Of course, as soon as I started, I was called away to do some work but I am back again, two hours later and am starting this again. Right now, everyone seems to have disappeared. Normally, they would ask me to watch the phones if they had a meeting or something, but I came back from an install and no one was here. I have no idea where they have gone and they have been gone for about 45 minutes now. No one else seems to know either.
Now I have been away for a couple of days since I last started this. Not sure what drew me away but I have a few minutes now so I thought I would try to complete it. Not much chance of that happening but we can always hope. And the fact that I am having trouble typing is not a good sign.
Ok, where to begin, or begin again, or just start from scratch. Or maybe I can pretend I have told you everything and just move on from here.
Let's start with Juanita's going away party. I didn't really have anything to do with it and it was actually a Christmas party that occurs every year but since it was the last chance for a lot of people to see Juanita before she goes, I called it a going away party. Not that anyone actually showed up.
This party is a once a year thing for some family. Not sure what all families are involved but Juanita is part of one of them. I think it might be her mother's side of the family. This year, Craig volunteered to have it at his house. Plenty of room, nice place to be, and he has lots of free booze. You would think that would have brought out the entire mob but it turns out only about 15 people showed up, including us. Not the turnout that usually happens but they did say it has been getting smaller and smaller each year. I remember times when there were over a hundred people at this party, but not anymore apparently. Maybe it was the fact that it was at Craig's, which is really not close to anything but since we have always driven across town with the parents and family to attend the one they normally have, we thought maybe it was their turn to drive over to us. Didn't happen. Just the die hard regulars who are always there showed up. Maybe that is a good thing. I thought so.
Anyway, since this took place about three weeks ago, I have a lot of catching up to do in this blog and I need to move on.
At the party, everyone wanted see me get drunk. I normally never get drunk or not so much that it shows. Since we were going to camp in Craig's paddock, we were going to try out Juanita's new awnings she got for the van, if was ok for me to drink and not have to drive later. So Craig made it his mission to keep me supplied with alcohol. He has this cask of whiskey he like to get everyone to drink. I think I have mentioned it before. I have tried it and it is not bad. Not real good but not bad. Apparently, the reason he keeps pushing this stuff is that is was made wrong. From the stories they tell, it is supposed to be aged in a wooden barrel for at least a year. This is aged for a year but they did not know that the barrel they got was lined with metal. So the alcohol was not aged properly. It stayed in the whiskey so what they ended up with was a whiskey that is about 100 proof. It is very powerful and probably should not be drunk straight without adding it to something.
I found it tasted like crap with coke. It was barely tolerable with anything else so I ended up drinking it straight. I had five. Now I say I had five and you would think that I meant five shots but what Craig was serving it in was about one cup shot glasses. I am not kidding, each one held a little over a cup of liquid. Craig gave me five of these over about a two hour period.
See, I have to finish later. I will definitely re-read this and get back to it at the point I am at now but I have to go somewhere for work and I am already late for leaving for it. Not that you will notice, but I will probably not get back to this before Monday as today is Friday and I only do this at work apparently.
Ok, I have reread this and have no idea where I was going with this. Must have been the fact that I did get drunk and I do not remember what time I went to bed. I normally go to bed early so I assume I went at about 9 or so, but I really have no idea and I am told everyone was in bed by 11 so I don't know if I went to bed before them or after. I do know that when I went, Craig was trying to escort me to the van but he was more drunk that I was so he was not a great help. I know they all said I almost fell down but the way I remember it was I dropped something, can't remember what, and when I bent over to pick it up, Craig said he would get it and ran into me making me stagger out of the way. Not sure if that is what they meant but I know it was not my fault as Craig ran into me.
I suppose, after about three weeks, I should end this and start over. I am going to do that. I am at work again and I just had a lunch they took me to so they could thank me for my efforts. I still have a week left but it was nice of them to do so. I expected everyone to come with us but it was just me and the boss and the bosses boss. It was ok. They made me drink beer and then we all came back to work. I am not sure how having a few beers at work would go over in America but here, it is the norm.
Anyway, I am going to wrap this up. Can't be bothered to start typing on what it is I was going to say. Too tired and too much beer to concentrate, so I guess this will have to be it. Hopefully, I will get back to it this weekend and type some from home. Can't really say that will happen but it might.
So it's goodbye from me and it's good bye from the pints of Guinness I had. Yeah, it's a picture of me. Get over it.
Until next time
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