Good morning everyone how was your weekend?

Thursday: ordered just about errthing from Cracker Barrel since it was just us and my Pops, and nobody really felt like cooking. First year in quite a few I haven't smoked or fried a bird, kinda enjoyed that. HOWEVER...wife still decided that she needed to make mashed potatoes (wouldn't let me do it because reasons), crack green beans, and something else that escapes me, ALL unnecessary given the amount of food we already had, and all contributing to her frustration and need to yell at the rest of us about not doing anything to help clean or contribute to the well being of the family (fuck, I love holidays, and this wasn't even for people coming over, this was us going to my dad's house).

Cracker Barrel food ended up being uncharacteristically mediocre--sweet potato casserole (one of the reasons for Thanksgiving food) was bland and unseasoned, even the hashbrown casserole was closer to "meh" than it was to "gatdam". So, whatev, had some good pours at the old man's and got to spend some time with him.

Friday: headed out around noon towards the upstate, besides a wreck in Orangeburg that cost me 20-30 minutes, reasonably smooth sailing. Watched the last lil bit of the WC game, go 0-0 draws! Walked in to Pixie and Bill's at 5:30ish to see if we could get a seat at the bar, and they actually put the 3 of us at a table. Decent meal, Calhoun Corners woulda been better. Went to The Shepherd hotel bar--dang old grownup place in the middle of downtown. Plus: not shoulder-to-shoulder crowded, no lines. Minus: not full of drunken college splittail for me to creep out.

Saturday: headed to tailgate at 8 or 8:30; procured a pair of lowers for $194 per, then got a call from a buddy who sits in the WEZ and has been scouting the ticket checking process all season (or lack thereof)--he can consistently get his family of 4 into DV and into the WEZ only scanning 1 or 2 of their tickets, so he got me and reflux into the WEZ and we sold the pair we just bought (at a loss, of course). Haven't been up there since the 2014 FSU game that was inexplicably canceled and nobody has ever talked about since; food was decent, lockers full of booze were better than decent, view was aight but not as good as sitting on a sideline.

Decided, especially after the way we played, that heading back to Chas. that evening was the appropriate play. Got on the road around 7 or 7:30, and immediately started getting drowsy. Had a 10:30ish ETA, and decided to pull over north of Columbia at around 9 and shut the eyes for 30 minutes or so. Woke up after midnight and the gas station was empty...whoops. Guess I needed it. Pulled into driveway at 1:30am.

We can discuss Clemson football elsewhere.

Not a bad weekend, but big deduction for what happened between noon and 3:45 on Saturday, so I'm at about a 7.7/16 stars for this Thanksgiving break.

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Nov 28, 2022, 10:34 AM

Wednesday got up and got packed and loaded the family into the car for the trek to Nashville. Drive sucked ### due to heavy traffic and lots of construction projects along the route. Arrived and headed straight to wife's best friend's parent's house for chili (vegan - meh). Hung out and had a couple splashes of bourbon before heading to hotel.

Thursday slept in as late as the 4 year old would allow and then hit the free breakfast at the hotel. Had a couple or four hours before lunch so we went to downtown Nashville to show the kids. Found a little hotel bar and had a couple of old fashioneds while the 4 year old sang Last Christmas to the myriad of people there at the bar. Then headed to lunch at wife's "Framily" (Freimily? Friendily?) house. Teetotallers so we snuck out the the car to have a nip occasionally. When it was time to go we headed to the Opry Hotel to check out the lights. Beautiful. Wife and I wanted a drink while we walked around and I guess he liked the tip I gave him because after I paid my double turned into a sextuple. Walked around and considered how much my tolerance has waned since I cut back on drinking. Headed back to the hotel and slept.

Friday, up and over to a wife's high school friend's house for Brunch/Soccer/Football. Hung out for a while and had a bloody mary and a pour of some Whistlepig I brought as a gift. Had a great time. Her friends, their husbands and their kids were great. We then headed back to downtown Nashville so the kids could hit up the vinyl/vintage store at 5th and Broadway. Then walked the now bustling Broadway and had a crappy dinner at Hard Rock. Headed back to the hotel and brought a bottle of pre-made old fashioned's. Finished those and slept after fooling around with wife.

Saturday the wheels came off. Woke up with my first hangover of the trip due to the hotel drinking. Then it took a nice turn when the older kids took the 4 year old down to breakfast and my wife decided she wanted to fool around. Stayed okay at breakfast and then Loaded car up and hit Center Point Bar-b-q which my wife remembers being the best Q ever as a kid. Bad omens are back. Something happened because that was some dry stuff. Drove and dealt with #### traffic while keeping up with the game on the ESPN gamecast. Bitched and moaned about that for a while. Got home pretty late and drowned my sorrows with some leftover sazerac rye.

Sunday. Back to normal. Hungover again, which sucked. But Sunday after t-giving is wife's family's cook off in honor of her late father, so rallied to smoke some ribs. Three fat racks, mild rub, 225 for 3 hours then wrapped em in foil and let em go another hour. Took off the foil and seared a little sauce on em before serving. Apple wood smoke. All good, but a little dry. Ate too many, had trouble sleeping as a result.

All in all it was a barnburner and headed towards possible perfection until the whole thing blew up on Saturday.

Would still do again if I could avoid the Clemson loss somehow. Probably would do again regardless.

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Re: Good morning everyone how was your weekend?

There

Sold a house, bought a house, went to Clemson (bleh),

Congrats, Congrats, bleh, good luck***

Oh, also got some gnarly poison ivey rashes from moving

I want the tiller, and if you had a dual axle trailer

tiller is worth the most and practically new, but the guy

Seems like a good deal from here***

Bought one in Wilmington?***

ya, close December 22...which is REALLY soon. Gotta be

Nice! Did you sell your place yet?

Yep, had 4 showings, 2 offers, went to contract.

Oh I thought you were talking about selling your moms place

There was more hype for Mom's but it was priced a little

Long. Didn't do #### for two days. Spent all day Wednesday

Mostly awesome Thur-Sun

So it’s your fault

Purty good, aside from those 4 hrs on Sat

did that fix it?***

It went like this

nice

I was getting past (not over) the loss…

I’ve avoided reading or listening to anything the staff

Very wise…

Got laid.

Well I think we all had the same lowlight. Still a solid A.

Todd Snider is an American treasure

Re: Good morning everyone how was your weekend?

sore as a ####

m-o-f-o is censored??

LOL. Next question.***

Reckon it was decent, as far as long weekends go.

Re: Good morning everyone how was your weekend?

I was off Tuesday through the weekend.

8 out of 29

Hmmm. let me see if I can remember it all

Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

I never have been a big Kevn Kinney fan

Other than the obvious not bad

Great! Except...***

HOW. DARE. YOU?***

welp...

Just a second there, Professor

Excellent, was at Li######ld all Tgiving.***

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