Beantown Podcast - Beantown UNPLUGGED _ Personal Day

Episode Date: June 23, 2018

Quinn explores the great state of Delaware during his first personal day in a year

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furnace. This is a little bean town unplugged action. It's not music as the first installment bean town unplugged was. This is just a recap of my personal day. A little audio blogging action. If you recall the first bean town unplugged entry was my brother and I do in Wonder wall by a wasis about two months ago two and a half months ago and Yeah bean town unplugged really is just anything outside of the the normal weekly release schedule. It's something a little different.

You know, I'm not gonna come on here and rant about anything. I'm not giving movie reviews. We're not trying to get sponsorships from Jack Links. This is just something different, a little slice of home cooking. So it's about 12.30 AM. So very late at night, very early in the morning right now, I just got home about half an hour ago. Today, which was Friday, June 22, 2018, I took my first personal day that I've taken, and this is my

12th month since I started a new job out here in the East Coast. So, as you can imagine, this was an exciting thing for me. I was very happy to be able to do this. First personal day outside of my one week of holiday vacation I took, which I spent with my family out on the West Coast. So I'm just gonna give a recap of what I did. Again, if you go back to the very first podcast episode which came out on January 13th, I told you one of the primary reasons of this podcast was to diary and collect my thoughts and journal to an extent. And this is a perfect example of that.

So everything if you're here, if you made it this far, two minutes in, you're looking for a crazy comedy bit or some good laughs, not that my podcast ever has good comedy or good laughs, but this installment, this little short guy is not not one of those. This I'm just gonna tell you about my day. We will have a new episode this weekend. I'm gonna have my one of my best friends in my life, John Paul Pendewski coming on the podcast. We going to talk about music school which is a fascinating subculture of post-secondary education really looking forward to discussing that.

That's going to come out tomorrow. That'll have some more laughs. That'll have some good stories. John Paul is a very well-educated man and very well-worded and has a lot of wisdom and insight. So I'm really looking forward to having him on. That's exciting for me. Partially just because I haven't talked to him in person or over the phone in three months now. But my day, I had a personal day, it was a Friday, so a little three-day weekend action.

I had a car because I had been recruiting this week. It does not happen often that I will have access to a car, so I wanted to take advantage of it. And I said that I was going to explore the great state of Delaware because I've been to Delaware countless number of times to visit family and go through there all the time when I'm going to Philadelphia to work there. But we're talking about the very top, just that top semi-circle half-circle of Delaware is where I spend all my time either right on the border of Pennsylvania or I've been you know, either right on the border of Pennsylvania or I've been to Wilmington a couple of times,

but honestly, I don't know a lot about Wilmington. Anyways, I said that I'm going to go all around this great state and see what happens. So I was so excited for my personal day. I couldn't even sleep, which is unusual. I woke up at 6 a.m. this morning with the intention of going back to bed because it's my personal day and I I never quite could so I got moving around 6.30. I went out ran a 5k. A very slow

5k because that's where my body's at right now, but I'm happy because where my body's at right now, but I'm happy because every last word, we're already up to, it's been eight months since I ran my last marathon. And that just absolutely destroyed my body in a couple different ways. So it's a good feeling to, you know, three miles, 3.1 miles versus 26.2 is not quite the same, but we're getting back around the right track. So I run a 5K and yada yada yada, I'd start my day. First things first, I got a car, so I'm going to do some shopping. So I look at some deals online, I go to the old Navy closer, it's by Glen Burney and apolis down in that region. I go there, I pick out some new shorts, I got a t-shirt, I'm

King of the Discount Rack, I found this long sleeve Ravens T for like six bucks, which of course I'm not a Baltimore Ravens fan, but much in the same way that I own some Orioles a pair all now. When you live in the city, you support the team. And I don't have anything against the Ravens and in a neutral game, you know on the line sure I'll be for the Ravens So I got a I got a shirt to blend in when when September October rolls back around So that was old Navy I was in Annapolis next and I had never I Don't know if I'd ever been to anapolis so I went in and walked around the capital building a little bit And I said I will never been to the Naval Academy so I wanted to go check that out and Spent a little time down there exploring and St. John's College all that stuff and then

had some lunch and from there decided it was time to To get out to Milton Delaware, so I took the Bay Bridge across the Chesapeake Bay, which I had been on once before. And yeah, took that across and you cut over Eastern Shore of Maryland and you keep going straight into Delaware. It's a pretty straight line vertical border you cross it, Milton is another like hour. Milton is about I don't know 10-15 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean. That is where the dogfish head craft brewery is located in there. One of the more popular ones out here and I said I'm so close, I gotta hit this up.

So I went, I did a little tour, which, underwhelming isn't the word I'm going to use, because they offered different types of tours, and I just chose the basic package, because it's free, and because they didn't want to spend a ton of time there. But I did a little tour, and, you know, at the end they give you,

you're in the tasting room, which is a pretty hop and place, no pun intended. Okay, there's one left. And yeah, they let's, I mean, they're tasting menu is huge and I picked some pretty high powered potent beers. So that was fun. I didn't need to order an actual beer because the you know whatever 12 for 15 ounces or ever 16 ounces they give you as plenty. At that point, I really had no reason because it's already like four o'clock at this point when I'm done tasting. I don't have any reason to drive any further

into the tourist trap that is the beaches of Delaware, but I said, I'm so close, I came this far that I'm going to do it. So I take like, it's like a 12 mile drive from Milton to Roehaw with Beach, and that takes like 45 minutes because the traffic just is that bad. It's a lot of people going to Roehl with Beach. And that takes like 45 minutes because the traffic just is that bad. It's a lot of people going to Roehl with,

but it's way more people going, cutting straight across and going straight south to Ocean City down in Maryland. So I take a way too long drive to Roehl with Beach, which I'd been two once before, but not for probably, I don't know, 10, 12 years. So I get out, 10, 12 years. So I get out, well, first I park, and I'm really living my life on the edge

because I park and it's 415, I get there. I park in a spot that says, you have to have a permit from 10 to 5. And I'm thinking, you know what, I really don't wanna pay for parking and I'm just gonna go for it, which I did. I lived my life on the edge. I really don't want to pay for parking and I'm just going to go for it. Which I did. I lived my life on the edge. I really put my heart out there and said, this is my blood world.

Do with me what you want. So I did that and then I was of course the, I don't like to use the term creepy because I don't think I'm creepy but just like like, we're single, young, white male, ambling down the boardwalk by myself. You know, it's all like families and young couples and stuff, but story in my life, you know, anything I go, anything I do, anywhere I go, I'm by myself because I don't really have a friend's here,

which is tough, and there's definitely another raw podcast on that coming up as I do some one-year refuctions here but I'm walking on the board rocks I just walked down and back it's like half a mile each way probably and yeah I don't know, it was not cold, but probably low 60s and very windy, completely overcast. It rained all day. That's everything today. And never was it like an extreme downpour, but it never really stopped raining. It was always something. There's always some precipitation, so that was kind of, of I mean you could call it a gloomy day based just on how looked I don't mind it But it was overcast and rainy the whole time So I did roll with beach and then I was kind of in a weird spot because I get back to my car

It's like 515 530 And I'm not quite ready for dinner yet, but I don't you know I'm not like ready for the date annex So if I drive back at that point I'm gonna get home for dinner yet, but I don't, you know, I'm not like ready for the date and so if I drive back at that point, I'm gonna get home at like 7.38 o'clock, which for a normal person is a normal time to get home. But I'm like, this is Friday, this is my personal day. I'm gonna, I'm returning the car literally in 12 hours here.

I'm gonna make the most of it. So I drive up to Dover, which is about 45 minutes north of Rojobit Beach and Jurassic World 2, the fifth movie in the Jurassic Park franchise, was it came in last night midnight. And not that I, okay, so well, I'm a huge Jurassic Park fan. And not that I, okay, so I'm a huge dresser park fan. Dresser park lost world, a kid dressed in park two is solid. It's still a pretty good film. Dresser park three falls off the rails. It's not a very good film at all.

So I had high expectations when Dresser world came out whenever that was three years ago. And that was okay. It could have been a lot worse, but it didn't really do anything for me. So this one came out, and for whatever reason, I don't know. I had like naive, childlike, wonder expectations

for this film. I really thought that it was, I really thought it could be a great film. I like Chris Pratt as much as the next guy or the next lady, I guess. And the Bryce Dallas Howard isn't too hard on the eyes either. But this film was just, and when you're listening to the beat-home, unplugged entries, listener discretion is advised for language and because these entries are objectively terrible, that film was a complete pile of shit.

I don't know. I might get to a longer full-scale review at some point, but that's the type of movie that I'm going to forget about in like two days that I even saw it. It was just, oh my god. It was just Chris Pratt, no character development. Bryce Dallas Howard wearing a see-through tank top with Nobra. A villain that is just like the least compelling villain of all time, a storyline that's almost completely rehashed from lost worlds, and other than like great effects, and an okay score and decent directing, it's just man, it sucked, but I promise I wasn't going to make this podcast into a rant. That was part of my personal day, so I had to talk about it for a second.

So I got out and winning Got A Pizza, which has not been normal for me last two weeks. I've been on a pretty not strict or hardcore diet, but just being a lot better about that sort of stuff. But I got that in a drawer of home, which from Dover is about 90 minutes. So, I did that and after hunting for some parking in my apartment, because it's like midnight when I got home a little bit earlier than that. I finally made it home and did a little bit of prep work for the podcast tomorrow which you guys will all hear about when it comes out and I just wanted to get this stuff in an audio file because I don't get to

take days like this very often. And ups and downs, a lot of time driving, but I had fun. And I just wanted to share that experience with everyone. So thanks for listening 15 minutes. It's already literally about 10 minutes longer than I wanted it to go. So it's already almost a full podcast. We're going to cut it off there. So I hope everyone's enjoying their weekend's

podcast this week with John Paul Pendowski. We're going to talk about music school. So look forward to catch up with everybody. Then and I'm going to bed. It's 1 a.m. So have a good night.