Hey everyone, so as I mentioned in the camping blog, I'm getting married. Like all good bachelors, I had myself a bachelor party; one last big party of being a single man with my boys. VikingPolak, my brother and best man was in charge of setting it up and let me say, he did a pretty good job.
Since I'm a giant geek that has spent thousands of dollars on all my cool stuff, and partially because of the damn virus, the party was at my condo. Honestly though, I wouldn't want it anywhere else. At my condo, I have 2 different arcade machines, a large sectional sofa, a 4K TV, and an impressive VHS and amiibo display. Then in the nerd cave I have 3 CRTs each hooked up to different video game consoles, and in my bedroom I go to to sleep next to my PS2 collection, which I estimate is around 15-20% complete. It's a really awesome place, but that did mean I had to spend the week prior cleaning up my condo. On the day of the party my brother came over early to help clean-up the final bits and set things up. He brought some games and a craps table. After getting set-up we just went shopping because my AC is out and it's hot.
At about 4:30 my dad and future brother in law showed up. They brought this Disney trivia game where players have to list as many things as they can (like "animated movies with a bat in it") and the one that can list the most wins. Of course, because I'm a major Disney fan, I pretty much always win, and I did, again. A little while later ZeldaMaster93 showed up, and he joined in and still didn't win. VikingPolak wanted to start grilling the brats so I went out to help him. Little did I know that while I was getting that set-up, my dad was setting up a big surprise, something I've been wanting to get for a while now.
(Note, I didn't wear a shirt the entire party, just be warned with pictures and videos). That's right, my family bought me a dancing inflatable tube man. Some years ago I said "I want to get one of those" after seeing it at car lots and such, and I found places online that sell them, but I never got one. Well, for my engagement, my mom had the idea of getting me one and now I have one. This will be great, whenever we host parties I can put it out in our lawn to help people find it, and I can rent it out to people for parties and such. I love being eccentric.
A and Z showed up not too much after we pulled the brats off. We all had brats and then we started the thing that ended up being the main activity, deep frying. I set-up my deep fryer and cut some potatoes for french fries. Z brought Oreo's and bro-law brought chicken wings. I made a beer batter and we fried them up. We all went outside and I started frying the french fries. They went over well, but people were looking forward to the Oreo's and chicken. VikingPolak coated an Oreo in the batter and then let it sit, allowing a lot of the batter to fall off. We tried frying it, but then it basically dissolved. I then did another but took it directly from the batter to the fryer. It was a little better, but it still was very watery and didn't fry very well. I told VikingPolak to get the flour to thicken the batter. The flour thickened the batter well, and then this happened when we fried some more oreos
The Oreo got stuck to the bottom of the fry cage, so I stabbed it out like a cave man that discovered a tool. The batter was very good, and the Oreo's were really good. Everyone liked them. After some more Oreo's and fries, I tried my hand at fried chicken. This was the first time I ever tried cooking chicken, but I ended up doing well according to guests. I did it in pairs since that was how much I could fit in the little fryer comfortably. On one of the pairs of wings, this happened.
Yeah, I kind of overfilled the fryer and it boiled over, and that's one of the reasons why I did this outside. The other reason was it was hot in my house. It was a really fun time, and we used about all the fry batter. While I was cooking we all just sat around drinking and talking. It was a fun time. After it got dark we cleaned up and I set-up the fryer to cool down.
Now for a new fun thing, gifts. My dad and brother got me something to symbolize my marriage, a play on a classic joke.
Yep, the old ball and chain joke. My dad's an artistic carpenter, so he made this in his shop, and those links are all solid, no seem links. My brother has the idea of having each of my groomsmen and each of mskate's bridesmaids sign a link, and then maybe put a design on the ball. I like the idea of signing the links. It's a fun thing. Then I gave my groomsmen their gifts. I got vikingpolak a Letter Kenny coffee mug (because he really likes Letter Kenny), A-man a deer wallet (because he's a hunter), zeldamaster93 a Legend of Zelda wallet (because he loves Legend of Zelda), and bro-law a Bad Mother F***er wallet like in Pulp Fiction (because he loves movies). They all absolutely loved their gifts. After gifts we played my Ms. Pac-man and Galaga arcade machine, taking turns at 2-player games and seeing how far we could each get. It was a fun way to end the night. After an hour or so of that everyone started to leave. It was getting late, and I was getting tired.
It was a great night and a great party. I can't think of another way I would want to celebrate my bachelor life style and have my "last single hurrah." Everyone really enjoyed themselves and seeing the cool place that I set-up. This has been Pokematic, signing off, and bu-bye.
