Friendship Update
Today's post's title comes to you from The Go! Team song by that name. Thirty seconds of the song goes exactly like this. An actual Friendship Update would go like so:
Good friend, former ex-pat, and rollicking raconteur J. Kracker's been in town since January 31st. Back from Australia, he's in town generally to drink some beers and catch up with yours truly, happening, as it happened, to be in town for Mom's birthday celebration. That's January 31st, for those who missed it. Mark your 2007 calendars while it's fresh in your mind. Sister Melissa and sister's fiance Adam also came down the pike to break bread with us, or rather, break barbeque ribs. Here are some of the results:
J. in the flesh. I am convinced that his travels down under have somehow made him taller. How is this possible? Mom in the center there is at her birthday best. We're in this place called Smokey Bones out in Clay, rapidly depleting their stores of Stolichnaya and Blue Moon.
Melissa and Adam, wedged apart by Mom only in a visual sense. I post this primarily because I was chided for posting that other Christmas morning picture of Melissa when she wasn't "done up." Silliness! Why would one ever need to get done up with a smile like that? That's my question. And Mom and Adam, of course.
Dad came straight from Albany, and Baba and Pa were also there to regale one half of the table with tales of escaping now-defunct Eastern European nations of old. We should've been better about taking pictures of the food spread, and each other, but honestly we were too busy enjoying ourselves.
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Plans for the next few days? Hit the Dinosaur BBQ in downtown Syracuse (purveyors of the "Foreplay" Cajun BBQ spice treatment); hit the Sound Garden and assorted brew pubs and cigar bars in Armory Square; perhaps a jog around the neighborhood before all of that to counteract in advance the excellent damage to be inflicted on our persons.
Good friend, former ex-pat, and rollicking raconteur J. Kracker's been in town since January 31st. Back from Australia, he's in town generally to drink some beers and catch up with yours truly, happening, as it happened, to be in town for Mom's birthday celebration. That's January 31st, for those who missed it. Mark your 2007 calendars while it's fresh in your mind. Sister Melissa and sister's fiance Adam also came down the pike to break bread with us, or rather, break barbeque ribs. Here are some of the results:
J. in the flesh. I am convinced that his travels down under have somehow made him taller. How is this possible? Mom in the center there is at her birthday best. We're in this place called Smokey Bones out in Clay, rapidly depleting their stores of Stolichnaya and Blue Moon.
Melissa and Adam, wedged apart by Mom only in a visual sense. I post this primarily because I was chided for posting that other Christmas morning picture of Melissa when she wasn't "done up." Silliness! Why would one ever need to get done up with a smile like that? That's my question. And Mom and Adam, of course.
Dad came straight from Albany, and Baba and Pa were also there to regale one half of the table with tales of escaping now-defunct Eastern European nations of old. We should've been better about taking pictures of the food spread, and each other, but honestly we were too busy enjoying ourselves.
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Plans for the next few days? Hit the Dinosaur BBQ in downtown Syracuse (purveyors of the "Foreplay" Cajun BBQ spice treatment); hit the Sound Garden and assorted brew pubs and cigar bars in Armory Square; perhaps a jog around the neighborhood before all of that to counteract in advance the excellent damage to be inflicted on our persons.
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