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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