Sonny's Pub

School starts Monday. Very exciting. I am filled with the promsie of learning, of interacting with new and possibly exciting people, and most importantly, with finally being busy again. It's been a while.

I've been feeling a bit melancholy for the past few days thanks to a stupid beer commercial I saw on t.v. A bunch of people were having fun outside in jeans and t-shirts, drinking beer out of coolers and sitting on lawn chairs. What a cruel joke to play in the dead of winter! Since I saw that, I have ached for summer--or at least spring. It's pretty bad when cabin fever has set in to this extent when it's only January 7th. We've got a long row to hoe.  

I've been hungry for Mexican food for a few days as well. This, paired with my pining for summer have had me missing Tennessee. I honestly don't think there exists a more perfect Mexican restaurant than Amigo's in Elizabethton. Two dollar 32 oz. drafts, 59 cent tacos on Mondays, great salsa, great people, smoking in-doors--it's Heaven on Earth.

At least Youngstown's Casa Fiesta has dollar bottles of Bud. Now I just have to find someone to go with...

This Friday is the Pennsylvania High School Baseball Coaches' Clinic in Monroeville. Should be fun--there's beer on tap.

Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling.

I need a bar. I was talking about this at work the other day. You watch t.v. shows where the main characters all have a certain place where they hang out all the time. "Cooper's". My Boys, King of Queens, How I Met Your Mother, etc. etc. I want that. It's not fictitious. People who live in places with bars have certain ones that they call home. I work with a guy from Lisbon--he's got a bar. Columbiana has no bars. That's lame. I want a place where everybody knows my name. Really. Cheers got it right. That's an important thing in life--to have a place, to have people. I need to find this. Badly. Just a small place where I can get food and a few beers a few nights a week with my closest friends around me. 

A dream of mine is to open a place like that. God, I would love it. Sonny's. We'd have beer, drinks, sandwiches, other bar-type food. Nothing fancy, just good, hard-working people eating and drinking together. That is one of my top goals in life. I've had the dream for some time. I'm 100 percent sincere about it. Just gots to get some dough.