Weekend

I didn't have the kids this weekend and my friend Kathy was in town so we hung out together. Friday she got in late, so we just watched Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix. I felt really dumb because I thought I had not seen it, then about 2 minutes into the actual movie I realized I had. Neither one of us remembered the whole thing, so we watched it anyway.

Saturday morning we met up with some scooter folks for a ride. I have a seperate blog that details all my scooter stuff at www.kentuckianascooter.com so I won't bore non-riders. *grin* After we got back in town we got some supper at the Chinese place and made our way over to The Golden Nugget to see what I will refer to as The Big Rock Show version 2.0. They have the original drummer, but Jaymz St. Jaymz is no longer on bass, and Ronnie Watchmaker has taken the place of legendary one-legged local rock guitar legend Dave Ernspiker. i was a little disappointed for several reasons. They don't know my favorite Buckcherry song anymore. Also they aparantly only play Zepplin one-offs and not the big smash hits because, according to Watchmaker, "you can hear any band cover those songs." Similarly they don't like to do some of the other mega hits (noteably Stairway to Heaven but this extends to other band's songs also) because "you have heard these songs a thousand times and there's no way we can make them sound the same." They did do some songs I remembered from BRS years past. I was pleasantly surprised by The Cult's "Fire Woman" and they even slapped together a great AC/DC "Hell's Bells" that they say they'd never done together before.

Since we had been up late for old folks, Kathy and I just piddled around Sunday and ended up watching another Netflix called "Outlander" which had all the signs of being an overblown B movie, but turned out to be really good. Kathy and I agree on two thumbs up. I also managed to get the weeks laundry done, as well as doing the kids chores of dishes and taking out the trash.