Mike Goes: September 2013

Hey everyone! I'm not dead (yet), just really busy! I do currently have pneumonia, so the jury's still out I guess.

Here is some stuff I've done in the last 4 months, not necessarily in this order:

Became a super responsible 30 year old adult
Shotgunned a Coors on the 4th of July in the street in front of a car full of kids stuck in traffic and shouted "That's how you do it, children!" Freedom isn't free, guys.
Brewed awesome beer
Served awesome beer to awesome people
Served awesome beer to awful, awful scumbags
Lifted tons of heavy stuff
Played a million songs on the jukebox at the VFW
Climbed to the highest point in the state of South Dakota
Survived my first ever bout with food poisoning. Easily the worst day of my life.
Saw a dozen or so awesome hail storms
Was in a parade in my Hot Dog costume and made it into the local paper
Beat Donkey Kong Country
Went to a weird Eastern European/Jamaican party
Rode my chubby ass up some steep hills on my bicycle
Had some time to think
Developed pneumonia and didn't die?
Liberated myself financially for a little bit (Get fucked, Corporate America! ...until i need another "real job" at least)

The Rally was some super stupid bullshit. Every day from 7am-whenever, all you could hear were motorcycles. My room was filled with bike exhaust for 10 days. Every biker dude that came in looked exactly the same. Grey goatee, Harley bandanna, Harley jacket, sun glasses and terrible attitude. It was impossible to tell who was who while I was waiting tables! It was like working the Mess Hall on Kamino.

They all came in asking "Ya'llgahbuhhliiii?" (mashing "Ya'll got bud light?" into one weird, barely discernible word) or wondered if we had any "regular beer?" What the fuck is Regular Beer? And they all wanted slices of lemon in their water! One old biker dude told me to put "more lemon in his water than I thought was reasonable." I lined his whole glass with lemon slices then he called me Captain Kangaroo as I was walking away. Fair enough, Biker Dude. Fair enough..

I'm leaving Custer at the end of October. I'll be staying in Minneapolis until the New Year. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, I will then take the scenic route from Minneapolis back to my Parent's house in Aberdeen.

Here's some other junk: