I have realized that after next weekend I will have visited 4 of the original 6 cities so far this year (New York, Toronto, Boston, and Montreal, in that order). While this does motivate me to go to Chicago sometime this year, I'm not sure I could ever be motivated to go to Detroit.
I just went to the Most Boring Backyard Party In The Universe. No beer, thin box burgers, everybody avoiding each other. Thank god I have to DJ night and got to cut out early. Time for a lil' Green Lightning, and I'm off to Donnelly Massacreville.
It may make me some kind of a stick-in-the-mud, but I am NOT dancing bump-n-grind style with anyone in a bar. I don't care how hot you are.
Well, my plan for today was to sit inside and veg out all day. Instead, I spent most of the day at two different pools, drinking beer. Tough break, huh? In other news, I've got a pretty solid buzz going right now, so what's goin' on with everyone?
I am in the worst possible mood right now. As such, I am depending on you hooligans to amuse/distract me with your hilarious antics. Time to start drinking heavily.
It's terrible. I am an avid whiskey lover and el husband can ALWAYS tell. Whiskey has that tell tale taste. I'll have one sip and he'll come over, kiss me, and then start giving me loving nicknames based off the word boozey. Whatever, Bailey's is on the menu right now. I'mma taste like some Irish cream, y'all!
Bailey's is surprisingly good on ice, when you're in the mood for it. I'm keeping it pretty classy myself right now. Got an ice chest on the floor next to me full of Mexican beers, with a plate of cut up limes on the desk next to me. Also, I just discovered that the cord on my headphones will reach into the bathroom. It's one of those nights.
Just do a drive through of Detroit. One time driving I-94 through that city will give you more than enough of a feel of what it is like, which is to say kind of a festering shithole with a lot of empty buildings. Picture Chernobyl, without radiation (well, less radiation anyway). Luckily, I've avoided downtown Detroit in all my visits to that area, sticking mainly to the suburbs where my wife's extended family lives. Not sure where you live, but I know I-94 goes straight through Detroit down to Chicago, which is an awesome city that you very much should visit. I might be able to get my wife to go to a meetup if I said "One of the board members is a pharmacist and is totally going to be there!" She'd still find it weird, but I can sell her on the whole socializing aspect with someone she has something in common with. Or, it would trigger a two day fight. Either/or. Side note, as soon as this kid falls asleep, I am getting trashed and playing the Devil May Cry HD collection all night, because I just took a 3 hour nap and now there is zero chance I fall asleep before 1 AM.
Speaking of meetups, I posted for advice in the Travel thread asking advice about where to go in Chicago. You know how many of the Chicago people responded, not a one. I didn't even ask for a meet up, but I can feel the rejection regardless.
By the time you finish paying to park your car, you won't be able to afford to go anywhere, so I wouldn't worry about it. Know how to silence 9 in-laws? Feed 'em BBQ.
I was really hoping to be invited to an in-home BBQ due to that very reason. My husband has decided that we will park remotely and take the subway in. So I hope that whoever invites us will be located close to a subway line. Or willing to come pick us up at our hotel.
My hangover is finally receding. I haven't had a hangover this rough in a loooooong time. You all know the type where you wake up clothed, disoriented, and ashamed. You lay in bed, pretending you'll manage more meaningful sleep. You reel out of bed an hour later when the urge to pee finally overcomes the urge to do nothing but hold a pillow over your head. You shutter the windows and surround yourself in darkness, because anything brighter than your TV causes brain damage. You lay on the couch for the next six hours, and your first and only meal is a pizza delivered around 3:45 PM. The only intelligent or productive thing you do all day is remember to put the leftover pizza in the fridge. Before you realize it, it's 11:12, you ran out of acceptable movies Ondemand four hours ago, and just watched Screamers, a mid-90s sci-fi movie about Robocop fighting killer circular saws that look like people. OK, so maybe that type of hangover is pretty specific to me and should have been written in the first person. Too late now!
In Chicago, its not a subway, its an elevated train. There are some cheap parking lots around Chicago, you just have to hunt them down. Apparently, my sister-in-law knows all of them because she commutes up there on a daily basis for school. I know very little about the geography of the city, because I rarely get a chance to visit, and when I do, 9 times out of 10 it is to go to a White Sox or Cubs game. I do know I have fun on the rare occasions I get to actually be in the city, though.
Ok, so we are staying on wabash close to the river (225 N. Wabash to be exact), have her get to work for us.....you can tell her it is for ... a friend.