CB’s House of Porn and Pancakes

So the Cardinals are a game out of first place, they should be about 14 back with all the injuries and death…….

Go Cards!

The photo album has been updated, check them out and also send me any pics you have to be added!

http://www.stumblingirishman.com/album/main.php

As many of you know, Tessa, my parent’s German Sheppard died a couple of weeks ago. She was almost 14 yrs old, so she had a good long life, mostly torturing Vince…… Today I drove down to Popular Bluff to help my parents pick up their new dog, her name is Sydney, she’s a 2 yr old Chocolate Lab, great personality and very much a lab! Here are some pics of her:

http://www.stumblingirishman.com/album/main.php?g2_itemId=3523

http://youtube.com/watch?v=77aLOGQuNHU

So enjoying my unemployment, I spent the previous weekend in Memphis, so the following weekend I go to Dallas to visit GQ, Angelina, Panda, Patrick, Dancing Queen, the whole group. We fly out Thursday afternoon, I had a second interview with a company in the morning (I had a second interview with another company the day before), so it would be good to get out of town, kick it like ninjas as it looked like I’d be gainfully employed again! So I go to the interview, it was pretty long interview, met with 4 different people, but had a good feeling about it. Fly out to Big D with AJ, land in Big D, GQ picks us up and meet up with Panda for the game. The game being the Texas Rangers vs KC Royals. It was the battle of the basement teams. We got to see Corky play, aka Sammy Sosa. We had a light rain delay, me and AJ roamed the park taking pictures, because both of us have the goal of hitting all the MLB parks before we die. So far I’m in the lead with 12 (Busch, Wrigley, KC, Fenway, Yankee Stadium, Safeco, Diamondbacks, Turner Field, Milwaukee, Comisky Park, RFK and Arlington, 13 if you count the old Busch Stadium) We had tickets that allowed us access to the Cuevero Gold Pavilion, since the Rangers were getting blown out, we decided to sit in the AC and drink… Post game we hit the bars and ended the night with Whataburger, which is heaven……. And we saw some get pulled over pulling into the parking lot, no burger for you! Friday we got moving in time for lunch, a bloody mary helped ease the pain….. we opted to chill around the house and splash around the pool. Angelina came out to tell us we had to get ready for dinner soon and was greeted with “awww can’t we have 10 more minutes before we have to come in??” Yeah we’ll never grow up…. That night we went to Go Fish for dinner, great food, met up with the Dallas crew. Post dinner hit up Mercy. Had to much wine and called it a night. Saturday I met up with my Aunt and Uncle for lunch, it was good catching up with them. After lunch Angelina took me around as GQ was taking AJ around Dallas as it was his first time. Me, AJ, Patrick, GQ and J played golf. We got one of the last tee times as it was twilight golf that turned into night golf…… I called it quits on the 7th hole when I sliced and hit a house, twice….. Post golf we hit up Fogo de Chao, stuffed ourselves on meat, lots of it….. AJ being a rookie got hung up on the salad, we were about 3 plates ahead of him by the time he was ready to join…….. Post dinner we went to Duke’s Roadhouse to close out the night. Pre-flight we stop at Spring Creek BBQ cause it had been only a few days since we had have bbq……… Good times had by all….. Oh and when I was down there I got an offer for full time employment and took it

So the time arrived for Sleazy Rider’s second bachelor party, this time we took a road trip to Memphis. On the way down to Memphis, Sleazy jokingly said “I didn’t realize this bachelor party was being sponsored by Careerbuilder.com as both me and Vince were on the phone talking to perspective employers, me haggling with rates with a recruiter, Vince with following up on submitted resumes. Cruising down 55, we cross through Arkansas and exit the state as quickly as possible….. To get to Memphis we have to cross one of the most ancient looking bridges I’ve ever seen, seriously father time took a baseball bat to it…. Ronnie made several dozen Minneapolis bridge  jokes  praying we could just get to the other side and not end up on the Mississippi River……. (a sidenote to the story, we left Memphis over a much more modern/sturdy looking bridge, turns out that bridge was shut down for being unsafe……. I guess looks can be deceiving….) Arrive at our hotel, we are staying at the Westin, which is literally right near where we want to be on Beale St. Check in, the other car arrives. We all meet up after we check into our respective rooms, the other car brought a Joe Mama’s pizza and 40oz Busch bottles, I was in the wrong car….. We head out to dinner, first stop on the BBQ weekend, Rendezvous, I have had them at other trips to Memphis and argue it is some of the best ribs out there….. Again, not disappointed. After dinner it was off to the bars, first stop was Silky Sullivan’s, started out on the patio, moved inside, they had dueling pianos, so we found another room, hanging out, we look at the window to enjoy the eye candy walking by, see a girl hurling in a dumpster, classy! We were trying to take pictures, a bouncer near us, waved us over to the door so we could get a better angle, but by then the girl was done adding to the party gravy…….. From there we wandered down Beale, wandered into Double Deuce, it was a country bar with a mechanical bull, awesome! I wanted to buy a round of shots, saw they had shots distributed from a machine, so it was a round of SoCo and Lime…… After awhile we wandered to Pat O’Brien’s, it was definitely hurricane season and they hit with full force! GQ met up with us, I again decided to get some shots, this time the shot machine had Patron, this one is going to hurt. So I buy Sleazy a hurricane, me a hurricane and GQ a shot (and a shot for myself), had to fight off hurling, but ah that soothing burn of Patron…….  Call it a night and head back to the rooms. GQ does his throw ice into the room, I sweep the ice off the bed onto where Vince was sleeping, so he decides to celebrate it and dump ice into my bed, so I swept the ice onto the floor and slept in the other bed. Next day brought Tunica. I really hope those kids enjoy the computers we paid for…….. We all made our donations, but hit an all you can eat buffet, part of the buffet was Corky’s BBQ. Not bad, it was buffet, but the ribs were still good……. Retreating back to Memphis, we stop off to get some gas, Sleazy picks up some Klassy gifts, yes that’s klassy spelled with a K, that’s our Sleazy! That night we head to Germantown Commissary,  probably the best ribs I’ve ever had, their motto is “So good yull smack your momma!” Seriously, I would put those up against anything KC can do and KC would be humiliated! The only draw back is that it’s out in the suburbs…… Post dinner it was off to Beale again, Sleazy’s request, go to the Double Duece again. This time the mechanical bull was in full force as we watched for hours drunken idiots get chucked off this thing like a rag doll and be mocked by a guy who was best described as a guy who will go home, pleasure himself and play World of Warcraft for 8 hrs…….. Funny were the girls that got on the bull with mini skirts and acted surprised when their panties were showing…… That’s a classy broad…….. We drank a lot that night, had to deal with a prank that was, the only way to describe it, f’n disgusting. Next day was check out day, hit the road, stopped at Lambert’s because well we’ve been eating like pigs already, why not cap off the weekend….. After that, head home to catch up on sleep……