seed crystal...

do you remember taking tests... long exams, where you've worked through everything, and you're pretty much done... maybe you could look it over more, or run through your work again--certainly something to better your performance could be done--but you just can't bring yourself to do it...

you look up and around the room... most people are still sitting there working... the geniouses have trickled out already buzzing with their smug comparisons of whose methods were superior...

and you're done... forget it... maybe you'll just sit there in the chair and think about your upcoming holiday or something like that... too embarassing to get up quite yet...

and then, some gets up and leaves... and then another... the dam has effectively broken down... and then you get up in leave...

it takes that first one--that first person to say to themselves "screw this... i'm out of here..." and they're off...

what is that peer pressure all about anyway...??? I don't know... but today, i think i was that seed person... and it's quite the honor...

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anybody following the sox?

i can't believe this move... i'm absolutely giddy out here... it's just ridiculous... i can't believe it... hard to believe it's even true...

just shocking, shocking... what a development...

enough said...

well, that's it...

but before we go, i promised another shot from life here and rochester, so here it is:







left, that's my boy doc scott--sharp as a whip--and on the right, that's dave--also a crackerjack mind...

this is us, again, at binkeys...

and that's it... happy t-day everyone--i'm off to the timpe family holiday...