I remember this story Patrick told me back in 2006.  It was the day of the Big 12 Championship.  I was still in Lawrence at the time and went to watch the game with Patrick and a bunch of his friends from high school.  Kansas won obv.  The story is not about the beer tower that Patrick and I put away but the way in which the day began.  Lawrence experienced a microburst that morning.  I had never heard of such a thing at the time.  In the wee hours of the morning, our apartment began to shake a bit and Reed pounded on the door to wake me up.  We went outside and saw a pretty dismal sight.  Next to the apartment complex was a pretty large vacant piece of land and for a minute I thought I saw a tornado coming right at us.  However, after wipping the sleep out of my eyes, we realized it was just a really bad storm or so we thought.  We went back to bed but when we awoke we realized it was more than just that.  There was a lot of damage around town.  Apparently, a microburst is an event in which vertical wind occurs.  It certainly did its damage across town.

Again, Patrick had friends in that weekend and they were on their Spring Break from I believe Creighton.  This girl that I can’t remember the name of apparently came outside early in the morning and with evidence of destruciton surrounding her said, “Whooooooo Spring Break ‘06.”  The way Patrick told the story really made it seem like it was quite the moment, but he was obv embarrased.

Marla and I are going to visit mom this weekend in Tahoe.  I’m currently on Spring Break, but other than school, it seems like any ordinary week.  I’m going to visit friends at the Fox and Hound that I used to be a reg when I lived in Tahoe a couple years ago, probably go play a session at Harvey’s on Friday night and spend a lot of time with Marla and mom.  We’re going to church and brunch on Sunday and then I’m going to play in the SCOOP M.E.s $1,000 & $100.

Hopefully, I wake up on Monday yelling, “Spring Break ‘09′ prior to starting Day 2 of the $1,000 SCOOP M.E.