Trip Report

Highlights from this weekend.

1. It was wicked hot on Friday. Lake Ore-Be-Gone is wicked deep and wicked blue. Maybe too many Wickeds in that statement.
2. James is the Mr. Miyagi of beer drinking downing 22 1/2 beers Friday night. We salute you James. You are the champion beer drinker that all of us light weights can only dream to be.
3. James learned how to sign language, "I have to poop lady!", thanks to Aimee. Ladies watch out, you may be next to witness the wrath of the James.
4. When you are drunk you don't seem to mind the mosquito bites or comprehend them for that matter.
5. James managed to leave a nice dent in the rear quarter panel of his new Jeep. I swear I saw a tear.
6. To remove a wasps just use 1 part lighter fluid and 1 part fire. Works every time.
7. Using a charcoal grill for 60 people, not such a great idea.
8. Putting up a wet tent to dry in 113* heat index weather causes you to be not so dry.

Here is a link to all of the pictures.

The effects of drinking.
(Warning: Do try this at home)







MikeyB

Revamping The Site

I have been working on revamping MinnesotaJeep.com.

What do you think? Not too bad for not knowing html and using frontpage.

http://minnesotajeeps.com

Nothing New

Nothing new to report. I have been busy organizing the MN-Jeep.com summer run that is coming up this weekend.

Do you think this is enough food to feed 70-90 people?

144 Cookies
3 bags of Ruffles Chips (1lb bags)
3 Cans of baked beans (7lb per can)
4 bottles of Ketchup (4lb each)
2 bottle of mustard (1lb 14oz each)
1 gallon of sliced pickles
96 Beef patties
64 Ball Park franks
15lb of sweet corn
56 Brats
Lot'O'Buns
168 cans of soda
50 bottles of water

-MikeyB

Random Picture

Why are these people soaking in delicious lemon-lime Gatorade?

Blast From The Past

Seeing the picture of Pete and Jen made me laugh and I had to go dig out some old pictures to share with everyone.

Mel & Aimee in study hall the last day of school.

Andy, Andy & Corey. I don't think Dozer ever removed that Sox cap the last year of high school. Also check it out, Dozer is showing off the guns again.
Yeah that's Pete. Pete seemed to stuggle with his fashion sense back in the day.Oh yeah, that's me. Sr. Prom. Dead sexy!
Aimee & I at Sr. Prom
The greatest place on earth, Wall Drug!! Diggin' for some black gold in Abe's nose.
-MikeyB

Block Party - Semisonic

Pete, Anne, Andy, Corey, Mel, Aimee & I went down to see Semisonic last Friday at the Aquatennial Block Party in downtown Minneapolis. Here are some pictures I would like to share with all of my Blog fans, which I am almost positive I have millions of. :)

A picture of the crew hangin' out before the concert. We were putting out the vibe, whatever that may be. It felt like the "We are roasting in the 98* heat" vibe.

Is that a picture of Pete working up a smile? It looks like he's holding his breath in the picture. Pete, you can smile with your teeth unless you have a Jewel snaggle tooth mouth.

Andy showing of the "Hand" guns. Bang!! Bang!!

Semisonic rockin' the Cities 97 Subway stage.

Oh...ahhh...an artistic black and white version.

The ride home on the light rail where you had to dry hump the rider next to you. Twins fans & block party fans heading home clogged the light rail from the first stop. It was the longest ride of my life. You could smell what the person next to you had for dinner.

-MikeyB

Wolfmother

Where in the hell did this band come from? They must have been lost in the outback chasing kangaroos because damn they kick some major ass!! Australians Myles Heskett, Chris Ross and Andrew Stockdale formed Wolfmother in early 2004 later releasing a independent EP which Wolfies adored (their fans are called "Wolfies" incase you didn't know). Wolfmother is known for putting on a great live show which they tried their best to capture on their debut self titled album released in early May of 06'. With the voice similar to Jack White at times and the sound of rock dinosaurs Led Zeppelin & Black Sabbath makes you want to break out the black lights, psychedelic velvet posters & lava lamps. This band truly rocks and rocks hard! The ablum consists of 13 tracks (14 on the iTunes download with a live version of Colossal). Every song on this album could be a single. So far they have released White Unicorn, Woman, Mind's Eye and Dimension. Some other tracks to listen to, Joker & The Thief, Love Train and Colossal. Great album, go out an buy it!

Wolfmother site

Best ablum of 2006 by far.
5 out of 5 Snorks


-MikeyB

Rant

It would be nice to be able to turn on VH1, MTV or MTV2 between the hours of 5am & 1am and actually see a music VIDEO!! Crazy concept eh? MUSIC TELEVISION? VIDEO HITS ONE? Just fawking create a new channel called "Pimp My Laguna Real Wold True Life Awards" and get it over with.


I WANT MY MTV!!! (back)

New Bumper & Tropical Heat Wave.

My new bumper from TnT Customs arrived yesterday. I started painting it last night with a couple coats of primer. I have to paint it later in the evening since it will be Africa hot & humid outside the next few days. Paint doesn't really like the humidity when applying it. Tonight I get to hurculine it so I should be getting loopy off of the fumes around 20:00 hrs. I plan on installing the bumper on Saturday which should be interesting since they forgot to send me the directions. I just have a sack-O-bolts to puzzle together.


I biked the 15 mile loop yesterday after work. I figured I better get out before my tires melt to the pavement later in the week. I heard on the news that this week had the hottest recorded temp in the record books back in the 1936. I guess it was in the 100's for a few day straight topping out at 108* and one spot in MN got up to 114*. That's just crazy...

-MikeyB

Better dead and cool than alive and uncool

My buddies Andy & James took a class at DCTC in Rosemount to learn how to drive a motorcycle and get their DMV endorsements. Well they passed and I had to give Dosdall some shit because that's what friends are for and that's what I do.

Dozer DeVespa

Scooter was starting to cry so I had to make a photochop for James.
Confederate James

Home Again

Aimee and I returned home from our week long trip to Pelican Lake. We had a great time and damn time flies by when you're having fun! We are already planning on coming up again next year since the staff of Island View Resort were so great and we enjoyed staying in the newer A-frame log cabin. However, we did have an unexpected visitor. The first night Aimee and I could hear a high pitch squeaking noise coming from the ceiling. I turned on the Surefire flash light and didn't see a thing. Tuesday morning after waking up I see it flying around, yup a bat. Scared the hell out of me has it buzzed by me. Jim, my Dad and I investigated as the bat flew into the window curtain and then it hauled ass out of the curtain and you never saw 3 grown men move so fast! We contacted John, the owner of the resort, and John, Aimee and I were able to get the bat out after 5 minutes of running around the cabin.

Here are some pictures from the week.

Pelican Lake is located 1 hr north of Virgina off of hwy 53.


This was our log cabin we stayed in for the week.


First day I caught a 18 inch small mouth bass. Since the slot limit was between 14-20 inches I had to release it. Pound for pound these are the funnest fish to catch.


Check out this monster. My lure is just as large as the northern.


Aimee & I in our sweet matching rain outfits. It only rained for half a day the whole week.


Jim caught this rock bass in an interesting spot. He's got skillz.


We ended up catching our limit on northern pike fairly early in the week. This is just from an afternoon of fishing.


I caught a 18" large mouth bass. This was the largest bass I have ever caught.


Dad caught the largest northern pike at 30.5 inches long.


Pelican Lake is also known for large sunny & bluegills. We kept 28 of them one afternoon and they were a bitch to clean!


Here is a group photo from the last night of the trip.


-MikeyB