Category: Random

Highlights and lowlights (some) of the year:
– Ducks lost their bowl game.
– Another year of singledom.
– Sold my Powerbook.
– Lots of minor injuries.
– Greyhound bus riding.
– Grandma’s funeral.
? Two teeth pulled.
+ Met some really cool people, made several new (hopefully long-lasting) friendships.
+ Started the UO Waterski Club.
+ Competed in a few AWSA/NCWSA waterski tournaments.
+ Am a rated official for AWSA in a few events.
+ Red Cross certified first aid & CPR.
+ Shiny new camera…. bought, lost, then returned!
+ Got a shiny new iMac G5.
+ Kept my job and continuing my edumacation.
+ Skiing gallore, including a trip to Canada.
+ Several bar/club concerts/shows.
+ Trips to coast with Marine Biology class.
+ A couple new website additions to my Portfolio.
+ Shack Parties.
+ Amandrew’s wedding.
+ Guitar learning.

New Years party at The Shack was great fun. Here’s to a more eventful year in 2006. I made some wishes for the new year, but so much for the resolutions. This way I don’t feel guilty if things don’t happen, and if they do, bonus!!

note: This post was finally posted on Jan 8 2006. I’ve backdated it to fit more chronologically in the archives.

w00t! Vacation was great, but working is important for survival. I arrived in Eugene Thursday afternoon after a FIFTY-FOUR HOUR bus ride. Friday I worked most of all day, with a couple hour break to get lunch and pay rent, etc., followed by an OMGWTFBBQ at David’s. BBQ was great, met so many people who were v.fun to be around, I just hope I didn’t make an ass out of myself so I get invited back sometime in the not-too-distant future. Lots of beer got drank and lots of people got drunk. Good times 😉

Saturday I woke up on their couch, slightly hungover, but in rather good shape I thought. Had an omlet handed to me while Sarah was showing me the Salad Fingers series (watch them in order, they are progressively more disturbing). Then I stopped at Albertsons to get another pack of beer to bring to Fall Creek for a work ppl outing. Mmm geeks in swimsuits :-/ Anyhow, some beers and some swimming later, it was back to Eugene for dinner. We went to Sushi Domo, and I had my first sushi evar. I was adventurous and ordered basically a miscellaneous plate. It was quite the experience, it was rather decent, but I won’t be eating it all that often. Perhaps it gets better each time you have it. *shrug* who knows?

Sunday I got up at 7am to go help remove weeds from the waterski pond at 8am. Working in the sun on the water all day, got a ski run in at the end (made 3 of 4 passes at 32mph). Left there around 5pm. Now I’m all burnt and stuff, but I’m ok. Get to do it all over again next weekend, yay!

Aaaand I worked 8 hours today. With only 1 15min break for f00dstuffs. Mmm bbqchicken sammich from SubShop!

All this, and I still haven’t gone grocery shopping since getting back to town. I can’t tell if this is good or bad, but I don’t think it’s good, because I haven’t been eating much. Anywho, until next time…

After sleeping most of the day Friday from being on the bus so damn long, I went out to dinner with my parents and my grandma at Adventures. We got there just in time for happy hour (mmmm 2-fer-1 drinks), then I went to join many of Andy’s friends, several family members, and some of Amanda’s friends who went out to the bar for some drinking and hanging out before the wedding on Saturday. Andy’s got me hooked on Irish Car Bombs, I had a bit to drink that night. I crashed at Jared’s house on the couch, while watching Iron Chef on TV.

Morning came and I got dropped off at my car, then went home to get dressed and get back to town for the ceremony where I was supposed to video the vows. Things went off without a hitch (well, one hitch, but the good kind), and a few people went to the bar before going to the reception, I think I saw maybe 2 people with a drink in hand at the bar, as the wedding party still had to take pictures, and several people were driving.

Everyone arrived at The Giants Ridge Lodge, and got settled for dinner. They also had 3 kegs of pre-paid-for beer. I think I had 12 [free] beers that night, all the while hitting my flask of JD. Did much dancing with people from high school, and some people I didn’t know (don’t believe the rumors!!! 😛 ). After the reception was over, Pingry and I headed to the bar for a few more drinks, and the bar tender said they were closing in about 20 minutes (at 1am), but we indicated that we had money and wanted to chill and have some drinks and chat for a while. Well, we got the bartender to do a couple Irish Car Bombs with us, and soon we were joined by other people leaving the reception, and the manager of the bar. I have no idea how many drinks I had, but it was quite a few. After the bar closed (somewhere about 2am) 4 of us went outside on the deck to chill for a while, and then 3 of us went to cause some mischief, soon lost one, and 2 of us ended up climbing a certain Sarajevo lift tower #6, and then crashed in Jared’s room where we found Jared and Bjorn sleeping. Before sleeping, however, I hit the jacuzzi for a while in an effort to sober up. I ended up sleeping on my clothes on the floor.

Here’s a few photos from the night:

And here is a link to the rest of the wedding photos.

When everyone woke up, Pingry, Bjorn and I headed to VI for some breakfast. I ran into Katie there (my former neighbor and friend for as long as I can remember). After breakfast, I dropped the other 2 off and headed for the cabin.