Life of Wry

I am not doing a very good job of moment-capturing these days. We’ve had a houseful of family.. but, damn, not much in the way of photos today.

Baked a cake for Chris’s birthday (our current standby: the Ritz Carlton’s lemon poundcake), baked a pecan pie, did a bunch of prep for some cooking tomorrow, took the gang to dinner tonight and scored respectably well in the Sudwerk pub quiz, came back for cake and ice cream, then ended the night with a call to Jay in Thailand.

At least a couple of pics.. the birthday celebration:

Cool that Matthew Frame could join us. Sure he’ll have stories for his parents about the raucous evening with the Petersons.

And a screen shot of the call with Jay:

Re: that call… it was a near disaster, averted by the skin of our teeth. We’d forgotten that I’d set up the zoom for 10pm and Chris/Pam and Matt had all returned to their hotels. I’d just sat down to clear out some emails before dragging myself to bed and noticed Jay’s, asking if he’d missed the call or messed up on the time calculation. I freaked, texted C and M, launched the call, emailed Jay back, resent zoom links, and w/in about 5 minutes we were all online (minus Matt). Whew. Jay sounded good! He’s got a busy life, seems engaged, fulfilled, happy… himself.

Here’s a slightly better Hollywood square of Jay:

Good ol’ Jay.