THE CAT IN THE HAT

Hey Carron -
Sorry for the lack of news...it's been a crazy summer so far.
I write this from Macon, GA. I am traveling a significant portion of the time for work, and when I'm home we're running to one baseball game or another. My older son plays for Iowa City High, my stepson plays for CR Washington, and my youngest son is on a competitive 11-and-under team as well. Big fun! Good thing I love the sport. Off to a meeting...
Steve (Dorman)

Steve, Kathy, Carron, and Scott in spirit!

Steve, Steph, Mark, and Al

Melissa and Steve, Kathy, Brenda, and Steph

Kathy, Doug Wortman, Brenda, Jeff, Steve and his wife, Melissa

Alright Carron -

Since all the photos of me showing up on the blog are goofy alcohol-related ones, here are a few respectable shots, including:

My wife Melissa and me at a pizza parlor in Columbia, MO.
My daughter, Katrina, and me at Wrigley Field.
My son, Patrick, step-daughter, Erika, and me at Wrigley.
My stepson, Derek, and his date and on Homecoming night this year.
My son, Ryan, and a new friend at a canine rescue event this summer.

I'll spare you pet photos since the email would end up about 100Mb. Since I've missed the get-together activities, here's my brief bio:

Survived college at Cornell, moved to Illinois, worked, went to grad school, moved back to Iowa, more grad school, taught at Iowa, got a bank job, moved to Missouri, moved back to Iowa...live in Cedar Rapids and work for General Electric (10 years!) designing statistical and economic models (go figure). I spend about half my time here and half in Connecticut. Don't ask. It's a helluva commute.

Married for the second time, 5 kids: oldest daughter is a junior at Iowa (and a Burge RA!), #2 daughter is in Yr 2 at Kirkwood, son and stepson are sophomores at Iowa City High and Cedar Rapids Washington, respectively, and youngest son is in 5th grade in Iowa City. My leisure time seems to be spent at somebody's football/basketball/baseball game. Fortunately City High and Wash's colors are both red.

We have had a few instances where the boys have played against each other, so that's fun.

I hope to get to one of the gatherings you've organized...

Good job on that!

Later,

Steve

PS: I ran into.... DeDe, er, Diann Peak...in Chicago at O'Hare, both of us trying desperately to get home late one night from the east coast. Fortunately, we both made the same flight. Ironic that I have to go to Chicago to see a classmate who lives in CR...

(Photo from Curt Shipley)

Here is a photo that I believe was taken at the University of Iowa, possibly during freshman year. The beer cans didn't look familiar. Upon close analysis of the photo, I determined that we were drinking Red, White and Blue. A quick Google search turned up the following review of this beer, which pretty much says it all:

"This stuff brings back the carefree college days when we'd scrounge for beer money in seat cushions and dirty clothes pockets.

This was the beer we'd buy when we didn't even have enough money for Milwaukee's Best.

It's basically fermented rice and corn (maybe just plain old sugar too) and a ton of co2. If there is any barley or hops it's not enough to matter. The key is to get it really cold and drink it really fast--- at least until you're drunk enough to be insensate.

One characteristic? Pale-- think diluted urine, fizzy, no body, tastes faintly like corn with metallic aftertaste. Light bodied to the extreme like carbonated water with 4% alcohol.

Drinkability? Yeah right, this stuff is for getting drunk when you have no money."

Carron:

I think it's time to draw Dorman back out of the woodwork around here.

Curt

Two drunken bastards.

The one on the left had a perfect ACT score....or damn near.

The one on the right is some big-wig attorney.

Party on.