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Sunday, November 09, 2003
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Alaska is such a small town. Here I sit at the O'Hare Alaska Airlines gate with all sorts of folks that I know: Tim Aicholtz (a fellow GCI employee), Aron and Pat Wolf (very good friends), and Elizabeth Bickers, one of the consultants working on our big project.
This is just like the old days (the 60's) when you always knew half of your fellow passengers on the Seattle to Anchorage flight.
2:22:39 PM 
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So, it's not every day that one crosses the Mississippi and then ends up in Alaska. We left Iowa City this morning at 11:15 AM, zoomed through corn country, crossed the Mississippi into the Land of Lincoln around Noon and arrived at O'Hare at 2:30 PM.
As I type, I'm at the Alaska Airlines O'Hare gate. Our plane leaves at 6:00 PM CST and arrives in Alaska at 9:52 PM AST (12:52 AM CST). A very long day indeed.
The Ski Boy is headed off to Colorado and Seattle for a week of depositions. He gets home on Friday evening. We are certainly a traveling pair!
1:33:14 PM
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Great Verbal Momments of the Wedding Weekend
- Your Dad and my Dad are emotional moment vultures.
Jenny, Jeff's daughter commenting to Alix, Peter's daughter while observing Jeff and Peter snapping photographs like madmen.
- Mother, I told you a long time ago that you are not a suitable patient for me.
Jeff, who is a doctor, responding to Muby when Muby asked Jeff to change the dressing on her leg. Muby fell and badly gashed her leg (seventeen stitches) at the Cincinnati airport on her way here to Iowa City.
- You're very pretty. You look just like me.
Susie's exclamation to her niece, Jenny. I have to say that Jenny is very pretty and she is a dead ringer for Susie.
5:43:07 AM
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So, I've figured out that there's a reason why so many movies revolve around weddings. All that stuff about family dramas and tramas is true!
Neither side of my family is particularly large so I'm not all that hip to complex familial relations. As a result, this weekend was quite an quite an immersion in Family 101.
Here's the breakdown: "The Siblings," (Bruce's brothers and sisters), consist of two brothers and two sisters; Jeff and Peter, and Vicki and Susie. The Sibs have a total of seven offspring (all in their twenties): Alix, Seth, Justin, Rachael, Ryan, Adam, and Jenny. Bringing up the rear are the two significant others: Allie (Justin's girlfriend) and me.
From my limited experience, I'd have to say that's a large group. But, other than a few small bumps in the road (Susie getting left behind when we went for coffee), we all got along famously. However, I will say that family relationship dymanics are really quite amazing. Each person in our immediate circle has a relationship with every other person and the dynamics sort of combinatorily permutate. It becomes quite complex. Last night, at the end of our two days of various family events, celebrations, and outings, the little Slat Rat head was spinning!
5:35:11 AM
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