Wednesday night, Ric and I met with a group of friends from college. We haven't seen most of these folks in 10 years, and some of them maybe not since graduation. And most of them are the same way with respect to each other. Pretty sad considering most of 'em are St. Louis residents, and have been ever since college, or maybe went away to grad school / med school for a few years and then came back.

Anyway, it was really good to catch up. One of the guys was in town from CA where he works for Pixar - we always knew he'd have the most interesting, or most exotic, life. He was in a bar band at Mississippi nights for a while after college, and we all spent a fair bit of time there... He also toured with Jimmy Buffet for a while as a roadie or some such. Loves his work at Pixar but it's cute to watch him pull out the pictures of his 4yo twin daughters and talk about them.

Some of these guys I remember mostly from the amount of time they spent playing cards in the In Town Students lounge, or from parties attended and .. beverages... consumed. When we got together, the talk was of work, and kids, and dishes being prepared for Thanksgiving and such... I think maybe there were half a dozen alcoholic beverages consumed, total, among all of us, and the last of us left at about 9 pm.