With all the volunteering and drama of Saturday night behind us, Sunday started with a quiet breakfast and a very important conversation with the roommates regarding the crap from the night before ( Read more... )

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Had a phenomenal BR Sunday. After breakfast with two of my roomies (using up the last of those meal vouchers!) I took it pretty easy most of the day, adjusting to the change to Eastern Standard Time. Took the afternoon to watch my Packers get beat by the Titans (badly needed downtime) and then went out front with motorhead5. There, I ran into bluejai and , who were ( Read more... )

Saturday at BR was a long, happy, busy day for me, with the bulk of cool stuff happening later on in the afternoon and evening. After breakfast with motorhead5 and c4bl3fl4m3, had some good outdoor social time with fellow BR folks. Eventually wound up going back up to the room and having a three hour power nap.

Went to dinner with warmsapphiretes, motorhead5, petemosq, fluxinflutter and company. Good to be out ( Read more... )

Last night, the first night of BR was Halloween. It's never a big major holiday for me--lot of bad memories from growing up in Brooklyn of kids armed with eggs hunting me through the streets. I dress up once in a while but usually something minimal or clever:

• wearing full Mets gear to Paddles and explaining to the owner (a Yankees fan) that I was ( Read more... )

Am at BR.
Am glad to be here.

motorhead5 and I had a pretty smooth drive down yesterday, met up with our third roommate (the lovely and perky c4bl3fl4lm3) in the lobby and headed out to Shelly's Back Room for cigars, dinner and vodka-fueled movie game. Yay. When we got back we added a fourth 'cos one of the BR bootblacks had to find a place to crash. Our room is now ( Read more... )

Put Something InDraw a crazy picture ( Read more... )

We are back and recovered (mostly) from BR XX, an extraordinary weekend put on by some of the finest people I know in our community. Yes they're friends of mine but they also all deserve the shoutout. So there ( Read more... )

So we're home checking out the BR website watching the Steelers and Dolphins playing in the Mud Bowl at Heinz Field. I Fantasy Football news, the Night Owls are 5-7 but surprisingly, beating the scurrilous Woodside Ignorami this week. This will put me at 6-7 and in first place--if the Anvil Chorus lose and I beat Ashland next week I think I'm IN ( Read more... )