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Whatsup! Nick and I just watched ‘O’, and recent movie about a high school basketballstart, following the Shakespeare Othello theme. A classic and effectivetragedy. One of the extras on the DVD was a 1922 version, which we alsowatched. It is a silent movie, where they display text on the screen waytoo long for us modern…

Hi all, Looks like I missed my every other week email last weekend, but I had anexcuse. Nick and I spent last weekend up in the cities at the state highschool chess tournament. He won his first 3 games on Saturday, but didn’tfair so well on Sunday. They had some good players up there! His…

Strange how you don’t miss people until they are gone. I miss cousin TimDierenfield (for those who did not hear, he died in a fire on Friday). Isaw Tim last summer for the first time in 30 years. I had not thoughtabout him too much before or since then. I have thought much about him…

Yo, Happy Leap day. Made it by 5 minutes! We just finished our taxes today. Laurie and I filed joint in ’03 and shehas been working all week to get her tax data gathered. We needed to getthem done early so we could finish applying for financial aid at the schoolsNick applied to. Last week…

Hi Ho, Zack has a friend named Derek who got this idea last weekend. He thoughtwe should clean, insulate, sheetrock, and paint our garage. He was mostenthusiastic and offered his services, so I couldn’t say no. Last weekendwe rented one of those big 20 yard dumpsters and started deleting old junkout of the garage (deleting…

Greets, Big 18th birthday for a couple of boys here today! Pizza and movies foreveryone. Nick wanted to go to 2 movies today, so he picked a comedy forLaurie (‘School of Rock’) and a action flick for me (some movie with ‘TheRock’ ex-wrestler in it). Tomorrow Zack has invited a boatload of friendsover for a…