aloha

Greetings from the great state of Hawaii. Shannon took Mary Grace and Christian to western Pennsylvania for a weekend, so I decided to go west myself.

I am starting a company. It is called Third Worm Associates. Basically, the idea is that I can look in the brain or brains of a segmented worm to determine whether it needs luxury clothing.

That is all the news for now. In the meantime, contact Jon if you have any questions about cryptic flyers with frogs.

And no, this is not a joke. Glad to be back on the BLD '98 blog. Arrividerci.

A few titillating updates

1) Apparently I have a hole in my roof. Unfortunately, I did not discover this hole until I finally decided to clean off my roof. It's about the size of a softball, and the last time I can remember cleaning a branch off my roof that was big enough to make that hole was months ago. Oops. On the positive side, I've been "working from home" today as my roof gets repaired.

2) Hillary and I went swimming the other day at my development pool. She can kick my ass. It is depressing.

3) I called Doug the other day and left a message for him, but he didn't call me back. Jerk.

4) Rob, congratulations on your graduation. What sort of house are you and Devon looking for? How far is Modesto from Sacramento?

5) July 4th weekend should be fun. I'm planning on going with Hillary and my family to Blossom Music Center to see the Cleveland Orchestra. Then the next day Hillary and I are going with some friends to Put-in-Bay (an island in Lake Erie) to hang out. Yeah yeah, I know it's no ocean island Rob and Mo, but it will have to do.

Hope all is well with everyone. Kristin, I expect a comment in response in 2 minutes.

JH

Graduation

I finally graduated and have been enjoying doing nothing - or close to nothing - for the past week. Devon and I will be in Modesto next week looking for housing. I thought I would give you a preview of our first Christmas card together. Should we successfully mail it out, it will be our first card for our third Christmas. Not bad!

Woe is me

The Cleveland Indians are officially terrible, and I am officially depressed about it. Looks like that 20-pack of tickets for the season wasn't the wisest investment in the world. Waaaaaahhhhh... :(

Not all Talk

Three colleages and I have filed to incorporate Third Eye Associates, Inc. We are a consulting firm dedicated to helping bring new technologies to market in the medical device industry. We are also applying for a department of defense grant to design a device that would screen blast victims for traumatic brain injury by looking in the eye.
I have not quit my day job, but you can address business correspondence to dmazzucco at 3-e-a dot com.
I would happily accept help with web site and newsletter.

Dan

PS Doug and Ann, Betsy and I would like to have dinner with you next weekend (24th) in the boston area. We'll be in Devens.

Happy Times

Hello all,
Finished the boards. All is much better at our house now (at least until the scores come back in 6 weeks).
Anyway, just wanted to write something that wasn't complaining for the first time in a long time.
Hope you are doing well.
Thinking of you,
Kristin

Snugglebugs & Wiggleworms LLC

I am starting my own business called Snugglebugs & Wiggleworms, a custom sewing business making children's clothing and interiors. I'm pretty excited about it. (The name comes from my nicknames for our kids.) Doug has graciously agreed to help me with my webpage. Another friend is going to design a logo for me. I will be making the whole gamut of children's clothing, from dresses and pants to skirts and coats, etc. I also make bedding, curtains, etc. for baby nurseries and kids' bedrooms, and some other things including tepees, diaper bags, sleeping mats, little kid-sized chairs, etc. My current plan is to sew as much as I can this summer to make a lot of demo pieces, and then have a business launch party in the early fall.

It's all very fun starting a business -- filing articles of organization, getting a tax id number. Kevin likened it to when we got college recognition to the BLD. Anyway, I'm very excited about it all.

Shannon

Wine Finals

A Viniculture class that requires a paper and an in-class exam without partaking of the fruit of the vine while doing either is a bunch of bull. That's almost a greater abomination than bar-exams, M-CATs and Chem 5.

I'm boycotting the NBA but very excited about World Cup! Check out the Hawaii guy for Team USA, Rob!

As for woman's periods I never keep track of mine and lie to my doctor when she asks, "When was your last..."

Nebulizers (sp? English isn't my first language you know) are no fun unless you and your friends are pre-teens and the asthma sufferer's mom thinks it would be a good idea to let the whole lot of you take hits because you're all showing early signs of colds or allergies or something. Not that I would know anything about that.

Rob, one more question...since you're a Cali boy, ever try hooka? It goes great with Cabernet Sauvignons.

I still work in a restaurant and am planting an herb garden. No...not that kind of herb guys.

USMLE=Ulcers for Coal

Our house is so stressful right now that my dog got ulcers.

Okay, fine, they were from bacteria in the lake water or something, but he has them and I have stress...

Updates

Hello all.

Rob, I can't stand watching soccer, and I also can't stand watching basketball. It was even painful for me to watch the Cavs games, even in the playoffs. There are so many fouls, most of which are stupid, and the ridiculous number of game stoppages really makes it annoying for me to watch. Of course, some people find baseball boring, but I could watch that all day long.

My body is really sore today. I was digging post holes for my deck all day yesterday. That is hard work. I got three done and have two more to go. I decided I didn't need to work out or go for a run - the digging was more than enough exercise.

Hillary got her school assignment for the next year and a half. She'll be at Rhodes High School in Cleveland, OH. It was her top choice among the five she had to choose from, so we were happy. She also got assigned to her top choice for a teacher/mentor from Rhodes, so it was good news all around.

My sister Keriann may transfer from BC. She really dislikes it there (it was, after all, her 6th choice for schools or something). She's doing their pre-vet program, and John Carroll (on the east side of Cleveland) has one, too. She'll decide in the next few weeks, I think, so any prayers of support would be great. She's really struggling with the decision.

That's it for now. I did a lot of other work on my house this weekend, but I decided, for once, not to bore you with details.

Also, I saw Nanny McPhee on Friday night. I stopped in a store to grab some things and told Hillary to pick anything out that she wanted from the movie store in the meantime. That was a big mistake.

Wow, No Posts...

I haven't seen any posts for a while so I thought I would jump in. My mother-in-law visited for the past week and left yesterday (Saturday). That was an incredibly draining experience during a rather tough week of school at the end of the quarter... Not as tough as taking the boards, bar, or any other difficult test (this is B-school remember), but time consuming enough. There was the usual emotional blow-up with Devon and her brother vs. mom, caused mostly by mother-in-law's own personal issues and reading into events and comments. There was also the usual make-up time, though this one seemed to accomplish more than normal.

I'm up late tonight working on my last paper for the viticulture and enology class. After tomorrow, I only have a take-home final and an in-class final to go. Also, I only have two weeks left with HP.

Still no idea where Devon and I will be living in Modesto, but I'll start working there Aug 1.

I haven't watched a single game of the NBA playoffs for the first time that I can remember. And I love it.

I plan on watching more games of the World Cup than I ever have. And I can't wait. Anyone want to Tivo all 64 (or so) games for me in case I miss some? I'd record them the old fashioned way myself, but the cable company cut off our free cable finally. It only took them 15 months to figure it out... too bad, all I needed was one more month. I included a picture of my Swiss replica jersey I had my classmate get when he went back to Switzerland for a few weeks to visit family.

That's about it.. Back to the fake winery paper.

Yeah, I have an update. My life sucks. But, it will get better in a week and a half, I hope.
That's about it and a bunch of pseudopseduohypoparathyroidism poop.

My sister-in-law is home for her freshman to sophomore summer and I can't help remembering visiting Mo in Indy and living the good life at Kappa Sigma Mu.

I haven't smelled butter like that in a long time.