J'Mac's Birthday Week Round-Up

It's been a while since we have visited the Reunion Special. It's not that nothing has been happening, it's just we are abstaining from all electronics until there is either a peaceful resolution in Iraq or Leonard Peltier is set free-- which ever happens first.

Last weekend was JMac's birthday, and we celebrated with about 600 events. The biggest and the best was not rounding up everyone who ever lived on Corliss for a loud wonderfully obnoxious dinner at Buco de Bepo (the highlight being when all stood up to sing our national anthem), although the more we think about it, that was a lot of fun.

The highlight was his party on Saturday night. The night started with the delivery of an excellent chocolate, bourbon cream, strawberry cake from David's mother, and ended the next morning with the discovery of a series of divots across the kitchen and dining room floor. This surely marked the end of out high heel kitchen sprints. For more images of the night, click here, for images of delicious Eggo waffles, click here.

On Monday David and Seth took the day off work because, well, it was Opening Day. It's a holiday and you can't be expected to fill out anything in duplicate on a holiday. After a family bus ride with Sarah, the two marveled as large machines smashed the hell out of an old parking garage. They then marveled at the view over Puget Sound and the Olympics from Lowell's. Breakfast was followed by opening day baseball and cheap beer at Sluggers. In retrospect we shouldn't have been scared off by the pull-tapers hogging the bar at the Triangle, but what are you going to do? Oh, then the Mariners lost.

The last few days have been spent much like the summer will be spent, on our back porch, grilling meat, playing the banjo, and listening to Dave Niehaus on the radio.