Weekend Uncensored

Newsletter 2022-01-17

Our friends Patrick and Susan moved from Indianapolis to St. Louis a few years ago, but they still want to hang out with us. Nostalgia leads even the best of us to make mistakes. Accordingly, we rented an AirBNB in the Middle of Nowhere, Illinois (Population 182 after Linda Carmichael had a baby), to spend the three-day weekend day drinking and playing board games. Patrick and Susan are bringing their two boys and we’re bringing our four girls, mainly because no family members are dumb enough to watch them for us. We burned that bridge a long time ago. What follows is a minute-by-minute recap of our weekend, from departure through Sunday night. Watch the disaster unfold in real time. Well, in real time long after the fact. If I actually wanted this to be live, I would need to post this on a different platform. Too bad I don’t have a Twitter account or anything. Also, since there was drinking and time constraints, there will probably be typos. I probably shouldn’t have sent this newsle…