Today is a driving day for ol’ BZ, as he is on an expedition to Southern Fornicalia in order to attend the 2015 TribbleFest, held in conjunction with the Hugh Hewitt radio show.

You see, if one enjoys listening to Hugh’s radio show either live over terrestrial radio or via various forms of streaming — and you participate in the chatroom — you have become a Tribble.  That is to say, a devotee of the show and a subscriber to the live video as well.

I am such an individual.

The interesting point is, as I’ve been a member of the Hughniverse for at least four years now, once you appear in the chatroom you meet a wide array of new people and hold any number of discussions with them.  Some threads become a tad heated, some threads have absolutely nothing to do with the topic on air at all.

As such, I have made a number of what I now consider to be good friends.  Now I’d like to meet them in person, along with Hugh Hewitt and his steadfast producer Duane Patterson — both mentioned, by the way, in more than one CJ Box novel.

I’m spending close to 12 hours on the road in order to attend the 2015 TribbleFest, which will feature at least one day in Disneyland this week — Disneyland now celebrating 60 years of fun.

I suspect I’ll possibly be posting videos and photographs here and perhaps you can begin to appreciate the good and kind persons I’ve only known through the chatroom.  I’m looking forward to meeting them all.

Excuse me, I’ve got to go now, I need to pay attention to my driving, I’m about to take the Slauson cut-off.

BZ