Drunken Christians

Attendance: us 4
Drinks: The 3 women went for Lemon Drops, me? Gins and Tonics

Question: Are the seats comfortable? The quick answer is no. In fact Wendy needs an extra session of yoga each week to compensate. But everything else is top quality – the service, the drinks, the noise level. Once you get back you can weigh in on the change. Though by that time it is likely we will back at the Capitol Club on the deck.

Conversation:
Counting time: We figured out we have about 7 weeks until summer vacation and only 5 weeks until Mandy is all done with her master’s program.
Censored: I am realizing that decorum must allow this to be short post since much of the juicy parts of our conversation should not be put in print. But I think you got the gist of the dirt when you spoke with Robin on the phone.
Angelo: Some time was spent discussing Angelo’s living arrangements for next year (his own place? (his idea) full time with Robin? (not Robin’s idea) and his potential career as an event planner since he has put himself in charge of renting limos, book restaurants and dividing 40 senior prom goers into suitable groups. This is what he does instead of homework.
Indiana Governor: Speaking of the prom, we were reminded that Robin went to the senior prom with the now governor of Indiana. She is very embarrassed at having dated a Republican.
Moby Dick: Ann and I started our class.

"I stood looking at him a moment. For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal. What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought i to myself - the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

(See drunken Christian above.)

Happy Birthday Sarah and Vanessa

I know we are a little late on the birthday but your present is my trying hard to keep up with the blog these next 2 months.

So some quick updates:

Wendy and Mandy: They had a great time in NY over spring break seeing shows, hearing music and eating great food.
Wendy spent all of last Wednesday night at the vet with her cat and will spend the next week chasing down the cat and squiring medicine into her mouth as she tries to scratch at Wendy. We learned that cat’s can’t spit.
Mandy finished a 10 day seminar for her masters about 3 weeks ago where she received lots of feedback on her central writing project and is now in the final stages of revising it. After this quarter and a summer session she will have her MFA.

Jerry and Robin had a great time in San Francisco spending 3 nights in a lovely little hotel and 2 nights at Jerry’s friend’s house in the quaint, residential San Francisco neighborhood called Bernal Heights that felt oddly like a beach town.
Robin had pneumonia while San Francisco but didn’t know it until she returned. It didn’t slow her down in San Francisco but she did get her spring break extended by 2 weeks taking 5 days off and working half days the next 4. She’s fine now and no one who saw her believed she really had pneumonia. She may have just wanted an extended spring break.

Plumbing – the 4 of us missed you when we had a plumbing outing to Robin’s house. She has gotten a new marble slab in her bathroom and new sink and faucet. We needed to take out the old sink and counter. And by “we” I mean Mandy and Wendy. I cheered them on and helped carry the counter once Mandy and Wendy figured out how to undo the pipes going to the sink. We all knew you would have loved to be in on the action. We have pictures of Wendy with a giant wrench that looks like something out of Chaplin’s Modern Times. (That was my job, to make witty cultural references at Wendy worked.)

What else. . .
Ann and I are taking a class on Moby Dick at the Experimental College
We have grown to love our Friday new home at the 611
It snowed and hailed yesterday April 18th
I don’t like where the Democratic race has been going, with both Clinton and Obama getting higher negative ratings
Bill and Susan will be in Seattle late July and early August
And we would like you to be with us each Friday

Did I miss anything you have been wondering about?