It’s funny what you remember the most about some of the best times you’ve had. Oftentimes it has little to nothing to do with what actually transpired. In the case of this weekend spent in Raliegh/Durham/Chapel Hill/RTP/Cary/Everyothercity, North Carolina (it seems), the thing I’ll remember the most is the Kevin Garnett commercial we saw umpteen times where he says the line in the title. I think everyone wants to know what the set up for that line was, it had to be funny!

I arrived at the airport enjoying probably the best feature of an iPod, botherless travel. No mundane conversation from “single serving friends” (Fight Club reference), a seemingly endless supply of great songs, and a battery that actually lasts the entire trip! You can’t beat it with a bat!

We went to Uno’s for lunch. It was pretty good, although the suckas dropped my pizza and had to make me a new one (thus delaying things a bit). They tried to push a dessert on us before eventually giving us each free pizza coupons for our next visit, whenever that may be. Then I got a tour of Duke and NC Central (where Nina is enrolled). Later that night we ate at the Carolina Ale House which was great. Turns out Nina knew the Executive Chef there, through one of her old co-workers. We tried to catch a movie, but just missed the last showing so we called it a night.

The next day we watched part of the In Living Color marathon on BET and then we hooked up with the young homie Adrienne over by NC State. That was fun (although she DID try to get me to see Brokeback Mountain….no way jose!). Adrienne is pretty great!

After that we went to visit UNC’s campus and saw where Che spends most of her days. I fell asleep shortly thereafter as I was tired. While I was sleeping Nina and Che watched School Daze and then we went to this spot called George’s Garage over by Duke for dinner. I had the shrimp scampi. It was pretty good.

After that I tried to meet up with my boy Cade who lives up there, but I couldn’t catch up with him so we went back home and played a game of Monopoly. I pwnt them…..literally! The Magenta properties (St. Charles, States, and Virginia) PLUS Boardwalk and Park Place EQUALS success!

Which leads us to today/yesterday. I hated to leave, but I got on my 12:55 flight back to Nashville. My flight was full which sucked, I was stuck next to an obese white lady and her husband. Luckily I had my iPod and sudoku to keep me occupied.

I got back and ate at Carrabba’s with the homies Julian and PJ and then got home and took a nap. Now it’s back to the regular old Nashville crap.

*sigh*

Oh by the way, please keep my family in your thoughts/prayers….I’ll tell you why if/when I need to (respect my discretion here and don’t ask right now….if I want to talk to you about it, I probably already have…no offense).