Breakfast with Elise, Godfather Club

Elise worked on Friday night and I fully engaged myself in killing covenant soldiers.

Elise and I had a breakfast date early Saturday morning. We had the best fruit kolaches at Lone Star Kolaches on North Lamar. Unfortunately the pigs in a blanket weren’t as good as those of the Czech Stop in West, TX. Elise and I had a nice chat with Massey, the owner, and made her aware of the ad that drew us to her shop.

We drove home and then parted ways. Elise met with Kim to go over wedding stuff for Brad and Kim’s wedding. I ran errands around town to get ready for the Godfather Club meeting. After Elise’s and Kim’s meeting was over, Elise and Christine went to get pedicures. I’ll never understand pedicures – or women for that matter. Why to they concern themselves with things like haircuts, pedicures, shoes and something known only to them as Aveda when there are more important things like 300 GB hard drives, 500 HP muscle cars and granules that you can spread throughout your yard that makes fire ants boil in their own digestive juices.

I stopped by NTB to get a tire patched on the Expedition. I sat in the waiting room for 30 minutes. I looked through the bay window a few times and couldn’t see my truck. I walked out to the parking lot to see the truck still parked. I told the guy who helped me to give me my keys…

Josh: “This is ridiculous. What was taking so long?”

NTB kid: “I don’t know, sir. I guess the guys in the back were just farting around.”

So I left them to play with their farts and drove to the flea market in Oak Hill and found a one man operation who patched my tire in ten minutes and only charged me $17 – versus NTB who charges closer to $30.

Later that evening I drove over to Pluckers on campus and picked up 100 hot wings for meeting (I’m strategically refering to this as a meeting instead of a party hence forth). I hadn’t been on the UT campus in a long, long time. There was activity all about. Young studious minds walking and bicycling here to there. All young, vibrant faces that made me feel old and out of the loop. I decided to not let myself feel too old because I was, in fact, cool. I had four sacks full of “Fire in the Hole” hot wings and an important meeting to host.

I got home. John came over shortly after. Adrian was next. Then Marc. Victor. Tommy. And then Kirk. We all ate hot wings, drank beer, watched Ultimate Fighting Championship, discussed business and finally a series of competitions that awarded some great gifts such as a Chipotle gift certificate, a Dale Earnhardt wall clock and matching beach towel, a shower mirror/radio/CD player and the grand prize: a new iPod shuffle. Congrats to Tommy for winning the shuffle!

While the guys were meeting, Lanessa, Holly, Stewart and Elise went downtown to do a little bar hopping. Apparently they chose the wrong night to go to 6th Street. UT hosted the Texas Relays and every college track athelete in the nation was in Austin and wanting to party downtown on Saturday night as well. They got stuck in a parking garage as everyone was trying to leave downtown at the end of the night.

Elise didn’t get home until 5 a.m. She and the crew were stuck in traffic for two and a half hours in the early a.m.

The guys retired relatively early. Adrian and Victor stayed the night at our place. Victor left around 7 a.m. I woke up shortly after. Adrian woke up around 9. He and I watched “Road Trip” and then channel surfed for another hour or so. Elise rose from slumber around noon. Adrian and I drove to HEB where I bought goods for our steak sandwich late lunch – jerk seasoned with a chipotle and cilantro mayo.