The Snake Count Is Back

Today I joined Allison and Justin for my first bike ride of the spring. As always happens when biking with Allison, our spring to summer snake count began in duplicate, starting us at 2 black snakes for this early in the year date. In addition, for the second time in a row this week, I grossly missed my cell phone citations left at my other apartment as Justin cell phoned it up as he biked. The first offense occurred earlier in the week when Allison and I attended a hash and a hasher actually talked on his cell phone as he ran. As I am currently reading a book regarding heinous cell phone usage, some further etiquette advice on this topic may be forthcoming.

Western Sizzler, Here I Come (and other Vaughnism's)

My Friday evening was once again enhanced after such a long guitar lesson hiatus. Here are a few quotes and topics of interest.

First, after expressing my gratitude that it was Friday, "If I were in a celebratory mood, I would go to a fancy restaurant. Western Sizzler, Here I come!!!"

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"I love the song Arkansas Traveler. It makes me think of administration." The words to Arkansas Traveler are as follows:

Oh once upon a time in Arkansas

An old man sat in his little cabin door,

And fiddled at a tune that he liked to hear

,A jolly old tune that he play'd by ear.

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It was raining hard but the fiddler didn't care

He saw'd away at the popular air,

Tho' his roof tree leaked like a water fall

That didn't seem to bother the man at all.

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A traveler was riding by that day,

And stopped to hear him a-practicing away

The cabin was afloat and his feet were wet,

But still the old man didn't seem to fret.

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So the stranger said: "Now the way it seems to me,

You'd better mend your roof," said he.

But the old man said, as he played away:

"I couldn't mend it now, it's a rainy day.

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"The traveler replied: "That's all quite true,

But this, I think, is the thing for you to do;

Get busy on a day that is fair and bright,

Then pitch the old roof till it's good and tight.

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"But the old man kept on a-playing at his reel,

And tapped the ground with his leathery heel:

"Get along," said he, "for you give me a pain;

My cabin never leaks when it doesn't rain."

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"I have been thinking about possible venues for you to perform. Do you have any friends that sing or play instruments?" To which I replied, "Does guitar hero count?"

Mountaineer Celebration

Cassie, Allison, and I attended the Mountaineer celebration in the Mountainlair Ballrooms this evening. Highlights included a very fortissimo performance by the pep band, seeing Ted from the short distance of about three yards, re-meeting Toni Caridi, and noting that the Mountaineer players are not into medium form fitting t-shirts as seems to be the trend these days. In fact, it seems as if they tend to sport sizes of the other extreme. Perhaps the most enjoyable moment of the evening, was getting our picture taken in the same pose by each of our three cameras.
In this terrible shot, the nonmedium tshirts are evidenced:

Gift From Carol

Aunt Carol sent me a philanthropic gift
Her choice of enclosures was sure and swift
For it contains a multitude of candy
Which will come in handy
For many needed sugar lifts

Saturday Entertainment

Becky, Denita, and I attended Chocolate Lovers' Day in fabulous downtown Morgantown. If you are only in it for the chocolate, you might do well to go to just go to Wal-Mart ; however, the adventurous scavenger hunt this day provides is well worth the price. On this beautiful day after much somewhat gloomy weather, people peppered the streets. As a result, some places ran out of chocolate. However, the real fun came in collecting pink (1 point) and blue slips (5 points) of paper given by each business in order to enter to enter to win a trip to Hershey Park (I'm still a sucker for the prize drawings despite our YAC egg debacle, the fun is in the effort). The promise of numerable rides through the Hershey chocolate factory with a candy bar at the end drove me to get 50 points in order to enter the contest. We were able to sample brownies, chocolate covered espresso beans (for those that were into that), many hershseys kisses, chocolate covered pretzels, and my personal favorite, chocolate ice cream from Carvel.

As if I wasn't already jealous enough that they live by Frank, my jealousy was magnified by the discovery that Jess, Kayla, and Heather now live DIRECTLY next to Sid from Toy Story. Above are his window decorations. Apparently, he is quite the havoc reaker in the apartment complex. LUCKIES!

Visit To The Rock Forge Inn

Just a little past the town of Sabraton
Good times to be had within
A hidden treasure, a jewel of a bar
We found the Rock Forge Inn

We were lured by the karaoke
The promise of pleasant song
And ended up in this shanty like joint
Feeling like we didn’t belong

The smoke, it was quite engulfing
And the ventilation was so poor
An unborn child could develop ADHD
If a pregnant woman just walked by the door

More than a little excess poundage
Covered most of the females present
And the only other halfway decent chic there
Found dancing up on every strange guy pleasant

Grandmas and grandpas were drinking it up
The old dancing with the young
And country, country, country
Was the only music dared to be sung

And in comparison to the clientele
Myself dressed only in a hoodie and jeans
A Plain Jane could here be magically transformed
Into a belle of the ball it seemed

We chose a song to sing for karaoke
So we could bust out of there quick
We traded Eminem for Goodbye Earl
For the setting, a more appropriate pick

Then the karaoke DJ
Trying to nicely move us ahead
Placed us in front of the “Elvira” master
Whose resulting rage we began to dread

Luckily, his desire for vengeance was calmed
We sang our picked out song
Then continued an overwhelming desire to leave
Rarely has 30 minutes felt so long

But if ever you feel a need to increase self esteem
Or are looking for a place to make you grin
Just head on down to this quaint bar in town
Take a trip to the Rock Forge Inn