Happy 50th
Uncle Andrew
Yesterday we hosted a party in celebration of my in-laws’ 50th wedding anniversary, which actually took place a bit earlier this month.
Quite a few people had a hand in putting this together. One of Ron and Barbara’s most amazing traits is their enhanced sense of community and family, which spreads out to encompass just about everyone they interact with. They have acted as surrogate parents for a host of castaways, strays, waifs and wanderers of all ages over the years, opening their home and their hearts to them. I’ve long hoped to imitate at least a pale shadow of this kind of behavior in my own life, to varying degrees of success.
Anyway, there was no shortage of enthusiastic volunteers to help with the festivities. It was a tremendous success, and a grand time was had by all. Pictures can be viewed here, and I’ll be adding to this collection as more folks contribute.
Other than helping schlepp stuff around, my primary job was to put together a slide show commemorating the guests of honor. Being who I am, I naturally waited for the night before the party to really sink my teeth into it. By about two the next morning, with my bicuspids worn down to cabochon nubs, I finally got it finished. I think it’s really quite a nice tribute, so I made it available here as a QuickTime movie. You can also download the original full-size movie here, but it’s a biggie: 150 megabytes or so. Oh, and don’t fret about the white space in the lower third of the screen: that’s an artifact of the resizing that I don’t feel like tracking down right now, and it goes away after the intro from my parents.
Here’s to you, Hammonds; many, many happy returns.
[quicktime width=”480″ height=”497″]http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/movies/randb50slideshow480.mov[/quicktime]
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June 22nd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I always knew you really were a people person Andy. Great family pictures! Hope your folks gave you some time off while you were here in the islands. Too bad we didn’t get to hook up. Catch you next time!
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Fuck you. 😆
Sorry we weren’t able to meet up; we had a blast hanging out with the kinfolk. We’ll be back in 2010 for xmas, in all likelihood.
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:56 pm
OH DA CUTE
and dont you mean “chocolate” uncle andrew?
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
That slide show is amazing! I am not ashamed to admit it had me tearing up. I can’t believe you put that together in a day. Very well done.
Cheers
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:58 am
Fuck no. It’s my fuckin’ Web server, I’ll fuckin’ say whatever I fuckin’ want. Fuck fuck fuckity fuck penis!
Some explanation may be in order: one of my sisters’ virginal, shell-pink ears was getting burned by all the obscenities my brother and I were tossing around this vacation, so I unilaterally started replacing all invective with the word “chocolate”. It was something of a hit. But now I’m home, where the fucks run wild and free.
Oh, on a related note: Caitlin, tell your Mom to check her fuckin’ email. 😛
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:59 am
Well, thank you! It had me tearing up at times as well, and I watched it about three hundred times over the course of its inception. That was a great party. 🙂
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:13 am
Goddammit….there’s also supposed to be a dissolve between each slide! That appears to have been lost during the resizing as well. If you want to see the original format you’ll have to download the big one for now. That way you’ll be watching the version where Han shot first. 8)
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Okay, I got the dissolves back in but that put the total file size at over 45 megs, so I reduced the dimensions down to 460 x 480. That’s chocolating IT, I’m chocolating DONE with this project.
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Sorry I missed it – there are only a few hours every year that I commit to months in advance, and you nailed them 😥 I’m looking forward to the slide show (whenever it finishes downloading…)
Anyhow, welcome back! Give me a shout if you need any bees moved.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Quite a show, Andrew, all chocolates aside. I’m signing you up now for either (a) Xmas Xcapades of 2010, or (b) the Good Lord Permitting, our 60th. Anniversary
June 24th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
OMG that reminds me of a South Park episode!
oh, i think i know the answer mr. garrison!
[mocking]
shut up, fat boy!
dont call me fat, you fucking jew!
did u just say the f word?!
jew?!
no, he means fuck, you cant say fuck in school you fucken fat ass!
!
why the fuck not?
!
dude, he just said fuck again!
!
fuck?
!
whats the big deal, its not like its hurting anybody! fuckitty fuck fuck fuck fuck!
how would u like to see the school counselor?!
how’d u like to suck my balls!
and so on and so forth.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Oooo, Caitlin, I’m gonna tell your fuckin’ Mom on you…. 😯
June 26th, 2009 at 9:55 am
OK, Caitlin (aka Miss Teen Chocolate Potty Mouth)…you are so BUSTED! Go to your room!!
June 27th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
ACK, THE GRANDPARENT TATTLE TALE OF DOOM!
HE SHALL BRING FORTH THE MOM-POCALYPSE!
SAVE ME!