What a Weekend.

This was a helluva weekend, dear reader.

Friday night I blew everyone off and read 150 pages of a new book. Saturday morning, Scott and I hiked Doubletop and Graham. Graham did not, this time, take a chunk out of my eye. Yay. Here’s the link to the full trip report on this site (which is, actually, the last post).

After the hike, we got home in time to shower and meet up with Jeanne and Heather and head down to Brighton Bar in Long Branch NJ to see four metal bands. The headliners were Black Water Rising and Cycle of Pain. Both played excellent shows, as did the two bands before them (KillCode & Diablo Royale).

I danced around and headbanged like a maniac for all four bands – I must have sweat through my shirt at least three times. I can’t believe I’m in good enough shape to do that after Saturday’s hike. I spent as much time eating and drinking water as I could this weekend, and although I stayed tolerably/well hydrated, I don’t think I consumed anywhere near the number of calories I burned on Saturday.

Sunday was spent on the golf course (Apple Greens near New Paltz NY) with John, Katie and Dad. Afterward we returned to mom & dad’s house for zuppa di pesce a la mom. I got home around 8PM and promptly fell asleep. Woke up around 11PM to turn the lights off, shower off the various chemicals sticking to me from the day, and go back to sleep. I did not do laundry, bake a cake or clean ANY of my apartment this weekend.

Next weekend I’ll be at Minis On Top with a few friends from the internet (Brandy, Alora and Don the un-google-able), and I’m wicked glad that (fingers crossed) this week will be slow at work so that I can catch up on my prep for that and other general interwebz stuff.

I need to plan a retreat so that I can gather my thoughts (no jokes, please) before the summer is over. I can’t believe how quickly 2010 is passing.