Best one in a while.

Friday, visit to RH Mom after work, then off to Lenny Boy Brewing for cold and delicious craft beers and Xtreme World Wrestling. Excellent show, the King of Lighting won the pot of gold in the 4-way St. Patrick's Day Ladder Match. Back home to finish the night watching baskerballs.

Saturday, chores and errands galore, visit to RH Mom, then rode over to my pal the instrument collector's house and traded the Reverend Rumblefish and Triad baases in for a Music Man Stingray special edition, a Music Man Bongo, and his latest 5-string Rumblefish...roughly $7000 worth of instruments. Needless to say, I played a LOT of bass Saturday night, with some baskerballs breaks inbetween.

Sunday, grocery run and more errands, visit to RH Mom, then off to the Thirsty Beaver to see Clemson's own Kenny Roby of Six String Drag play solo. He was first of three acts along with The Old Souls from Plairsville, GA. and Charlotte legend Bill Noonan (who co-fronted the Rank Strangers with Gigi Dover, if any of y'all remember them). Excellent time, and didn't expect RH Sis to come rolling up in there with her little party crew so a few more Miller High Lifes were consumed than originally intended.

Top notch 19/19 Covids weekend.

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Friday: played poker with some frans, low stakes $10 buy-in because some rookies in the crowd, still took down about $30. No plan to stay out too late because getting up early on Saturday, but still didn't get to sleep until after 2am. Derp.

Saturday: up at 7ish to head out to the woods for the annual Duharra Games Competition. Longtime friend from Clemson and his MD crowd have some duckhunting land down Green Pond, and the 4 (used to be 5) doctor/proprietors have a competition weekend in March every year with each of them inviting a guest or two. Skeet shooting competition before everybody gets too drunk to handle firearms, skeethouse and field shots, and then later in the afternoon, yard/bar games. 10 guys (only 3 of 4 proprietors, and 7 guests). Two separate trophies/titles/bragging rights. I've had several bridesmaid finishes in both comps over the years.

Only hit 13/18 from the skeethouse, did singles, reports (second pigeon after first shot), and doubles (same time), think there was a couple 15/18 and a 16/18. Head to field for crossing shots, which are much closer to what you'd actually see a bird do--fly across or over or towards you. I'm usually stronger here, especially with crossing shots, and went 0/4 and 1/4 on the high speed crossing shots. Fortunately, it was actually that tough and everybody else was mostly shitting the bed with me. Went 4/4 on the last station where the pigeons were slower at the end of the flight, almost ground level, and not much more than 15-20' away. Ended up in a 4 way tie at 18/30.

Overtime, back to skeethouse. 1 player eliminated in first round of doubles. Double overtime, one more player eliminated in 3 bird throws. TRIPLE overtime, me and my friend who invited me, 4 birds at once, 3 shells in the gun. Hit one on the first round, and hit all 3 on the second, which was probably the best piece of shooting of the day, if I do say so myself--4 birds coming out from underfoot at the same time disappear in not much more than 3-3.5 seconds. So 4/6, buddy also went 2/4-2/4 for 4/6.

BACK to the field for quadruple OT. Switched sides, but pretty close to the shot I ended 4/4 on to make the playoff. Hit first 2, missed next 2. Buddy missed his first 3 because probably his weakest shot, BALL GAME. Only the second time in 11 years that a non-proprietor has won the shooting competition, so feelin' pretty good about things.

They have a big silver cup that gets engraved with the winner every year, but that has to stay with a proprietor, so my buddy gets to keep it on his shelf since I was his guest. They do a smaller pewter cup for the winner, too.

Games competition once the bourbon started flowing, was horseshoes, darts, bucketball (think beerpong with 5 gallon Home Depot buckets with sand in the bottom, and mini basketballs), and another old Clemson buddy brought a game him and his business partners came up with that they're manufacturing in China and selling on Amazon and whatnot--weird game with bocce balls and frisbees and lawn darts (not the dangerous '80s ones, meh). Lost in the first round of weird game, won darts (surprisingly, as I'll typically lose to the guy I beat in the shooting comp, but I pointed him to death on 19s to start the game), and came in 2nd in horseshoes. One guy won 2 of the 4 games, so I figured it was a no-brainer that he was the Games champ, but WAIT! Somehow, I was tied with him, and ended up having to play a final game for 3rd place in bucketball--a 3rd place finish there would give me a single point and enough for the title. Since this has been Winning Weekend so far, I took it down. Only the second time somebody has won the shooting AND games competitions in the same day--one of the proprietors did it last year for the first time.

Nice lil YETI trophy for that portion of the win. Sent this to the proprietors this morning and let them know that the coffee is hitting a little different today.

Sunday: slept on the porch after going to bed rather drunkenly at 1:30 or 2am, grabbed the wrong sleeping bag so was right on the edge of being too cold. Woke up at 5:30am with horrible leg cramps, dunno what that's about. Cleaned up with errbody and headed out. Did a couple bushels of oysters at Dad's house, no plans to consume any alcohol but had a few lawnmower beers because oysters. Spent the day feeling like I got punched all day Saturday. Getting old is rough.

Killer weekend with all the winning, 127/10, would do again and again, but may not be invited back to future games competitions.

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I became a man on Saturday

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found some new hot sauce for Micallen

Decent and uneventful...

A blur. Spent Friday and saturday cutting grass

Druuuuuuuunk

Nice sporting, nice eating, & sunny!

Twas a guddun'

Started slow picked up mellowed out

Kinda a blur

Man it was all I could do while in college to go on spring

Student Loans

General shenanigans

Welp, the Baggage Boys lost but I didn't die

Groovy!

Best one in a while.

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An A, for sure.

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Zombifying

So what you're saying is it wasn't worth the $1500?***

By midnight sat night, after feeling like I was in a remake

The ticket prices were too much higher to fly into Grand

Busy as foretold

I thought you resigned?***

I am the assistant head coach

Assistant to the assistant? Nice.***

They're all the same.

Life was a lot easier as a renter wasn't it?***

Much better.

The Owls lost, but I didn't dead.***

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