I met the whole clan at Duke’s on Water for some happy hour deals and Badger basketball.  It was great timing that the Badgers played during Friday Happy hour.  We spent the night at Duke’s drinking their dollar taps and watching Bucky kick some butt.  After the game we headed home.

Didn’t do much on Saturday.  We went to the Pub for dinner.

The weekend ended up rather disappointing with the Badgers losing the Big Ten title game to Ohio St.  That’s ok, the NCAA is really the only thing I’m worried about now.  The weather was nice, so even after a disappointing loss I was able to take a nice walk to the store.

We had a full weekend. Friday after work I went met J at Rock Bottom for happy hour.  We wanted to grab some drinks and a bit to eat before going to Dave and Carol’s Comedy for Kids by WKLH.  I grabbed some nachos and a couple brews.  After Rock Bottom we stopped at Mo’s Irish Pub for a beer before heading across to the Riverside.  We were right on time for the opening and the whole show was very funny.  I’ve only been to a couple comedy shows but this one was awesome.  The first comedian was funny but I was really there to see the headliner Fred Klett.  He’s a regular on WKLH and does the cruise ship circuit.  He’s originally from Beloit.  Anyway, he’s hilarious.  If you ever have the chance to go see him, jump on it.  After the show we headed home.

On Saturday our buddy Matzek was having a house warming/birthday party.  It was over in the West Allis area so while we were in the neighborhood we went to eat at the Painted Parrot which I’ve wanted to go to for a long time.  They have some of the largest and most delicious nachos I’ve ever had.  We got a “half assed” order of nachos which was so much I was almost unable to eat my jerk chicken sandwich.  They also have a “big assed nachos” which they server on the lid of a tin garbage can.  After over eating at the PP we went to Greg’s.  We spent the afternoon there having a couple beers, watching basketball and shooting pool.  We stayed there until about five when Luedke and I got the bright idea to go to My Office and watch the Marquette game.  It was going to be a couple beers while watching the game but we got wrangled into playing bar dice with a couple guys.  We shook about six rounds and I only lost once which was great for my luck.  L didn’t lose once, his normal luck.  So after the game ended J and I drove home leaving Luedke to shake until his hearts content.  Early Saturday night, we watched a movie and hit the hay.

Friday we continue our search for the “go to” fish fry in the area.  We went to Tracks in the Riverwest area.  The fish fry was good and very reasonably priced.  J and I had a couple beers at Tracks with our fish fry.  After our fish we headed home, watched a movie and called it a night.

This weekend we were expecting a huge snow storm but it was supposed to occur on Saturday night.  Saturday morning we woke up to six inches of wet now.  I went out and broke my back to clear the wet stuff.  Snow or snow we had a party at Kondo’s and the show must go on.  Not only was it a party but it was a Hawaiian themed party that was taking place during a blizzard warning.  We went to Kondo’s in our Hawaiian shirts and grass skirts.  We spent the night partying the night away.  The weather was pretty nasty but the downtown area was spared the weather they had predicted.  It was still nasty because we got three inches of an ugly ice snow mix, but it wasn’t as bad as the ten inches they got to the west.  We tried to get a cab from Kondo’s but it was impossible.  I got through and then promptly hung up.  Miraculously J got through and got a cab.  When the cab arrived we all ran and jumped in because this cab was like gold.  Todd, Steph and I were in the cab waiting for J to show up and get in.  While we were waiting we turned the cab around.  In the process of doing this we ran into this crazy dude standing in the middle of the intersection with no coat on in some nasty weather.  He refused to move and was yelling at us so we turned around before him.  When we got back we were still waiting for J and didn’t know where she was.  While we were waiting the crazy dude had come to our cab and was pounding on the window spouting off some gibberish.  The cabbie told him to get away but he proceeded to crawl underneath the cab.  The cabbie yelled at him and tried to get him out from underneath the cab.  I just wanted to get going and was fed up with this dude so I got out of the cab and was going to pull out from underneath.  By the time I got to the other side of the cab he was already out and walking away.  While he was walking away all 5’4” of Steph got out of the cab too and was bitching at this guy.  She got in his grill and gave the guy a shove and he went flying like a wet noodle.  We told the dude to shove off and we didn’t have a problem with him again.  We got back in the cab, confused at what just happened.  Finally J showed up and lost her phone in the last three minutes we weren’t with her.  We were all together though so we told the cabbie to step on it to get us out of this mess.  We made it home safely.  We made a pizza and went to bed.  J got her phone the next day from someone who somehow found it in the snow.  What a series of events that was.

We’ll Papa John’s didn’t stick with me too long.  The night of Valentine’s day I got sick as a dog and proceeded to throw up all night.  I took off from work on Thursday and Friday.  I lost about five pounds due to the worst flu I’ve had since I was in grade school.  It was nasty and I wasn’t the only one in area to get it, some of my friends got it too.

Saturday I was finally able to eat something.  I nibbled on toast and drank Sprite for the day.  I was still couch bound because I was pretty weak from the lack of food.  We spent the day watching movies, in my case, sleeping through movies.  By the end of the day I had it licked.

On Sunday I was able to walk around without running into walls.  I showered and dressed and looked like a normal person again.  To celebrate my ability to eat real food J and I went to Noodles for dinner.  I went to bed very early on Sunday so I would be able to get through Monday.

J had off on Monday that lucky duck.  I made it through the day but just barely.  We went to Qdoba for dinner.

Last night romance was really in the air! Valentine’s Day was during the week this year and neither J nor I are too into the holiday.  We did do something special though, got pizza.  We gorged ourselves on some romantic Papa John’s.