Mini meetup TR
Met up with Larry, and his lovely wife hooked me up with free parking and we hit his place to rip the volcano. Larry has a nice view in the Seaport District of Boston:
We did 4-5 bags as Howard checked in and started a conversation that went from zero to singularity in about 5 minutes. I started to get pretty high on the last bag. My back is killing me too, legit hobbled. It ended up being ok after a few days, but it happened the night before out of nowhere and legit sucked. We meet up with Howard and head to
The Smoke Shop BBQ. It is always a little strange meeting internet people for the first time, because you know them, but you really don't know them, and this was no different. I start the trend of the night and order a Harpoon first(pounder!) and Howard and Larry follow suit. Larry then gets a Trillium Double IPA and we come along. I called them Howard and Larry all night too, it just felt natural:
I am standing between them at the bar for most of the time and we rapid-fire all kinds of topics. 2+2 people we talked about most extensively were El Diablo, MLY, jmakin, and chop, but there were others. Maybe Howard and Larry can elaborate. They're both smart guys in their own rights and the conversation was interesting. We ended up ordering a bunch of stuff: Reeyubs, smoked wings, brisket and some sides. I think Larry and Howard were talking about Determinism in this shot:
Food was really good in my opinion. Almost forgot to mention, when we first got to the restaurant Howard had to meet his long-suffering wife out front
who had just driven down from VT to bring him something for his overseas trip in the morning that he forgot. The same guy who recently left his backpack at an airbnb while making a deep run in the main. Smh.
Howard picks up the tab after Larry almost drags me into CCR and we head out. Larry was talking about a great deal at Morton's he goes for before we met Howard, and we decide to go there. Here's where it gets a little weird. We start walking and like a block away we are waiting at a red light. The sidewalk is narrow and semi-crowded in the direction we are walking and a group of people are standing around us waiting. To the right there is a guy on the side street talking on his phone, around four feet away from us. Howard is closest to him and I am next to Howard. We are there for around 10-20 seconds and I actually looked at this guy and sized him up quickly and he was just your average 160 pound white guy. The light changes and we start walking. Howard can maybe fill in the blanks, but the guy says something like 'what are you looking at' as we start walking. About a block away I say something to Howard like 'its a good thing he wasn't giving you sh*t Howard, I'd give him an atomic elbow' or something, totally joking. And Howard says 'oh that guy was definitely talking to me!'
We get to Morton's and the bar is surprisingly empty on a Friday night, but I guess not since it is more a steakhouse. Larry I think orders an Old Fashioned and Howard and I follow along:
We get to the end and are about to leave and call it a night and NOPE ONE MORE:
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The first one had a solid cube of ice, but had this weird ass high end cherry(I think) when it should have just had a maraschino cherry. Then the second one had crushed ice and tasted different. Still a fun time, but **** those Old Fashioneds.
We then leave. Larry grabs that before I can and I spend zero dollars and zero cents door to door. I definitely have the next meetup tab.
The night ends with us stopping at the park in front of Larry's house(in first image) and firing up the vape. I tell them to take it easy, but Howard doesn't listen and wrecks himself on a 3-coil dab of 85% THC haha. Good times, will do again.