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IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
1997/11/25
No idea. If it was a Saturday and it was cold enough early enough, I was likely skiing. This was however a Tuesday. In 1997 I had started working as a consultant at the company which I am currently employed. Developing a new system in C++ (I miss C/C++). So on this day I was likely coding.
No idea. If it was a Saturday and it was cold enough early enough, I was likely skiing. This was however a Tuesday. In 1997 I had started working as a consultant at the company which I am currently employed. Developing a new system in C++ (I miss C/C++). So on this day I was likely coding.
11.25.97
This was a month after Miss "Call For the Captain" became Mrs. Scotch. (She also retired that handle). Two weeks before our wedding, we were awarded custody of my 2 daughters. We had to scramble to arrange for coverage (mostly her parents) during our honeymoon. We went to Aruba for that. It was mostly good, except for the first day or so, as I was still recovering from the bachelor party prank that my best man played on me.
This was a month after Miss "Call For the Captain" became Mrs. Scotch. (She also retired that handle). Two weeks before our wedding, we were awarded custody of my 2 daughters. We had to scramble to arrange for coverage (mostly her parents) during our honeymoon. We went to Aruba for that. It was mostly good, except for the first day or so, as I was still recovering from the bachelor party prank that my best man played on me.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
It's these types of statements where more detail is expected.
Still catching up
2023/05/21
When I moved to Lynnfield Mass in 1983, my new friends played D&D a lot so I joined in (more to hang with them than to care about playing it). Around this time (spring 2023), 2 of my high school buddies and their nephew asked if I wanted to play. Since I rarely see these two friends anymore, I signed up to play via video chat. It was fun, but they canceled more than they played. "I took a nap and didn't wake up in time." "I forgot I had other plans." etc etc. So it fell apart after 4 or 5 months.
My son was about to graduate high school. The school doesn't list the top 10 students (or give any ranking) because "it might hurt people's feelings who get a low rank." What a load of BS. I'm fairly confident my son was top 10. When it came to standing up to be recognized for awards and accomplishments, he was one of a half-dozen kids that stood up like a dozen or more times - he got excellence in AP physics, excellence in calculus 2, excellence in computer engineering, excellence in engineering (his name is on a trophy that stays at the school!) and a PSAT score commendation
My son went to a Montessori school from kindergarten to 8th grade. The couple who ran the school while he was there started there in 1989. They retired a couple years after my son graduated 8th grade. The husband passed away in early 2023 and they had an open house on May 20 for people to come and share respects. My son and a few of his classmates went from one end of the school to the other reminiscing about where they hid stuff, where they hid (themselves), where funny things happened, etc etc.
We finally replaced our (VERY) old electrical panel that month. I sleep a little better at night now. The surrounding stuff shows how old the panel it replaced was.
My band was recording our first new music in 8 years at a studio in Portland Maine. The place was gorgeous. We planned on 4 songs but only did 3. If I remember right Koop really liked those songs! The guy who recorded us worked with Tony Visconti (Bowie, T Rex), Beau Hill (Ratt, Jeremiah Freed), and David “Sluggo” Katz (Gym Class Heroes, Train) and collab'ed with Matt Wallace (Faith No More, Maroon Five), Randy Staub (Metallica, Alice In Chains), Brian Malouf (Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam) and Adam Ayan and Bob Ludwig of Gateway Mastering.
2023/05/21
When I moved to Lynnfield Mass in 1983, my new friends played D&D a lot so I joined in (more to hang with them than to care about playing it). Around this time (spring 2023), 2 of my high school buddies and their nephew asked if I wanted to play. Since I rarely see these two friends anymore, I signed up to play via video chat. It was fun, but they canceled more than they played. "I took a nap and didn't wake up in time." "I forgot I had other plans." etc etc. So it fell apart after 4 or 5 months.
My son was about to graduate high school. The school doesn't list the top 10 students (or give any ranking) because "it might hurt people's feelings who get a low rank." What a load of BS. I'm fairly confident my son was top 10. When it came to standing up to be recognized for awards and accomplishments, he was one of a half-dozen kids that stood up like a dozen or more times - he got excellence in AP physics, excellence in calculus 2, excellence in computer engineering, excellence in engineering (his name is on a trophy that stays at the school!) and a PSAT score commendation
My son went to a Montessori school from kindergarten to 8th grade. The couple who ran the school while he was there started there in 1989. They retired a couple years after my son graduated 8th grade. The husband passed away in early 2023 and they had an open house on May 20 for people to come and share respects. My son and a few of his classmates went from one end of the school to the other reminiscing about where they hid stuff, where they hid (themselves), where funny things happened, etc etc.
We finally replaced our (VERY) old electrical panel that month. I sleep a little better at night now. The surrounding stuff shows how old the panel it replaced was.
My band was recording our first new music in 8 years at a studio in Portland Maine. The place was gorgeous. We planned on 4 songs but only did 3. If I remember right Koop really liked those songs! The guy who recorded us worked with Tony Visconti (Bowie, T Rex), Beau Hill (Ratt, Jeremiah Freed), and David “Sluggo” Katz (Gym Class Heroes, Train) and collab'ed with Matt Wallace (Faith No More, Maroon Five), Randy Staub (Metallica, Alice In Chains), Brian Malouf (Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam) and Adam Ayan and Bob Ludwig of Gateway Mastering.
I covered this somewhere, but I guess that's not sufficient.
My wedding was on a Sunday. The best man did the bachelor party on the Friday night (2 nights before). We went to the Kowloon, a famous Chinese restaurant with a comedy club upstairs. Everyone was buying me Zombies at dinner.
But after, just a few of us went upstairs. The best man and another guy was buying rounds of Sambuca. Except they arranged with the waiter to give them ice water, and only give me Sambuca. Funny, eh?! Needless to say, I got deathly ill, and they basically dropped me off on my front lawn. It's the perfect preparation for one of the most important weekends of my life.
At least they put you on your front lawn. Something similar happened to my dad in the Navy, his buddies got him drunk in Denver and he woke up in Chicago.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
I did not read this before. That sucks. One of my groomsman tried to get me to do something stupid at my bachelor party. I was drunk but still able to say no. Also my other groomsman stopped him when he continued to push. I think some people have this idea that bachelor parties should be drunken free for alls filled with debatchary and lunacy. That is probably actually where the tradition came from.
This was my 2nd marriage/bachelor party. At my first one, the guy who would be the best man referenced above, had just started with the company, and didn't really know me well. So he had some fucked-up thought in his mind, that he would make up for not being involved the 1st time, by pulling a prank like we were 22 again.
When my best man found out I'd never been to a strip club (at 27 years old), he made sure that's where we had it. But no bad stories, just a sleazy good time. It was called the Foxy Lady in Rhode Island. I just Google'd it and found this:
Dec 20, 2018 — A legendary Providence strip club has been forced to permanently close after prostitution charges were brought against three of its employees last week.
When I was a best man, I took the groom-to-be (NH bred, never really been to a big city) to Boston. We went to a restaurant next to Fenway Park and sat outside. We had some fun hijinx with the other people celebrating down there as they walked past. I'd shout "he's getting married on Sunday!!" and we'd get various responses. Some people just cheered and high-fived. Some people would shout "DON'T DO IT!" etc etc. But the best was a bridal party that we took photos with (pretending to be sticking their tongues in his ears and other fun stuff). Then we shot some pool and called it a night. It was a good innocent but still racy time. The groom-to-be did drink a little more than he should but nothing bad happened.
The best bachelor party I went to was for my cousin. We went to some club in Boston where girls are brought in to dance and do wild stuff with you. Every once in a while, they bring each girl up on stage and people cheer loudly based on how much fun she is. The winner, I assume, gets a big check at the end of the night. But the groom-to-be was getting spanked, then 20 minutes later he had his head pushed between two sets of breasts, then 10 minutes later he's on stage with 4 girls rubbing him all over, and so on. We were all dancing with girls that were "in to us" just having fun. Nothing that "crossed the line" just a bunch of us feeling like superstars.
Dec 20, 2018 — A legendary Providence strip club has been forced to permanently close after prostitution charges were brought against three of its employees last week.
When I was a best man, I took the groom-to-be (NH bred, never really been to a big city) to Boston. We went to a restaurant next to Fenway Park and sat outside. We had some fun hijinx with the other people celebrating down there as they walked past. I'd shout "he's getting married on Sunday!!" and we'd get various responses. Some people just cheered and high-fived. Some people would shout "DON'T DO IT!" etc etc. But the best was a bridal party that we took photos with (pretending to be sticking their tongues in his ears and other fun stuff). Then we shot some pool and called it a night. It was a good innocent but still racy time. The groom-to-be did drink a little more than he should but nothing bad happened.
The best bachelor party I went to was for my cousin. We went to some club in Boston where girls are brought in to dance and do wild stuff with you. Every once in a while, they bring each girl up on stage and people cheer loudly based on how much fun she is. The winner, I assume, gets a big check at the end of the night. But the groom-to-be was getting spanked, then 20 minutes later he had his head pushed between two sets of breasts, then 10 minutes later he's on stage with 4 girls rubbing him all over, and so on. We were all dancing with girls that were "in to us" just having fun. Nothing that "crossed the line" just a bunch of us feeling like superstars.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
My bachelor party was on the Thursday before my Saturday church wedding. It was at the Brass Rail in Toronto. It was a respectable strip club. My wife was upstairs watching male strippers lift towels with unusual appendages of their bodies (that is her description). I was downstairs and my friends bought me lap dances and drinks. That is where a naked woman (in Canada they can take it all off) basically sits on top of you but doesn't actually touch you. It was in a semi-private room (only people doing lap dances were there. About 8 stations). Apparently there is a special room by invitation only where the limits are not as strict shall we say. One of my groomsman thought this would be a good place to wind up. I found out he was kind of a regular there and would be able to secure the invitation. I was 100% sure that was not something I wanted to do. And even if I did, I was 200% sure it was something that my wife would have understood or forgave. And technically, I was already legally married as we did the city hall wedding a month earlier for immigration.
So my other groomsman and I walked up the street and grabbed a pizza and talked for an hour or so.
So my other groomsman and I walked up the street and grabbed a pizza and talked for an hour or so.
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December 31st was my late father's birthday, so we were likely celebrating that. Being that it coincided with New Year's Eve he liked to say that the whole world celebrated his birthday. (You can see where I get my sense of humor). It's also still kind of a touchy day since he died in '22. As is every other Mother's Day, Father's Day, Anniversary, Birthday or major holiday like Christmas since losing the both of them.
This was also the year the tsunami hit India something like a week beforehand. So we were still monitoring those events.
This was also the year the tsunami hit India something like a week beforehand. So we were still monitoring those events.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
2004/12/31
No idea. I usually did a trip to SK with my son to visit my parents. Always after Christmas. Sometimes after New Years. Sometime before. Not sure which this year this was. Pre-dates iPhone calendar. No help in pictures.
No idea. I usually did a trip to SK with my son to visit my parents. Always after Christmas. Sometimes after New Years. Sometime before. Not sure which this year this was. Pre-dates iPhone calendar. No help in pictures.
I worked with a guy who was kayaking in an inlet in Thailand when that hit. He was with a group where half of them were on canoes in the ocean. Those people all died.
2004 was probably one of the last years that we bothered trying to hit NYE parties. Shortly after that we switched to more casual dinner and maybe a movie with a few friends then watching the ball drop on TV at home.
THAT is funny
I still believe that strip club for unmarried men is seeing boobs and drinking. For married men, what happens can pretty much be classified having an affair.