Thumbnail: Aaron's birthday '04 1
Thumbnail: Aaron's birthday '04 1
Thumbnail: Aaron's birthday '04 1

On Saturday we ended up at the Highlander Pub, appar­ently the only place in the city to get good hag­gis, as a belated birth­day cel­e­bra­tion for Aaron. We con­vinced the man­ager, a black man in a kilt with a brow bar, to give us three tables. We took part in the home­land toast, in which the wait­resses hand out free shots of scotch every day at nine and every­one drinks to the ring of a bell.

Trolley, Nick, and Aaron par­tic­i­pated in some speed drink­ing com­pe­ti­tions. None of us are heavy drinkers; rather, we’re on the heavy side of casual drinkers, so being able to down a mug as quickly as this was wor­thy of a OMGDIDYOUSEETHATWHERESMYPROPS?!?