A House-Warming, of sorts...

Last night, I hosted a BBQ for Team Madman (my men's volleyball team) at my house. I have a great place for entertaining so it all worked out that we wanted to have the team to get together and my place was/is free.

Jesse Paulson did all the work; I just kept the door unlocked for folks to be able to come in. Here are a couple of shots of the night -- feels so great to have this place be 'warmed' again already! Not even 24 hours of being here and already a party. I love it.

It was an awesome time altogether -- most notably because it included some very close friends, but this time, it also included the opportunity to get to know Mike & Jamie much better. And the survey results are in -- they're awesome (Mike above with Steph Paulson; Jamie below having her beer poured by Jesse in the kitchen). The other thing that was most brilliant about the night is I'm once again in the "short height" category when it comes to being home. I've felt tall of late in NYC, but last night, I'm back in the world of giants: Jesse, 6'3"; Mike, 6'4"; Bryce, 6'5"; Alan, 6'5" -- and those were just some of the guys from the team. Good times.

Today's a lazy day -- brunch with John & Amy, cutting Michael Pidduck's hair, dinner with Sally and the Stac(e)ys. This is my life; I'm happy to have it back to a degree!