Oops, this is a little out of order.

I wrote the essence of this on Friday, November 7, 2003.

The burning question discussed on the way to Darrell’s today was whether UCONN’s women’s basketball team could beat an average, big (as in size of school) high school boy’s basketball team. Dad and Randy were very anti-giving-the-girls-a-chance, they believe the physical difference is just too great. I’m not so sure. I think they underestimate how skilled this women's basketball team is. They have the best player in the nation and have won the last two NCAA titles. I don’t know what the outcome of a game like that would be, but I do think the women could score on the boys fairly consistently, based on their superior skill, system, and level of execution. The athletic gap would be substantial, and on defense, I don’t know how well they’d hold up. But it would be an interesting game.

The first round of seeing lots of people that I don’t normally see happened last night at the rehearsal dinner. Louise did a “green froggy golf” theme in honor of Konrad’s affinity for a particular pukey shade of the color. I didn’t get the memo, so while a lot of people were doing their best to--in the words or our friend Michael Denton--commit “fashion suicide,” I dressed ordinarily. We got to sing “A Frog Went A-Courtin’” to customized lyrics, and Louise furnished us with little green froggy handkerchiefs around our necks, so we weren’t entirely green-less.

The second round was after the rehearsal at a gym. Lots of Bible School friends. Organizationally, nothing was getting done, so Heidi put me in charge. Yippee, that was fun.

The third round will be at the wedding itself, which I’ll be leaving to anytime. As I write it’s 11:23 local time and we must be leaving in the next 15 minutes or so.

Kon’s getting married. Wow.