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                                Birthday Party

Today was Mark's [1] birthday party and John, the paper millionaire of a
dotcom, was hosting it for us. Unlike the last party [2] John threw, there
were no strippers.

It was just Mark's very close friends and family (his father). We sat around,
eating freshly grilled burgers, warmed macaroni salad and cold baked beans
(their maid is from another country and doesn't quite have our cuisine down
pat), soda and beer. All of it good. And one delicious chocolate cake that
was to die for.

Later on, we marveled at John's 800 gallon salt water aquarium, home to a few
dozen fish, a dozen snails, live coral, some shrimp and two suicidal fish
that kept wanting to be sucked into the filtration system. Mark and John
spent some time keeping the fish from suicide runs (or who knows, meybe they
get a rush from doing that) until they seemed to stop it.L

Afterwards, we ended up watching a forgettable film (Milk Money [3]) and
American Beauty [4] on a digital HBO broadcast on John's 72" HDTV. Wow. HDTV,
if you've never seen it, is simply incredible—it's like being in a movie
theater.

[1] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2000/08/05.1
[3] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110516
[4] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0169547

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