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Category Archives: Friends

L.A. Wedding

The weekend after the L.A. Bachelor Party, I returned to Los Angeles for Ross & Johanna’s wedding. This was a quicker trip than the last, but was a huge treat as well. Ben Mengden, his wife Emily, and I came in Friday morning and headed to the Tuxedo shop to pick up our formalwear. Fortunately, [...]

Posted 25 September 2007 § Travel ‡ Comments (0)

L.A. Bachelor Party

I spent three days out in Los Angeles two weekends ago for the bachelor party of one of my oldest and dearest, Ross Richie, who married Johanna Stokes, his lady love of 7 years, last weekend. I left Thursday along with Ben Mengden, my traveling companion and another close long-time friend. Ben was not only [...]

Posted 28 August 2007 § Travel ‡ Comments (0)

Buy Software, Help Cure Cancer

My good friend Seth Dillingham has started his annual fund drive for the Jimmy Fund, an organization dedicated to cancer research. Not only does he ride in the Pan Mass Challenge to help raise funds for the organization, but he also puts together some fairly large-scale auctions of donated software. There’s always a ton of [...]

Posted 20 August 2007 § Philanthropy ‡ Comments (0)

Come Together, Right Now, Over Facebook

Back when I was a member, the Macarthur High School Choir used to put on an annual Renaissance Dinner, wherein all of the choir members would don vaguely archaic dress, drink from flagons, and sing John Rutter Christmas carols and the occasional song in Latin for the enjoyment of the assembled audience (which in retrospect [...]

Posted 31 July 2007 § Computers ‡ Comments (3)

Bridge Over Jason’s Studio

Yesterday evening, I went up to Pflugerville to visit Jason Young and his delightful wife Erin. Jason is quite a polymath: he does commercial music, woodworking, film audio, set construction, and arranges much of the music for Baylor’s All University Sing each year. Since so much of his work is done in his home studio, [...]

Posted 20 July 2007 § Music ‡ Comments (0)