I’ve never been as disappointed at the end of an athletic event. The party was great, good food , good drinks. Even Hanley’s cigars were good. At 7-3 at the half, I stopped drinking and started pacing.
Let’s just say we didn’t sleep very well last night. How do the Patriots get out coached, outplayed, and, well how the frak does this happen ?
This may be the end of the Golden Age.
the coolest thing about working last night ? watching seven of the pats watching the end of the giants-packers, determining who they would face in the soup bowl.
Preparing for school, we decided to clean out Bri’s room. I can not believe how much shit was shoved into a 10×12 bedroom. Once she brought it all out, we did the TLC Whatevah Home Improvement Show piles of Need, Want and Donate.Knowing she would have to haul everything she wanted to keep back into the room and put away helped motivate Bri to choose wisely. She retained about 15% of the stuff.
Anyone need some toys?
Getting Beat by The Man, uploaded by kinshay.
Mullets were only the beginning of the day, That was actually the start to our summer company outing to P-town. I love working for a company that has people who say things like, “Well, I have to be home and watch the kids at 5, so I need to STOP drinking at noon.” < ---real quote.
Linda, the enabler, was handing out drink tickets left and right on the boat at 8:30 am. It was a fun time. That time of day most people go for the Bloody Mary, but I find the Cape Codder a much better eye opener.
Needless to say by the time it was 5:30 PM and we were at Tia’s behind the Marriot, I was feeling good. I took on a couple of arm wrestling challengers and put em down easy. My victory chant was something like this “I will take down any of you 100 pound girls!” as the top of my lungs. (First challenger was Pam, you see her in the green dress.) With no takers, I shouted “Come on Old Man” to our CEO and President. With some cajoling he stepped up and kicked my ass. I made him work for it though, we must have gone for 90 seconds. I could not lift my arm afterwards. Still kinda hurts.
So, in case you were wondering, my job rocks.
Also - I shaved my head again, and for those of you in the know - w00f.
An extremely rare sighting in the northeast, we have captured a picture of a male and female adult Mullets. In love.
This is the photo that should teach everyone, there is someone out there for everyone.
Daddy Daughter & Dance, uploaded by kinshay.
This year we skipped the picnic graveside so Kin-Girl could go to the beach. In the afternoon we cruised down to Corcoran South to see lil Cate in her second recital. You may recall how awse last year was, so we were looking forward to it.
Sadly, it was a very well done affair. Held in a real theater, it was organized and on time. They front loaded it with the 2 - 6 year old, which was so frggin adorable it makes me sick. Kin yah and I were trying to come up with things possibly cuter than the dancing we were seeing. My best shot was a panda hugging a koala bear, but even that would not trump these little ones.
Cate did very well in her dance, and Sean and Cate kicked ass in the daddy daughter dance. (NOTE - I was asked to do daddy daughter dance by Bri but passed for the sake of bio-dad and the fact that I would kill Kin-Mom rather than dance on stage in public.)
They also did well in the finale. The dance company did their five year awards after the finale. After they were all handed out, there was some other business going down, when we see Cate standing in front of the teachers, off her place on the floor. Come to find out later that “She did not get her trophy” and was waiting for one. She was rather upset when they did not have one for her, but fortuitously Bri happened to want to give her a gold “dancer” medal at the same time, so it all worked out in the end.
Side note - not to be without her own performance, Maggie managed to run face first into trash barrel, and bled all over Sean. Awse!
Imagine my surprise when I saw this:
It will come as no surprise that the residents of a city known as “The Nation’s Watering Hole” like to have a beer or two.
But Milwaukee isn’t just your average brewing town. It’s the hardest-drinking city in America, according to Forbes.com’s ranking of America’s Drunkest Cities…
Each city was ranked in five areas: state laws, number of drinkers, number of heavy drinkers, number of binge drinkers and alcoholism…
Coming in second on our list is another chilly metro: Minneapolis-St. Paul. The twin cities ranked No. 2 for adults who reported having had a drink in the last month, No. 3 for binge drinkers and No. 12 for heavy drinkers.
Rounding out the top five drunkest cities are Columbus, Ohio; Boston; and Austin, Texas.
What the frig is going on here? We get beaten by Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Columbus, Ohio? Screw that shit! You all better get some Hahpoon, Sammy, or even Jinro and begin the work required to get us into the numbah 1 spot!
(I’m not drunk, but the post is about drinking, hence the title.)
So there’s been fuck all entertainment worth a damn over the last few…months, or so. Here’s some stuff that is worth your time:
Little Miss Sunshine: it is my favorite movie to see in a theater that has come out this fiscal year. Steve Carrell is brilliant, Alan Arkin made me almost poop myself, and the little kid in it has a future in the biz. What’s it about? Hard to say. Disfunctional family that goes to extreme length to get their awkward daughter to a beauty pageant. It also slags off families who take part in that nonsense.
Stargate SG1: The 200th episode (entitled, cleverly, “200″) is the best hour of television I’ve e’er seen. I watched it three times and am considering watching it again. Basically, it is a skit show where they make fun of the actors, writers, producers, fans, Firefly fans, Star Trek…pretty much anything that me and my ilk would be into. For the second runthrough, Courtney and I paused at every inside joke to discuss for 3-5 seconds, and it took us two hours to get to the end.
Deadwood: The best drama on TV. Shield, Lost, and BSG all tie for second. Gerald McRaney should get some sort of Emmy, as should Ian McShane. Who knew Major Dad could be evil? His character Hearst is, and it shows how good his chops are that he can go from one extreme to t’other. The season finale is next week, so get caught up with a quickness.
GAA: Irish sports are pissah. Everyone knows that Hurling is the fastest team sport on earth, but Senior (Gaelic) Football is pretty frigging good, too. It is so multi-dimensional and asymmetrical that I am thinking of writing a paper comparing American Football to the Air-Land Battle Doctrine and Hurling to counterinsurgency operations. Cork is in the hunt for the All Ireland in both sports, as far as I know, but I think they played football yesterday and may have been eliminated. I have a jersey on the way. It was dear, but it was worth it.
Cribbage: always entertaining. Pick up a cool board and rock the cribbone.
Big Papi is straight up making balls leave the yard and shirts fly off the shelves.
After his walk-off heroics Monday night vs. Cleveland, Kintees had nine separate orders (of which four customers ordered multiple shirts) they came in from Cali, Arizona, Georgia, Vermont, Mass, Maryland, Nueva York, and the People’s Republic of Nantucket.
Super Sweet.
How you gonna sell tshirts if no one knows what they look like? How do you want to present these tshirts, and how they look?
Simple. You hire hot models to wear said tshirts and take pictures of them.
Granted, we did not need to hire hot models, as we all happen to be married to, or live with wicked hot babes as it is. But, we are the jealous, don’t like to share types, so outsourcing it was.
Kin Girl and I had the pleasure of shooting Michelle:
She is not a pro, but does modeling for fun and sport. She is a wonderful girl, extremely friendly and very easy to work with. She understood I was not a pro at all, and helped out a great deal. She knew what we were looking for and delivered. Oh yeah, and she is way pretty.
Michelle was recommended to me by a professional photographer friend. How else do you find models? Craiglist! Throw up an ad, models email you. When I put up my ad, I was sure to put in a link to kintees, let them know it was legit. I was impressed on how many girls followed the link and emailed through the website. That seemed a much safer course of action to me.
Kin Yah Bruthah put up an ad as well and arranged two shoots near Fenway. He did an awesome job. First up was Zoe:
I think we can all tell from the pics alone She has a great personality and is wicked cute. She was followed on the same day by Dani:
who takes her work very seriously and did a good job showing off the shirts.
I’ve already added a bunch of banner ads over at kintees, and uploaded a bunch to flickr. I’ll get them on HotShots! soon. All we need now is a Hollywood star wearing a Papi and we’re golden.
