NYE 2010 Costa Rica

It's mid August. In a little over four months, the, uh, 00s decade will come to a close. What better place to be than Costa Rica? Right? Yes, that seems right. Haha. Oh, yes, joyous times. Ha.

In my dreamiest of dreams, I would love for the first international IC NYE to take place right here in Central America. I think I could work out a deal on a hotel and, in the middle of the US winter, we could celebrate NYE 2010 with a bonfire on the Pacific. (It's legal here) I'm posting this now to get the reactions of the IC and check the feasibility of this actually going down. I know Miller is committed, it seems Portillo is leaning this direction and Chambone just flatout comes through in the clutch. What yall think? Flights are cheap and I know I could get us a cheap hotel rate (like $25/night) on the beach.

Who's in??????

Or at least considering...

(Videos and pictures courtesy of A-Chub Productions. "Dude, that was fucking sweet")

IC Crisis is better than a personality crisis

IC IDENTITY CRISIS

Hello Gentleman. This is Adam Williams. You might remember me from such instances as "The time I tried to jump over water onto Kevin's dock" or "The time a neighbor boy touched me in my sleep". Those of you that are Simpsons fans would recognize that as a Troy McClure (Phil Hartman's voice) opener. Which leads me to this question: How many of you were Simpsons lovers? Which leads me to this question, which is the general theme of this post:

How many of us do you really feel you know these days?

There it is.

I feel like having a Koom-By-Ya blog. A, this is me right now and this is who I am Blog.

I thought this stemmed from moving to a different country, but I realize these thoughts have been stirring in my head long before I left Chicago. For a quite a while over the past year, I feel the threads of the IC are loosening, like your baby blanket that your mom keeps in a closet and you see every few years and say "awww", even though it's all tattered and useless.

Truthfully, I know we know each other from our pasts, from college and a few years thereafter. Some of those friendships are still strong. Some have weakened.

It seems, as we get older and get wives and kids and careers, friendships we once considered a necessity, become a novelty. Friendship is now just that fun getaway 2-4 times a year, where you can revert to who you used to be and do what you used to do.

For some reason, that doesn't satisfy me like it used to.

I think I feel differently about it, because, aside from our 2-3 nights of getting drunk and taking pictures of how drunk we are and Faust pushing his "best man" into a trash can, part of me knows I don't know some of you at your core, or at least as well as I used to.

So...

I think it's profile time. All (10) members, if we still have 10, fucking write something about yourself. Funny, sappy, serious, or in Samuel L. Jackson mutha fuckin' SPeak!

I don't care. I just want to hear from my "10 best friends" and hear what is going on with their lives.

Somebody start.

That's it.

Oh, and Costa Rica for New Year's. My boss has a guy who owns a hotel on the beach. I stayed there last weekend for $30/night. Beers ran me a $1.25.

The Voting is In, Miller takes #1 spot, Lubahn close 2nd....

LAKE LBJ - After a long week of accumulating votes and 2 miscounts, Marc Miller was voted MVP of the 2009 July lake house trip. Just 1 vote shy of Miller was the defending MVP champ Brent Lubahn. Scott Benson finished third in the voting and some say that his foot injury on Saturday afternoon might have cost him the 1st place prize. Points were calculated based on arrival time, tube wars, # of beer bongs, time spent on Fun Island, last one to bed, and overall drunkenness. Both Benson and Miller received a huge boost in point by arriving three hours before even the host, Kevin Dalrymple, showed up. They also each earned bonus points by staying until a whopping 5:00 PM on Sunday afternoon. When asked about Miller's performance, Dalrymple was quoted "Well, besides briefly pissing off my wife, Marc had a tremendous performance. He was high in every single category, and blew everyone away in overall drunkenness (which is the only category that has no ceiling)." Miller was said to be drinking straight vodka on ice all weekend, but because he is who he is, no one would ever he know it. Not only that, but the man drank wine during Saturday night’s drinking game.

Lubahn stormed into the lake house around 4:30 PM on Friday, which was very impressive. He immediately made himself a drink and demanded a booze cruise. The moment he arrived back from the cruise, he was on the Fun Island in a matter of seconds. "Lubahn always shows up to plays," said Dalrymple, "He never shies away from anything, and that’s why he is always in the running." Brent Lubahn never disappoints, and 2009 was no exception.

Scott Benson was the drunkest human being from time he arrived all the way up to when he fainted on my driveway in a pool of blood. After slicing his foot open on what turned out to be an old metal flower bed, Benson’s lake house trip was all but over. He was well on his way to winning the overall drunkenness category and that might have very well put him ahead of both Lubahn and Miller. "He was giving a lot of high fives" said Kevin, "A LOT of high fives.” Not sure if the high fives were helping or not in his race, but Benson was out of commission after he returned home with 12 stitches in the bottom of his foot

Best of the rest. Everyone received a high grades and no one disappointed. Chambers actually won the tube wars votes by somehow never getting tired. Piel and Weiss both scored huge bonus points by being there when Kevin needed someone to take Scott to the hospital. Faust even went into the negative side of the votes on Friday night by yelling,... wait no,.. screaming at the host after he called called Adam a fag, and managed to pull himself back to receive a respectably score. "We were both a little drunk" said Adam. Mazur was right up there with Weiss in the ‘last one to go to bed’ category, and was drunker than 10 Indians late Saturday night when he passed out on the dock. "I think everyone performed well, if you do not see your name on the top 3 this year, then you just need to try a little harder next year. What matters most, is I just hope everyone had a good time."

AP

i guess this recent trip was kind of a downer?

I think it is about time to start thinking about possible teams for next weekend. I have never done team tube wars but it seems like fun and it certainly looks safe enough....

My Prediction: This guy is the next big thing. His show on comedy central is pretty f' fantastic.

My Prediction: Daniel Tosh on Parades - watch more funny videos

Yes, I am forced to watch this show every season and had the thought while watching it last night. Why not Adam Williams?

My Blog settings are in Spanish. It took me 6 minutes to get this far.

Hope you Americans had a good 4th of July. It's weird being out of the country on Independence day. I assume you all indulged on all that is American: meat, beer, music, boats and lakes. Lakes are American. Lakes only exist in America.

Couple of things:

Where is Lee Portillo?

Where is Clint Brown?

Who's coming to visit me first?

I'm going to a volcano next week. The bus fare is a dollar. The hotel is 17$/night.

Bus fare to the beach runs about 3$, and is safer than the Greyhound, but not as American.

My roommate is Canadian. He has a Terrence and Phillip egg head.

No one here has commented on my likeness to Federer yet. When oh when will the day come? Open your eyes Costa Rica. Open your eyes.

We are almost at 500 posts. How about this week, we try for a post a day. Just one. One post, five days in a row. Somebody tell a story from the weekend. Do it. Now.

i have to be a little disclosurisiven...

monika, the girl that's been dating me, has decided i'm incapable of making it through life without committing suicide... i shit you not...

she'se certain my psychiatric state requires psychiatry. i disagree.

this is not a cry for help.

i'm open to suggestion. i've already scheduled some visit with some witch doctor. but if that comes up clean, i'm tempted to throw it in her face. like federer, or some shit. and then move on.

court is in session.

The Mythical GI JOE Aircraft Carrier


Did any of you have this? What about other great toys?

Optimus Prime?
4-Wheeler?
Starter Jacket?

Were you the weird kid that had to keep his toys in boxes?
Did you have friends that you used just b/c they had cool toys?
Were you that kid?

I am trying to remember, but nothing that spectacular comes to mind. My parents are lovely people, but I feel like they were always just a bit off (ie I relentlessly begged for a Starter jacket and ended up with a f' Proline Jacket)

Thoughts?

RESPECT:

Agreed. The lake house deserves respect. It is my favorite house to be at with the exception of my own home. I love it. There has never been a better host of any party ever than Sir Bear. He has only one concern; that his friends have fun.

Some people simply can not get off work (or kids), and you could give us one years notice and that doesn't mean we will be able to get off. The fact is that the USA is a great country, but not when it comes to holiday time. 10 Days off a year just ain't right. Regardless this is not a respect issue, but simply a realistic work issue.

All praise the lake. It is good.

I WANT ANSWERS!

Chambers is bringing his own golf cart



The golf outing in just a few short days should be spectacular and I would like to make some preseason predictions


* Randall beats everyone but his son
* Nancy Lopez gets into a groove from holes 7-12 but then gets a little drunk and falls apart
* Faust throws his driver at least once
* Williams beats Faust
* Miller plays every third hole
* Chambers gets out driven my Williams and Williams does his dance
* Miller hits on the cart girl


I'm pumped



P.s. Good luck at the dentist

reasons to visit williams

i feel like this reaction could have occurred at the faust household early nineties