I'm really not going to have time to give this one the length it deserves tonight, due to the fact that I'm tired enough to fall over, it's after midnight, and I have work in the morning. If by some freak happenstance I do give it the length it deserves, the sleep deprivation department will be getting a serious wake up call. Ok, so that last clause made no sense. Let's get on with it.

It all began (so to speak) this morning, when I did something I very rarely do. I got dressed up, and even wore a tie! (That's a 1 in 1000000 event.) When I was satisfied that I was ready enough to go, I got in Tobias, gift in hand, and made the journey to the church, where the one we all know and love as Neelix was scheduled to be wed.

On my way in, I saw Jaeger, an official usher, so I knew I must have been in the right place (as if there was ever any doubt). As was revealed previously to some on irc, this was indeed the first wedding ceremony I attended during my adult life. It was a worthy one. Bride and groom both dressed in nearly all white, everyone walked up the isle, the minister did the speech thing, and they both said the "I do." phrase. Well, that was quick, easy, and painless. (Speaking from the perspective of someone who walked in and sat like a bump, passively observing. Ah hah haha ha!)

Then came the reception. On the way in, everyone got the opportunity to shake the hands of the bride, groom, and parents of both. It almost made me feel like asking for an autograph. Having not seen Neelix in person since a year and a half ago (Y2K post-apocalyptic fest), it was good to finally meet up again. Despite being bombarded with people from every direction (along with the zillion other barely-imaginable stresses of a wedding), he seemed excited to see me as well. Once friends, always friends.

As I entered the reception hall, an official usher informed me that I was to sit at the honarary wedding party table at the end of the room, and pointed out my spot next to Linknoid. Indeed an honor.

After everyone was filed in, the new couple cut the cake, had some photo moments, and then we all got cake, alien (Romulan?) beverages, and other goodies.

After the reception tapered off, Jaeger and the others decided to change into some more comfortable clothes. This sounded like an extremely good idea to me, so I took Tobias on a quick run back to the Compound, switched to my standard attire, and returned a half hour prior to the scheduled dinner. I found Jaeger hanging out with Humblik and Linknoid. He claimed to be putting a Memento-style Changelog entry into his Visor. We'll just have to wait and see how that reads, won't we?

For the dinner, Jaeger, Linknoid, Humblik, and myself took seats on the end of a table, with the rest of Jaeger's family sitting next to us. Food was haystacks. Most delicious.

After dinner, as the couple began would would become a present-opening marathon, the four geekers played "who's that scifi actor" trivia, discussed FreeTrade, theorems, and about a zillion other things I can't possibly remember.

After a couple hours, they managed to work through their mountains of presents. And appeared to be quite exhausted by it all. lol.

We helped in performing some minor cleanup tasks, reminisced about past times (or something like that), sang "Rain on your wedding day", and badgered Neelix about his email address forwarding.

After the conclusion of that (I think it was nearing 2100), we decided to head back to the Boulder Compound to watch some movies and Farscape. Humblik rode with Jaeger, Linknoid rode with me.

Upon arrival, Humblik and Jaeger attached Zhaan to the big tv. (Using the name of Humblik's computer in the context of watching Farscape episodes could get potentially confusing, couldn't it?) We watched Crackers Don't Matter, from Season 2. During the course of the episode, Jaeger's entire family joined in to watch, one by one. That is Quality Television Programming[tm]!

After that, we watched A Pyromaniac's Love Story, which Jaeger's sister (does she even have a handle?) had described to us earlier as highly amusing. VHS, pan-and-scan. (That's old codespeak for "ineligible for movielog entry". Not that I'd be trying to squeeze one in at this hour anyway.) That movie inspired me to think that one of these days, it might be time to again attempt to tackle the you-know-what issue #69 of rambling topics. But certainly not tonight.

After that, a very tired Bitscape departed and returned to the Louisville Compound to write an abbreviated synopsis about the events of the day.

Almost an hour of typing. I'd say that pretty much covered the essentials, without going totally overboard, ala Colorado Linux Info Quest 2001.

Now I'll get a few short hours of sleep, wake up, and be back to the grind, but perhaps with a sort of renewed inspiration, which I may or may not elaborate about online at a later date.

Cutting the wire...