Higgins Lake and Etcetera

Last Wednesday my old college roommate came up to Ann Arbor and we drove up to Higgins Lake for the weekend. Out plan was to get a CIAYCELB (Cottage Inn All You Can Eat Lunch Buffet) before the drive up but he didn't make it up in time.

Every year my old roommates do a trip up to beautiful Higgins lake in Northern Michigan for a weekend of drinking and fun. Since I've always been in Seattle this is the first time I've been able to go and I was looking forward to it. We got up wednesday afternoon and had a few beverages around a nice fire waiting for the rest of our friends to arrive.

On Thursday Zola, Dan, Al and I went to go play 9 holes at Ye Olde Country Club which was about 10 miles from the lake house. Unfortunately I hadn't played since last August in Oklahoma so I embarrassingly had a more than one violation of the Dick-Out rule. For those who are not familiar with golf, the USGA rulebook defines the rule as "If a player fails to advance his ball past the ladies tees on his first shot he must pull his dick out and proceed to his ball on foot and take his next shot with his dick out" (sorry mom). The good news is that when we went back for 9 holes on Friday I did not have any violations of the dick-out rule.

Before Golfing on Thursday Zola put a pork butt in the smoker and 12 hours later (with a few hours in the oven), we had the most delicious pork. On Friday Al repeated the feat with a brisket. Saturday saw some Turkey Legs take their turn through the smoker. Basically we ate pretty well.

The rest of the time we spent drinking on the boat, drinking in the yard, drinking around the campfire, drinking to the "HJNTIY" (He's Just Not That Into You) drinking game, drinking while playing euchre, drinking while watching lesser movies and drinking at the local bar where we paid the DJ to play Rocky Top. We drank a bit.

Sunday, Zola and I came back to A2 and after short power naps we sent to The Brown Jug for dinner followed by an epic best-of-7-game pool series at the 8-ball saloon. I came back from down 3-2 to best him, but there was no besting the 2 whiskey shots and 2 High Life's for $5.50. After that we walked down the railroad tracks to the new Rub Pub BBQ at State and Packard but it was closed. Dejected but not defeated we went back to the Jug for karaoke. There was some real singers in the room. I stumbled my way through Runaround Sue and a bit later Zola knocked out Country Roads. Not a bad little Sunday.

On Monday Zola and I finally got that CIAYCELB we had been craving. Tuesday saw me wake up at noon and then do a research study for $5 followed by a little afternoon light reading at Dominick's.

In other news:
I will soon start trying to find a job which means the blog may go dark for weeks or months at a time. Sorry about that.

I've been pleased to see some campus characters are still around from my days. They weren't well known to probably anyone else but me and mostly from my days as a bus driver. There is this one middle aged woman who I would always see jogging with a windbreaker around her waist. We always looked really frail but I'm happy to see her still running. Also I saw the guy I nicknamed "Turtle Man" He was a middle aged guy with a big belly and always wore a hat. I could never tell if her was a little slow or not. But I saw him at Rub Pub BBQ my first week back. He used to guard the door to Schembechler Hall in the fall and do other jobs the rest of the year.

Continuing my eatery tour mentioned before I've also knocked out Blimpy, CIAYCELB, The Brown Jug, Red Hot Lovers, Mr. Spots, Quickie Burger.

Also, I went to Chipotle today and found myself in line directly behind two members of the Michigan Basketball Team. Being a big fan of Michigan Sports it is nice to see the athletes around town although I always avoid interaction unless prompted.