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The Next Day or: Still Going Strong

21 Saturday Nov 2020

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Birthday, Friends, friendship, Life, Life as It is

Salutations™!!

Yesterday was my big birthday. Today was the big celebration. We had The Beer Dads Family (the Joneses, the Lowders) and our extended friends family (The Davids, Our Jim Young) come over around 2pm. We set up a fire pit in our yard, our Alexa Dot, a Bluetooth speaker and had a fantastic time day drinking before The Beer Dads went to Mojito to have some delicious Cuban-inspired Latin Soul Food.

My friends know how much I love alcohol, too. The Davids brought me a Crown Royal set with glasses. The Joneses brought two bombers of high-gravity brews. Jim brought me Templeton Rye. The Lowders brought me Ragged Branch Double Oaked Whiskey, which was part of Jon’s barrel that he went in with friends to invest in. I love it!

Birthday Fire (©S Jones)

We had a great time sitting around the fire, listening to Simply Sinatra and Yacht Rock Radio on SiriusXM and just talking and having a time. We all smelled like a campfire afterward and were a little tipsy but we did alright. The BCPF was the most inebriated and that’s okay! You go girl! I forgot to mention yesterday that we stopped by Top Leaf Cigar Lounge and one of my work wives, Bethany of The Less Desirables (and owner of Top Leaf) bought me two cigars. I had about 2/3 of one last night with my Ardbeg Scotch and the Ragged Branch.

I’ve had big parties and I’ve had small gatherings but I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed having everyone around celebrating with me. We missed the Verners, Bethany and my sister and BIL but we’ll make it up with them all soon!

Again, BEST! BIRTHDAY! EVER!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” – Ausonius

Monday in the Perk or: Friends Like This

31 Monday Aug 2015

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Food, friendship, Tart & Tangy Triad, Taylor Swift, The BCPF, Washington Perk

Salutations™!!

Today, I had the opportunity to have an impromptu lunch with a friend. We’re not close friends but I’d call her a good friend. She was checking out and I was walking into the Official Sponsor of Tart & Tangy Triad, Washington Perk. I went back to get a sandwich and a bottle of water like I do every Monday and she was standing there eating her grab-and-go lunch just to say hey and ask how The BCPF was doing. Her sandwich was a bit messy so I recommended we sit in the window and eat our lunch. We talked about what we did this weekend, how the fams were, high school reunions (actually we talked about those for a while) and our roles in planning some of them. Then, like that, lunch was over and we went about our business.

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The point is, that was just a good feeling to live in a town where people can run into each other in a corner grocer and sit and just talk about next-to-nothing and just enjoy the company. We’ve had discussions about business before but this was just socializing (yeah, we’ve done that, too, but not enough). It also makes me think that I need to find time to just socialize with friends. I have a lot of people that I would call friends but I rarely get to talk to them. Sure, we may send a passing note on Facebook, or whatever, but not actually just sitting and talking. When that does happen, it’s usually about business.

It doesn’t take more than reading a week’s worth of posts on this lovely blog, Dear Reader, to know that I completely fill my week with stuff. Stuff from podcasts, voice overs, video production, writing blogs, writing articles, planning vacations for clients, booking vacations for clients, Ubering, being a husband, being a Dad and the list goes on. But, the moment that I get too busy for life’s acquaintances, I lose part of who I am and what made me that way. One of my favorite expressions, one that I made up, by the way, is “we are our experiences.” Our experiences are, of course what we do, but many times, it’s who we do them with, for or because of. Sometimes, the most provocative revelations and epiphanies are from the most minor of things. I can still remember things that I did with my friends in West Virginia when we just sat around talking about stuff, not necessarily what we did. I remember a lot of that, too, but to me the power comes from the small stuff. I think we’d all be better people in a better society if we spent more time together talking about nothing or things that matter instead of sitting on Facebook or Twitter and cutting each other over political and religious views that matter only to the person doing the arguing. Take some time to sit with a friend and talk about nothing. “How’s your hubby?” “How’s the kids?” “Have you seen that article about this?” “Have you heard that new song by Taylor Swift?” “You like who!?” Whatever. Don’t be strangers. Talk. Communicate. Enjoy others. Keep open minds. Debate (not argue). Live. Live. Live!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” – Joseph Priestly

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