I went straight from work to get my hair cut today and couldn’t believe it would be an hour wait. I looked around the crowded waiting area of Great Clips, muttered something under my breath and left. I went back home and played some Star Wars Galaxies for a while and an hour and a half later went back to the mall, knowing for certain nobody would be getting a hair cut around dinner time. Still an hour wait.

Grrrrr.

So I got back in the car and went to the other Great Clips over by Hastings, and to my surprise there was no wait. When I was done I hopped in my car and headed home – and just when I was almost home, KGGO announced the 9th caller would win tickets to an upcoming concert.

Now, I have been trying to win tickets at KGGO for years, and I always get the busy signal. The last time I won anything on the radio was back in Los Angeles when I won tickets to the Mission Impossible 2 premiere on KROQ. Always. I have them on my voice dial so all I have to do is push a button and say “KGGO!” and it dials. So, I push the button and say the magic words… busy signal. Of course. Push the button again, say the words, and the phone beeps at me “Please say again.” So I say it again and it rings.

Interesting.

It keeps ringing. So either I have the wrong number or I’ll be called #8. Brian James answers and as soon as I hear him say “KGGO, who’s this?” I know I did finally get through. So I make some jokes about cruising around Ames (a very short cruise) and what not and he tells me I won the tickets. I give a Homer-esque “woo hoo” and then he asks if I’m a big Bob Dylan fan. At that moment I had a mind blank and couldn’t think of ONE song. So I say “oh here and there.” He asks how about Willie Nelson. Now, this is a “classic rock” station that always makes fun of their sister station of “goat ropers” (country music) so I reply the last I saw Willie Nelson in concert was when he appeared with Tom and Roseanne Arnold at Farm Aid a loooong time ago. I get another laugh, and finish out the call with the usual yelling – KGGO!”

So, now I have Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson tickets for July 9th in Cedar Rapids. Too bad I already made my road trip to CR a week or so ago to get the Commodore 64. I’ll have to see if I can do another one.

So, guess I can’t complain about never winning anything anymore.

Received my Just a Geek book from The Wils today. I read it a few months ago but think I will devour it again to see what I might have missed the first time. He also included a form letter (stating how much he hated form letters) and a little postcard thingy about Dancing Barefoot, his other book.

Thanks, Wil!

I took a road trip to Cedar Rapids, Iowa over the weekend. I have posted a photo blog on my gallery if you want to see the excitement as it unfolded. The trip was fun and I accomplished everything I set out to do… so… go look at the photos!