Re: Where are Swillsters spending the 4th of July?

by **Robert J Sakimano** Wed Jul 01, 2015 8:50 am

HT wrote:
Giant Moose wrote:
That does look nice. I wish the mountains on the East side of our country were as good as those.

There's plenty of beautiful mountains on the East side of our country...just many aren't snow-capped. Take the Great Smoky Mountains for instance...

grew up there.

by **Robert J Sakimano** Wed Jul 01, 2015 8:51 am

Giant Moose wrote:
Robert J Sakimano wrote:no place I'd rather be.. and no place where I can insist through the magic of social media that my life is sheer perfection: Up North.
Are you already Up North? If so, can you send me a Petoskey stone?

I'm always Up North.. even if it's just in a nuanced metaphysical way.

I am always Up North.. and Up North is always with me.

by **Dr. Strangelove** Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:03 am

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
HT wrote:

There's plenty of beautiful mountains on the East side of our country...just many aren't snow-capped. Take the Great Smoky Mountains for instance...
grew up there.

Bob Vanderbilt Sakimano

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by **kingstonlake** Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:19 am

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
HT wrote:

There's plenty of beautiful mountains on the East side of our country...just many aren't snow-capped. Take the Great Smoky Mountains for instance...

grew up there.

You must have the most massive bike hill climbing thighs and calfs known to man.

by **Turtleneck** Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:26 am

kingstonlake wrote:
Robert J Sakimano wrote:
grew up there.
You must have the most massive bike hill climbing thighs and calfs known to man.

I don't know about calfs, but at his Cotton Bowl watch party that he did not attend, I noticed he had nice calves.

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by **Robert J Sakimano** Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:56 am

kingstonlake wrote:
Robert J Sakimano wrote:
grew up there.
You must have the most massive bike hill climbing thighs and calfs known to man.

we did some nice rides, for sure. When you grow up there, it's really all you know. I haven't lived in the NC mountains in about 25 years, though - I miss a lot of the climbs, for sure. Suited my natural cycling skills much better - I don't do quite as well on flats.

by **Robert J Sakimano** Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:57 am

Turtleneck wrote:
kingstonlake wrote:
You must have the most massive bike hill climbing thighs and calfs known to man.

I don't know about calfs, but at his Cotton Bowl watch party that he did not attend, I noticed he had nice calves.

from what I hear, you really REALLY enjoyed the calves.. someone would argue you enjoyed them too much. Shocked

by **Turtleneck** Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:01 am

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
Turtleneck wrote:

I don't know about calfs, but at his Cotton Bowl watch party that he did not attend, I noticed he had nice calves.

from what I hear, you really REALLY enjoyed the calves.. someone would argue you enjoyed them too much.

A lot of people did a lot of things they regret at your Cotton Bowl party.

by **kingstonlake** Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:04 am

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
kingstonlake wrote:
You must have the most massive bike hill climbing thighs and calfs known to man.
we did some nice rides, for sure. When you grow up there, it's really all you know. I haven't lived in the NC mountains in about 25 years, though - I miss a lot of the climbs, for sure. Suited my natural cycling skills much better - I don't do quite as well on flats.

My brother and his wife did an overnight in the smokies. Not intentionally though. They got lost lol

by **Robert J Sakimano** Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:11 am

kingstonlake wrote:
Robert J Sakimano wrote:
we did some nice rides, for sure. When you grow up there, it's really all you know. I haven't lived in the NC mountains in about 25 years, though - I miss a lot of the climbs, for sure. Suited my natural cycling skills much better - I don't do quite as well on flats.
My brother and his wife did an overnight in the smokies. Not intentionally though. They got lost lol

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easy to get lost there. First thing I noticed about Michigan was how roads pretty much run east, west, north and south - on a grid and usually at 90 degree angles. In the NC mountains, roads were cut into the mountains and down into valleys to sort of circumnavigate the more treacherous areas so you never really know which direction you're going.

by Guest Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:30 pm

If Bob will install #1 or #11 at his lakefront cottage I'll come visit.

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by **Giant Moose** Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:44 pm

The lake trampoline is surprisingly a lot less expensive than I thought it would be. $1,800-$3,700 is a lot better than the $11,000 for the floating volleyball court.

by **Robert J Sakimano** Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:45 pm

LooseGoose wrote:If Bob will install #1 or #11 at his lakefront cottage I'll come visit.

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I don't recall inviting you. Evil or Very Mad

by **Giant Moose** Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:49 pm

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I don't recall inviting you.

Excluding people? When did you become a mod on tRCMB? Say it ain't so, Bob.

by **Robert J Sakimano** Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:52 pm

Giant Moose wrote:
Robert J Sakimano wrote:I don't recall inviting you.

Excluding people? When did you become a mod on tRCMB? Say it ain't so, Bob.

I didn't say he's not invited. I just don't appreciate the presumption.

I guess I could pull a Cotton Bowl watch party and invite a bunch of people over and not even be there.

by **xsanguine** Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:53 pm

I'm spending it moving in!!!! Fuck yeah! I don't gotta wait till next week. This is great news... Swillers, come on out to my hoytey toytey little subdivision rental! Let's get me kicked out before my first rent check is due!

by **Giant Moose** Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:53 pm

xsanguine wrote:I'm spending it moving in!!!! Fuck yeah! I don't gotta wait till next week. This is great news... Swillers, come on out to my hoytey toytey little subdivision rental! Let's get me kicked out before my first rent check is due!

Can I bring one of Bob's couches and light it on fire?

by **InTenSity** Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:54 pm

Giant Moose wrote:
xsanguine wrote:I'm spending it moving in!!!! Fuck yeah! I don't gotta wait till next week. This is great news... Swillers, come on out to my hoytey toytey little subdivision rental! Let's get me kicked out before my first rent check is due!
Can I bring one of Bob's couches and light it on fire?

Isn't that murder? Or are you talking about the purses?

edit - I need to get my eye's checked. I read that as one of Bob's coaches, unless there was a ninja edit.

by **Robert J Sakimano** Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:55 pm

Giant Moose wrote:
xsanguine wrote:I'm spending it moving in!!!! Fuck yeah! I don't gotta wait till next week. This is great news... Swillers, come on out to my hoytey toytey little subdivision rental! Let's get me kicked out before my first rent check is due!
Can I bring one of Bob's couches and light it on fire?

oddly enough, there is a couch in the basement that's yours if you want it. You just have to find a way to get it up the steps.

oh - and don't touch my drum kit while you're down there.

by CheesySpartan Wed Jul 01, 2015 2:05 pm

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
Giant Moose wrote:
Excluding people? When did you become a mod on tRCMB? Say it ain't so, Bob.
I didn't say he's not invited. I just don't appreciate the presumption.

I guess I could pull a Cotton Bowl watch party and invite a bunch of people over and not even be there.

That's most likely a "Win-Win" for all involved Bob

by CheesySpartan Wed Jul 01, 2015 2:06 pm

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
Giant Moose wrote:
Can I bring one of Bob's couches and light it on fire?
oddly enough, there is a couch in the basement that's yours if you want it. You just have to find a way to get it up the steps.

oh - and don't touch my drum kit while you're down there.

But if you happen to take his wife's dog on your way out...

by **Robert J Sakimano** Wed Jul 01, 2015 2:07 pm

CheesySpartan wrote:
Robert J Sakimano wrote:I didn't say he's not invited. I just don't appreciate the presumption.

I guess I could pull a Cotton Bowl watch party and invite a bunch of people over and not even be there.

That's most likely a "Win-Win" for all involved Bob

yeah - I can attest to the fact that I'm not a great person to have a beer with. Hell, I can barely stand to have a beer with myself.

by **xsanguine** Wed Jul 01, 2015 4:07 pm

Giant Moose wrote:
xsanguine wrote:I'm spending it moving in!!!! Fuck yeah! I don't gotta wait till next week. This is great news... Swillers, come on out to my hoytey toytey little subdivision rental! Let's get me kicked out before my first rent check is due!
Can I bring one of Bob's couches and light it on fire?

I encourage you to bring one of Bob's couches and/or coaches out to burn.

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** Wed Jul 01, 2015 4:13 pm

LooseGoose wrote:If Bob will install #1 or #11 at his lakefront cottage I'll come visit.

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Both of my knees dislocated just looking at those pictures.

by Guest Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:08 pm

No other country like America!

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by **Rocinante** Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:49 pm

Probably on my couch. I hurt my back like a bitch.

by **Floyd Robertson** Thu Jul 02, 2015 5:52 pm

Bob, was you wife in Shelby Twp today? I saw her pickup truck with the NRA4EVR license plate.

by **xsanguine** Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:12 am

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
Giant Moose wrote:
Can I bring one of Bob's couches and light it on fire?
oddly enough, there is a couch in the basement that's yours if you want it. You just have to find a way to get it up the steps.

oh - and don't touch my drum kit while you're down there.

I'm upset that you never let me know you play drums, Bob.. All this time we could have been the capital area's best E Street cover band and now I'm won't even be there anymore.

This is bullshit. I'm very upset with you, Bob... despite how great of an American you are.

by Guest Fri Jul 03, 2015 5:22 am

Rubin: In Michigan, our July Fourth lies Up North

We are headed Up North, if we're not there already, because this is the July 4 weekend and we are Michiganians and it's what we do.

In a tiny community in Clare County called Lake, Greg Gross will be waiting with a chainsaw.

AAA of Michigan says more than 1.2 million of us will drive at least 50 miles to wherever we're going. If we're lucky, it'll be more like 500 miles to and from someplace green and gorgeous and ideally wet.

In a wood-paneled building in Kalkaska, the Up North Grill will be waiting with enough perch for everyone.

It's July Fourth, which means July North. We are motoring up the map toward Bliss and Paradise — and in ways large and small, northern Michigan has been preparing to greet us.

Residents are ready at the other compass points, too: Saugatuck and South Haven to the west, Harbor Beach and Pt. Aux Barques to the east. But we don't wear T-shirts that say "Over in the Thumb."

The shirts simply say, "Up North," and Up North is primed for an invasion.

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** Fri Jul 03, 2015 10:49 am

Not going to read the article.. but sounds like Bob will have a field day with that one on Monday Where are Swillsters spending the 4th of July? - Page 2 502811600

by **Cameron** Mon Jul 06, 2015 12:41 am

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:Gonna be up in Cadillac. I'll look for Bob while I'm up north, because as we all know, Cadillac is where up north starts. This is not debatable.

You're wrong and stupid.

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I spent the 4th driving from Up North (Paradise, MI) to NOT Up North (Houghton Lake). Drank a ton of beer and smoked a hash oil joint while watching the fireworks around Houghton Lake. Good time, probably the best 4th of July I've ever had.

by **Cym Jim** Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:33 am

Cameron wrote:
Watch Out Pylon! wrote:Gonna be up in Cadillac. I'll look for Bob while I'm up north, because as we all know, Cadillac is where up north starts. This is not debatable.

You're wrong and stupid.

I spent the 4th driving from Up North (Paradise, MI) to NOT Up North (Houghton Lake). Drank a ton of beer and smoked a hash oil joint while watching the fireworks around Houghton Lake. Good time, probably the best 4th of July I've ever had.

Sounds like fun to me. What's a hash oil joint? Dude in front of me in line on the first legal day in CO was telling me that was the way to go - sounded like a loophole that would let him buy 20x any other medium.

by **Watch Out Pylon!** Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:29 am

Cameron wrote:
Watch Out Pylon! wrote:Gonna be up in Cadillac. I'll look for Bob while I'm up north, because as we all know, Cadillac is where up north starts. This is not debatable.

You're wrong and stupid.

I spent the 4th driving from Up North (Paradise, MI) to NOT Up North (Houghton Lake). Drank a ton of beer and smoked a hash oil joint while watching the fireworks around Houghton Lake. Good time, probably the best 4th of July I've ever had.

Enjoyed my time in the gateway to Up North. We only ruined one prop when the guy driving the Four Winns speedboat broke up some rocks in the channel between Lake Cadillac & Lake Mitchell. Oops.

Other than that, we had a great time. Great weather, good eats, good drinks, some cornhole, a lot of chilling out on the boat. Everyone in my usual circle of friends are having kids now. No more staying up until 3 doing "adult" things. Now it's, "Kids are in bed, we're too exhausted/don't want to get too loud and wake the kids up" to get too crazy.

Hey, life changes. Still, it was a great weekend.

by **Turtleneck** Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:43 am

Cameron wrote:
Watch Out Pylon! wrote:Gonna be up in Cadillac. I'll look for Bob while I'm up north, because as we all know, Cadillac is where up north starts. This is not debatable.

You're wrong and stupid.

I spent the 4th driving from Up North (Paradise, MI) to NOT Up North (Houghton Lake). Drank a ton of beer and smoked a hash oil joint while watching the fireworks around Houghton Lake. Good time, probably the best 4th of July I've ever had.

Actually, you're wrong. The UP is the UP. It deserves to be called the UP because it is a distinctly different and better place than the rest of the state. Its greatness cannot be captured with reference to something as vague and simple as "up north." Call it by name.

by Guest Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:47 am

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:
Cameron wrote:

You're wrong and stupid.

I spent the 4th driving from Up North (Paradise, MI) to NOT Up North (Houghton Lake). Drank a ton of beer and smoked a hash oil joint while watching the fireworks around Houghton Lake. Good time, probably the best 4th of July I've ever had.

Enjoyed my time in the gateway to Up North. We only ruined one prop when the guy driving the Four Winns speedboat broke up some rocks in the channel between Lake Cadillac & Lake Mitchell. Oops.

Other than that, we had a great time. Great weather, good eats, good drinks, some cornhole, a lot of chilling out on the boat. Everyone in my usual circle of friends are having kids now. No more staying up until 3 doing "adult" things. Now it's, "Kids are in bed, we're too exhausted/don't want to get too loud and wake the kids up" to get too crazy.

Hey, life changes. Still, it was a great weekend.

Time to join the crowd and knock somebody up.

by **Watch Out Pylon!** Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:55 am

LooseGoose wrote:
Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

Enjoyed my time in the gateway to Up North. We only ruined one prop when the guy driving the Four Winns speedboat broke up some rocks in the channel between Lake Cadillac & Lake Mitchell. Oops.

Other than that, we had a great time. Great weather, good eats, good drinks, some cornhole, a lot of chilling out on the boat. Everyone in my usual circle of friends are having kids now. No more staying up until 3 doing "adult" things. Now it's, "Kids are in bed, we're too exhausted/don't want to get too loud and wake the kids up" to get too crazy.

Hey, life changes. Still, it was a great weekend.
Time to join the crowd and knock somebody up.

tWife & I are enjoying being DINKs (Dual Income No Kids). It might happen sometime soon, but we're in no rush.

by CheesySpartan Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:12 am

Turtleneck wrote:
Cameron wrote:

You're wrong and stupid.

I spent the 4th driving from Up North (Paradise, MI) to NOT Up North (Houghton Lake). Drank a ton of beer and smoked a hash oil joint while watching the fireworks around Houghton Lake. Good time, probably the best 4th of July I've ever had.

Actually, you're wrong. The UP is the UP. It deserves to be called the UP because it is a distinctly different and better place than the rest of the state. Its greatness cannot be captured with reference to something as vague and simple as "up north." Call it by name.

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by **Other Teams Pursuing That** Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:32 am

I think north just means north, bruhs.

by **Turtleneck** Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:38 am

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:I think north just means north, bruhs.

Not in South Korea.

by Brock Middlebrook Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:42 am

Don't know about the rest of you, but I'm fucking exhausted. Where are Swillsters spending the 4th of July? - Page 2 3836498553

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