Big weekend!

After sushi dinner with 15 of the ladies, Sam and I played a little basketball in the park near my house.


What is going on here...I don't think it went in......and then there was heat...and god made the BBQ...and there was marinade for meat and vegetables alike
Here is the birthday boy (Jon) with Champagne...also eating caviar and pate
Sam with roommate Alyssa and tastyness of food by the back fence.
My buddy (and painter in crime) Ram with Camille...keep a look-out for the debut of "oval madness"
Thirty twenty-somethings sing happy birthday and the candles go out
"Spirituality Tour 2009" continues!
Nate, Adele, and I go to a Presbytarian ceremony and some of it was difficult to digest...especially the reading of the rules governing warfare in the old testament where we are reminded that when we besiege a city and they do not give themselves over then we should take the men to the knife and the women, children, and livestock as plunder...yeah...so I don't think I will incorporate that learning...
...but then we went to a space of light and whimsy. A garden made of found pieces of glass, pottery and bike parts!
Here is a little shady spot that I could have stayed a long time
Nate and Adele...come visit again :)
artsy shot of my nose

Cat flits to Boston

Bryan, Adele, Nate, Rayna, Steve, and Cat after lively and delicious tapas dinner.

Steve and I making "egg in a hole" for lunch...I mostly just wanted to cut holes out of the middle of the bread slices and then eat the bread cirlces. Suelin, Matt and I went to a gallery opening based on Second Life...I was a bit surprised that the overwhelming majority of avatars are slendar, busty and tan. There are ~20 million people with accounts on Second Life, of which ~1 million are active and 100,000 are on-line at any one time.

KicKing off warm PhillyTime

Cat with roommate James and Irish rock-band concert

At Afghani restaurant in Old City on First Friday (FYI: on the first friday of every month tons of galleries in several square blocks of old city stay open late and offer wine and cheese for hundreds of strolling city-folk to enjoy. Street vendors and performers were in full force). Emma, Cameron and Rohit met up with Sam and I, am we went to National Mechanics, Beneluxx and then a less than inspiring dance club


First trip to Go Vertical - Old City's bigggest indoor rockclimbing gym....looks like I will need to get my own equiptment soon...little sister - any advice?Continuing "Spirituality tour 2009":
this morning I went a meeting at the Ethical Society in Rittenhouse square. The talk for the day was on "Truth and Personal Responsibility" and was especially focused on the idea that we are individually responsible for the actions of the groups we are a part of - including our country's foriegn policy. The talk was bookended by member announcements, piano playing and singing about how we are all aiming to live by the highest moral standards. It was all very digestible except the statement that belief in religious stories (such as the rebirth of Jesus) is diluting attainment of truth in our communal conciousness...not sure that can be a sentiment shared by all the members...