In my 2nd season of division one Cross Country running at Oakland University, coach Paul Rice took us to a camp for a hard week of training.

Here are some of the things I remember from that week of pain:

• We had a talent contest where everyone had to display a talent
• I decided that I wanted to use my DJing skills and played a famous piano concerto behind a piano as I goofed off like I was playing it for real
• I cant remember everyones skills, but we started indoors and ended up taking it outside where people got up on this stage.  Billy any help here?
• When we first got there we did a long run into the woods and overlooking this bluff was one of the most beautiful swamps/lakes I have ever seen in my life.  I was in awe.
• We did a cool workout where we all raced as a team kind of like the great lakes relay
• Some people went skinny dipping I think.  Not sure
• I was DJ Willuz all week, cause I brought my portable MP3 player and some computer speakers that I returned at Meijers later.
• Kevin D. and I had lots of talks about how the team was always dicks to him.  He and I always confided in each other because other people werent always the nicest people to both of us.  Especially to him.
• On the last day we did a hill workout running up and down the sand dunes.  It was soo difficult and challenging.  And in the end people jumped into the lake.  (Some people jumped in completely naked too)
  

Next to band camp, this was the most fun I had in a camp in such a long time.  I got into ultimate shape and it was the best thing for that season because I ran a 27:50 8K!

When the Magnum ride was created in the 90's it was pretty much the highest roller coaster in the world. Boasting a 200 foot drop of pure adrenaline.

My family has always loved cedar point and we always enjoyed going once every summer to try out the latest rides such as Thunder Canyon, The Mean Streak and much more that they built in the 90's.

But the first year that the magnum came out there was at least a 3 hour line or more and my mom and I debated whether we should go on it or not.

We finally did and sat together. I was in about 3rd grade at the time and on the way up I cried pretty much the whole way up because of how slow the chain was moving the cart. It just made things ten times worse with the anticipation of what was to come. My mom cried a little too cause she was scared.

Funny stuff!

This one time there was a lot of construction near the corner of Cass Lake Road and M-59.

There was a KMart on the corner and my brother decides to take the Ghetto Mini Van and cut through the back.  There were also 3 other cars that did the same thing to dodge the traffic.

But only my brother got hit because he was last.  He also was speeding so he kind of deserved the ticket for evading traffic or something like that.

When I was young my brother and father would do a lot of fishing.

But at the early days I used to not have a fishing rod. So I might have shared a snoopy one with my brother or something. But on this particular day, I had to use a make shift stick with a piece of fishing line as my rod.

But the problem with this ghetto rod, was that I could only get it a few feet into the water.

Me being the ambitious one who wants to catch a bluegill or two. Tries to cast it out as far as I can. But soon, I lose my ground and fall right into a part of the lake. It wasnt a dock or anything, just really shallow water.

There is also a shack I need to post a memory about in those same woods that I remember. But I was nice and muddy that day. I am sure my dad and brother Dan laughed.

This one time at Compuware, the guy across from my cube would come in every day stinking like vodka.  He would spike his coffee and other things and many times I would hear him snore.

One time in particular a friend looked underneath the panel to me and tried to whisper and point at his cube.  The dude was out cold.

She explained how he comes in drunk every day, but I never realized it until she said it that the lingering smell was booze.

They fired him later probably because someone said something.

He was so weird.  The funny part about it that he was a "Professional Services" guy.  So very professional indeed.