HT: BBP 2

March 20th, 2004

The Attendees:
Amy Canary
Bo Boswell
Bryan Metzger
Chris Canary
Derek Myers
James Williamson
Jared Holt
Jeremy Mason
Justin Holt
Kavita S.
Ken Canary
Kennye Holt
Kim Hulvey
Nathan Holt
Traci Turner
Whitney S.

Beers Present:
Amstel Light - (courtesy of Derek)
St. Pauli Girl - (courtesy of James)
Yuengling Lager - (courtesy of James)
Bohannon Vanilla - (courtesy of Ken)
Heinekin - (courtesy of Chris)
Lowenbrau Original - (courtesy of Jeremy)
Dinkel Acker - (courtesy of Jared)
Lawson Creek Honey Almond Light - (courtesy of Bo)
Bud Light - (courtesy of Bo)

Related Pages:
Beer Mix CD Challenge Page

5:00pm: James, Derek, and Bo met for a quick game of racquetball before the party officially began. After playing for roughly an hour, we headed back to Traci's apartment where she and Kim were making the food for the evening. We ordered a pizza for dinner.

6:30pm: There was a knock at the door. To everyone's surprise, it was my parents. They just stopped by to say hey. They brought us a vegetable tray and a 6 pack (of water).

7:30pm: The party officially began.

7:40pm: People began showing up.

8:10pm: We decided to go ahead and get the Beer Mix CDs hopping even though some attendants were in-route to the party. We drew numbers and Derek was first. We also tried the new rule where everyone picked a song that they thought would be played that night. If someone picked a song that was actually played, then the person that made the CD had to chug a beer.

Earlier in the evening, when me, Derek, and James were playing racquetball, we played Cutthroat and made the rule that the winner of the game got to ask one of the losers what they put on their CD. When Derek had first arrived, he stated that there was a song on his CD that he was afraid would be on my CD. When I won the game, I asked him which song that was. It was Never Let Down, by Andrew W.K. That song wasn't on my CD, so I wrote that down as my choice of the evening. Sure, you can say that it's cheating, but what are you gonna do now, huh? Huh!? Derek was soon called out for having Never Let Down on his CD, so he had to chug his beer.

I want to take a second to thank everyone who brought food to the party. Everything I tasted was awesome. I want everyone to cater my 30th birthday party.

The heat in the apartment was exhausting. Traci's freon went out and someone came and fixed it earlier that day, but I think her A/C was still glitching, so we had to open up the wind'ers.

This party wasn't so much the Beer Battle Party as it was the Liquor Battle Party. We started off the evening with some Surfers on Acid, which were pretty good. I tried my first Rum & Coke, and it single-handedly convinced me to drink liquor-based beverages for the remainder of the evening rather than beer. I had one beer the whole night. And from what I can tell, that's comprable to the beer count of several of my fellow contenders.

The games started up with Cranium. Dudes against boobs. The boobs won, now let's move on. The second festivity was the Circle of Death. Heather was the lucky one to draw the 4th King, but the middle drink was too gross for her to finish. She got most of it down though. After she set it down on the table, I picked it up and was about to finish it. I just happened to see pieces of curdled milk floating on the top of the drink, so I promptly set it back on the table. At that point, James picked up the drink and downed it. Not surpringly, James got a little cozy with Traci's toilet later that very same evening.

The night kinda blurred by me from there. Derek spearheaded a smoker's group (filled with mostly non-smokers who have the ability to co-exist with smokers) that hung out outside of Traci's door. At one point in the evening, one of Traci's black neighbors came out and asked them if they could keep the noise down. Of course, that black person is now swinging from one of the beautiful dogwood trees next to Traci's apartment. Thanks to Kennye for her expert noose-tying skills.

Boog called at one point and expressed her regret for missing out on the part-ay. Apparently, and I don't remember this, I tried several times to rouse the attendants to say hello to Boog on the phone. But, they wouldn't be roused.

I was again suckered into taking shots with the dudes. This time, instead of tequila, we were shooting Jack Daniel's. If you've ever spent any time with Derek Myers, then you surely know his contempt for Jack Daniel's. I was able to tell that he was drunk because he was chugging Jack straight from the bottle. According to the pics, I (for some odd reason) had my shinai (practice sword) tucked into my belt at the time of the shot taking.

I do recall seeing Jeremy, Bryan, and James all huddled together examining a beer bottle for an extended period of time. Later I found out that they were examining the Lowenbrau beer because the label called it both a "malt liquor" and a "beer." James took the executive initiative to rip off the part of the label where it said "malt liquor."

I think this party was one of the few times in my life when I forgot most of what happened in the evening. If something important happened that I am forgetting, please forgive me. Feel free to let me know and I'll be happy to post it.

Thanks again to everyone who came to the party, and thanks to Traci for offering her apartment. I hope to see you all at the BBP 3!!!

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