2003 Drinking Calendar

Just in case you’re looking for a reason.  Print it, post it, live it, add to it if you want!

 

April 5:

 

Mr. Brian Hughes housewarming party! Plus it's Daylight Savings Time, since we lose an hour we must drink faster!

 

April 10:

100th day of the year? Celebrate making this far on one liver, with a Hooter's wing and beer party! April 10th rocks!

 

April 12:

Mr. Reed turns 35, so we all must drink a beer for each year he's been here (see, it rhymes!!)

 

April 13:

Palm Sunday; I hear you can distill palm leaves and make a good moonshine!!  worth trying out.

 

April 17:

Good Friday Eve Party at Timothy's Newark.  Everybody except those who work at JPMorganChase has Good Friday off, but we'll drink to it anyway. Plus we celebrate Cheri Day II; Revenge of the Liver !!

 

April 18:

Good Friday; no more Lent, let's drink !

 

April 19:

Have some more beer while we clean our weapons in preparation for the rabbit.  "Here's the Easter Rabbit Hooray!  The Happy Easter Rabbit Hooray!!"

 

April 22:

Earth Day; make the earth a better place, have some beer

 

April 23:

Secretaries Day; what the hell, let them buy you a beer or two!

 

April 25:

National Arbor Day; save a tree? drink some beer.

 

April 26:

Citywide Luau, Wilmington Loop; "Hey, let's all get lei'd!"

 

April 27:

Freedom Day (South Africa), free a beer!!

 

May 3:

Close enough to Cinco de Mayo, close enough to beer.  Official Chesapeake Inn deck opening; drink some beer, fall into water. Ike rocks the Logan House/Cinco de Mayo Crawl in Wilmington. What a plan!!

 

May 4:

Point-to-Point; sort of like an outdoor around the world party with horsies.

 

May 5:

Cinco de Mayo, 'nuff said.

 

May 10:

Mother's Day Eve; what better way to show mom how much you care than to visit her with a substantial hangover. And what better way to create a substantial hangover than to go see Laughing Colors at the Bottle & Cork, Dewey, DE.

 

May 17:

Because it only comes once a year, so let's have a toast.

 

May 19:

Victoria Day; one day a year we can all act Canadian, Eh! Yet another reason to down a few.

 

May 21:

New Liver Day; time for a replacement. Get your new liver ready for summer; break it in with a pint.

 

May 23:

Beach house officially opens, need I say more??

 

May 24-26:

Memorial Day Weekend, summer officially begins, what else to do but get tanked.

 

May 29:

Ascension Day; I have no idea but it sounds like a drunk must have come up with it.

 

June 1:

First Dover NASCAR race, for those who are going, it's a natural drunk fest; for the rest of us, we'll find other means of getting whacked.

 

June 4:

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival; oh come on, we gotta be drunk for that !

 

June 14:

Flag Day + Full Moon = fall on your face in a puddle of your own yak!

 

June 15:

Father's Day; suck some suds with good ol' Pop! Gina’s Birthday!

 

June 20-22:

Sara’s First Dewey Weekend! And to celebrate the 1st day of summer, do you think it will still be raining?

 

June 21:

The actual first day of summer; don't forget to raise your glass to toast at 3:10pm.

 

June 24:

St. Jean Baptise Day? I don't know, some Canadian thing so drink up.

 

June 27-28-29-30:

A tradition; Canal Day weekend at Chesapeake City.  Don't forget to stop by slip D15, drink all the beer, pee off the back, yak off the bow and pass out on the dock. Think you can handle a whole weekend?

 

July 1:

Canada Day? these Canucks have almost as many useless drinking holidays as we Yanks! So drink away !!  but it

better be Molson just to be on the safe side, never piss off a Canuck.

 

July 3:

The pinnacle of bus trips; Jimmy Buffett at Merriweather. No details needed, this will be ugly.

 

July 4-6:

July 4 weekend, 'nuff said.  See if you can yak red, white and blue !!

 

July 8:

Probably time for another new liver, so one last shot to kill the old one before surgery.

 

July 9:

Lauren's Glorious Birthday; one beer, two beers, three beers, more beers!

 

July 17:

Best of Delaware Party, Riverfront Arts Center

 

July 19:

200th day of the year, celebrate naked with 200 of your closest friends and beer. 39 Mariner back for a repeat performance at the Inn.

 

July 27:

Jose Celso Barbosa's Birthday; no idea who that is but if Puerto Rico can celebrate, so can we.

 

July-August ?

at some point a Red Eye's Dock Bar Bikini Sunday trip is in order. Waiting for summer entertainment schedule to make plans.

 

August 9:

International Indigenous People's Day; sounds like a party to me !

 

August 16:

Beach house weekend to celebrate the unparalleled births of Hughes, Andee and Kool Keith? yes, this could be another very ugly weekend.

 

August 23:

Hawaiian Beach weekend, Chesapeake Inn and the Miss Chesapeake contest w/Kurly Keith as a contestant!

 

Sept 1:

Labor Day; end of summer blowout!

 

Sept 7:

Father's Day in Australia; get tanked with Pop once again mate!

 

Sept 21:

NASCAR @ Dover Part II; just in case the first one didn't kill you, there's always the 2nd one to throw the knockout punch.

 

Sept 23:

Actual end of summer and beginning of autumn, drink colorful beer.

 

Octobeer 13:

Columbus Day/Cheri's Birthday; pizza and beer for all to celebrate!!

 

Octobeer 16:

National Boss' Day; Yea Right!!  ok, buy your boss some beer, he passes out, you go home early.

 

Octobeer 24:

United Nations Day; get tanked and make fun that we ignored them and kicked Iraq's ass without their help.

 

Octobeer 25:

Halloween Loop, get your costumes ready

 

Octobeer 26:

Daylight savings time ends; an extra hour to drink beer!

 

Octobeer 31:

Halloween!!  get ugly, drink beer, get uglier.

 

Nov. 4:

Election Day; vote for your favorite brew? but taste test them all before you vote, your vote counts !!

 

Nov. 11:

Veterans Day; remember those who fought for our freedom, get drunk, throw up on their shoes, pass out.

 

Nov. 19:

Discovery of Puerto Rico Day; how hard could that be?? About as hard as it is to get drunk, let's show them how easy it can be with a little practice.

 

Nov. 26:

Night before Thanksgiving; traditional trip to AJ's bar  because it just wouldn't be Thanksgiving if the sight of turkey didn't make us sick.

 

Nov. 27:

Thanksgiving; beer, football, more beer, more football, eat too much, chum, fall on floor? what? that doesn't happen at your house too??

 

Dec. 22:

Winter begins, halfway to summer, let's chug!

 

Dec. 24-25 

Christmas: 'nuff said

 

Dec. 26:

Kwanzaa, Boxing Day? how many more reasons could you have in one day to drink??

 

Dec 31:

New Years Eve already???? Gotta’ drink to that