March 26, 2005

  • The Gathering had arrived and then it left...

    Yesterday's dinner went well.  It was just like any other dinner
    only with more people... Turkey, Honey-baked Ham and carrots were the
    main dishes as well as your basic freshly cut fruits and vegtables.

    There are only a few people that I can truly say are good people on my
    step-father's side of the family. G, T and Pat.  Pat is a
    successful purchaser of wines for a large and wealthy hotel in
    Michigan.  He was telling me a story that he was in Napa Valley at
    Francis Ford Coppola's house and they were opening $200 bottles of wine
    by the case like it was nothing.  He didn't get a wine bottle but
    he did get a lemon off of Francis' lemon tree and used it in a salad.

    Other than that, my step-father's brother was there, he's gotten better
    with age and his girlfriend and her hyper-active son as well.

    The best news of all is that Michigan State beat Duke for the first
    time in seven meetings in March Madness.  It was a great game and
    State pulled it off by beating them by 10.  I'm not much into
    basketball but I do enjoy a great game.  All the while the son
    (who I think has ADD) was all over the place looking for attention,
    etc. It's a horrible disease and I do hope they cure it soon.

    Other than that, I have JJ  practice today and we are back on at
    1pm till whenever the class could go till 4 if Sensei wanted too...
    But, even he said he didn't... Plus its Easter weekend.

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    Quote of the Day:


    This is a classic Eddie Izzard line, but it works on so many levels:

    Parent: "You know, Jesus died for your sins on Easter..."
    Kids: "Oh, ya that's great... I mean that's bad... I mean, gimme more of these chocolate eggs, they're great!"

    Vx Eastering