My high school band teacher Mr. Spry turned 50 when I was a senior.  Well maybe it was 60 because he retired that year. 

Anyway it was a nice round number, so Mr. Braue got all of the band together in the parking lot of Meijers and we all marched down some random streets to get to Mr. Spry's home.

He didnt have a clue there was going to be a surprise, but his wife got a bunch of food and beverages for everyone to drink after our band came rolling down the streets playing happy birthday.  The whole neighborhood was partying with us and we shocked a lot of people.

It was such a fun and unique experience to do such a thing.  When you think about it.  That type of experience is once and a lifetime!  So cool and soo much fun.  I miss marching band!

Noels recent memory about being in Elementary School and stuffing things in his mouth, reminded me about a time that we were learning about the 5 types of tastes and learning about which sections of the tongue taste certain flavors.  To test this, we had an assortment of items like sour juice, bitter coffee, sweet sugar and much more.

Everything was fine until the students placed coffee beans on my mouth and I practically choked.  I spit them out immediately and blew so hard that the coffee beans went all over the place.

It was a complete mess.

Nick A. and I were pretty much trampoline addicts. We worked and did lawn work for some neighbors across the street and they had the coolest yard for kids growing up. (A full court basketball court and a trampoline.)

I need to post a full memory of all the yard work we used to do there, but this is all about the crazy games we used to play on the trampoline.

Nick always came up with the most crative games to play on the trampoline. He probably remembers more than I do.

But I always enjoyed our acrobatics more than the games.

We were very good at back flips, front flips, jump on your knees then flip, jump on your knees then flip back (this was the most difficult).

We could time our jumps so that we could steal each others jumps and the result would pop the other person up very high.

Many times, this type of action would result in catastrophic ball crunching landings on the bars at the end!!

The most we could have at a time was 3, but I recall we had 4 people on at one time . . . Read More..

A while back, I was playing Call of Duty 2 online with some friends. It was Jenni, Killer7, and I all just talking and playing. At one point Killer7 told me of a a trick he played on a noob.

So, he was online playing COD2 when this one person joins. Of coarse it was one of the people that have to check if their microphone works every time they join a game. He the noob asks "Can you guys hear me?"

Killer7, just being himself, says "No we cant." After that there was a small pause followed by the noob asking "How about now?"

This continued on for about half and hour until the noob finally figured out that they had to hear him to answer the way he was. When I first heard this story and could do nothing but laugh for about 5 minutes.

Not to long after that, Jenni and Killer7 left. But I had an awesome game without them! 107 score and 47 deaths! I was the best one there.

One time Bill and I just were getting drunk at my old house in Waterford and he decides he wanted to "sleep/drunk walk" into the bathroom and just pass out on the floor in there.

Only to find my dad getting ready in the morning.  I felt embarrassed for him, but he is the funny dude that walsed in there.