I had possibly the best weekend of 2016 right at the end of the year. Spent it out of town, out of my head and present with good friends, some new and some very old.

Friday

Get into town at 11:00, immediately begin whiskey tasting with a friends dad. Make it to our first bar before midnight, close down the second bar with a duet of Hooked on a Feeling. Back to my friend's place where I actually learn how to play euchre properly for the first time in my life, and continue to drink liquor far above my paygrade. (Never tasted the bottle with the three dimples before)

Saturday

Slept in, beat the hangover with eggs benny, took the dogs for a walk along the frozen beach. Went to a craft show and got a surprising amount of my holiday shopping done while supporting local businesses. My friend's younger brother opened up for Prob Cause and The Floozies at The Intersection in Grand Rapids and the show was a lot of fun! It was refreshing to see physical instruments used in conjunction with CDJs and DJ iTunes. Invited my high school sweetheart to the show and she really enjoyed it, and I enjoyed catching up with her. She had just finished her last clinical of nursing school and said she appreciated the chance to let her hair down. She gave me a kiss on the cheek as we said our goodbyes after, and we have dinner plans for the week after Christmas.

I was DD back from the concert, and I had a good conversation with my friends (Relatively new) girlfriend. I'd met her several times before but this is the first time we'd spent much time together for long. She's a Catholic, who chose the faith as an adult. She's an oncology nurse who works with mostly terminal patients. She tends her faith and positivity like a garden. Cultivates it with great care and deliberation, making sure to select only the proper plants, nourishes them with what she knows to be effective. She doesn't try to be everything to everyone and this makes her more effective at being the things that people do need her to be. To continue the garden metaphor, she doesn't try to grow industrial-scale animal feed in a rose garden. She gave me a lot to think on, and was the precipitating factor in that post I made on Monday.

Sunday

Woke up to almost a foot of snow and more accumulating. Spent the whole day just driving back to Metro Detroit. What should have been a 3 hour drive maximum turned into almost 7 hours on the road. One near-death experience later, and we made it back home.

Now I'm happily typing good things into pubski while I wait for some scheduling requests to process.

Feel good Hubski :3