Brian and I had dinner with Lori last night. Lori looks great and is great. Between the three of us, we have 60 years as happy married couples. Who would have thought it possible?

I'm feelin the love, Bri! I still see the kid that was at my 5th birthday party whenever you and I get together. I think the real wisdom is being OK with 5 for life. I know you prescribe to that.

Karen, I was Pete's room mate at the time and he and I also had a woodworking shop together, then. Pete is in Cambridge Vermont where he runs a (post and beam) timber frame and stress skin building company. Larry Kruse is his partner.

Jeez, that was an interesting story, Richard. I wish it WAS Macs that I had to spend all this time with. Actually, my work is done on Bill Gate's money maker. I would like to work less, but our company is struggling in this economy, and we all put in many extra hours a week unpaid, just to survive as a company. It's challenging work, I enjoy it, as well as the time I spend with my family, but that often leaves too little time for anything extra, like a social life. Luckily, I am simple-minded enough to find delight in all my moments on earth, so no harm done.

It's always a pleasure to see you, and I think it is so cool to see Lori again after all these years spent in other worlds. This really is fascinating, to look at a 50-ish former classmate with the reference of a sixth grader's impressions. I mean more time has passed since the school days than we ever spent there, and our real wisdom has formed in the years we have been apart. But not too many people will see that little child in you that is still there, and it's kind of wonderful to have that perspective. Well, I think so anyway.

And for that reason, dear classmates, I love you all.

Great trivia, how do you know so much about Pete's love life? Do I detect some jealousy? Where is Peter now?

It's right next to what was Carbur's. It used to be a Swiss place called Edelweiss or something- you know expensive little sandwichs etc. Carbur's is now the Biltmore Grill. Pete Kochalka used to work at Carbur's during what I call Pete's Summer of Love. It seemed to me that all the women in Burlington loved Pete. His kitchen manager status is probably what made him sooooo attractive. He had great personal control- escaped unscathed- and in many cases unkissed, but he was happy every single day. There were even some really gorgeous twins that were digging him for a while.

I wish you could come too, Karen!

Wish I could come. Did that used to be Carber's (sp?) at the time that we would have been in college? Seems like a hundred years ago.

It's on City Hall Park. It's a right hand turn onto St Paul St. off of Main Street (if you are going toward the lake, one block after Church St). Pacific Rim is 3/4 of a block up St. Paul on the left, just before the open lot that once was Ben & Jerry's original gas station. Let's talk before then (802-764-4353 is work for me).

That sounds good. Where is it? Yes, if anyone else out there wants to come, come!