Monday, April 03, 2006

Rites of Spring

Happy Opening Day, everyone. I'm getting that free preview of the Extra Innings package and pondering yet again if I should subscribe to it for the season. So far, it's been fun to watch everything, although I still haven't got all my teams in order to figure out which games are really worth my time.

And of course with Opening Day comes the end of the NCAA tournament, which I always thought was a weird 1-2 punch because baseball gets pushed to the back in many places by the end of what should be a celebratory day. But then again, that's what the new Sunday night opener does, sorta (although mostly it throws people off since you're not sure if it's an exhibition or for real; same goes with the new Thursday NFL opener).

If baseball is one way you know spring is here, the other would be the layer of pollen sitting on my car right now. Hopefully it didn't aggravate too many allergies of the fine folks who came into town this weekend for JD's wedding.

The ceremony was at a beautiful new church that opted to maintain a more traditional look in the sanctuary, while also doubling as a sort of Marriott almost everywhere else. The ceremony itself was very nice, and it was very cool to see a bunch of quizbowl folks in town as well.

However, the one highlight that many of us will remember is having the Easter Bunny join us for some of the groosmen photos. For whatever reason, the Easter egg hunt was last Saturday (two weeks before Easter), and thus the bunny and a lot of kids were milling about as we were doing photos. Eventually I'll get a hold of one of those photos.

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