Well… Technically, I camped out at the Good Vibes Boogie - though, it was more of passing out in the field on Friday night, and passing out on the ground next to this massive fire I had built. I guess that’s camping out. Well, that was a “big” event, with tons of people coming in from all over. I’ve been trying to get a smaller more intimate camping out experience, but it’s pretty hard to get people to give up their showers.

Last night, after Steve (Amanda(Couch 33)’s landlord/roommate)’s performance of the night before, we were going to leave her place, and BOTH needed a place to crash. I had secured a place with Holly in South Carolina, but she had called to cancel on me last minute. It’s understandable, she hadn’t told her dad…and when she had told her dad that she has some stranger coming to crash on their couch, he was not thrilled. She says I can go crash with her when she goes back to school, and she mentioned there’s places to go camping out in that area. I thought that’d be great, since I have a sleeping bag, and a tent with me. She even e-mailed me a bunch of places.

I wanted to make sure Amanda was all right- packing her stuff up, and Steve got home. We went to her friend Rob’s house, and he was having a bon fire in his backyard… cinder blocks with a bunch of lumber he’d been wanting to burn. We BBQ’ed, chicken and bratwurst (which I had to go to the store to get…. I swear the team working that store was retarded… the guy running the register tried 10 times to get this girl’s credit card in there, and he calls this extremely fat (like REALLY obese) guy waddles over and gives suggestions, but doesn’t want to actually work ’cause “I’m off the clock… but Joe here’s the bagboy.. but I’m off the clock, so he can do this register!” They finally had to page Mrs. Geneane to come and finish the transaction. Meanwhile there’s 2 more employees, just sitting on their asses, watching, messing around… not helping the brilliant Mr. Joe. I was actually buying Marshmellows, Chips, and Salsa, and my stuff was (finally) being rung up, when Amanda called me and asked if I can get Bratwurst & buns. *sigh* I went back, and waited in line again. This time however, there was a 2nd line open.

Went back to Rob’s - I was riding with Rod - and we had a bunch of homeless guys try to beg for change, and grab some of the beer that Rod had bought. We made it back, BBQ’ed on the blocks, I played with my guitar, and then even jumped in the jacuzzi. Amanda went to sleep inside. Rob & Rod hung out with me for a bit. Rod went home, Chris hung out, then finally went home at like 3am. Rob went to sleep, and I camped out near the fire, after watching some guitar training videos. It’s pretty cool that they can have a bon fire in their backyard! So… fire, marshmellows, booze, burgers, jacuzzi, and guitar! What a blast!

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