July 26, 2003
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The boat was bouncing along the water. my head sort of bobbed around on top of my spine like a buoy in turbid water. Woody leaned over and put on his dad's hot pink 'Clear Lake Michigan' hat, circa 1989, reached into the glove box - cooler and pulled out a can of PBR and opened it up.
Impressive. considering 8 hours earlier we had our first visit to our friends newly aquired bar, the clevelander, named, no doubt, after the city that it sits inside of. but after a night like that, i wondered if the city wasn't named after the bar. what also is impressive is the fact that my dear friends who once shared the same clogged toilets and moldy refridgerators at 8 1/2 church street are now proprietors of 6,000 square foot bar, whose six-story shadow is cast by the stadium lights of jacobs field. and if they treat every friend like they treated me, the most amazing part is how they will ever stay in business.
As we skimmed along the lake, i tried to replay the previous night of my life:
Woody was just finishing up explaining his plan on developing a line of products that could be used for both hair gel and fast food condiments as we pulled up to henry and pat's house. The sun was slipping below the mismatched awnings that lined the street. The kids were playing on the sidewalk, pumping up half filled two liter bottles with a bicycle tire pump and sending them up into the tall sleepy trees. Prada and Kiaya bounded out of the back of the jeep and were greeted by Henry at the front door.
It was a big house. They lived upstairs. The sort of place that looked like it belonged in my parents photo albums from their days before being responsible adults. The kind of pictures were my dad is on the porch wearing really short shorts drinking out of pull tab cans with what looks like the allman brothers as his buddies.
We too, drank on the porch, but rather out of 22 oz. aluminum cans taken from the bar. As we arrived downtown soon after, henry led us to our destination. I meandered through the tables on the front patio. I walked under the brightly colored table umbrellas. I walked past the outdoor bar and the guy playing the alto sax by the front door. I stepped through the doorway and into the electric air of neon lights, spilled whisky, high ceilings, and higher blood alcohol contents. Most people who have friends who leave the day after college for another time zone only to return out of the blue a couple years later want to shake their hands. Mine put budweisers in both of mine and give me a bear hug.
Soon after, Woody was in the back of the bar running through fininacial models and profit margins with P.J. Todd Miller was slurring his speech with jamison running down his chin. I used to wonder in college what it would be like if we all could fast forward a few years and see ourselves in the real world but not all grown up. Now i know i didn't need a time machine to do that, just patience. Pat showed me around the place. Upstairs the floor boards ached with immorality and the walls reeked with potential. The place was huge. I would have given them a standing ovation for their ambitous endeavors, but by then i was having a hard time standing, and my hands were full of beer.
These are the photographs that fill my album, pasted in the chapter: "before being responsible adults." And it is looking like it might be a long chapter.
"You want a beer?" woody yelled to me over the sound of the I/O motor and the hull as it bounced along across Keuka Lake.
"No thanks." i replied. I had my hands full last night.
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