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I went out to eat with a couple of friends this evening and we had a nice visit. Sometimes you can just let time escape and talk about a multitude of subjects and it just makes you feel good to forget about time restraints and how busy we really are.  Somehow I got to start talking about my friend Dale.

Every group of guys has "Dale" in their group.  Dale loved sports and was not athletic, but loved his teams and his sports.  Dale like his beer and music as well and was just a "guys guy" if you will.  He had no chance with the ladies but we loved him and he was with us always.  The ladies all would visit with him, but no one wanted to be with him.  Everyone wanted to fix him up.

So going back to our college days, Dale's room and my room were next to each other and our closets were back to back.  Now we figured we could saw through the particle board and push the walls of the closets to the side and make two rooms into one big room.  We would host parties quiet often, and move pretty much all of our furniture into other rooms, and our clothes as well.  Now at our University we were not allowed alcohol in the dorms.  The folks in charge of this rule pretty much lived by if it is in your room and I don't see it....then I don't see it. 

So we would either sneak kegs of beer through a window at 3am the day before the party, or we would fill suitcases full of cases and make multiple trips to the room.  One way or another we would have these huge parties in the dorm with wall to wall women.  There were about 20 of us hosting and then we let women in for free and charged $5 for guys and hoped everyone found it to be too much.

Now Dale loved his Indiana Hoosiers in basketball and he hated Notre Dame in everything, especially in football. I loved them both and my Mother raised me to love Notre Dame, and so I did.  Dale would get quite emotional about the Irish and he was my friend, so I gave him a pass.  You may remember a blog about my friend Scott who at the time lived across the hall.  I remember one day Dale was laying on his bed and he called Scott's phone and said get over here quick...Scott comes running and Dale says can you change the station on my television...typical lazy Dale.

So after 3 years of every guy on our floor having at least minimal luck with the ladies, Dale had got nowhere.  We loved him and wanted to fix him up, but no one was really interested and we just could not make it happen.  Now you are going to believe I am making this up, but I swear it is true.  We are having one of our famous "2 room parties" and Dale is making out with this young hottie.  We are high fiving and in a real festive mood.  We are conspiring to find him a room on the floor so he can have some time with her in private, but she actually invites him to her room in a nearby dorm.  As they leave we are so frickin' happy for him and hoping she turns into a girlfriend for him....20 minutes later he comes back alone.  Now again, this really happened folks...we are like what happened?  Dale tells us that he liked her just fine and they were all over each other on the way to her room and when she opened the door, she had a Notre Dame pennant on her wall.  He said he nearly puked when he saw that and just turned around and came home.

I think I will post about the party after this weekend.  I am guessing it will be big as there will be more than 3 months between fiestas.  Our team is as strong as ever and it should be well attended in both chicas and hombres.  I know I am looking forward to it.

Have you got your Halloween candy yet? Get on it folks, the good stuff sells out and you will end up giving away malted milk balls if you don't buy early.  My problem is if I buy too early I end up eating up all the candy.  I'll figure out something.  

I am sure you will all be happy to know I have my DirecTV again and I am one happy camper.  I will be watching football all day Saturday and of course on Sunday.  I watched some "Hard Core Pawn" and "Operation Repo" this week along with a bit of playoff baseball.

We have a big weekend planned, but don't hesitate to call as there are still lots of chicas waiting for a phone call.

I will see you all soon...have a great weekend, and be careful.