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The begining of June I'm off to my annual ZSF trip - see <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://brotherhoodofdoom.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=425&p=2464">viewtopic.php?f=10&t=425&p=2464</a><!-- l --> - a worthwhile read that sets up the rest of this post.
Last year was good. They moved ZSF to an aging but nice resort-ish kind of spot with a new sauna and an indoor lukewarm hot tub (but it had a nice view). This year, they've moved it up the road to another resort. Should be nice, right? You must read the two links below - in order - to fully appreciate my future travel.
http://www.nevele.com/index.htm
http://www.nevelesucks.com/
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ZSF has been in the Poconos for years. Last year, it moved to the Catskills. I knew that. I was there last year. It was nice.
This year, it was a lot like The Shining. I kept looking for elevators full of blood, redrum written on the walls and room 237. I was booked on a red-eye there on Thursday night, got about 4 hours sleep Friday & Saturday night after lots of single malt shots (someone brought a nice 15 year Balvanie) and some top-shelf 'shine (Popcorn Sutton's last batch - wow!) I got home this morning around 1:30AM. Got to work on time this morning where a ton of work has been waiting for me. I still haven't finished processing my damn email. It's starting to catch up with me now...
...more to come.
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it was once a monstrous borscht belt resort where the rat pack played and president johson stayed. now it's in such a state of disrepair that it's like the shining, very creepy, filled with ghosts of parties long gone by, and the odor of must and mildew. i didn't know there was so many different types of must and mildew odors. the ceilings and walls were falling apart. empty storefronts were along the lobby. room numbers were written in sharpie on the doors. gardens, tennis courts, and the ice skating rink was thick with weeds. food sucked - dm lived on potatoes basically. the meals were designed fro carnivores, and ones that had no discernible palate for food.
the tn boys brought some shine that they claimed was the last batch of popcorn sutton, a legendary moonshiner (plug his name into youtube) - a documentary was done on him and atf busted him, but he committed suicide because he was going to get taken down. anyway, that was some fine shine - like a top shelf liquor. dm was genuinely impressed and the tn guys were very proud of that. dm drank so much that he got a wicked leg cramp on sunday and lost some vision in his bad eye for a spell, making him hobble about like a pirate, much to the tn boys amusement. but that was worht it. there was also some nice single malt too...and lots of party mix and sour cream and onion potato chips.
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Breakfast of Champions! Potato Chips and Single Malt
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit