The LazyAssGeek’s

You’re FINALLY 13, congrats!

Today is Robert’s 15th birthday. Hope it’s a great one!

OK so by the time I’m actually publishing this it’s not “last weekend” so I hope Heidrun forgives my lack of timely posting!

Andy & Biggi graciously, if naively, invited the whole gang to spend President’s Day weekend at their place so Val, the kids and Sport could enjoy seeing some snow. We decided to rent a minivan from Enterprise to keep the wear & tear off of Val’s van. After getting it home Val noticed that the inside of the van was not that clean.  In the process of loading it I found out just how not clean, including a soda bottle, juice box, teething ring, some fries and a couple of chocolate chip cookies.  Enterprise will be hearing from me.

The drive was fairly uneventful, though we did hit traffic near Boston(again for me). Sport was very good in the car, except an incident where he notified us of his need to poop by doing a dead-on impersonation of Chewbacca.  Fortunately we’re conversant in Wookie so we figured it out and stopped to take care of that problem. We got to I-495 at just the wrong time again and lost nearly an hour sitting in very slow-moving Friday rush hour traffic. We got to their house close to 6:30, nearly 8 hours door-to-door.  After some pizza for dinner we settled in for an evening of Rock Band and we managed to break 1,000,000 points on a song for the first time under my profile, unlocking the achievement!

Rock On!

Saturday we had a relaxing morning as everyone recovered from the trip and figured out what we would do for the day.  Val & I decided to drag the kids, somewhat reluctantly on their part, out for some sight seeing as they had never been in that part of the country before while Andy & Biggi would head to the store to prepare for Val’s birthday Schnitzelfest. So we loaded up the rental minivan and after a quick stop at the NH Liquor Store for some schnapps and an 18 year old bottle of scotch (present for a retiring customer) it was off to Maine to check out Nubble Light!

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This year’s affair was much more traditional, especially when compared to last year’s Perfect Storm. While we prefered the music of LeCompt, those of us amongst the beer drinking crowd were probably better off that this year’s band, however loud & stereotypical, left us… feeling better on Sunday, shall we say.  The food was very good, as always, and the the music pure cliche German oompah.  We did let ourselves down a bit this year by letting the bar tab actually be LESS than the food tab.  I blame all the ladies, who ordered dessert!

This year’s crowd was Joe & Nat, Rich & Debbie, Jack & Katy, Rich & Christina, Rich’s brother Ed, Bill & Debbie and their neighbor Gina and Val & me. It was great to get everybody together and I’ll take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

The Guys end of the table

The Ladies end of the table

The Couples Section

It's my site, so here's a picture of my gorgeous girl.. and you have to look at me too

Requisite Wacky Billy Pic (better than the usual view)

This is an overdue public thanks to my good friend Andy who decided to take my disaster of a garage on his shoulders. He & Biggi have been staying at my house a lot over the summer while he’s been trying to do 2 jobs at once in 2 different states.  It has been great having them here and the summer has been a blast.

They both are smokers and as I’m not, smoking is a no-no in my house, so when Mother Nature is dumping rain on us they are forced into my garage for their fix. I am somewhat more…. relaxed than they are regarding clutter.  I can’t stand dirty, but clutter?  No problem for me, but for them….. So standing in my garage this summer has been slow torture. I also know that doing something as a thank you for all the time they’ve spent at my house factors in there somewhere, regardless of the fact that to my mind it’s not necessary.  However if I were in their shoes even knowing that they would feel the same way, I’d feel like I needed to do something as well so there’s only so much I can argue it. Now that I’ve finished typing myself into that corner, onto the details…

Pictures being worth more words than even I can manage… the before.

The Disaster that Was

Andy spent the better part of 2 days working in there.  Tons of crap thrown away, a couple of trips to the hardware store and Wal-Mart for organizing supplies, a lot of sweat and more than a few beers later…

Overhauled!

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