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April 01, 2009
birthday insanity
I got a call from my bud mess on Monday:
Mess: "Okay, so I've got a question for you and it requires a yes or no. Can you take Friday off from work?"
Me: "Well, I've got training all day."
Mess: "Sounds like something you could skip."
Me: "Hmmm."
Mess: "See, here's what's going on. This is about your birthday and It involves a fourteen hour drive, seven hours each way. But it was only until today that it turned out to be good for you to go also. There were lawyers involved, so things weren't certain."
Me: "Lawyers? Does your wife know about this?"
Mess: "Yes, she's in on it, as is Heather, Dan, nbh, etc. We can't show up until at least 1p.m. on Friday."
Me: "Well, my sister and bro-in-law arrive early evening on Friday and I don't want to miss seeing them on Friday night. I miss my family!"
Mess: "I can probably move things up so we can be back in time for you to spend Friday evening with your family. Let me call and get back to you."
Me: "But if I say no then you'll have to make that drive all by yourself."
Mess: "You can say no, it's okay, I was already making the drive anyway. This new development necessitates you coming. Or at least, it'd be nice if you could come."
Me: "Hmm. Let me call you right back, I'm going to call nbh."
*cf calls nbh*
*nbh says he's gonna call mess and get back to me as he is in the know*
*nbh calls me back and says, "You should go and I'm coming too!"*
Logistics: someone has to get my sister and bro-in-law at the airport because we will not be back in time for that. Done. Can we stay at our friend Elke's on Thursday night in NJ? Done.
So, basically, we leave tomorrow late afternoon on a train (I have no idea why we can't drive our car to/from this location) to Newark. Mess picks us up in Newark and we drive to Elke's. Wake up butt ugly early Friday morning and arrive...somewhere. Then barrel back to Boston so we can have dinner with my family.
My co-workers guesses as to what this surprise is: exotic pet (prob. penguin), property, adopted child from Malawi.
Whee!!!
Posted by jennj at April 1, 2009 08:36 PM
Clue-ments:
A birthday adventure! How fun is that?! Can't wait to hear about it!!
Posted by: Donna at April 2, 2009 01:39 PM
Hm..., I think perhaps you'll become telenauts.
You get to test-drive a new teleportation device so don't worry, you'll probably be back in Boston in time to meet your sister and bro-in-law at the airport. :-)
The lawyers are there to make sure you sign that contract about not suing, even if you end up in Pyongyang or get stuck in a Groundhog Day situation... ;-)
Posted by: TJ at April 2, 2009 02:26 PM
TJ- telenauts! That'd be awesome! Legal paperwork would also have to cover not ending up like the boy in willy wonka too.
Posted by: cf at April 2, 2009 06:13 PM
Those of y'all on twitter know what happened yesterday and where we went. The one thing is I the photo on twitter is not very good. The cake looks so much better than that picture, but y'all will see that once the show airs.
We will take more pictures and I am sure CF will post those soon.
Regardless - It was totally worth it.
Posted by: mess at April 4, 2009 11:03 AM
mess - totally.
Posted by: cf at April 6, 2009 01:50 PM