On July 4th we celebrate with fireworks and such, but here we also celebrate Roo Day!   Roo day is a day for best friend Roo, my Best Man in my wedding, the namesake of the Roo Bat in one of my oldest games (Tage Rampage) and official unofficial tester of my iPhone games.  And we celebrate by honouring some of his achievements:

1)  Finding non-existent grocery stores in large cities

2)  Serving me a beer before I even knew I wanted one

3)  Taking pictures at 45 degree angles

4)  Hitting lower Baritone notes than me while saying “SUNRIVER”

And for all that and more, we say Happy Roo Day, now the sixth time we’ve celebrated!  Even if you don’t know what that means.

Every Fourth of July celebrates the birth of the United States.  Among the patriotism and barbecuing we also celebrate another holiday, Roo Day!

Today is offically the sixth annual Roo Day (short for Andrew Day) started on July 4, 2005 and continues every year on July 4.  Roo day was conceived out of random website post several years ago.

Roo is responsible for many things, including:

• Being the best man at my wedding
• Letting me steal his care packages in Call of Duty
• Helping me mount a television to my wall for 16 straight hours
• Getting delicious Lattes in Seattle

As always, have a safe Fourth of July!

Holy crap, you say!  It’s Fourth of July and you are celebrating this guy?!  Of course.  It’s Roo!  Roo Day shares a bit of the festivities of the day.  There’s no rule to holiday overlap, at least according to my research.

Previous years of Roo day left ambiguity and people questioning who the hell is Roo.  This year, however, the FIFTH year since the conception of Roo Day, I will explain everything!

Roo is Carlie’s sister’s husband (Carlie is my fiancé).  I met him years ago, and once during an off Fourth of July I decided to randomly post a “Hey it’s Roo Day!” on the website.  It stuck, and even better people got involved.  People sent him an email or two congratulating him for Roo Day.

But why even celebrate this guy?  Why doesn’t anyone else have a holiday?  Roo carries several merits for his own day, which include:

• Being the best man in my wedding.
• Being awesome.
• Sharing my first beer with me.
• Being featured in the game Tage Rampage, as a “Roo Bat.”

Least I can do is give him a blog post on my website once a year.

So thanks for being awesome, and everyone have a good Fourth!  Be safe.