Ok, ok. I know that the postings have stopped for some time and this is a really long break to have taken in updating the site but we wanted to get the site switched over to its new home and everything before a lot more work went into it. So here it is. Hopefully a lot of work will be going into the site in the near future so you can see all of the dramatic changes happening to it. Please email me and tell me what you think. We will be looking at a lot of new color schemes trying to come up with what everyone thinks is appropriate. We are looking for a brighter, happier look than we have had in the past.

In addition to all of the changes going on to the site, we would also like to welcome our newest close house friend, Dominica, to the fold. We met her at our friends Phil and Kate’s Wedding and now she has become part of the gang. So we just wanted to wish her a big Llama welcome to the gang. More news on her will be soon to follow.

June 8, 2001: Wedding Rehearsal in Norwich

Today is Phil and Kate’s wedding rehearsal in Norwich, New York. I am best man in the wedding and so will be driving out to Norwich for the rehearsal. This will be my first time ever in Norwich. It is not a region of New York that I am very familiar with.

I drove out to Norwich from Ithaca this afternoon.  The drive really isn’t too bad at all.  Less than two hours.  An hour and a half if you do it right since I live on the east side of Ithaca and do not need to cross the city to get out here.

The drive went really well and I managed to drive straight to Kate’s parents’ house without making a single wrong turn the entire way (this was in the days before GPS or even having electronic maps on your mobile phone!)  The rehearsal went well.

Afterwards everyone else decided to stay at the Howard Johnson’s Inn in Norwich but since I lived so close, was carpooling with people and was short on cash I decided that it would be best if I drove back to Ithaca both tonight and tomorrow night.

It was quite late when I pulled back into Ithaca.  Not much sleep for me tonight.  Tomorrow will be a busy day.

Well, my internet connection doesn’t seem to be any better today. Hello llamas! One of our fellow llamas from Rochester is down to visit us this week. Joe showed up last night. He did not make it, however, for the weekly llama night at the Crooked Board in Slayterville Springs. You know, all you can eat awesome wings for $10. Whoo-hoo. Bob and I got plenty of wings though, so don’t worry about us:)

Sorry that this has to be short but I am too busy today again. Make sure to write to Josh and wish him a happy 25th birthday. Or better yet, go to Blue Mountain and send him an e-card. He is feeling the arthritis already. One quarter of a century. Actually is birthday was like three days ago and I am a big poopy head and I forgot to call him.

Wow, my internet connection is so slow this morning that I can barely update this at all! Sorry that the updates have been coming so slowly. My computer has been down for the last week and will be going down again this week when I install a new processor in it (I am working on my old Pentium II 350 right now.) I am upgrading to a Pentium III 700. That will be nice. All the better for Quake II and Unreal:)

Nate got a personalized toothbrush that is suction cupped to our downstairs bathroom mirror. Just thought that you all should know that. Have a good one. Talk to you all soon.

Ok, so Nate and I went out house hunting the other day (yes, the llamas are shopping for a house of their own.) We aren’t going to buy for a long time but we want to have a good idea of what we want. If anyone knows of a nice place that is going to be for sale in Tompkins County, let us know. But, while we were out we went looking for sheep guarding llamas! We found a flock of sheep with a lone llama on Lounsberry Road in Caroline. It is a very cute llama too. We were quite impressed. We also think that we found someone who might want to sell the llamas their llama. We are very happy. We did find someone with a farm that is going to let us keep our mascot llama there. So, we are very excited llamas as you can tell. Llamas are so cool. Did you know that they make wonderful pets, fit easily into a minivan and have small, odorless dung? Well, it’s true. You should all learn more about llamas.

Speaking of bizarre barnyard incidents…Nate and I were back home on our farms earlier today and we went by one of our old haunts to get some awesome bacon-turkey hot subs. Anyway, we found the world’s coolest key chain. It is a pooping pig! Yes, on a key chain! I know that no one is going to believe this but it is true. It is a small pink pig on a key chain. When you squeeze it, it poops. How weird. I will get a picture to put up so that you all can see it. We had to buy one since no one was going to believe us. The sub shop said that they were all out of cows (or we would have bought more) and never had any llamas but had sold out five cases of these things already! Holy cow, or pig, as the case may be. Or should I say holy POOP!!

Nate and I spent the day yesterday in Rochester seeing Rent. What a great musical. Bob drove out to Ohio to see a friend of ours and Loopy decided to just camp out at the house alone.

I can’t believe how warm it was yesterday. Weren’t we getting snow last week? It hit 74° F yesterday. That is just screwed up!

Don’t forget that easter is coming up this weekend so make sure to stock up on chocolate now. Mmmmmm… Cadbury cream eggs!