BenSpark Family Adventures

It looks like the trivia game is really taking off. There were 11 people participating yesterday. And did you know that the more people who participate the more points you can score. Neil got a whopping 11 points yesterday. Still looking for other topics, let me know what you are interested in having as a trivia challenge. There are some new faces that have popped up recently, welcome! I can't figure out who our new participants are but I appreciate that more people are playing.

This weekend Allison and I went Kayaking in Megansett Harbor with Kim and a tour from Cape Cod Kayak. This weekend marks the first time out on the water for Allison and the second time for me. How very sad, the entire summer almost over and we get out on the water at this late in the game. Shameful. Anyway, the tour was a fun one with a play in the waves, and some live Celtic music. Inside the inner harbor of Megansett are some pretty nice well-to-do homes and at one home there was a wedding going on with a Live Celtic band. It was awesome to be out on the water while live music was playing. I thought it was a sound system on a boat at first and then realized while that would be a complete waste of money. Salt air and electronics - not a good match. I also saw as I got closer a large group of people at one of the homes on the shore. Some of the group went a little closer and were terrorized by three little boys who were throwing rocks at them. Actually they were not throwing rocks at t...

Tonight Allison and I are off to see Kenny Chesney at Great Woods (Yeah I know it is Tweeter Center now but it will always be Great Woods in my heart.) We are meeting up with Beth and Jenn to tailgate in the parking lot. I’ll let you know how it was on Monday, or if I get ambitious sometime this weekend.

And me without a paddle to smack some folks upside the head. I have the uncanny ability to go anywhere at anytime and be next to the most whacked out folks ever. It happens at movie theaters, at the lunch line, and basically anywhere that I have no way out. And the Kenny Chesney Concert was no exception. I was standing at the rail at the front of the lawn. Standing next to we was a woman who hadn't seen a concert since 1976, and that is no exaggeration because she told me in a lengthy conversation she had with me. Then her friend came back and proceeded to scream at the top of her lungs for each sound and she would slam her ham hock of a forearm onto the fence with the sound and power of the Hammer of Thor. She kept bumping me and smoking and the smoke would hit me right in the face. As we know, when a non-smoker is in the vicinity of a smoker they will experience the full effect of a lungful of smoke. So, I moved back to avoid the noxious cloud and she saw me and apologized. And t...

Tonight Allison and I are off to see Kenny Chesney at Great Woods (Yeah I know it is Tweeter Center now but it will always be Great Woods in my heart.) We are meeting up with Beth and Jenn to tailgate in the parking lot. I'll let you know how it was on Monday, or if I get ambitious sometime this weekend.

I've been updating my list of books that I have read and those I would like to read. I spent a lot of time on Stop your Killing Me.com to get all the series and their proper order. I have completed, The Time Machine and now I'm looking to start a series. I am either going to start the Tony Hillerman Series about Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Navajo tribal police officers in the southwest USA, or the Nevada Barr Series about park ranger Anna Pigeon. I'd also like to complete the Clive Cussler (Dirk Pitt) series and read that from the beginning. Does anyone have any books by these authors? E-mail me if you do.

I finished Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal last evening. What a funny book. Christopher Moore writes some weird messed up stuff but it will have you laughing. Check out Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. My supervisor just talked to me about my trip last week. Apparently the site thinks I just took off on Friday. Which is what I really wanted to do of course but is not what actually happened. However they are up in arms about the visit altogether. I am fortunate that the folks at work know what kind of specialist I am and how this is not reflective of me in any way. Sorry about today's trivia. I can't imagine who would actually know some of those questions. They are so nit picky. Tomorrow will be something better.