April 23, 2006

Aloha Oe

Today we scattered the ashes of our dear friend Eileen whom we lost in November of last year. A staunch non-drinker, Eileen had never the less requested that shots of bourbon be drunk on the boat in her honor. For those of you who aren’t up to date the sequence of events that follows drinking bourbon first thing in the morning, let me fill you in: you get off the boat and go directly to brunch where you drink mimosa’s to kill the hour long wait for your food then you decide as a group to spend the rest of the afternoon hanging around the pool finishing the bottle of bourbon and a few more bottles of champagne then you stumble home and sleep for a few hours then you wake up and go downstairs to discover that everyone’s now sitting around your dining room table eating steak and drinking red wine then you go back to bed again then the next day you wake up and blame the dead non-drinker for your hang-over.