Sunday focused around an outing to Gruene, Texas, where we soaked up some sun, plenty of beer (mostly by me) and took in the sounds of Paula Nelson (Willie Nelson’s daughter). Plenty of photos and video available in my private gallery.

Another year. Another June. Another ROT Rally. If only you knew the emptiness I felt inside now that there are another 361 days until it happens again. This year marked the greatest rally going experience – EVER! I don’t even need to go into just how awesome Yellow D-116 was, as I am sure you have read about it. We had the RV spot this year, hands down. So much so that several people came up to us to tell us this… like all the activity, partying, boozing and nudity that was happening right in front of us didn’t tip us off to this revelation. Oh, and there were motorcycles too! Oh, and a little musical extravaganza by an all time favorite of mine… you might know him as The Charlie Daniels Band.

The amount of debauchery that took place this year was immeasurable, which is probably a good thing. I also can’t (well won’t upon this site) share with you the really awesome photos and activities partaken in, but I will tell you this – you owe it to yourself to come down to Austin next year and live through the experience first hand. Let the countdown to ROT 2009 begin!

This past Saturday marked the date of this years Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament for my Lodge. I was designated the official event photographer which required me to step foot on my first ever golf course. It should be known that I don’t play golf, or have any interest in said activity. This aside, I found two things that will make me love golf unconditionally from this day forward: the golf cart and the acceptable early morning drinking of beer.

It is true that the golf carts don’t obtain record speeds, but those little windy cart paths they expect you to ride on are just begging for some daredevil action. I was able to get my cart on two wheels on numerous occasions as well as laid plenty of rubber down. Good times!

Below is a small (and I do mean small) sampling of some photos which I took of the course and event. I arrived just before the sun came up, which provided some nice photo opportunities.

To celebrate this momentous occasion, we decided to go out to the grounds, in the rain no less, and crack open a couple 24 ouncers. Good ol’ Miller High Life… it really is the champagne of beers!

With the new Metroid game releasing next week, I thought it might be a good time to show off my autographed copies of the previous two Game Cube releases. I thought it was interesting to see the vast change in the amount of signatures between Prime and Echoes – surely evidence of just how quickly Retro Studios took off and secured their place in the gaming industry.

Mike gave me such a great early birthday party last night while my mother was here visiting from Chicago. A total of 16 of us met up in Walburg, TX, at my favorite German place there for lots of food, beer, games, and live music. I honestly can’t remember the last time I had so much fun.

I think the colors are very catchy and, while you can’t see it since didn’t shrink down graphically very well, the back of the card has a black linen style (like the back of Tiger’s Widgets) with a catch phrase on the bottom left of it.

I’ll let you know how they come out in person once I have them next week. Thanks, Monica!