Take the easy road

We're thinking about Vegas for the wedding now. Bellagio or the Wynn. Head out with a crew of around 20, including parents and closest friends. I like this plan. Planning a wedding = not our style. Partying in Vegas = our style. For the family we would have receptions in Gopher and Hawkeye States for my and her family, respectively. Much more sane of an idea. Haven't spoken with parents yet, but considering that they have to pay for it, I can't imagine they'll say no.

State of the Union

No, this is not about the turdburger the President laid on the country last night. OK, except for 2 things: First, I would hope the President could be a little more creative than to just re-hash every speech he's given in the past 3 years. Secondly, the freshman Representative from the 5th district of MN, our very own Michelle Bachmann, is crazy for Jesus - and apparently Jesus can be found inside W's mouth, because that's where MB was headed. Nice. Everyone needs some lovin'.

No, that's not what I'm going to post about today. Today, I'm going to give you all (and by all I mean myself - the future Mrs. Scooter doesn't even know about this) a quick re-cap of the wedding situation.
Guest list = unknown
Venue = unknown
Date = unknown
Food/caterer = unknown
Attendants = unknown (OK, I know who they would be, I'm not going to pay some transients to be my groomsmen, although it would certainly be more convenient. No, we don't know how many we are going to have)

What do we know about the wedding? It's going to be in the fall. Unless it's not. Because we don't have a venue reserved yet. We know that we're going to do hosted beer/wine (and good stuff at that - no Natty Ice). We think we know who we're going to get for a photographer, but still unknown. We know that she's not going to by some super expensive Vera Wang dress, and I'm just going to wear a suit. So that's progress. We think we're going to do an informal buffet for dinner, but we haven't talked to a caterer. We know we're getting married up here in the Northland, although we did kick around Colorado and Arizona as possible destinations, but then we decided to nix those because there were too many people to involve. And we got the impression that it wouldn't really save us much in planning or money either. Oh well. Would have been fun.

So that's it. Not too much. This weekend we'll probably hash out some more details. Since we got engaged only on Dec. 20, 06 it's only been a little over a month. I'm sure no one ever has anything concrete in only a month of planning...

2007 World Series Champions!

Woohoo! Ramon Ortiz! From Twinsbaseball.com "The Twins added Ramon Ortiz as a starting rotation option Monday with a one-year deal. Ortiz, who went 11-16 with a 5.57 ERA for Washington last season, joins a potential rotation of Johan Santana, Boof Bonser, Carlos Silva and Sidney Ponson." I am sure that every other team in the AL, save for KC and Tampa Bay, are just shaking in their boots when presented with that rotation. Are the Twins so bored in the AL Central that they are actively trying to make it more difficult for themselves? Or do they think that Morneau and Mauer, both of whom kick serious ass, BTW, are good enough by themselves to counter the 6-run deficit that Ortiz is going to spot them? Oh, yeah, and $3.1 mill for one season. Since a baseball season is 162 games long, and a starting pitcher who doesn't miss a scheduled start or get yanked from the rotation will generally pitch 32-33 starts a season (1/5 of the team's games), that works out to around $96875/start. If he wins like he did last season, at a blistering 11/33 clip, that translates to around $280,000/win, and $193,750/loss. So, I guess that makes him a bargain, right, if a win is worth 45% more than a loss?
Of course, if Ortiz does turn out to put up decent numbers (I didn't much of Silva before, well, ever) I'll happily recant and admit I was wrong. In fact, here's a bet: If Ortiz wins more than 15 games and has an ERA under 4.00, I'll, do something really humiliating.
Since no one is reading that, I'm pretty sure I'll never have to pay up.

All the cool kids are doing it

Remember when you were a kid and your parents used to ask you (inane) rhetorical questions like "If everyone else were jumping off of a cliff, would you too"? Ugh. I hated that. As my (and presumably your) parents assumed is that the jump off of said cliff was in no way controlled, or how high the cliff was, or what you were landing on etc. Anyway, so what are all the cool kids doing now? Apparently blogging and getting married. So, now I am too. Cliff metaphor? Way too apt.

OK, let me say that my fiance is a wonderful woman whom I love very much. And guess what? I've jumped off of cliffs before (always into a lake or river), because everyone else was doing it, and I lived. In fact, I enjoyed the fall. Landing, not so much.

So what's my point? I'm getting married. Date: unknown. Venue: unknown. # of guests: unknown (hopefully not more than 150...). Food/beverage: unknown. I stepped off of the cliff about a month ago, not knowing how far I would go into the abyss, and only hoping that the landing (i.e. the wedding) doesn't hurt too much. If there is one thing that I remember from cliff jumping, it's that as long as you do it right, it doesn't hurt. Do a belly flop from 50 ft up? Doesn't feel good. I'm hoping the wedding is a graceful swan dive. You're invited to come along for the fall and, if I don't get too lazy and quit on this blog thingy, the landing. Oh yeah, and there'll be plenty of other diversions along way. Because I have a short attention span and this is still shiny. OK, not literally, but you know what I mean.