Dec 23, 2016

After not enough sleep I ended up getting to work a little late because I couldn't find my keys. I got there before homeroom was over and began my day unaware that the half day was even more shortened because they were having an assembly at the end of the day. It ended up being great since my 3 classes were only 47 minutes long and then I had off so I left work by 11. Becca and I took advantage of the early release by meeting at South Vineland Park to play disc golf.

Halfway through the game I got a call telling me my dentist appointment wouldn't be covered by insurance today because it was scheduled one day early.  I was annoyed, but we decided to take advantage and headed to Iron Hill DGC in Delaware. It was a beautiful day for playing and we had a good game. Becca had some great putts and I played alright. I'm glad we got to go out since it was so nice. The canceling appointment was a good thing after all.

We were both really hungry after playing so we went to Drop Squad Kitchen for dinner. We each got the cheesesteak and were really happy with it. I need to go to that place more often. The guy is a little overzealous with trying to upsell, but he's very nice. We went down the road to Bellefonte Brewing afterward and got a flight and a glass of their brett raspberry "secret" sour. The beers were okay, but nothing to write home about. The sour was really pretty though.

It was time to head home after that. I went to Walmart to brave the Christmas crowds and get a few last minute things for Becca and Aiden. The lines were even shorter than an average day so it wasn't bad. We went to Glasstown before they closed for the holiday to pick up a growler of Fisherman's Ale and we each had a pint. It was super crowded there AND a guy kept talking to us and commenting that we were wearing green so we must be Irish. And he was wearing green. Then he told us about how to get stickers and bring them to your local brewery for the wall. There he is in the photo.

To finish out the busy holiday evening we went to Michael's, Marshall's, and Shop Rite to get all the rest of the things we needed. It was finally time to come home and chill after what was supposed to be a relaxing night in.

Dec 11, 2016

I began the day waking up earlier than I planned thanks to loudness just on the other side of my wall (like too many days.) I felt pretty good anyway and got up to begin working on uploading the Frank Turner interview and writing the blog. I got into it and started posting links to the completed post which grew pretty quickly. I got retweeted by Frank himself and it started getting a good amount of views.

I was kind of beaming with excitement over finally posting the finished product and I grabbed my outdoor stuff and headed toward Delaware. On my way I stopped at Auburn Road Vineyard to pick up some Christmas presents. I continued on to Iron Hill disc golf course. My hands were freezing at first, but after about 5 holes I had warmed up. I forgot the feeling of a disc ripping into fingers in the cold. There were only a couple of other people playing so I felt like I was alone out there. I had a great time. I think it might be the best course around here.

I wanted to make the most of my time so I went to Brandywine for one more round. This one I really did have to myself. I played through the course pretty fast and it was getting colder as I went. Playing fast warmed me up again, but it was a little windy which made it more difficult sometimes. The dead trees that sparsely dotted the wide open fields were beautiful. It almost looked like they were placed there that way.

I headed up to Philly after the round to get some dinner at Whole Foods. I sat on the roof of the parking garage in the car and ate before I went to The Foodery to check out the beers and find more Christmas presents.

I decided to head to Union Transfer early to see the opening bands. Petal played first, and they were okay. Pinegrove played next. I've heard of them, but I have never listened to them. Their live set was incredible. They were energetic and their songs were unique and catchy. I definitely will be checking out their record.

Kevin Devine came up last and played a heavier, faster set than I've seen him play before. It was great and I loved the energy. He played a mash up of his song and a song from each of the openers so that was fun. He also did his signature freestyle rap, this time about a beautiful man named Sebastian who interns at a Boston venue they recently played at. Besides the music always being great, half the reason I love seeing him is because he's hilarious and just makes me smile every time. The set ended late after a lot of talking since it was the last night of the tour. I headed home to grab some stuff and then went to Becca's to stay since she just got back from the Grand Canyon.

Oct 6, 2013

Kate and I headed to Delaware in the morning to go to Iron Hill DGC. The forest was beautiful in autumn colors and leaves covering the ground. Regardless of how we played, the scenery was worth the trip to walk around the woods. There weren't many people there, so we didn't have to worry about crossing over anyone. The game went pretty well for both of us. I had some really good shots and some really bad ones. Overall it was a good day of playing though.

I always forget how long the course is. I start questioning whether it's a 27-hole course, but then I remember it's just because each hole is 400 ft or more that it plays longer than the ones I'm more used to. After finishing up the long course, we headed to Stewart's Brewing to get a flight and some food before we headed back. I didn't expect the place to be such a sports bar. There were TVs everywhere and fans with many different jerseys. I asked to be placed near the door since it was furthest from both loud TVs and yelling fans. Most of their beer was middle of the road, but the Big Bear Amber Ale was damn good. Definitely a smooth, drinkable beer.

On the way back home we stopped at Eliza's birthday party at a gymnastics gym. Aiden was there with Devin, and of course Tracy was there doing backflips down the trampoline thing. The kids and adults were allowed to play in the big foam-filled hole so we were doing dives and flips into it. Aiden was really enjoying himself just like the rest of us were. After singing happy birthday it was time to head out.

Later we gathered at Erika's to play games. We played a round of Settlers of Catan and that took up quite a bit of the night. It seemed like everyone was just on the brink of winning before Ryan finally did. We need to have more game nights.

Aug 13, 2011

Jeff picked me up in the morning and inquired about which disc golf course we'd be playing at. I said we should go to one in Delaware since I haven't been in a while. It was a beautiful day.. until we go to to the course. We played about four holes before it started thundering very loudly and drizzling. We got back to the car just in time for it to start pouring.

We went to the Iron Hill Brewery for lunch to wait out the storm. I got a really good house made veggie burger and tried some of their beer. Good stuff. We were there for a while and then headed out where it had cleared up again. We started off toward the other course nearby and no sooner did I say something about the weather did it start pouring once again. Like serious downpour, can't-see-in-front-of-you stuff. We had no luck. So we headed back home.

There wasn't much to do with the weather so I stayed in until later at night, when I went for a walk around town just to get out and listen to some music. The rain cooled things off a lot.

Mar 17, 2010

Ryan picked up Chuck and me in the morning and we headed to Delaware for a day of disc golf. We went to Carousel Park first for a good beating.

The weather was perfect and we got a workout on all the hills of the course. Chuck wasn't a big fan of those but we all had a good time.

We were ready for a break after 18 holes at that course so we went to Quizno's for lunch. Once we were refueled we headed out to course two.

Even though the first course was really nice and barely showed any signs of rain damage, Lum's Pond was flooded and almost unplayable. We had to walk carefully around the first few holes to get to our discs, so after the second one we decided to go to a different one.

We went to Iron Hill, which is another brutal course with long fairways. It wasn't muddy though, so that was a plus. We played about nine holes probably, which add up to a full course somewhere else, before calling it a day and going home.

I came home and had time to relax and have something to eat before band practice. We sounded really good with all of us there. We worked a few things out and ended the night excited about playing our show.

I hung out watching Californication for a while and then went for another night run because I couldn't sleep.

Jan 24, 2010

I went to the Looking Glass in the morning with my mom for breakfast. I haven't seen her in a while so we had a chance to talk while I had a breakfast burrito and she had these delicious looking crepes. I wish I got those..

I picked up Joanna and we headed to Carousel Park in Delaware to play disc golf. It was nicer than the last time we were there even though it rained a little bit when we first got there.

The course was still difficult but fun. Joanna couldn't keep her discs out of the water but we both steered clear of the the big pond. There were at least three discs out on the ice that we couldn't reach as well. Too bad.

I had an awesome drive on hole 16 where I put it about ten feet from the basket. I missed the putt though. No luck today.

We found our way to Iron Hill to play as much as we could. It was raining a bit when we got there but it stopped shortly after. The course is always muddy as it is but it was even more so this time.

Joanna made an amazing putt from about thirty feet through the trees. It was awesome. We played to hole nine and then headed out so we had time to get dinner.

We went down the road to Home Grown. This time we got a lot less food. I got a veggie burger that was really good.. not the best ever though.

We went to Harmony Grange for the acoustic show and got there just before Vinnie Caruana went on. He played a handful of Movielife songs, I Am the Avalanche and solo things. He was really good and funny between songs while he tuned his guitar. He seemed a little disappointed in the crowd not singing along with him but he looked like he was having fun.

JT from Hawthorne Heights played in after Vinnie but he was pretty annoying; bad songs and he talked too much. Anthony Raneri (of Bayside) came out right after him and got right into the songs. He knew what we were there for. He played a lot of great songs. Only a few of his own solo stuff, mostly Bayside songs and a few great covers.

The set was pretty long and everyone was singing along. Anthony seemed really grateful to everyone for coming. It was cool to hear some explanations behind a few of my favorite songs as well.

The show was over pretty early so we came back and watched some tv before sleep time.

Dec 18, 2009

We headed to Delaware in the morning to play a good amount of disc golf. After bagels with veggie cream cheese at DD we were ready to play Brandywine. There was no wind at all, which was great and unusual for that course.

We had some nice shots and never even lost a disc! Actually, I found one on the hole where I have lost at least three.

After Brandywine, we headed down to Lums Pond. We ran into a guy that we saw playing at the last course and he was by himself now so he joined us for our game. Hole three, which is sometimes surrounded by a puddle of water, looked like this. Half mud, half frozen lake. We made our shots anyway. The rest of the course was fine and I made some really good shots. I got one deuce and a three on hole sixteen which is par five.

We decided to stop at Iron Hill on the way back since it's right on the way to try out hole seventeen when it wasn't raining. Just getting really cold.

I wasn't really happy with my drive on it so I think I could have done much better. It seemed almost the same as when we played it in the rain.

We both scored 8, one less than last time, but Joanna was so close to a 7; her last shot hit the edge of the basket. We can call it a 7.5...

We headed back to Rowan and went to Shop Rite for food after hearing about the impending crazy snow storm. She did some last minute shopping while I waited in the car and then gave me this box of Christmas gifts. The Whoppers are really good... I went home to get some supplies, shower and cook the pierogies that we bought, then I came back.

I helped edit/thesaurusize her application for a Rowan position while we waited for it to start snowing. Eventually, the snow started falling and it didn't seem too bad.

The campus looked really nice in a light dusting of snow.

Once the application was finished it was time to get some sleep while the snow piled up.

Dec 2, 2009

I picked up Joanna at Rowan and we headed to Iron Hill disc golf course in Delaware for the first of what we planned to be two games.

The course was nicely designed. The holes got better as we went further along on the course past the fifth one that we ended on when we played last year. There were a lot of different challenges; most of them were fun.

We were warned by a self-described "course pro" about hole 17 because it's very long and narrow. By this point, it had started to rain as well so the discs were slippery. We both scored a 9 on it (or an 8, it wasn't really clear,) which was all we were hoping for, just to stay under 10.

We came back to Rowan and went to Nick's pizza to eat before going to Shop Rite for a few things and almost buying a Wii. After that we were somewhat interested in finding one for cheaper so we looked around. Then we went back to Joanna's and looked online for them. We found a few other things we wanted but no cheaper Wii. We got tea from Progressive and browsed the university book store while we waited for it to cool down.

I went to my film class for the lecture but skipped the film to come back and study/do homework/watch tv.

Mar 14, 2009

Chuck and Nate met me at my house in the morning and we drove to the Philly disc golf course only to find that they were having a tournament. At this course, it means we can't even play.

A little disappointed, we headed to Sarcone's deli to get sandwiches for later. I got a veggie hoagie which turned out to be amazing. I will return for another of those.

We decided to check out Iron Hill, a course that was recommended to us, in Delaware. It was a bit confusing and hard to figure out which baskets went with which tees. They had concrete pro tees and nice markers but no numbers on the baskets or maps to tell us where to shoot. Also, I'm not sure why I like this picture so much.. it just makes me laugh.

We agreed to cut the game short at hole 6 and head to Lum's Pond where we knew we would enjoy ourselves.

I had a pretty good game. We actually kept score for the first time in a while. It was a nice cool day with no wind so we could play without interference.

Before we left, Nate showed us a disc rainbow.

Shortly after we got back, Katie, Jeff, Sam and I went to Atlantic City. We went to Firewater's first for some drinks.

It was the first time I'd been out with Jeff for some time and AC is always fun.

I got a really good beer, I forget what it's called, but it's Troegs.

It was time for our reservation so we headed down to P.F. Chang's. We ran into Cory with his sister and people for her twenty first birthday.

We got some really good vegetarian foods. It was a nice atmosphere and not too expensive at all. I'm surprised I've never been there.

We had lots of food and good conversations/debates and found another place that we can come back to soon.

It was a good day all around from the disc golf morning to the amazing veggie sandwich to the night out in AC. A nice start to my spring break.