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2000: A Change of Plans
2001:
Kill the Wabbit
2002: 
Chutes and Ladders
2003: 
Wild Kingdom
2004: 
The Changeling
2005: 
Dear Dr. X
2006: 
15 Things About Books
2007: 
Social Debut
2008:
  Why I Hate Facebook
2009:  Crawling Back to Life
2010: My Friend Diane
2011:  A Seanachie Convention
2012: J-E-L-L-O
2013: Welcome Back
2014: Book Meme - Part 1
2015: So How is Sheila Doing?
2016: Smorgasbord
2017: Sunday Stealing
2018  The picnic MUST go on!
2019: Lacie Day


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Camelot

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"An Echo in the Bone"


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SURPRISE!

9 July 2020

Well, we couldn't go to Santa Barbara to celebrate Tom's 50th birthday, so the family in Santa Barbara threw him a surprise Zoom party.

Walt's sister managed to get 16 members of the family from all over the country - California, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Maryland -- to get together for a zoom conference.  Tom was supposedly coming to Alice and Joe's for dinner and when he got there, there was a zoom screen all set up for him, under an umbrella to keep the glare off the screen.

This being the Sykes/Baur family, things were chaotic.  But Walt settled in with a bottle of wine...

I couldn't sit with him because my cell phone was too close to his tablet and there was distortion, so I had to join in from my recliner.

"Delicate Pooh" even got out of his mayonnaise jar to wish a happy birthday to the kid who was his best friend for a long time.

I have spoken often about "Hour Baur" -- the fact that this family can't say "goodbye" in under 60 minutes -- so we wondered how Zoom's 45 minute time limit would go.  And yes, at 45 minutes, we were cut off, but most people logged back on again to start "Hour Baur-ing."  I let Walt and Ned do the second round while I worked on our pizza dinner.

So I think Tom really got a sense of a "birthday party" even if we had to do it digitally.  How lucky we are to be living in an age where we can do stuff like this!
 

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