The Luxury of Knotty Pine

Just returned from a relaxing retreat in the upper most point of the State of Washington. The beautiful Semiahmoo Resort was our destination. Highly recommend this spot if you’re looking for a getaway. They got one hell of a cheese plate you can order up to your room. The resort is situated on a peninsula in Semiahmoo Bay. If you stand on the porch and look across the bay you can see the shores of Canada. When the wind is just right you can actually smell the Universal Health Care rolling along the border.

In anticipation of the road trip up to the resort, the Skelton family bought a new car. The old one was dying and seriously pissing me off. It was time to take it out behind the shed and hasten its demise. The best thing about the new car, besides the fact that it’s new and not broken and gets insane gas miles (after owning a few older cars, I didn’t even know that kind of gas milage was an option!), is that it came with three free months of Satellite XM Radio. Hot Damn, I must be contemplating cheese plates too much these days cause this Satellite Radio business was completely off my radar. No commercials, tons (and tons) of stations, great reception, and most importantly I guess – great music. And not just music. I was gassing myself up on this road trip listening to the comedy station that plays all stand up comics. Classic Eddie Murphy, the one where Eddie impersonates Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor? Still Funny. My favorite station on the XM dial (insert a chorus of boo’s from the misses) was the Audio Visions station. It advertises itself as the “Soundtrack of the Galaxy” and if this is true then I would expect an angry alien invasion any day now, “Attention people of earth: please turn off the soundtrack of the galaxy or we will destroy your planet. Also, tell us where we can find this Enya women as she must be neutralized!” This is also a very dangerous station to have on while driving a motorized vehicle at 80 miles an hour. It’s true that Audio Visions does indeed “create a place you can escape to when the world seems all to real”. Unfortunately that place is better known as, ‘sleeping’, and one shouldn’t escape there while hydroplaning in the passing lane.