The Countertop Chronicles

In South Dakota

57 yesterday. 60 today.

And we ran into John Thune and a host of his political supporters from DC at the hotel this morning (including Bitter’s good college friend and my work colleague).

Dinner tonight at Michaels steak house in Sioux Falls. Free appetizer cause I’m staying at the sleep inn ($44 a night) and free beer cause we’re hunters.

And South Dakota is as pro 2nd Amendment of a state as your gonna find.

Well, actually, I love it. I hate AT&T.

Here’s why.

Tonight, in front of McLean High School, in McLean, VA – an inner suburb of Washington, D.C. and home to more politicians than you can throw a stick at – I saw a pickup truck hit a bicyclist and run over him. I stopped to help and tried to call 911.

Call Fail.

I tried again.

waiting waiting waiting. Call failed

And again.

It happened 5 times before someone else was able to make the call.

Have I said AT&T sucks yet????

I blame the whack job tea partiers who ruined our chances of a clean sweep. By running far to the right, on a southern baptist conservative platform in upstate New York, they allowed Democrats to win NY 23 and Nancy Pelosi to claim victory and Obama to hold off a sweep. Don’t think that wasn’t instrumental in helping many moderate and conservative Ds to decide to vote for socialism.

Thanks a lot Palin et al!

Busted my ass yesterday in the Alleghany National Forest outside St. Mary’s, PA on an epic hunt with the Ruffed Grouse Society.

Went out hunting with the State Forester for the area.

2 of us, plus said Forester/Huntsman, flushed 18 birds and get 10 shots off. We took 3 birds. Which is just fantastic.

Pics, and more, later after today’s hunt.