Portland and Corvallis September 2010

Portland and Corvallis were good times as I got to see my good friends Theo

Papas, Kelsey New, and John Weaver.  First night just hung out with Theo and his

fiance, Stephanie, she is great.  She is a very nice and kind young woman and I

feel is a perfect match for Theo.  They will be outstanding together.  We played

Scattergories into the night and laughed a ton.  The funnel of beer pouring on

the ground and the K2 was what filled the night with stomach hurting laughter.

Next evening I got picked up by Kelsey and headed to the Alberta St. area and

went to small beer bar to have some cold hoppy refrershments.  We talked a lot

about life and the future, relationships, travel, etc.  I forgot how much I miss

her company as she is so whole hearted and charismatic.  I love being around her

and everything she is about.  We went into the city and had one last beer at bar

and said our goodbyes.  From there I walked to meet up with Stephanii and we

went to Barracuda to have drinks upstairs.  Felt like I was at a roller skating

rink due to a 18 and younger event going on downstairs.  The music was not that

good so after some cocktails, I headed to Couture to end the night with better

music.  Good DJ there and it was good to see Theo at the bar where he hooked up

drinks which was appreciated.  The DJ let me request Tracking Treasure Down for

the last song and it went off.  The DJ was fairly drunk though and wouldn't

answer my questions about Serado and his Pioneer decks.

After Labor Day weekend and my parents party, I headed down to Corvallis.  Real

quick; Labor Day party best parts were chopping wood with the monster maul,

seeing all of our old Oregon friends, 9 dogs, and the cornhole tournament that

AmberLynn and I won on Sunday morning over Mimosas.

Got into Corvallis via bus on Tuesday night.  Well, actually got into Albany and

after getting a beer at a local little bar by the station, the driver of the 2nd

bus for Corvallis never showed up.  Thank you local flaky Albany drug addict bus

driver guy.  Jon and Kate came and got me.  It was so good to see my best friend

after 7 years.  Everything just went right back to normal and I remembered why

we are such good friends.  He is one of the funniest guys I have ever met and

his heart is so warm you just feel happy when around him.  I hope I can see him

at his wedding as Kate makes him so happy.  It is great to see him living

simplistically and so content with his fiance and life.  I am excited for their

move back to Portland.

Dice game we played the first night:  roll six dice, any threesomes count as

that hundred.  So three 3's would be 300.  The only way to move on to roll again

is to score. 1's are worth 100.  5's are worth 50.  Four 1's on the first roll

is 1000.  If you roll a straight (1-6) then you get 1500 points.  Four of a

kinds double their point worth so four 4's would be 800.  If you roll and don't

get a 5 or a 1 you "Funkle" out and get no points.  You play to 10,000.

The next day went fishing at Willamette Park and I caught two Northern Pike

Minnows using worms and a worm weight.  That night played some Little Mexico

with Jon in the evening, ate some pizza, then met up with KC and Jesse Ott.  KC

is one of Jon's good buddies and we clicked right away.  We all went out the

college bars by campus.  Played some pool with pitchers then went to Bombs Away

for $2 well drinks.  Went back to the house and ended the night with Cracklin

Rosie over and over and over and over which was the funniest shit ever.  Jon was

singing and dancing and making everyone laugh.  He was on one, or on a roll you

might say...great times.