I was a bartender at a fairly popular bar on campus at UW-Madison for four years. Â And this wasn’t your standard shot and beer joint, no sir. Â This was a fancy, schmancy martini bar where we had to have many a beverage memorized, had to wear a white shirt, black pants, and a tie, and still made less than minimum wage.
To the left here is a picture of me, bowtied and suspendered out. Â Now keep in mind, this was about 5 years ago, so I am significantly less cool than this now.
It was amazing how many people day after day More >
New Years is a holiday that centers around three activities:
1. Drinking copious amounts of alcohol.
2. Watching a large, shiny ball go down a pole.
3. Making lists
If done correctly, your New Years did these three things in this order because watching a shiny ball is not any fun unless you’ve already been drinking copious amounts of alcohol. And making a list is usually done the next day while wearing pajama pants and eating Tylenol like they’re candy.
To ring in the year of ‘10, I’ve created ten lists of ten things each and even got some other fantastic bloggers to contribute.
I urge More >
So this weekend my friend Becky found out that the local curling club is had an open house to which you can go and learn to curl.
I do not know how she found this out.
Since we had nothing better to do, and since I was working off a ridiculous hangover brought on by homecoming in Madison the night before, I was not capable of much physical activity. Curling sounded right about up my alley.
So the fiance and I went on down there with Becky and her husband Allen. I did not even know where we were going, or where you More >
