California dreamin’
Our dear friends, Hope and Don, moved…nay, abandoned us and moved to LA. They made up for it though by inviting us out to LA for Halloween weekend for what could loosely be called a housewarming. More specifically it’s hanging out and drinking beer on their new back porch, playing with the dog and keeping an eye out for their wild yard rabbit, Mikey.
Just like his ancestors
I’m fishing. Yes…fishing. It’s been been something like 2 decades since I’ve held a fishing pole and today I discover why. 1) I suck at it and b) This is intensely boring. Sitting in a beautiful, serene location with a cooler full of beer and some friends is not the worst way to spend a day but unless you’re catching fish it’s unbelievably dull. The only one catching was Don “The Fish Whisperer”. Fours poles in the water, one person catching fish. 7 of them. To top it off, once he caught 2 at once. That’s not a typo. It’s not a fish story. He caught two fish in one cast. It was ridiculous. Much like golf is a “long walk, spoiled”, fishing is “a day better spent with the cooler of beer at home, with a book”. I’m glad I tried it again in my adult life but as it is…I think I’m set for another 20 years.
Mac and cheese!
Hope and Don are abandoning us so they’ve decided to throw one last Vegas BBQ at their house. Hope made her famous mac ‘n cheese and it was awesome as always. We’re going to miss those two but time moves on and your friends move away. We’ll just have to visit them regularly in LA and they will also have to come back regularly to us. Who doesn’t want to visit Vegas, right? Living here is awesome in that respect.
Pilipino power!
That is not a typo up there. I was asking how to spell the nationality of these people, all from the Philippines. I -really- wanted to spell it Philippino but of course that’s just ridiculous. Evidently these people are non-conformist since they way they like to spell it starts with an F not a P and there’s no double P in the middle. I was commenting that Filipinos from the Philippines was just silly and I was told that if I really wanted to do it right I could spell it with a P in front but no H following it. I give up, I’m taking their word for it. This is America, dammit, and Uhmerikans take people at their word and treat people of foreign descent with respect.
