Thanksgiving Weekend
Monday, November 28th, 2005Wednesday night, Amanda and I went to Orion to meet up with my aunt Cherie, my uncle Scott, and I thought my aunt Mindy and my uncle Dan. We were all going to go to this bar in Orion called Stooge’s to see this 80’s cover band named Thrill Ville. Well Mindy and Dan had to stay in due to Riley, their daughter, not going to sleep early enough, so Cherie, Scott, Amanda, and I went. At first it was pretty dead and boring in there, but with all boring things, just add alcohol and people and you will have a good time. Amanda and Cherie sat and talked for a while, then the drinking began. After about an hour or so, every one was pretty drunk, Cherie was doing the fuck you dance, and there was this annihilated woman crawling around on the floor tight rolling everyone’s jeans against their will. About an hour of drinks for that woman later, the band started playing Sunglasses at Night and this woman was frantically searching for sunglasses to slam on her stupid drunk face. Alas, no sunglasses were to be found. There was, however, some toilet paper on the ground near the dance floor that she tried to form into sunglasses, no dice. I got a few awesome pictures of the keyboardist, but in this pic, you can tell he was on to us laughing at him. I tried to get a picture of Scott and Cherie, but Cherie was too drunk, and Scott wouldn’t have it. One of Cherie’s friends, a stripper, received a band shirt from the bartender. If you know Cherie, when she’s drunk, and you got it for free, she wants one. Amanda went up to try and get one for her, and she was talking to the guy behind the bar about the shirt when the real bartender came up and yelled at the guy to get the hell out from behind the bar. She finally tracked down a bar shirt and took it to Cherie. Cherie then whined that it wasn’t a band shirt, so I now have a Stooge’s Bar shirt. I am wearing it here whilst throwing Nayte into the ceiling. When I got home Thanksgiving morning, it looked like Xiggz was a little tore up that night too due to his parking job. Thanksgiving went off without a hitch as usual and we ended up at my parent’s house for the last stint of it. Dad did a lot of talking with his hands, and I accidentally made my cousin Alec cry due to a graphic story about a dead baby from the past residents of my parent’s house, spending a few days in Bri’s room. I also had to prove to Mindy that “Orbs” in photos are not ghosts, and that anyone can create them. Check out all the “ghosts” I captured. On Friday, Matt, Brent and I started work on the system in the Honda. Generally, these projects have a couple hang ups, but I have not had to deal with anything like this before. I need a 3 cubic foot box for my sub. That’s a big box. The one Andy speced out was way off, so I had to run all the numbers again to figure out what size we needed. As it turned out, we couldn’t build your typical box to fit in my spare tire well to fit a flush mount. Not cool. Matt had an idea and gave me some new measurements to figure out volume. He gave me the inside dimensions of the spare well, and we built a box around that. Basically 80% of my sub box is the steel from my car, and the top is 3/4“ MDF board. We had to Liquid Nails every hole that was exposed in the spare well, and seal the lid to the steel. After it was all said and done, we used about 8.5 caulking gun tubes of Liquid Nails, and what install would be complete without some Matt-ass hangin’ out? After we sealed and smoothed it out, it needed to set up. It is still setting up. But so far, so good, and I am going to end up with a very custom job, with a lot of trunk space left. We have about 5-6 more hours worth of work left, but it will be well worth it when it is all finished.
The rest of the pics.
Here are the pics Cherie pointed out to me. The band took them. Pics from the Band
