firstly, the concept of adventre is rob’s brainchild, but since the boy wonder was with me, this is the best possible description for yesterday’s episode.

background info
paige and i have been working with larry mowatt, a great/honest/ex-engineer realtor based here in dallas, to get our house sold and start looking for a new house. yesterday afternoon larry came over to give us a presentation and to sign some paperwork for putting our house on the market. rob is also in town on business for some tech meetings / side-by-side work for the next build of jboss tools. the night before rob came into town, i discovered that rx bandits were coming to oklahoma city (a mere 3 hour drive from dallas — a pittance for a true fan!). so the plan was for rob and i to leave for okie town once the realtor meeting was over.

fiberglass isn’t resilient
the meeting with our realtor was running a bit later than we had expected, and rob and i had to rush out to make to OKC in time to see the venerable bandits. as i was reversing the old corolla out the back of our garage, i failed to glance in the rear-view mirror, and felt a large “bump”. sure enough, as soon as i look out the mirror, i see larry’s honda pilot parked slight over the halfway mark in our driveway, and i had perfectly nicked the front bumper. i returned into the house sheepishly where i had to explain to my wife and larry the dumbass mistake i made.. luckily larry is a first class gentleman. took it all in stride and was very understanding and even joking/smiling about it. after i called and filed the claim with the insurance company, it was time to (safely) rush like hell to get to OKC. at this point, it was 6:30PM and the concert started at 8PM.

apocalypse please
to blow some steam, we put on tiger and the duke as long as we could stand, rolled down the windows and did some fun screaming on our way out of dallas. the poor peaceful commuters of denton county might think they are harboring a pair of white-boy psychotics, and they probably wouldn’t be wrong. once we had all the stress out of our system, we did some chatting and listening to some more music, and we made it to the venue a little after 9PM, just as rxb was tuning up and prepping for their show. as usual, rxb puts on the most energetic and amazing show ever.. 5 hours of driving time for 1 hour of live rxb is a steal in my book.
 

driving home
we got out of the concert around 11:30PM and stopped by at a b-dub’s for some grub before taking the 2 1/2 hour plunge. rob’s “1 job” for this trip was to make sure that i stayed awake and alert during the ride home. thankfully rob performed his task admirably, as we blasted fast-paced punk and sang along with the windows down the whole way home. we got back into dallas around 2:30AM, and it was time to call it a night.