Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

This parody of pro sports is pretty funny, especially since I’ve played this non(North American)-traditional sport for fun before.

Last night I was out at Buffalo Days (terrible website for information, as usual) watching Saskatchewan’s own Foxxworthee and then country superstar and actor Randy Travis. I’m headed back again today, and especially on Sunday morning for the free breakfast and admission (morning only). I had to get location of the breakfast (in the Molson stage park) from an information kiosk because the website doesn’t have the details!

Foxxworthee were better than their Canada Day performance, and Randy Travis was fantastic. I was standing center stage, third row. The cigarette smoke was thick. The music was loud, but not too loud with my handy ear plugs I carry in my camera bag for just such an event. The drunks were loud, and one lady was kicked out before the show started. And the music was awesome.

I should mention that I helped Canadian (and Regina based artist) Donjames Leblanc with his website, and Donjames has the number 4 song on the NCM country chart in Europe behind Randy Travis at number 1 this week!

Randy was funny, seemed genuinely pleased by the response of the large crowd, and told a few jokes between songs. He also said that he’s not up to speed with the computer age of music, and things have changed a lot in the music business the last 8 years since he was promoting mainstream country albums. “My Space used to be around here (he said gesturing to a space in front of his body) and people weren’t allowed in it!” When he paused after saying there were new ways to promote albums, I shouted out, “YOUTUBE” but he didn’t hear or respond.

There were people taking photos with cell phones that weren’t responding well to the light variation so Randy’s image was being washed out. One lady who came up to the front for a photo got a poor shot, so I gave her my card so she could check here for images. She said the photo was for her kid who couldn’t make it due to cancer treatment (that’s what I heard over the loud music).

By coincidence again (because it happened last year too) I ran into my old friend Jesse and his wife at the concert. Last year we bumped into each other at the clairvoyant show. They managed to pick up a Randy Travis souvenir guitar pick that was thrown into the crowd at the start of the show!

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This morning I got up early (10:00 haha) to do laundry, and there was something flying around in the hallway! I thought it was a bird at first, but then noticed it was silent and looked like a bat. It was!

I opened the door for it, but it was too confused to fly through it. I opened another door, and it made the same futile laps as it tried to land on the mostly smooth walls. One time it stuck to the stucco ceiling, but I startled it from its perch trying to chase it out. I went and got my camera and took some photos and video of it flying. Then it landed, and I had my dirty laundry with me, so I picked up my ragged old Riders shirt, put my hands into it making a net, and sneaked up slowly on the bat. When I was about a foot away, with the “net” up to the bat, I lunged and it plopped into the pouch the shirt made as I closed my hands at the top. I walked quickly downstairs and set the shirt onto the sidewalk, opening it up a little so the bat could crawl out. It did, and flew away into the day.

So, call me Batman. It didn’t even take ten years to happen!

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