Happy Birthday, Mom

Some (small people) know her as Grammy. Tanya and I had mom, dad, and roxanne over for various types of shish-ka-bobs, grilled veg-e-tables, cake and ice cream. Mom appeared to like the halloween punch bowl that we gave her. Roxanne's gift was lame in comparison.

Opening our gift.

Opening Roxanne's gift. :(

Night of Knockouts II

Storch, biggs, and I saw some boxing matches at the Royal Oak Music Theatre last night. None of the fights were exceptional, but most did end in a TKO. A fight that could have been good was, in our opinion, stopped too early. The guy was 6'7" and weighed around 350. He could definitely take a punch, but the ref stepped in around 1/2 way into the first round.

A good thing about seeing fights live is the crowd. Some examples below. The dude in the caribbean sea-blue suit was my favorite. Matt favored the gaunt old man with the whispy mohawk. Storch liked the round 4 girl.

Hi, Hitman.

Huge white man on right.



Little Hands of Stone, ready to connect with you.

Cool hair, bra.

Get ready to get ready.


The next fight night is at DeCarlo's Banquet Hall in Warren on Friday, October 10. Tickets are $25 a pop. The headliner, Leo Nolan, is a heavyweight with a 26-1 record. There's also a light-heavyweight making his pro debut named Isiah Thomas -- not kidding. There will be a total of eight fights. Plus there's a chance that you'll get shanked during a match, or afterward in the parking-lot. But that just adds to the excitement.

(Oh, and happy birthday, mom.)

Floor Hockey Buttholes

I was browsing through my e-mail archive at work a few weeks back and found some old photos from our floor hockey games back in 1999/2000. Mike (stairz) originally sent these to me on March 21, 2000. I remember going to a slightly crappy Chinese restaurant before a few of these games and eating full Chinese meals and drinking mai tai's (or something like them). Other favorite memories: my Christopher Reeve cup (still in a bag in my basement); the Polish Pistol's stick-handling and scoring wizardry; Cotton.

Let's go!

Back L-R: What's the little dude's name(?), Polish Pistol, me, Rapai, Topper, Ron Myers.
Front L-R: Stairz, Cotton.
Not Pictured: Ben, Nick, Spud, Gary, That little guy that Gary got into a fight with, Marty, Le Quiox.

This is Spud, who I think was the 12-year-old daughter of Rapai, dancing with an unidentified bearded man at a bar after one of our games. WTF?

This is just so shitty.

Cotton, minutes before defecating in the Cup.

Jeff had a crush on Spud, if I recall correctly.

I don't know why the waiters wore blouses at that bar.

Magglio

Big ups to Ron Myers for alerting the Everett men to the presence of Magglio Ordoñez a couple of weeks ago in Grand Rapids. Here are various pics and some of the video I took during Maggs' rehab game with the White Caps.

Ron picks up the tickets at will-call. Row 1, seats 2 & 3.

Mikey's Tiger is in the hole!!

He appears to have some sort of chicklet in his mouth.

Mikey with the ball given to him by Magglio. Thanks to Brick for suggesting to Maggs that he give the ball to the kid. Mikey -- keep that ball out of the pool and away from BARLEY.

I ate a tube of popcorn.

Row 3. Oh... Magglio.


Thanks again, Brick Myers.

Car off a cliff... hamburgers... tiger game....

Biggs and I saw a car launched off of a cliff on Saturday. It's going to be a scene in a film called "Youth in Revolt." Here's a picture below, with more to come as soon as I get the filmage from taterson.



(also coming soon: photos and film of Magglio in West Michigan, as soon as I get the damn files off my decrepit camera.)

Tigers 7, Rockies 6

Woot!

Hi. What month is this? June? Here's a picture of me and my co-workers. We craft encyclopedias and share the same cube-row. I'm on the left, Andy is in the middle, and Deidre is on the right (picture by Tanya). We're at Andy's graduation party. Andy and Deirdre like to break balls at work. They also have super awesome myspace pages (my blog is better).

Ron Myers photo

Ron Myers has granted permission to use this photo of him in the upcoming edition of the encyclopedia I'm working on. Developing...

Vacation

Here are some pics from our trip to New Orleans and Pensacola. We had a real nice time. Thanks again, "Pensacola Everetts," for the good ol' southern hospitality. I'll post video later (I've got a lot).

We ate at one a dem roadside bbq joints. The Alabama Black Snake was a bit salty.

Family photo on the New Orleans River Walk.

"Kindly move along."

Pcola parking lot.

Pcola Beach.

Sammie and I power through the riptide.