Strippers Down In Austin -or- "For All I Know He's Hanging By His Neck In His Fucking Closet

As promised....more blog action.

Let's see... I guess I'll start with Friday after work. I came home around 4ish, and took a quick shower. I waited for Mike and Emily to arrive and we headed down to Ambler (RIP fun) where we would pick up Katie. From Ambler we made our trip into the city. Friday night there was a band called "forgetters" playing at the Barbary. I thought they were pretty great. Blake from Jawbreaker and the original drummer from Against Me! formed a band with the girl (I can't remember her name... but she was all kinds of cute) from Bitchin'. They were... punkrock... and... kind of dismal I think. I don't know that their lyrics were so uplifting, or upbeat. I am looking forward to hearing some recorded output. They did play 3 Thorns of Life songs, and those were pretty good.

From there, we leave. We head back to my house and I make some of the usual bullshit food I always make. It was as mediocre as it always was, but it was much needed. I was very hungry and I think my company might have been as well. She was surviving on a hamburger bun, a beer and a rum drink. Food was needed, and pretty good. We sat around and talked and watched TV for hours and then around 3:30am we went to sleep.

Saturday morning. Brandon shows up and wakes me around 7:30am. I say my goodbyes and pile into Brandon's car to go to the grocery store. We picked up a bunch of food for our trip and then headed back to my house to meet with Glenn. Glenn arrives, we pack up the car and head out. We get up to the boat rental place around 10:45a. Sign some forms, get our boats and head north. We launched the boat at noon. We stopped for the night around 5pm and made dinner and had some drinks around the fire. Glenn is an excellent person to do some outdoorsy shit with. There's always careful consideration put into everything, and that's a pretty excellent thing. It starts to rain later, so we climb under shelter and then eventually into our tents.

Waking up the next morning was a real treat (minus the hangover). We were totally dry and it was still raining. I was surprised to say the least. I put all of my dry clothes in a bag, and put that bag in another plastic bag because i figured i would wake up soaked. Not the case... we did a fine job.

We pack up our camp and head back down the river. We finished canoing around 3:00pm and head back to the car. We were tired, stinky, and hungry. I got home around 4:30ish, and Emily came over. I had eaten before she arrived, so she got some food and we watched TV and drink whiskey and cokes for a bit. It was a nice night, and a great end to my weekend.

Now I'm completely wiped out and looking forward to a relaxing night followed by some sleep. More to come sometime soon, but right now I'm just dying to eat, drink tons of water, and get some awesome sleep.

Hey blog, you never write me anymore... what gives? Jerk