Monday

One More Day Of...



One more day of…
One more day of beer in my hammock.
One more day of being a brother who has no siblings.
One more day of thinking out loud.
One more day of wasteful star gazing.
One more day of Jesus is waiting.
One more day of hearing this song on repeat.
One more day of hearing that frog croak.
One more day of you liking my Instagram.
One more day of echoing through the darkness.
One more day of thinking maybe tomorrow.
One more day of forgetting to be your lover.
One more day of not being sorry.
One more day of…

Sunday

The Accident

He or rather his body was lying covered with a thin white sheet on the shoulder of the road. A pair of boots sat on the highway some 300 feet from where he came to rest. He spent his last few hours of life volunteering at a retirement home. I keep thinking about how quickly his life came to a halt, one moment he was doing his daily motions and the next he's laying motionless on the pavement. I drove by the accident and I already knew what had happen. I saw him there every morning waiting the cross the three lanes of traffic on my way to work, and I knew it was him under the thin white sheet. I drove past the scene again this morning I saw spray paint and blood all over the highway. It was an odd feeling to know that a man had died there less than 24 hours prior.

I've been in a really weird mood since late last night, this sense of mortality has over taken my mind. The thought of live being nothing but the blink of an eye has me terrified. Terrified is no way to life a life of any sort. It's kind of odd to even say this but as terrifying as it is to think your life could be over in a matter of seconds there's another side to it that's oddly comforting to know we get to experience something so fragile.

I watched Bicentennial Man tonight and that honestly didn't help in the least, love that movie though...

well that's about all the thoughts I can put together before I pass out tonight.

Friday

Light Speed and Communications

Some where I read that as you approach light speed things start to go in slow motion because nothing can go faster than the speed of light. So what happens to communications? Sound travels at 761MPH, so what happens to sound at the speed of light does it become muffled and what if you speak in the opposite direction that you're traveling in is it normal again? What about the data traveling through cables? do the electrons slow down, does the information even make it to it's destination?

Just some thoughts...

Monday

New Years 2012

I found myself down next to the river at Jefferson Hall, my buddy, his uncle, his uncle's friend, and myself are standing outside the small Hindu ran liquor store. We we're going to purchase some street booze until my buddy figured out that his wallet had fallen out of his jacket pocket and was most likely laying somewhere down a dark alley where we knew it was being fondled, fingered and downright molested by hood rats... I take to one side of the street and my buddy takes to the other side and we're doing the best we can retracing ourselves in a stumbling stupor, as I hear him cussing as he's just lost his entire New Year’s paycheck. Next thing I know I'm looking down this alley and there are twenty dollar bills scattered everywhere, and a brown leather wallet laying in a pothole... Our recovery mission just turned into an Easter egg hunt, I'm snatching up twenties, he's snatching up twenties, when it's said and done we've got a whole stack of twenties, some 260 dollars’ worth to be exact. Not a single one went missing that night and his wallet didn't end up having aids...

We work our way back to the Calcutta booze, tobacco, beef jerky temple (why would a Hindu place sell beef jerky???), where the other two guys stayed. We go back in the store and pick out their finest pint of Jack Daniels. We've all gotten into this square circle and the bottle is making its rounds until there's nothing left. I can't speak for anyone else but I'm personally getting the whiskey spits by this point. We all stumble across the street and I'm eye balling this cop that's helping with traffic, I tend to get all paranoid when I'm drinking booze strait out of the bottle in public view...

So we make it PI free to Jefferson Hall and I'm rolling past the bouncer just kind of looking around since it's my first trip there. I'm here for two things, one to get boozed up, two to find myself some ladies, and boozed up is already taken care of. I do the ol "I'm gonna walk around the bar all nonchalant until I see something I like, then I'm going to creep her out" routine. I didn't notice anyone on the first round... But I know what I did see, the uncle's little friend was all over some Asian tranny, you know the kind that still had five o' clock shadow. I'm looking at my buddy saying "what the fuck is happening dude???" and he responds with "well, that "dude" looks better than his ol lady..." so now I'm just thinking "what the fuck..." By this time it's almost midnight and there are some pretty waitresses bringing around bottles of bubbly and solo cups (I was thinking it was awful damn nice of the bar to give us free bubbly). Then I turn my attention to Dick Clark and the ball drop, yell "HAPPY NEW YEARS", and make my rounds again.

So I'm stumbling around yelling every three to five seconds "HAPPY NEW YEARS" and these frat boys come up to me and start yelling "Zach Galifianakis!!!" and they ask me if they can have a picture with them. Well I end up doing a whole photo shoot parting ways soon. I do a whole revolution of the bar and end up out on the back patio where there is this woman who is asking me if I've ever felt a fake tit. I haven't, or at least didn't know it if I did. She looks at me and says "go ahead... feel it... give it a nice squeeze" so I give it a nice long feel and looking into her cocaine glazed eyes say "Well... I can't really appreciate them feeling them though a shirt..." so she tells me to put my hands under her shirt, no bra of course since she had fake perky tits, I stand there for a good few minutes anyway just kind of checking them out, like nipple location and, firmness. (*There will be a footnote about my thoughts on fake tits at the end of this story). Then the lady with the fake tits asks me if I had gotten my New Year’s kiss, and I told her no. She ends up calling four of her friends over and tells them that I didn't get my New Year’s kiss and they line up, and all four girls gives me one starting with ol fake tits herself. so I'm liking where this is going. I get this idea, why not single one out from the herd and see where it goes, no need to be a hero, I pick one of the girls more my speed. So I'm making out, and rubbing up on her, and all a sudden this Goldberg looking mother fucker throws her down into a bunch of bar stools and she's laying there bloody and broken, and he screams at me "GET THE FUCK OFF MY WOMEN!!!" I'm evaluating the situation, this guy has just broken his ol lady, he's a lot bigger than me, none of my buddies are anywhere to be found, and I'm pretty intoxicated. I better take my chances and just say a sorry, so I do and Goldberg is like "FUCK YOUR SORRY!!!!" So... New plan... I just turn around an order myself a drink, then it hits me, give this big son of a bitch time to cool off and I'll make a peace offering, I don't want this dude seeing me in a dark alley later that night. Five minutes or so goes by and I order a drink, the bartender hands it too me and I walk up to the dude doubling down drinks. I look at the guy motion him in to come closer to hear what I was going to say and I tell him "Hey dude, not gonna lie I'd be pretty pissed to if some hairy bastard was filling up my ol lady in front of me... so I'd like to tell you and her that I'm sorry and here's a drink for the trouble..." It worked... So rather than having a big angry fuck running into me after the bar closes I have a big intoxicated buddy to say hey too...

I'm walking around the bar searching for my buddies semi shaken up from my experience from that big angry fuck on the patio and I can't seem to find anyone. I go outside the bar and get a breath of fresh air, and I see these two asses I recognize talking to a cop on the purple people eater, so I didn't want any part of that. I start walking back towards the New Port side and I ran into this girl lurking in the shadows, and I start talking to her. Long story short she gave me her number so I could text her and go watch sunny in Philly with her naked, strange... but when in Rome you know... So here come the uncle and his friend and their noses are bleeding and their pretty much bloody and broken, I'm thinking "what the fuck..." So I ask them what happen and they go into this long drawn out story about how they were protecting my honor from those frat boys who had their picture taken with me. I'm thinking "protecting my honor???" I mean am I prom queen now??? They got their asses handed to them I can tell. I'm ready to go text ol girl and see where I need to watch sunny in Philly at, but I have to find my buddy first so I tell the uncle and the other guy to wait on me on the corner and don't move. I go looking for my buddy, I'm searching all around the river front for like 30 or 40 minutes and then I walk back up to the street and I see them lump of human sitting on the sidewalk sharing a pizza with a delivery guy. I keep looking at this dude and I find out that it's my buddy I've been looking for like a damn hour, so I walk up and I'm all "let me get some of that, dude!!!" I'm all hungry and sober as the Pope by this point, so I get him to his feet and we're ready to roll out. I go looking for the uncle and his friend and their nowhere to be fucking found. We make the executive decision to leave their sorry asses. We're about two steps from being in the car and on our way back to his house when his uncle calls and says he has some women waiting down next to the river. My buddy is a big dude and I've never seen this guy move so fast as after that phone call it's like his damn feet didn't even touch the ground, like he floated all the way back to the main drag...

I finely catch up with him and the other two and there is only one women down there and she's old as fuck and not like the well-aged old but like crazy cat lady old... "Why the fuck are we here???" so I pretty much lay the law down and tell everyone to get the fuck in the car it's close to 4 AM and everyone is tired and/or bleeding out of their face... I'm the DD because I'm soberest at this point, we all four climb in the car and as soon as I turn the key this assholes start screaming to the top of their lungs "WHITE CASTLES" and I'm thinking that's not a terrible idea. We pull into White Castles and we all roll in and I order my food and I watch my buddy order his and I hear "two sliders..." and I'm thinking "two sliders???" who the hell comes to White Castles for two sliders... but I really don't care at this point. I guide him back to the table sit my food down while he's harassing this little hood rat in there for the gold star she packed in. Everyone is kind of settled down so I go to the bath room. I walk out of the bathroom to see like 5 cops coming in every entrance, I'm thinking "holy shit balls, this son of a bitch is getting robbed" then I see the cops talking to the uncle and his friend and I hear them say "Ok dude... you guys have called 911 like 5 times tonight over the same fight, do it again and your whole crew goes to jail..." That's my final straw I walk over to my buddy and say "get the fuck in the car" at this point I really don't care about the uncle and his friend fuck them... but they follow. I've got this vision in my head of us all getting in the car and as soon as I pull out we get pulled over because of uncle ass fuck and his buddy... They all three start their shit in the back and I kind of fly off the handle for a minute and tell them to sit there and shut the fuck up, their all silent as church mice. I pull out all careful and this cop car passes me and wiping the sweat from my brow I'm feeling safe from a DUI again...

We make it back to the house and the uncle and his friend disappear into the night, good riddance... and I get to go to bed without having the breaks beat off of me, or getting a DUI, or watching sunny in Philly naked with a girl of the night. I lived to fight another day this round...

*My Thoughts On Fake Breast:


Honestly not my thing... the one's I felt were sort of boxy, and weren't soft like a breast should be, they felt more like a dry kitchen sponge. Maybe I have weird taste but I feel like a woman's breast should dangle a little, have some elasticity to them; every breast has its strong points if you know where to find that strong point.

Thursday

Graduation / Santacon

I can finally say that I'm a college graduate... It almost felt like fate I've been in school for 11 years and Graduated from college on the last sequential date of this century, So in my mind I feel like the planets aligned and the heavens opened up when I walked the stage.

FRIDAY

Friday was a hell of a day, Santa for my coworkers children at the work Christmas party, rocked a little graduation practice, then I made an ass of myself at Bdubs. I was easily the loudest mouth in the room, not an easy task when you're competing with like 50 TV's at full volume and a jukebox going in the background. Personally I didn't give a fuck though because it was my night to celebrate. I ended up drinking like 15 beers and flirting with a ton of waitresses... Then I drunkenly walked next door to the movie theater and watched Exodus. So beer and religion went together pretty well...

I wake up at like 4AM and just turn on my Ultra Groove playlist on spotify (I might add a link at the bottom if I think about it later). I lie there until the sun is coming up and realize I haven't slept more than a few hours tops. so I finally get off of my couch and get ready and roll over to campus. I've been in school 11 long years and I keep thinking to myself I started kindergarten the same way as I ended my college career, in a line single file... It's a good feeling to think that I finally accomplished something that I've been aiming towards my whole life up to this point. I've missed one semester of school since 1991 and for the record no one ever told me it would take me 23 years to finish up. During the ceremony I kept zoning out and going through a list of things in my head, things that I've went through during the pursuit of this degree, like one failed marriage, several ex girlfriends, many women, a ton of friends, two homes, two Trucks, one blue heeler. Yea it was worth it I think.

SANTACON

So my family and myself rolled out to eat right after graduation, and then I rolled up to Cincinnati for Santacon. I was running late with graduation and dinner and all. I made it about the time everyone else was completely fucked up. I get to my buddy's house and change my clothing and became "Tropical Santa" (aka Jimmy Buffet Santa) I had my beach shirt on, with some garland wrapped around my neck, a huge dollar store Christmas ornament hanging from the garland, my large straw hat, and my sunglasses. So after I get dressed I'm trying to figure out where my people are. My buddy calls me at the very least 15 times and every time ask me to hold on as soon as I answer... then when he did returned he passed the phone away to other people and I kept hearing I love yous, and congratulations, and one of the girls told me she needed a Santa to be an elf for in a slightly slurred speech pattern. My buddy knows this cabbie who I had already called to pick me up. I'm thinking while I wait I'm going to pound some gin and play a little catch up, so I finished off a half bottle of gin that I found and I hear a horn blowing out front. when I get in the cap he ends up knowing more about where they're at than I do.

When I hoped out of the taxi everyone kept saying I was their favorite Santa and that I did a great job on my outfit, and the whole time I'm just thinking "hell yea, I just wanted to wear shorts and be comfortable in a big ass crowd" and believe it or not but I was still sweating my ass off. I get in the bar and everyone is chanting my name drunker than 10 Indians, and everyone and their mom are fighting to buy me a drink. I'm thinking a guy could get use to this kind of thing.

The first person my eyes meet up with is this newly wed girl that I've had the hots for for years, she runs up gives me a great big long ass hug in her short little velvet Mrs. Clause outfit, not gonna lie I was digging it. She grabs me by the hand pulling me though the crowd to the bar orders me a drink and gives me another great big hug. I glance back though the crowd and there was my buddy's ol lady being all white girl wasted. She weaving in her seat looking at the floor, then she looks up and sees me and parts the crowd for her own great big congratulatory hug, and she started handing me pocket candy canes, so I'm standing here in the bar licking candy canes trying to figure out if they have plastic on them or not... I'm sure it was an odd site to anyone watching, thinking we were licking some kind of weird toad type candy. After about 5 minutes I just say fuck it and throw them in my drink. I finally see my buddy sitting off to the side, He's drunker than 10 Indians, and he's trying to tell me something about my graduation present and how he has no idea what happen to it. I personally thought it was amazing that the zoo keeper (aka: Big Boobies McGee) showed up after I got drunk and accidentally/drunkenly kept feeling her up about a year ago (for the record I was really interested and I thought she was too). She actually bought me a couple drinks talked too me for like 20 minutes and ask me if one the pictures in the bar was a girl with her "O" face. Not gonna lie I thought that was awful damn classy of her. Then there was also one of the twins, the one that I saved from the creeper back last month sometime, she bought me some drinks as well. Some red headed dick was there as well, I didn't know this guy but he was moving in on my territory. He kept telling these dumb fuck jokes and tearing snowflakes off the bar room ceiling... My Buddy and myself turn our attentions to this penguin wearing Mrs. Clause, we're all chatting it up and my buddy leans over and whispers something too her and she gives us the finger and doesn't say another word (not actually sure what he said).   Needless to say I had enough booze in me to float a battle ship.

We rolled out to the next place which just happen to be a pizza place, I'm wondering around the place chatting it up with all the other Mrs. Clauses. My buddy ends up buying every slice of pizza that they have left and we mow though it, and his ol lady comes in for a bite of his pizza and gets denied well next thing I know I'm hearing the jaws music and shes about crust deep on my pizza...

Next thing I know we've crossed the river and we're on our way to another bar. we're all borderline messed up and it's only like 6, as in 6pm... The bar we're in starts playing that song fireball on repeat (a great marketing mimic now that I think about it) and my buddy's ol lady and the twin buy me some shots of fireball whiskey. This is the point in the night where I know things are about to get real. The twin leaves for a bit (later I found out she got sick) and this older woman comes up and starts dancing with me and my buddy's ol lady and she says "you guys just look like you're having soooooo much fun, I had to come and join!" we were having a pretty damn good time.We roll out to the patio and this is when things start to get right with the world, I've hit the drunken version of the singularity, Lost somewhere between god and man. I'm starting to bellow out Biz Markie - just a friend (because that's what a god/man would do of course). Everyone starts to join me with my drunken chorus. The Zoo Keeper ol dude and The Red Headed Dick show up out of the blue, while I'm telling some weird dude walking the streets to go fuck himself. The Twin ends up giving me a whole glass of what I thought was beer until I started drinking it. It turned out to be some hard cider which tasted like candy, and added fuel to the fire. The Red Headed Dick said something smart ass to me (or so I assume) and I ended up telling him that people who say those kinds of things back home end up going and fucking themselves... That dude didn't say a word to anyone the rest of the night. So after telling off The Red Headed Dick I'm stumbling down the street singing to the top of my lungs that Biz Markie song again, and I can here people chanting it behind me. I find this barrel laying on its side being used as a planter and I ended up yelling "watch me ride this bull" so there's a picture and possibly a video of that floating around... and I made the girls jump in the fountain (it was dry...)

On to the next bar, we roll in and I don't know if they never mop the floor or what be I've never been in there when I've not had to focus on keeping my damn loafers on. So I'm looking around and I see this short woman walking buy and I yell "HEY GIRL!!!" and she turns and looks at me and walks over to my buddy and myself. She's giving us both the "loopy sex me up" eye and she starts yelling at my buddy "SHUT UP AND FUCKING HOLD ME" then she looks at me and says "All of my men got put in jail tonight..." and to be completely honest I had no idea what that meant other than some people were serving jail time. Then she whispers something that I couldn't hear and she draws back and punches my buddy right in the face completely unsolicited to my knowledge. Then she turns to me and put her right hand on my man tit and her head old my chest and starts molesting me all soft like. Well when she gets finished she looks at me and says "Hey lets go the the bar that's in the back" and I'm all like "Ok, after you" I take three steps and do a 180 and step back up the bar. The bar starts to play Kid Cudi - pursuit of happiness (which I love) I start dancing and I see this short haired woman walk up and dance with some of my friends, so I've got this idea "Just move up on her and dance" so I did and her husband steps in... not gonna lie that dude absolutely loved me, I told him about the lady that punched my buddy and molested me and we we're automatic bros. Then we saw her stumbling back though the bar and we all start squealing like small children scared shitless of something. It was weird.

My buddy and myself walk out to the opening in between bars and I look back and see this strange woman again apparently she got kicked out of the bar and she was trying to get back in the side door of the bar. She's pulling really hard on the door and looses her grip and tumbles over some steps and she's just laying here on the walkway, and I'm thinking "should I check on her or should I keep walking" and before I finish the though I see her legs and arms go in the air and start twitching like some cockroach that got stunned under a shoe. I see the rest of our group and I start yelling "omg, look!!! look!!! look!!!" and they all give me high fives and don't realize what I'm even trying to get them to look at and where does she go when she's back to her feet??? straight for me and my buddy... So we took off running and got inside the next bar before she got to us...

So we're in the next bar and my buddy is ordering me a drink and we see this line of cougars. well the first one in the row makes eye contact and I hand her my large Christmas ornament and my buddy starts yelling "FEEL HIS BALL" and I yell "SHAKE IT SOFTLY" and all the cougars shake my ball while I'm making this god awful face... I glance over and I see The Read Headed Dick playing Golden Tee, FUCKING GOLDEN TEE... I mean why even come to the bar??? I guess I scared the hell out of him him when I told him to go fuck his self. I ended up wondering off to the patio for a breather, and then everyone else follows me outside. I get to watch a drunken rendition of Journey - Don't Stop Believin' with the choreography of my buddy's ol lady, then he burst though the door and called me Connie Chung, I really didn't know how to take that, still don't to be honest.

We finely decided to roll out, so we get in the taxi and my buddy's ol lady and the twin are yelling at the taxi driver to go though the drive though and he tells us its against policy, and I've personally never saw this before but my buddies ol lady gets so pissed off she blacks out and angerly sleeps to the next bar. While the twin is getting all angry from hunger pains. So we get to the next bar and my buddy and me roll in like a couple of rock stars straight to the bathroom, and his ol lady and the twin have to sit outside to catch their breath for like 30 minutes... They finally roll in, and my buddy and the twin get in a hat fight with my hat and my buddy flings it across the room and you would have though he just called my mom the biggest whore in town, I was flipping out "DAMN IT, GO GET MY HAT... GO GET MY HAT, ASS..." well some girl picks it up and says she's going to keep it and I ended up telling her you can because it's a family heirloom (yea my 2 buck goodwill hat is a family heirloom... my dad wore it when he crossed the border...) so she's freaking out going "OMG OMG, I'LL GIVE IT BACK IN A FEW MINUTES" so she does and when I get it back I lay it on the bar in front of me, the twin is looking at it really intently, then she says "omg I've got to fix your hat" and she starts reweaving the straw. So I'm sitting here watching this twin I'm really attracted too re-weave a dollar store hat... I was enamored with the process and couldn't look away until I noticed that my buddy's ol lady's head was face down into the bar top, then I started yell "SHE'S DOWN, SHE'S DOWN!!!" The twin and my buddy's ol lady tell me their leaving and I let them know I'll wait for my buddy, so they stumble out the bar while we pound a couple more drinks, then we leave like 10 minutes later. 

We're stumbling down back alleys, pissing on garage doors and singing/mumbling sea chanties. I look down and I see this strange colored cloth and I realize it's the twin's elf hat so I snatch it up and put it in my pocket. I feel like we're walking slow as molasses, and then in the darkness I see a thin elf and a onesie that looks like a Santa outfit... I'm thinking to myself "what the fuck..." there's no way we should have caught up with them... either we sprinted (which sure fucking didn't happen) or they fell face down in the alley for a while... So we're back at the house and I decided to be proactive and pour everyone a glass of water, well the twin doesn't want hers and my buddy's ol lady is too drunk to drink it, so I ended up drinking all three glasses. My buddy's ol lady is basically mumbling to the floor at this point so they go on to bed which leaves me and the twin in the kitchen. We chat it up for a bit, She tells me about her dog and such, and then she tells me she has to go and look at her as sober as the Pope and ask "You sure you're ok to drive, lady???" and she says she is, but I still kind of wondered. honestly I was hoping she would say and we could put in a movie or something but it didn't happen. I walk to the living room and put in trains, planes, and automobiles, I pass out by the end of the opening sequence. 



THE NEXT MORNING

So the next morning rolls around and I wake up on the couch as fresh as a daisy felling like a champion because I drank everyone's water the night before. I walk over to my buddies speakers and put on my Ultra Groove playlist and enjoy my morning with Al Green. My buddy and his ol lady get up a couple hours later and we all sit down and watch the Bengals play with my graduation present that didn't get misplaced, a bottle of my favorite booze in the world (Bird Dog Whiskey). we're mixing drinks and mixing drinks and mixing more drinks and before I realize we've drank and entire bottle of whiskey between the two of us just sitting in the floor watching football on a Sunday (aka: Sunday Funday). In the next 4-5 hours I run the gambit from drunk to sober to hungover, to ready to do it all again... I also have a graduation dinner at City Bbq somewhere during the hungover portion and I found a scarf and used it as a turban in the back seat of my buddy's ol lady's car... It was a good weekend.

GOING HOME

I sometimes roll out of my buddies house at 5am so I can make it back home and to work by 8am and this time was no different, other than I noticed that the river was a little calmer than usual, it was so still that you could see a perfect reflection of Cincinnati in the river, and it kind of reminded me of what a truly great life I live. I'm lucky to have a place like Ludlow to go hang out with friends and have misadventures, I'm lucky to see the river with that reflection of Cincinnati in it, I'm lucky to get to watch the sun come up over the AA Highway on my way home. I'm just a lucky dude in general....