Brothers

First, I have some great news! I finally have my car back seven weeks after not being able to drive home. It’s been a long journey with a lot of phone calls to and from the repair shop, but now it’s done for good. A big thank you goes out to the friends who picked me up an hour from their house and drove me all around town over the weekend before finally driving me to the place my car was stored. Also, a big thank you to my parents who let me use their credit card after mine got declined. Finally a big no-thanks-to-you to my bank for once again locking my card and not answering the phone on a weekend.

This past week was pretty great. We won our volleyball game on Wednesday and I would like to attribute it to the fact that people are now showing up for both games AND practices which means we are starting to know how people react and their capabilities as servers, setters and hitters. This coming week we have three games in three days, so we’ll start to have a good grasp on people’s game time skills.

On Sunday (while visiting my friends) we went and saw an improve group perform at a local venue. It was hilarious and really well done. The audience was full of a lot of little kids, so most of the suggestions were about sports or jumping rope, but the cast took it in stride and made for some good times with what they had been given. Improv seems kind of like my life set on a stage for everyone to see; I think I could do it.

The flight I took to get from here to where my friends are was on a brand new airplane. It still had the new leather smell and we were threatened by the flight attendants that if we spilled anything on the seats or carpet, they would toss us out. When I left my home airport, shorts were appropriate. When I landed, I quickly found out that was no longer the case. I, thinking the entire nation is currently like wherever I am at the moment and being the incredibly intelligent man I am (handsome, too), packed only shorts for the whole weekend. It turned out that wasn’t a terrible idea because the weather warmed up considerably in the afternoon; I will not be repeating that anytime soon though.

One of my friends back home had his brothers in town for the weekend and said he doesn’t think they look similar at all. Take a look at the picture below and see if you concur. When I saw it, I accidentally picked out the wrong person as my friend if that gives you any indication as to their similarity.