252-christy's big 3-0

ellis and i did make it to golf this morning, but joe did not. he must've over-did it at the party last night. i hate golf, but i need to learn it. after all, you can't play softball forever, right. it's just so embarassing to go out there. at least i had two bogies (shut up! that's good for me).


tonight jeff jones's wife turned thirty. so i had to go see what it will be like for me in 7 months. apparently, you still act like you are 21 even when you are thirty, so that's a good thing.

at least i got put in charge of the music. which was good, but never got played. oh well. i just hope christy liked it.

253-joe's engagement party

lindsey and joe had their engagement party tonight at their friends nadia & john's place. it would have been nice if i had remembered my camera b/c it was the first time in three years i had seen any of lindsey's friends. strange how things like that happen.

drunk event of the night: ellis made a tee time for me, him and joe. yeah, that'll happen!

254-softball returns

i didn't get to play last night, but i was back out on the softball fields last night. karl hungus had an easy win. the best part though is that we played on a sandy field. actually, the sand sucked, but it helped me out. rather than have a big stride in the batter's box, i decided to just dig in...and it worked! i hadn't hit the ball this hard all year. hopefully, this will carry on for the rest of the summer.

255-memphis recap

today, my brother and i just kind of hung out until my flight left. we had had a pretty long 4 days and it was nice to just relax. of course, stress soon set in when i got to the airport and found that my flight was delayed...and then delayed again b/c of mechanical problems. not exactly what you want to hear before gettting on a plane. i don't mind waiting it out, but the worst part was missing my softball. i had it timed so perfectly. looks like the snorts pulled through, winning 20-16.

gus's fried chicken
"if you haven't eaten gus's, then you haven't had fried chicken"

256-graceland

how can you go to memphis and not go to graceland?

the one thing i took from this was not only does shag carpeting look so good that you should put it on your walls and ceilings as well as the floor, it also it great for acoustics when recording music with your friends.

joel and elvis (his childhood hero...really.)

plush shag


serenity now


i gotta get one of these, and i will call it "the chance"

257-mississippi

i'm not one to be all touristy and all, but i have never been to the mississippi before and i wanted to get out there somehow. lucky for me they have the ducks. so we took the tour. it was definitely cheesy but definitely worth it.

the site of the assasination of martin luther king, jr. now a civil rights museum.

the memphis pyramid. not sure of the association of memphis, tn and memphis, egypt, but there is something going on there or they would not have built this thing. they used to have events here, but it is vacant now. apparently bass fishing supplies bought it and is going to turn it into some sort of fishing expo. interesting.


tonight we hit the famous beale street where rock and roll/the blues were born....take your pick. it was kind of dead being that it was monday, but it's kind of cool that they let you carry your drinks around in the street. how sweet is that?

258-redbirds

being the baseball geek that i am, the first thing i want to do when i go anywhere is check out a baseball game. memphis just built a new stadium for their triple-a team the redbirds (st. louis cards).

we had a rough night last night and it was hard to fully enjoy the game, but the nachos helped. i was hoping to see anthony reyes, but the only guy i recognized was brendon harris. he was part of the trade that sent nomar to the cubs and now he plays for the nationals triple a team. i guess no one got anything good out of that trade--oh wait the red sox won the world series--go cubs!