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News, notes, thoughts, one-liners, quips and links
-picksburg
so sheller hasn't been that bad after all, travis is gettin me around and there have been a few things to do here and there
I don't remember what has happened since the last post, Millvale has come up pretty big for us so far, Ritas and grandmafest, at jrides grandparents house to watch the country awards and down a 24 pack of coronas courtesy of jimmywayne and robo and a few 6 pack of pounders courtesy of pammyjo from the phoenix
mj, mal, jennifer, drew and leighannoy were also in attendance

we tried mini golfing many times, but betboop lies and neses on babcock closes at 9 and we never make it out to wildwood before 10

Every saturday and sunday for the rest of June I will be a graduation party (either churchill or hampton banquet hall), congratulations to Phil, Palma, Roseanne, Estee, Frank, Christina and Anthony
Phils party kicked things off and it was pretty incredible
I missed bon jovi "always" but I was there for living on a prayer, 3 tarantellas, boot scoot boogie and DJ Pierre who rocked the house for the 27th consecutive family party

YFEST
this is turning out to be huge
the first in the six legs of the route 18 roundup, country concert fest at pg pavilion
Keith Urban
Buddy Jewel
Dierks Bently
SHEDaisy
and more
The guestlist includes me, jride, samuel adams, nest, mj and a whole bunch of maybes who cant make up their damn mind
the itinerary includes
pregaming with everclear and gatorade, then tailgating at the pavilion in travis and nest's truck hank, grillin burgers and dogs on our charcoal grill tubby

To get buy one get one free tickets you have to purchase gatorade and cereal
obviously the promoters of this concert want us to mix our drinks with gatorade and pour are alcohol on cereal

Linky
Shiton Hills Ales Chan, NBA-bound
The above link is there just for verification, I stumbled across this today while reading the post-gazette
the basics, this foreign kid came to the US lookin to play ball, he went to WVU to start but had to transfer to Shiton Hill College, there is a classic quote in the story, a true testament to West Virginia University
And I quote
'"I was at WVU and things just didn't go well for me there," said Chan, who weighs 270 pounds. "I didn't feel I got a chance to show what I could do,. I didn't feel the coaches had much faith in me, and that hurt my confidence. Then, I hurt my own chances because I had never seen a place like WVU's campus and I got caught up in the whole college/party lifestyle."'
Wait, it gets better
'"I mean, I was raised by my mother who is very strict in the Czech Republic, and next thing you know I am on this big campus where all of the activity is centered around one street with like 30 bars on it. I never saw anything like it."'
haha, I never saw anything like it
see it aint easy getting by down there
the kid even takes a rip at Shiton Hill College
"There also was far less opportunity to find trouble at the small Catholic-run university of about 1600 kids"
By trouble he obviously means fun

Theres a place off Ocean Avenue
Where I used to sit and talk with you
We were both 16 and it felt so right
Sleepin all day stayin up all night...

Theres a place on the corner of cherry street
We would walk on the beach in our bare feet
We were both 18 and it felt so right
Sleepin all day stayin up all night...

shop n slave the rest of the week, wooooo

-n