Of Miles Rausch

Bryce and Lindsey

This week­end was a good­bye week­end for Bryce and Lind­sey. See, Bryce is my brother, and he has asked Lind­sey to marry him, so, since she is going to Grad School in Philly, he is going with her, and they have an apart­ment, and they’ll be there for two years or so (or that’s what I heard), so, since they’re leav­ing a lit­tle over a week from now, there was a get-together at Justin Kaiser’s par­ents’ house to cel­e­brate (or mourn or whatever).

Sat­ur­day, around 2:15ish, Bryce and Holli and I went to get Lind­sey. From there we drove to the fire­hall to get ice. Bryce asked me if I remem­bered the com­bi­na­tion, which I didn’t. Then at the end of our ice excur­sion, he asked me again, and I remem­bered. Much to my delight. We added our drinks to the cooler at Boy’s (Justin Kaiser’s) and waited for more guests to arrive. Dur­ing this time, Holli and I gave them our present, drink­ing glasses with cool stems, and Boy gave them his presents, legal soft­ware. Once enough were assem­bled, Bryce began writ­ing up a bocce ball tour­na­ment. Holli and I were on a team, and we were team “Gob­ias”, as in “Gob­ias some coffee”.

The plan at first was to divide into groups and go two games at one time, but we were thwarted by the game (only one white ball, known as a “brick”, was avail­able). So, we played as one big group. Holli and I lost. It’s hard to tell who won. Then we went in, rested a bit, then Ryan showed up and Chris left. So we played another game, but Ryan kept throw­ing it really far, and I didn’t feel like exac­er­bat­ing my foot­ball injury, so I usu­ally just dropped my ball near my feet.

Then we went in, sat around for a bit, and ordered pizza. Holli and I vol­un­teered to go get it, so when it was ready, we hopped into Bryce’s van and tried in vain to get out, but I have no idea how long that van is, and I could see Tyler get­ting kinda upset if I turned his bug into mod­ern art, so I played it care­ful. Too care­ful. 120 min­utes later, I was pulling out of the dri­ve­way, annoyed and con­fused, like after watch­ing The Da Vinci Code. But we nabbed the pizza, drove back, Ryan left, and we ate it.

After / dur­ing the meal, I popped in a DVD. It was one I made for Bryce and Lind­sey. It was basi­cally a slideshow put to music (my skillz at iMovie are still quite lim­ited) but I tried my best to make it touch­ing and per­sonal. Unfor­tu­nately, I don’t have that many pic­tures of Lind­sey, so I had put out a request for pic­tures to the home email account, hop­ing that Bryce wouldn’t see the email (which he didn’t), but appar­ently Mom didn’t think it was worth her time to respond, so I never received any help what­so­ever. Thanks. Linds, I’m sorry you aren’t more preva­lent. I really tried. I did.

After the DVD, I gave Bryce and Lind­sey a lit­tle packet each. The packet con­tained a CD that I made for them, called “Heay Brother and Sister-In-Law”, and a copy of the DVD. I hope they enjoy them. I felt like I should do some­thing for them, and I like doing cre­ative things, and it helped me learn my Mac. It was a win-win-win situation.

After that we began one of the longest poker games in his­tory, and I ended up win­ning $30 by crush­ing every­one in my path. My final vic­tim was Tony, and before that, Tyler. Holli was an early casu­alty. I knew I had the cards, so I bet high, but she saw me, then I bet high again, try­ing to scare her off, but she pro­claimed being stub­born, and saw my bet. I halved her chips in one hand. Eek. Then the losers played Apples 2 Apples.

I hope it was a good time. I had fun, but it was way later than I wished to stay. Oh, well. Good luck Bryce and Lind­sey! We’ll be out to visit as soon as we can!

I uploaded the movie to here, and this is another movie I made with iMovie ;). Yes, Chris, I made these on a Mac, and I’m typ­ing this post on a Mac!

Pho­tos are here.