Time of Your LIfe

I helped my cousin film three separate 'Every 15 Minutes' demonstrations over the past two weeks. They were all in Solano County and two of them were in what I'd call 'small towns' or 'rural communities'. One was in Rio Vista, which as you can tell by the website, isn't the hippest or largest town in the world. They actually don't have a jail. At all. If you get arrested in the city of Rio Vista, you're going to take a trip up to Fairfield to get put into a cell. This blew my mind, because as you know, even Mayberry had a jail. Most of the people who we were talking to, the Firefighters, cops, local judges, had all grown up there in that small town. They went to school at Rio Vista High, and some had kids who were currently there. The whole school was maybe 350 kids. Maybe. As a comparison, the HS I went to has a current population of around 1900 kids. This will be important later, so please remember that.

The other really rural community was in the lovely cowtown of Dixon. You know this is a great town because on my way to the Wal-Mart (the best place to buy anything) I saw a Tractor Supply Company. This place was great, all kids of John Deere stuff, but the best thing I saw in the store were three giant metal tubs that had baby ducks and baby chicks. For sale. In the store. I didn't know how cheap chicks were, you could get these guys for $1.29 each! The ducks were only $2.69 and there was one lady who was buying three. I was tempted to get some, let me tell you. I don't know what I'd do with a baby chick, but they were so cheap, it was hard to walk away.

The reason that I talk about this is walking around in these little communities, I felt like I was in the heart of civilization, that I'd grown up in a very suburban area with anything I needed right around me somewhere, lots of nice stores, good restauraunts, happening coffee shops. And then today I got the information about my high school reunion. Now, I graduated in '97, so the 10 year reunion should have been last year. But my school was known as the redneck school when I went there, and apparently not much has changed, because they couldn't get anything together last year, so we're doing an 11 year reunion instead. Neat, huh? So instead of some formal invitation mailed to my house with an RSVP card inside, I got an Evite. And where is this kick-ass spectacular bash happenin? Why, at the local Skipolini's of course. I thought that I'd just put the whole Evite text here, because it speaks a lot as to the inaccuracy of my assumption that I was in a city different than Rio Vista and Dixon:

Join us on June 21st at Skip's in Clayton for some great pizza and memories! We decided against a high-priced, formal affair in favor of something casual so that as many people could attend as possible. And yes, SIGNIFICANT OTHERS AND KIDS ARE WELCOME!

Since we'll be ordering food
in advance, we need $15 per adult and $5 per child under 10. This includes pizza, salad, beer, soda and dessert. What a deal! Please RSVP with your headcount by June 14. Send your money via Paypal or call to mail a check.

Also, we want to know what you've been up to, so please answer the poll questions with your RSVP. Responses will be made available for everyone to see.

We're looking forward to catching up with everyone and hope to see you there!

Kinda makes you understand a bit more about the school I went to, eh? And to my fellow alumni out there, here's the info you wanted, if you didn't get one, e-mail me and I'll send this to you also. And if you didn't go to my school but want some good pizza and beer, I don't think we'll be able to close down the place, so come on! Party with us! We had NASCAR playing during my Senior Ball, I can't wait to see what's going to be happening at the reunion.