Laidbackman
All Star
Napster had gotten popular around this time. I had downloaded songs that I couldn't find for decades. In August 2001, my buddy had stopped through while I had these old songs playing on Napster in the basement. He tried to pretend he wasn't paying these songs he hadn't heard in decades any attention. Anyway, I told him I was having a little fight party later that night. He wounded up being two hours early, just so he could hear these old school songs I was playing...lol.
I had a another small gathering a few weeks later with just me, him, and a mutual friend. Btw, I had just brought a medium sizes sun-setter to go on my back deck that summer. I also bought the screen-room attachment. So I had put a tv in this sun-setter-screen room, so I could have fight parties and cookouts in my backyard. Me and my two buddies reminisced for at least three hours that night, while I had Napster playing, which became my new radio around this time. That was the last time I saw my buddy. He was killed in 9/11 at the Pentagon about a month later. However I did talk to him a week before 9/11. He had called to ask me if I was having the upcoming Hopkins vs Trinidad fight. Plus he told me his wife was pregnant with their first child. That fight was going to be in New York, but it wounded up being postponed until later that month because of 9/11. I wounded up having a full house that night for the Hopkins vs Trinidad fight, but without my buddy there, whose remains still hadn't been recovered, it felt as though I was watching that entire fight thru a glass wall, wearing shades, with the sound turned low.
I had a another small gathering a few weeks later with just me, him, and a mutual friend. Btw, I had just brought a medium sizes sun-setter to go on my back deck that summer. I also bought the screen-room attachment. So I had put a tv in this sun-setter-screen room, so I could have fight parties and cookouts in my backyard. Me and my two buddies reminisced for at least three hours that night, while I had Napster playing, which became my new radio around this time. That was the last time I saw my buddy. He was killed in 9/11 at the Pentagon about a month later. However I did talk to him a week before 9/11. He had called to ask me if I was having the upcoming Hopkins vs Trinidad fight. Plus he told me his wife was pregnant with their first child. That fight was going to be in New York, but it wounded up being postponed until later that month because of 9/11. I wounded up having a full house that night for the Hopkins vs Trinidad fight, but without my buddy there, whose remains still hadn't been recovered, it felt as though I was watching that entire fight thru a glass wall, wearing shades, with the sound turned low.
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I was 17 but turned 18 that November. That period of time of senior year of high school to sophomore year of college was crazy for me! 
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