Exile

Alrighty, so I heard Kiss You All Over by Exile today on the radio. Awesome. It reminded me of Shan, Mo and my River apt (the Grays) and cleaning that apartment in high heels listening to that song. That got me to thinking of Tipsy, the rabbit, and I quickly shifted my thoughts on that to other things. For instance, did I make up that we once heard a lot of banging and clanging upstairs and went up to find out what the heck was going on that Jamie (last name escapes me) was only wearing tube socks and that he was "wrestling" with other football players? I really don't think that I would conjure something like that, because contrary to general public belief, that's not really my style...
That aside, I really miss playing Taboo. Don't get me wrong, peek a boo is cool and all, but Taboo and beer is, well, different. And, I miss when cooking basically just meant making brownies.

I'll just say it

Phelps and Hoff are pretty impressive (in Phelps' case read: hot).

And, I heard that Brown Chicken joke yesterday and immediately thought of Lincoln, even though I wasn't at reunion. I pretty much just knew that it was associated with Lincoln somehow.

Introducing Norah

Greetings everyone -- Happy to announce the birth of Honorah Anne Walsh ("Norah"), yesterday afternoon, weighing in at a healthy 9 lbs, 10 oz (1 oz more than Christian). Sent an email around yesterday so if you didn't get it there must be something wrong with how I have your address -- let me know if that is the case.

Brown Chicken Brown Cow

Dear Lincoln,

Ever since the reunion, we have heard your joke way too many times. It is spreading to Ohio.

Happy Reunion

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to wish all that are attending the big 10 year extravaganza a super fun weekend in Hanover!

Please blog us a full report of the highlights - I wish I could be there!

I'll Show you Real Shame

Real shame is analyzing the average number of spins required to complete the Chutes & Ladders game as a function of location on the board.

If someone can tell me how to post an excel spreadsheet to the Blog, I think I can demonstrate conclusively that you are actually closer to the end at space 74 than you are at spaces 75-87 (obviously excluding space 80).

My calculation is that it takes, on average, 40.38 turns to complete the game. It would take only 33.33 turns if there were no chutes or ladders.

That is real shame.

I feel shame

I don't have a good reason for my extended seclusion. I have many poor excuses, such as working too much and putting my computer into storage, but no valid ones.

Hopefully you remember who I am.

Dan, I sent Betsy an invitation to the blog.

Jon, thank you for your support. Losing to the Flyers was extremely frustrating (8 posts in 5 games!), but if your powerplay only scores 5% of the time, you don't deserve to win. I was very disappointed that Detroit won the Cup. They play the most boring, clutch-and-grab hockey I have seen in years. They got away with a lot of interference. Still, Pittsburgh just didn't play well enough.

We're going to reunion but we didn't register. It seemed like a lot of money for a lot activities we have no interest in.

New Year's might be tough for us this year.

< pause for effect >

Yes, go ahead and jump to that conclusion. Daughter #2 is due in late October.

That being said, if we ever manage to sell our condo, I'd be psyched to have New Year's in Boston.

Oh, and we just bought a Wii. It was Anne's idea, believe it or not. She has already beaten me soundly in tennis.

10 points if you know what movie the title of this post is from.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to tend my screaming daughter who refuses to go to sleep.

No Hiking for me

I can't go hiking during the reunion. I'll be on crutches due to a bit of a knee injury.

Still looking forward to the reunion!

Dan

PS. Happy late birthday Jill

I Love the World

So, a video that we have been enjoying in our household lately -- Enjoy.

HEY

Is there going to be a BLD New Year this year?

I think I will just start volunteering people soon.

slideshow?

So, we all went to college before Facebook and things like that. Probably a good thing, all things considered. But we missed out on the opportunity to have our pictures from college life preserved for all posterity.

I think it would be a good idea to put together a BLD slideshow for the reunion, with pictures from our time at Dartmouth. Problem is, I don't have many pictures from that time period. Perhaps if we pooled our pictures together, we would have something to work with. Any ideas on how to do that? (I ask this realizing that I will look like a 12 year-old in most pictures. So please don't let your own amour propre interfere with making this project happen. If you have a recommendation as to how to make this work, SHARE.)

Blog Help

How do I invite Betsy to join the blog?

Mama?

So, Reva consistently calls all men, either in person or in photographs, "Dada." Likewise, pretty much every woman is referred to as "Mama."

Up to this point her accurarcy seemed to reinforce the one thing I remember from Psych 1: that a person's gender is the first, and most important, thing we notice about them.

However, as we were standing in the hall last night Reva very energetically stabbed at a BLD group photo saying, "Mama, mama" with her finger clearly falling on one well known Cleveland Indians fan.

(Please insert your own clever conclusions here.)

You won't believe it till you see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE&feature=related

This is what happens when you give Ukulele's to the Brittish.

Make sure your children are in bed.

Shaft...can you dig it?

I'm going to reunion. Make sure you see me.

Adin =)

MIA

My computer went down for a few weeks, so I missed a few things...

congratulations, Josh.

ew. Sorry to hear that, Josh

ew. Sorry to hear that, Amanda.

Ha. Sorry to hear that, Jon

Other notes:

Doug, I thought of you often this week during the Habs-Flyers series, but have been afraid to make contact. I am more, not less, afraid to make contact now that the Habs have lost.

I am amused that the Flyers' team marketing slogan is "Vengeance now." Betsy asked what they are avenging. The only reasonable answer is they are taking revenge on the league for exposing them as the worst team in the league last year. But aren't they really taking vengeance on themselves?

Reunion notes: whose going? What are you doing? We're going, but aren't registering. We'd like to go on a simple hike, but we don't want to pay Dartmouth to have a catered lunch while we do it. We'll bring PB&J and water if we are hungry. We're also going to try to see a couple of locals, and I guess we'd like to coordinate it so we do that when everyone else will be doing stuff that they've registered for. Can anyone comment?