family scandal.

I'm not real close to anyone on my dad's side of the family, so I feel ok about sharing this. Back in May, at our local meat market Michael's, a minor was served several drinks and then proceeded to get killed in a car crash on the drive home. The bartender who served the said alcoholic beverages just happened to be my cousin Jerry. I haven't seen or spoken to the guy since I was about 16 (we're the same age). It sucks for him because he was arrested yesterday and might be charged with multiple accounts of something or other. It's odd seeing a family member's mugshot on the 6 o'clock news, not because he's my cousin, but mainly for the reason that Connatsers generally aren't trouble makers or newsworthy. My brother Brent was put in jail ages ago for installing cable illegally, but that's as scandalous as it gets. My other brother Brad was in the paper a couple of times-he was scalping tickets and some crazy fool decided to drag him down the street with their car-literally. The paper said his name was Buford instead of Bradford. Another time was earlier this year about starting your own business. He won some award when he was in college-I couldn't tell you what it was for, but my mother has all of the paper clippings in a scrap book. I was in the news paper in high school-they interviewed me for a piece on the PMRC. Don't remember what I said in that, either. My nephew Chad had his picture in the News Sentinel for making a hole in one at the golf course. And my mom and sister Belinda had their picture in the paper for shopping at some store-a shot of them with their grocery carts. Yeah, real popular people, we are. Anyway, this whole issue with cousin Jerry is pretty big news around here:

http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=40325

On another uninteresting note, I've had a massive hangover all day. I usually NEVER get hangovers. Maybe I drank more than I should have. It happens. Janet and I went to see Spencer tickle his ivories at Rick's Place. She had never been there, nor had she ever met Spencer, so it was something new, rather than going to the Brewery. Spencer was feeling under the weather, keeping a bottle of generic Cloreseptic handy for an occasional squirt. After a few hours there, my pal and I went to McLeods for some kareoke. We never sing ourselves, but we usually meet some interesting and sometimes scary people there. Needless to say, I feel like a dirty ass today. I had so many things planned for today-none of it got done AND I had to cancel with Renita (we were supposed to go out but if I looked at another alcoholic beverage, I might have puked). I got up at 10:30am, went to Starbucks for some coffee and danish, came back home for a while to play on the computer, then I passed out on the couch for a couple of hours. To be honest, even though I feel like crap, it's actually nice not to have any deadlines to meet or places to be. I'm saving that for tomorrow.