were the Dykes on Bikes. All of them stopped in front of the assholes' house and reved their engines for 5-7 minutes...several of the rednecks eventually got up and went inside...tired of the noise and exhaust.

All in all it was an exciting day.

I left there, came home and showered and changed, and then went to hang out with my new friend at his place. Ended up staying down there until midnight and then somehow managed the 25 minute drive back home up I-35. I came home and was suddenly keyed up from the driving...so it took me another 30-45 minutes before I was able to lay down and get some sleep.

So, today was a LONG FUCKING DAY.

I'm rushing around at work trying to get a week's worth of work done in two days...because on Wednesday, I start my first vacation in 3 years. WOO-HOO!!!

I"m not really doing anything with the time, other than vegging at home and reading...but I HAD to take some time off from that place. IT's been driving me crazier than ever lately.

Well, sports fans...that's all the news that's fit to print. I actually wrote most of this entry at lunch today...only to have it completely wiped out when the power went out before I could save it. Damn office building...

Time to fix some dinner...