Thursday was just a regular day of class, work, baseball and a couple meals. When I got back from another shitty dinner, some of my roommates introduced me to a football recruit that they were hosting. This guy was from the Chicago area and is a defensive lineman. They need all the help they can get next year. Anyway, they twisted my arm into going to 3rd on First in Cedar Rapids. This place has $3 all you can eat chicken wings on Thursday nights. They also sell $2 tallboys (that's beer you sicko) on Thursdays as well. We got there and ran into some of the baseball guys as they were leaving. They informed us that the waitress was just being overly nice and wasn't flirting with us. She said honey and sweetie about 50 times. It got pretty funny when her boyfriend came in and sat in the table near us and she was still calling us honey. What a joke?

Since I was the designated loser and drank water all night, I kept asking this lady to bring me more and more cups. She eventually said, "do you want me to bring you a picker?" We laughed at her and said, "you mean pitcher?" She laughed it off and went to the table with her boyfriend and we were making fun of her and I quoted the movie anchorman by saying "how now brown cow... how now brown cow..." She turned to us and asked if we were making fun of her. Zousel and Eich said no but since I'm honest I owned up to it. I don't think she was a fan of that but she played it off well. When she brought me the pitcher of water she jokingly said, "here's your picker!" We all tipped her accordingly.

Later that night I came down into the triple, and these guys had "Girls Gone Grapplin" in the DVD player. I thought is was country girls doing naughty things but this shit was chicks catching big ass catfish with their bear hands in Tennessee. I think they were in Rivers and Lakes. There's this seasoned veteran named Fostana who was in about every clip. She had skills. You know you're in Iowa when you're spending a night watching girls catch catfish. That ain't right.

There's too much to say: 3 high schoolers taking us to their mansion, getting a class of 2005 shirt from one of them, hitting 7 for 8 in one day, early drunkness at some Irish bar, softball chicks by the pool, Tad's hour of jokes, etc.

If you need to know more, just ask. "You should've been there!"