Quest for the perfect Hot Dog

On thursday night New York, New York held a Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest. The contest was open to all MGM Mirage employees. The catch was it had to be a team of 5. Now I don't know if anyone reading this has ever enjoyed the delicious Nathan's hot dog, but if so you know what I'm talking about. So I was incredible excited to join the contest. Not to win, I just wanted free dogs. My friend Bill was with me when we found out about this, and being from New York, was even more excited than I was. Now at this point we hit a big, stupid wall. You would think that in 28 gatekeepers, finding three more would not be so difficult. But every excuse in the world to get out of eating free hot dogs spewed forth. It was a gyser of lunacy.
"I can't I have to go to Star Wars" (6 hours earlier)
"I'm sorry I don't think I can eat that much"
"But my favorite show is on that night"
"I'm a vegitarian"
Honestly, all I wanted were some freakin' free franks. So having been thawarted I went on a search to find a great place here in town. Most serve decent one, but I have yet to find a great one. I actually find myself missing the old Crazy Cone back in the Mucc. They had an awesome foot long dog with all kinds of stuff, plus the best fries ever. Well the search goes on.

Gotta blog something

So I get an e-mail from my brother Billy asking why I've haven't updated in a while. It's a fair question. The truth is... just a little lazy. But we all knew that. I'm bummed out a bit now because I'm not going to be able to go up to Washington for my nephew and niece's graduation. Plane ticket's alone are over $500. Good grief!
Also the hunt to buy a home here is becoming somewhat discouraging. What Paige and I are approved for would get us a four bedroom two-story house with a couple acres of land in Winnemucca. Here it doesn't quite cover a two bedroom condo. Funny thing is in August, My credit rating will get a boost, giving us a better loan, but by then housing costs will have gone up. What really twaeks me is the knowledge that before long long this market is going to crash and burn. It's because all of these out of state investors are buying up property as fast as they can. They're not even renting it out, because they know if they can just sit on it, in a couple of years they might get a 200 or even 300% return. So there's a lot of unused housing, making them build more to meet the demand of those living here. At some point a few investors will start selling off everything, the prices will drop a little, everyone else will panic and try to dump their property while the prices are still highish, and the whole thing goes to hell. Not that I'm paranoid.