I love Shinedown.

I walked in from having a smoke and Evolve was playing.

I took a Lyft for the first time on Thursday.

Colleen was my driver.

Chico is my hometown.

Colleen came here for graduate school and fell in love with the place, meaning she never used her degree.

She had already annoyed me with this.

My anger has levels going from mild annoyance to irritation to getting upset to I’m angry to I’m fuckin pissed to zero zone anger.

Meaning I ignored it.

When I was a supervisor for United Healthcare, I purposefully didn’t hire people who said they love Chico after getting degree at Chico State.

You spent all that money to get an education and you decided to fuck off the degree because you like living here.

Adding to the unemployment rate.

Adding a place to live.

I used to get fuckin pissed.

I’ve mellowed.

Colleen dug her self deeper, however I didn’t care after she told me she went to Chico State.

I may have said a few things after that such as, I can’t stand that when people here I’m from Chico all they can say is I got drunk there once.

I grew up here and I wish the university didn’t exist. I would be happy if they closed it.

Things such as this that made her feel extremely uncomfortable.

I knew what I was doing. I used to do this with a lot more gung ho.

Chico as the photo shows has a park.

This park is one of the largest city parks in the nation.

It’s like saying I went to New York and didn’t have a clue they had a park.

The park is that big.

Now, this photo was taken in Upper Park at Bear Hole on the old dam.

When I was a child I loved The Adventures of Robin Hood, the one with Errol Flynn.

Bidwell Park was Sherwood Forest.

I used to play on the log where the Robin and Little John had their words and then John ended up taking a dunk due to Robin.

I would play that scene in my head everytime I went to the park until my twenties.

That’s what a native Chicoan remembers about growing up in Chico.

Have a blessed one and be excellent on purpose.