Another perennial catch-up post

My goodness. I've managed to not speak up here for a while again. Here's some highlights of the past weeks.

Since I was already going to be in New Jersey for Thanksgiving, I dragged Jen into the boonies of Connecticut for my 15th high school reunion. This wasn't as much a train wreck as I expected. I chatted with a few folks that I remembered from marching band, ate alright food, and listened to the worst DJ in this sector of the Milky Way. His constant lite jazz muszaky torture is really the best story of the night, as a bunch of people that I would have liked to see (and with whom I could have maintained more conversation) were absent. Maybe I'll see them in another 15.

I joined a group tailgating all day in the Rose Bowl parking lot this past weekend for the UCLA/USC football game. Good times and good food. I think we kicked all 3 kegs, too. These are my kind of people, too, as the "worst" keg was Stella Artois.

Finally, my birthday today apparently coincides with the Annual Day of the Ninja. I'm not sure how my inner pirate feels about this.