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Mar 29 03: XY

So today Paul and I escorted Mom to my sister’s baby shower in Port Jefferson. Of course, once we got there, we had to evacuate the premises: as Paul described it, “it was like an Oprah episode in there.” Estrogen so thick you could cut it with a knife. So Paul and I and bro-in-law Jason went to Jason’s…anti-shower? Bath? We never really knew what to call it. It was a boyfest. Highlights:

All 6 attendees discussing the best way to transform the malfunctioning gas grill into a functional charcoal grill, to facilitate barbeque
Higher mathematics as we attempted to make change for everybody’s contributions to the beer-and-barbeque fund
Round-robin bocce tournament (note: avoid the piles of unraked leaves)
Would it rain? (yes)
Burgers and Dogs
Tequila, and discussion of the relative merits of The Good Stuff (provided) versus The Cheap Stuff (absent, saints be praised)
Why Vinyl is Better than Digital (exhibit A: Pink Floyd/Animals)
Yahtzee (Paul won.)

Fun for everybody. I had forgotten how the other half lived. I took advantage of my opportunity to be Secret Homo Anthropologist and took notes, but left them on the host’s living-room floor among the Yahtzee scorecards. (The list above is all I could come up with off the top of my head.) So much for my cover.

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rocks

posted by mjy, Nov 10 03 2:33 PM