Today is Mom & Dad’s 30th anniversary. We celebrated last night at Carol and Bob’s with Ted, Grant, and Sue in attendance. The night was capped with an impromptu, madcapped noise-making session featuring Mom on her singing crystal glass, Ted on the hand-squirt, Grant on the monkey howel, and myself on the two-thumbed flute. Somewhere in there was the theme from “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”

Danny and Nicole thought it was great. Dad and Sue figured we had gone crazy. In fact, Sue started pulling her hair out and screaming at one point which was a nice addition to the ensemble.

Got to wear jeans to work today as myself and the crew made room for the data processing consolidation into our training-room-turned-closet. Didn’t want to ruin our nice clothes with any laser juice.

Severe cost-cutting plans are underway. Shock will set in shortly among the surviving troops. The “new guy,” Brian Pomrenke has been left standing, unscathed, looking about, wondering how all the flying shrapnel missed him.