I would have to say that this has been such a great weekend. Its always great to spend time with friends and family and this weekend for me was like a family reunion. Betsy emailed us a back in late march early april to see if we would like to come out for the 4th of july and all the pieces seemed to fall together pretty perfectly and Livi, Anne, Steph, Emily and I were able to spend a wonderful weekend hosted at Chez Mccallon.

Night one consisted of a wonderfull grilled dinner at the house followed by college photo albums. I was starting to fade but when those albums came out and we started reliving old happenings…. good times is all I can say.

Saturday, a scrumptious breakfast and the Argentina/Germany world cup game (dissapointing match up) followed by tooling around town followed by a bbq at a friends house. This was one of the few times I wished I could partake in the drinking parts of the merriment, but as it was even being sober and out with the ladies was highly amusing (honestly not an angle I get to see it from very often).

Today was a classicly slow morning filled with a recovery routine of tv then lounging at the pool. We had dinner and came home to wait for the fire works and while we were waiting the ladies threw me a baby shower! I was so surprised and felt so loved it was wonderful. This baby already has a set of aunties who love him.

We decided to watch the fire works from the balcony which was not the greatest of views, but I was happy being with friends (plus that meant we didn’t have to try and get anywhere and back). We later ended up watching the boston fireworks display on tv and I have to say, the consensus among the group was that boston had the superior light show. We has been able to see the dc show on tv as well so it was a fairly even comparison.

I would never have guessed 15 years ago when I went away to college who I would meet or what hijinks we would get up to but I am so glad everything went the way it did because I have a group of people with whom I share a very unique set of experiences with and who speak the same language I do, although they are far more poetic about it than I. I am glad college ended and more glad that the best part of the experience lives on in my relationships with the people who found me there.

Tomorrow I fly home, back to my house and hubby and puppy and kitty. It will be great to be home (I get to watch my sciency shows at home without the cruel mockery of my bffs which is why I love mario even more). It will be much cooler and I will carry with me memories of sophisticated conversations and civilized behaviours

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Especially when a certain monkey faced puppy is absent from the equation. I realize now that her walking on my head in order to wake me up to feed her has become an integral part of my morning.

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I wrote a few weeks ago about how we decided to try the netflix online service out. It worked wondefully the first time that we tried it with our new ClearWire service. But it seems that since then our download speeds have not been fast enough to support a streaming movie. Very annoying.
So I am currently near the airport in Portland Or, where I am going to be helping out with tech support for the OR bar exam and I got to my hotel and decided I would try the netflix again from here. The Radisson I am staying in offers free wifi so I crossed me fingers and gave it a shot. And it worked. I watched a documentry about scrabble players. It ran smooth with no issues.
We are going to be building a media server for the house soon. It would be really cool if we could use the netflix on that machine as well as getting the dvds.
Maybe if clearwire upgrades to wimax like they have been talking about their download speed will get better and it could work.

Ok going to bed now so I can be all bright and tech supporty. I am the Site Captain after all (woo hoo I have been waiting for so long for this momentus occaion).

Sleep. Now.