Fraters Libertas

Weekend With Atomizer

While The Elder was enjoying the (relative) warmth of Mexico, I spent the past weekend in harsher climes, specifically the cold northwoods of Minnesota. I stayed in a poorly insulated log cabin with no running water, five friends, two dogs, two kegs of Summit Pale Ale, assorted bottles of liquor and a deck of cards.

The weekend went like this: pile into car, pile out and back into car at countless seedy bars, arrive at cabin, dig car out of unplowed driveway, drink beer, fall asleep, awaken, drink beer, lose money playing poker, drink beer, fall asleep, awaken, drink beer, clean cabin, drink beer, pile into car, pile out and back into car at countless seedy bars, lose money at Indian casino, watch helplessly from backseat as friend drives car into ditch, dig car out of ditch, arrive at home, collapse into cold bed, call in sick to work.

I read no newspapers, I was miles away from the nearest internet access, I helped no orphans, I am tired and my soul hurts.