I went for a run again today, while I am not Steve Prefontaine, I am getting into the routine of exercising some again. This is good as I was getting pretty fat. I am still fat, but now I am a fat guy running 4.5 miles a day in 36 minutes. A smoking 8 minute mile average.
Ironically enough, when I got back from my run, for the first time in over two weeks the internet is working again. I am not going to be cynical and ask this has any correlation that we cancelled the service today? No matter, it takes a few days to cancel and the internet is not working well at all. I can’t surf, but I can check my e-mail at the flying speed of one e-mail loaded per minute or so. Anything is an improvement.
We now have a home phone. Feel free to call us. I talked to a few of you over Thanksgiving. Happy belated Thanksgiving. Paty went to see the new James Bond and I went to footy training. Afterwards we met up with some of the lads from the soccer and a few of Paty’s work people that went to the movie at a pub. I thought it was a coincidence that both our parties were going to the same pub, but apparently these very disparate groups all know each other. The bar we were at had a Thanksgiving dinner plate they were serving!
It was really good, moist turkey breast, dry stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and very good cranberry sauce. And it was free! Well not free, it was for a charity so you gave a donation to some cause in for the food. I was very happy to donate 20 Euros for our dinners!
An Irish Thanksgiving wouldn’t be complete without the prerequisite Guinness!
The rest of the weekend we took it pretty easy. Friday night we went to see Borat. Predictably, I liked it and Paty was not thrilled. I think she was okay with it until the scene where Borat and his producer wrestle in the hotel. If you have seen the movie then this scene is indelibly burned into your memory banks whether you like it or not. If you haven’t seen the movie then I won’t ‘ruin’ the surprise. Quote of the night overheard on the way out of the theater “Is Kazakhstan a real country?”
On the way home we decided to stop for a drink. We stopped at a bar called ‘The Living Room’ that is really close to our place. This is the bar that was pictured in this space a little over a month ago with all the kegs out front. It turned out to be a pretty cool bar. There were three levels, the third of which is like a loft overlooking the second level. More importantly this third level included our favorite bar pastime.....FOOSBALL!
Us playing Paty’s coworkers tattooed friends:
Deserved celebration after the victory:
We ended up staying at this bar until 2:30 AM. We played foosball for a little over 2 and a half hours. Why so long you ask? Because it would be rude to leave after a win.
That’s right, Paty and I played for over two hours without losing. We were on fire. To be honest, a few of the groups we played weren’t that good. But we played at least five sets of guys that thought they were going to smoke us. We got the requisite look “we can beat them, they have a girl”. Well Paty is actually pretty good. And with her on offense and me on defense we are pretty tough to beat. I bet we played at least 40 games until we finally lost as the bar was closing. In our defense, by that time we were looking for an excuse to leave as we had enough to drink and wanted to call it a night.
Saturday Paty got a hair cut, color and scalp massage. Excruciatingly exciting, let me tell you. I made her got see Casino Royale again that night as I hadn’t seen the new James Bond. I liked it a lot.
Sunday was a wine tasting in Galway at the Radisson. It was really fun. I tried what was probably my favorite Spanish wine of all time. A 1995 Duero Reserva that was fabulous.
The Irish do their wine tastings a little bit different that we do. It was held in a hotel lobby. There were 15 tables. Each table had between 8-12 wines. All were open at the same time. And you could taste any wine at any table. Needless to say, there were a lot of drunk people leaving the hotel lobby. For 10 Euros per person it was well worth it. Some pictures:
As the internet is not working again I will probably have to upload this tomorrow back at Mocha Beans. Hopefully the internet will get itself righted before the Seahawks game tonight. I want to at least follow the game tracker. If the Hawks can pull this one out at Qwest tonight then we are in good shape for the rest of the season. GO HAWKS!
p.s. Back at Mocha Beans, my new hangout. They all know me here by now. I just saw that the Hawks won! In the SNOW? What is going on up there? First I hear of torrential rains unrivaled in modern history and now we have snow in November. Maybe we got out at a good time. Next there will be locusts or something.
1 comment:
That's what men get for thinking having a "girl on your team" is a weakness. Way to go Paty! :)
Shannon
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