Sunday, February 18, 2007
Milestones
| This is my 200th Blog post. Hurray! (I was shocked when I made it to 10, so you can only imagine how I feel at this point.) But there are plenty of other milestones coming in the next couple of weeks. In about 3 weeks we'll hit the birthday of when this officialy became a blog (March 5th). Though if you've been back in the archives you will learn that this originally started as just an email I sent out to friends on occasion, but kept growing. Sadly, I don't have the date of the original email, I know it was between Thanksgiving and new years of 2005. Since I can't track that exact date, I'll go with the March 5th date as the blog birthday. So, um, Happy Birthday!. Also of note, my birthday is looming around the corner. That's not really a shocker or a coincidence, since it happens roughly every year and on average about 365 days after the previous one. This year though, it falls on, a Thursday! What will I do for my Super Fantastic Krystal Thursday Birthday Celebration Party? I don't know yet. I welcome any and all suggestions, though, if you wish to email them to me. Now before you go for the obvious, I will not eat one Krystal for every year I have been alive. I would like to survive my birthday. I could probably eat one How old will I be, you ask? Well I am sure Blogger will tell you somewhere if you look. Many years ago when I was 24 I'd tell people "If years were beers I'd be a case." Being a college fraternity guy, that was funny! Then when I was 33, I'd tell people "I'm as old as an LP spins!" The sad irony is that only people my age would KNOW how fast an LP spins. Heck only people my age know what an LP is in the first place. Next year, in the spirit of Krystal, I'll say "If years were Krystals, I'd be a sackfull and a steamer!" Now that's a party! Maybe not as funny and the year/beers one, but by the time I got done explaining I am six 6-packs or a case and a twelve pack they'll have lost interest. This year, in an ironic twist (perhaps even a Krystal Koincidence) I'm making a road trip. Hockey is on the horizon. I had been planning this trip for a while, but then the Florida Seals team folded in early January, scrambling my plans. I knew quite a few of the players and the coach down there and they have all now scattered. So, just like they did, I restructured my plans and pushed forward. Instead of heading south, I am heading east: South Carolina. Thursday and Friday I'll be watching games in Florence, SC, home of the Pee Dee Cyclones. The odd name is due to the Pee Dee River basin the city sits in. In the 25-30 years of travel back and forth from GA to NC I never fail to chuckle when I cross over the Great Pee Dee and the Little Pee Dee rivers. From my years of hockey road trips, I always enjoyed "double headers" with two games in two days in the same city. The 2nd day affords time to roam the city and see the sites. When you follow one team (as I did with the Macon Whoopee, then the Macon Trax) you don't get too many double headers. The league liked to keep the teams moving. But since I don't hold any real allegiance to any (minor league) team, I can go anywhere at any time and see a "neutral" game. While I am staying in Florence, I'll take the Friday to road trip further east, all the way to the coast. Murrell's Inlet to be exact. Why Murrell's Inlet, you ask? Well that's the eastern most Krystal in the US. The Krystal Koast, you might even say. It also happens to be the closest Krystal to my parents. And from the overhead images on Google Maps it appears to be quite an amazing location, not too far from the ocean. And oh how I do love the ocean! Obviously, while in Murrell's Inlet I'll be sure and click off plenty of pictures. But then Saturday my birthday road trip continues north. I'll be heading to NC. Fayetteville, NC to be precise. (or Fayettenam touse the local slang lingo) There I'll be meeting up with my parents and taking in a Fayetteville Fire Antz hockey game. So by my count, that is about 900 miles round trip, 2 different Krystals, 3 hockey games, 1 birthday, 2 parents, and a whole truck load of fun! Along the way I may also drop by my friend Kim's house in Augusta, GA. It all sounds so exciting, I just can't wait!  |
