In preparation...

In preparation for the drinkabout.  I, Jake, at the age of 35, have... wait for it... wait...just a little longer...this is really something. (Note on a personal level, as if this isn't at all personal, someone, a female recently told me, "You are really something." I don't know what to think about that..but I digress back to the important matter of this blog.)  

I suppose that is enough waiting.

I, a single male at the age of 35, moved back in with my parents... into the same room I lived when I was 4. There is a small stuffed Kermit "the Frog" still in my room.  

This allows me a few very important things.  One, no rent while I become an international man of leisure.  Two, I get to spend time with my parents as I will be gone for quite some time.  And three, I get the pleasure of moving back into my childhood room.  The pictures above are actual photos of the wallpaper in my room.  Life is good... in a really odd sort of way.  

The next picture, I would like to share is a simple picture of the floor in my room.  It is shag carpeting.  My friend Joe says, "Shagless." Funny Joe, It will be real funny when you are left on a train to Moscow and I get on the train to Alsace for the second stage of Drinkabout 2009.  More on that stage later but for now I leave you with this picture of my carpet.  Doesn't it warm your heart. 

Did you know?  "Because of its plushness, shag carpeting is virtually incapable of giving rug burns." 

30 days till departure...