This year was the first time I heard about this crazy tradition. Jake and the crew seem to have found every excuse in the book to hang out with old college friends and share a drink. It was amazing to get back in touch with some real good friends that I haven’t seen in over ten years, and some more than that. My old boss and eternal pal Jake, Dante Varrasso, Jamie Gahan, Brian White, Rob Pine, Neil Joyce, Dave Stordy, Lew Conley, Dan Dulaski, Rich Conley, Tommy Winston, Bob Miller, and a host of others attended that night. It was a fascinating time to catch up and find that everyone is doing so well in life. Here’s to everyone there, and to everyone that couldn’t make it. I’m already counting down the weeks until next Thanksgiving.

 

This summer, we filled in our pool. There were lots of issues – but the biggest one for me was the maintenance. I spent more time with the pool than I did my family. Ok, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it was a lot of time spent for relatively few hours of fun.

 

It’s been far too long since my last blog post. I guess a year and a half isn’t so long in the overall scope of things. And so many things have happened that the time seems to be about right. In random order, I’ll attempt to cover the following items over the next as-yet-to-be-determined-time-period.

• Reconnections from the past
• House work and my attempt at plastering
• Family life, photo albums, and all the fun stuff
• Work life at the Broad Institute
• Friends and their lives
• Technology
• Politics
• Religion
• Anything else likely to cause agita amongst my family