I also went to the Rifle River on some of these adventures! One of my fondest memories of these adventues was playing Zombie Tag. I'm not sure who made-up the game or how it came to exist, but it IS AWESOME. One of the best versions of tag...in my opinion. It goes like this, on person is the "Zombie" and they must tag the other players. But, the person that is IT, or that is the "Zombie" cannot run. Of course everyone else can run from the Zombie.
Anytime that a person is tagged by the "Zombie" is now also IT and a Zombie. Now, this means there are 2 people that are IT. These two "Zombies" can now work as a team to tag/touch the remaining people that can run and are not it. The number of Zombies continues to grow as more people are tagged, until there is but 1 person remaining that is "Alive" or not "Zombified"/IT. I can't remember how the next person that is IT at the beginning of the game is decided, but I think the person that was tagged first is now the lone "Zombie"...if . . . Read More..

I was drifting through Rifle River memories and I came upon a great piece of the whole experience. A young man, maybe a little older than myself that went by the name: "Nathaniel". This guy was great. He looked kind of like a mixture between Donkey Lips from "Salute Your Shorts" and the actor that played as Macaulay Culkin's character's older brother from the movie "Home Alone". He was not all that bright as I recall and was kind of a Mook. But, it was fun to goof around with him and say is name in that certain way, "Nah-THAAAN-Yul". Anyway, just though of him...wonder what he's up to these days?!...

When I was a freshman in College I met a girl at media play (a entertainment store that was later bought out by Best Buy). 



I purchased a dorky movie (Final Fantasy: The Spirits within) and had a
great conversation about video games and final fantasy with this red
headed girl.



She was cute and for sure fun because she likes dorky video games and all.



I got her phone number and we had like one conversation for an hour or so.



But soon I heard from people (not sure who exactly) that she was a
married woman.  She was ONLY 18 years old too.  In fact, she was
married to my friend Ryan Morency.  Obviously they later divorced. 



But I just was shocked that a married woman was pursuing me and I was
pursuing her as well.  We went out once and played pool I think.  I
recall just never calling her again after I learned of this thing.



Ryan, if you ever read this, I apologize and never knew she was your
wife.  I think it was close to the end of your . . . Read More..

For my 23rd birthday I wanted to do something really fun, because I usually don't do much to celebrate my birthdays.  Kelly suggested that we do a girls night in Canada because we still thought Canada was fun and Kate and Jill weren't 21 yet.  So we decided to spend the night at the Windsor Casino hotel and just wander around and hit up all the bars without having to worry about who would drive home.  We all drove over to Canada in one car, and for some reason we decided we would bypass the duty free liquor shop and just find some liquor once we got to Windsor.  Well, we drove around for about 20 minutes, and couldn't find anything.  Finally, we stopped at what looked like a convenience store, but they didn't sell alcohol there (because Canada is weird).  The convenience store was run by an Asian man, and we asked him for directions to the nearest liquor store.  He gave us directions by telling us how many "twaffics" (traffic . . . Read More..

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!