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June 11, 2002
aaron is in town, living
aaron is in town, living out with us on the compound (our nickname for the private property where we pitch our tents). he was impressed with the amount of garbage and junk on the property, he said it reminded him of his farm back home. mike and dave brought a chessboard back from anchorage when they went yesterday, aaron and i played then dave and i played 3 times, dave beat me once. we're all rusty though, so it'll be good to get back into staring intensely at a boardgame for 40 minutes while sipping beer, listening to the rain beat down on the trailer that mike lives in a, cooking pasta on the gas stove.
one event i forgot to mention from 2 weekends ago was the saturday evening that i met my new friends from anchorage, renee and randy. they stumbled out of DJ's saloon in front of us, then asked to be chauffered to the other side of town on our bikes. we ended up having a good long conversation and doing some people watching of the sophistocated, worldly people of seward alaska. one of my favorite moments was the weird city bike cop road up very quickly to the yukon bar, which we were standing in front of, hopped off of his bike, hocked a big lugie on the side of the building and swaggered inside. other memorable moments were when the drunked fishermen who were harrassing renee and randy passed some amazing pickup lines, i was left speechless and bewildered, wishing with all my might that i could have been born in this town. dave mentioned the other day that fisherman could be the water-bound equivolent of the whitetrash potato farmers of idaho. although i don't know any of said farmers, i would perhaps equate the fishermen with inhabitants of such sterling nevada towns as winnemucca, gardnerville, yerington, and everyone's favorite armpit of america, battle mountain. keep in touch, i'm off to go kick ass at chess.
hope i didn't just jinx myself.
nah.
Posted by bendan at June 11, 2002 08:08 PM
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