More congratulations due
While my announcement of Katie’s labor was premature—Satchmo is still refusing to come out and say hi, not even a wave—I’m pleased to highlight two engagements: that of my friend/best man Patrick and that of friend/coworker Geoff.
I’ve known Patrick since the summer of 1992, when his parents invited over a few boys who were new to Mater Dei, the Catholic school I was starting for middle school. I recall being very annoying and Patrick being very patient as I struggled to make new friends throughout seventh grade in a radically different environment than my co-ed elementary school. But then eighth grade came along, and we discovered a mutual love of recording our own play-by-plays, of playing NHL ’93 until the Sega Genesis burned out, and of hand-animating the reproductive organs of dissected frogs.
Paddy and I have helped each other through tough times, even while sticking the man-code of refusing to talk on the phone to just “catch up”. So I’m thrilled that he’s engaged to Rachel, someone with ties to his roots in both D.C. and Chicago, someone caring, and someone, quite possibly, brighter than one of the brightest people I know.
And congrats to Geoff as well, whom I found out is engaged as well, though I’m going to need details, Geoff.
And another round of congratulations to Sharon and Mike, whose baby, Adam Nicholas, is way cuter now that he’s more than two days old like when we first saw him. (Babies look weird when they’re brand new!)
