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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

This Looked Familiar


Back from Vermont, and a day to digest. The weather was quite warm, and me in my monkey suit. We arrived early enough to wander the Main Street and live vicariously thru those who have real bakeries, chocolate shops and book stores instead of crap Mexican, eight Chinese takeouts and a shop called Condoms Galore.


As you can imagine the extreme spectrum of emotion occurred within a 4 hour period, wherewe partied like it was 1999, shutting down a bar and an after hours gathering on the street for no reason in particular, just because it felt like the natural thing to do.


Yuula clung onto the Gorman girls, an obvious choice as they are the most akin to her needs, and that is not meant to be a disparaging comment, at all.  

She may have even got an actual diamond bracelet out of the deal, but Renee has bling to spare.


And because we weren't nearly done went the town shut down, we gathered in a corner room at the Hampton to push thru the night, only giving in when someone peeled open a curtain to see the sun rising on 6am, and an hour or twos sleep sounded right.

Some real strange and lovely moments to think about, but the painfully underlying and unspoken theme was still "why has it taken this to get us all in the same room again?". But none while none of us were perhaps brave enough to vocalize vows to remedy, I think we may be witnessing a sea change...

Monday, June 1, 2009

And Thus, I Am Home

Got home yesterday, bottom of the 8th, just in time to see the Mets squeak one out against Florida. The drive's getting shorter. That's good news since I still have to make it 4 more times.

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Camp was fine tho. Thanks for asking. Actually getting a lot done. Could be because Greg is there pushing along the writing process, or maybe we're all just kinda locked in and got our eyes on the prize. I'm sure there'll be a holdup at some point tho. For instance, songs are still not finished and it's a good thing I came home this week, because I think they need some time to catch up.

So let me see if I can touch on a few of the highpoints that went down after Memorial Day.

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Memorial Day itself meant Goodwill, Chinese food & the lovely Johnstown mall. Alex was excited.

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I had everyone standing around waiting for me at the Goodwill while I scoured the racks and came away with a cartfull of treasures.

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The Chinese food in Main Moon is remarkably good for a small mountain town, but we decided it was wise to keep away from the pastries.

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The mall left little to be desired, but we did cram into a photo booth for a group shot. Haven't done that in awhile. Unfortunately that photo is on the door back at the university, so a shot of us in the lot will have to suffice.

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The next day things started to get cold and rainy, but we kept things bright by showing off the previous days' Goodwill buys.

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Here is when Geoffrey needed some of my beard hairs for the murder game. Gotta love these kids.

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Wednesday is when things got very interesting. We decided to go to a local bar called Lucille's on what turned out to be karaoke night.

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Must be something in the water there in Johnstown because not a single person hit a single note in any song. Michael and I threw our hats in the ring, he with a spot on Elvis with "Ain't Nothing But A Hound Dog" and I took on the beast that is "Sweet Child O' Mine". If you ask me it was a terrible performance, but as I exited the bar I received more than a few high-fives and positive comments concerning my moderately inspiring act.

We took over the backroom pool table

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Michael karaokes and the locals will never be the same

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I gave it a go, begrudgingly

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A first attempt at a group shot

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A second attempt

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Friday was our first actual "performance". We spent most of the day reviewing so we wouldn't be a complete disaster. It was chilly so we all decided to wear the sweaters I had so wisely purchased at the Goodwill on Memorial Day.

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Daniel & I
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When showtime came the powers that be made a last second decision to go with a standstill, so the guard got to sit on the front sideline and watch. Good waste.

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Oh, and here's some actual colorguard.

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I'll be back on Saturday. For now, I'll enjoy the week.