Pray for Snow

Yup, I'm praying. I only do this when puking and when I'm hoping to have a day off from work. When I'm puking it's usually a prayer that I live another day, but last week, I was puking and praying for the good lord (Alanis Morrisette) to take me. Tonight I'm asking Alanis to bring me some snow. The brats at school and I have one thing in common this night!

Fact of the matter is, I've been here all winter and haven't seen ANY snow at all. Snow is like the only redeeming quality that an ugly city has! It quiets the noise and blankets the trash so that even an empty anti-freeze bottle in a junkyard can look cool for once!

Today was cool. I got a few crappy cell phone pictures of a Red-tail hawk eating a pigeon! Nature taking a swipe at an invasive specie! I love it! I didn't think much of hawks a few years ago when one ate my invasive specie pet parrot............sigh. I miss Pietro.

Anyway, I hope I'm not setting myself up for disappointment with this whole snow thing. If so, there will be some longwinded essay on disappointment and unrequited love in my next post!

Stay tuned!

On a roll

Cheese Cosmo:

On an 8 inch Italian roll spread mayo? and layer with provolone cheese, add shredded lettuce, light peppercini, italian dressing (or oil and vinegar) seasonings, and garlic powder, toast for 4 minutes in 4oo degree oven.

Do I have that right?

The Havoc!

Today between trips to the water closet I got an email from a freind from.........yes I spelled freind wrong........I always do..........a freind from Lock Haven saying to check my myspace (which I do about every 7 months). So I did and got a blast from the past of some very dear memories. A friend named Terri had contacted me and filled me in on the goings on in that town in which I spent too many years (for more than one reason as I really didn't like the town all that much......LOL let's just say there was a contest going on with a group of fellows as to how many semesters we could stay freshmen, I remember hearing "seventh semester freshman" muttered once and felt defeated).

But Terri's group of freinds are a part of a family that belonged to a house just up the street from the campus. The Havoc was the name of the house. It soon became the Thursday night destination for me and a small core of freinds. Mostly it was just me and Lex. What attracted Lex and I didn't always attract the others because they were also interested in frat parties and well, personally, frat parties sucked. The only cool one got closed down early on in 86, if you can even call it cool. It wasn't, I was just awed by the lineup of 17 or more kegs. The Havoc was cool. That year was the end all and be all of party houses. I was glad to catch it before the LCB busted those other parties and sent everything underground. The Havoc was accepting and homey like no other. Each room had a different atmosphere all equally mellow and inviting. Most occupied was "The Swamp", Shag's refuge and who knows who elses before him as I was a late comer to the whole thing. Shag had the swamp set up just like Hawkeye's and Trapper John's tent (BJ was , well.......not Trapper) in the crazy 4077th. Actually, it was set up better and had the occasional game of "Beer Trek" happening. Beer Trek!

The other rooms were deemed for veterans only usually and I was rarely granted access being a newbie. I have only good memories of the Swamp and it's occupants. Only good memories of those parties except once, being the bastards Lex and I were, we stole Elio's pizza and frozen swedish meatballs from the freezer of our brothers. Shag and that peanut butter eating freak...(having trouble recalling the bearded one's name..ANDY?) chased Dave and I a bit, but soon gave up. I felt bad about it (the pizza probably made me sick anyway) but they didn't care.

I do, however, have bad bad bad memories of Friday morning Biology lab and smelling the formalin..............barfing is not fun!

Happiest moments: tending bar and sneaking tap hits (Andy was the one to pass me the tap...it was like rites of passage, I remember the look on my face, or better yet, what it must have looked like......one of amazement, joy and gratitude........Thanks Andy, sorry about eating all of your Peter Pan), standing on the radiator in the taproom observing and enjoying the people and vibe, sitting on the roof drinking, Beer Trek, the recliner with the cupholders, and the people.

A while back there was a site up made by Weasle about the Havoc. Does that still exist? I never got the full history of the Havoc. I'm interested in hearing it.

I haven't posted here in ages! For those just catching up with me, please track back and see some of my photos of Oregon and such. If there are any up anymore.

For my freinds in Oregon.........I'm glad your Govenor was smart enough to stop giving illegal aliens drivers licenses! Oh yeah, well I miss you all or something like that. Been doing lots of fishing and teaching. Slowly getting my woodworking shop set up in the back. Start sending in those wood surfboard orders! I'm trying to hook up with an old buddy who is farming Paulonia wood and I want to experiment with that wood for shaping. I got some mega tools for sanding and shaping and well, one day I'll use them! OK, way tired. Gotta bolt.

Terri, thanks for the inspiration!

Next up for me is wooden boat making school on weekends in March and My Coast Guard Captains license course in April........wish me luck!

PIC is my buddy Ian and myself one night working on a presentation for school to get a rugby team going......maybe next year.