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If you know where that quote came from, you win +1 Rob Reiner points.

Hai, Intarwebs! It’s me, Fraize – though you may hardly recognize me since I’ve been so absent from the blogosphere. I blame Twitter. No, really – I do! I’ve found I get my blogging yayas out by hitting my Twitter page and microblogging there, so I don’t visit the old Fraize Dotcom very often at all.

I could write several incredibly long posts about the recent goings on, but instead, I’ll just keep to a modified Twitter theme, and post some bullet-point versions of my last few weeks.

• After Sarah’s wedding, Heather and I decided to use the same place, St. John’s Episcopal Church in Centreville, as the backdrop for our wedding and reception. It’s pretty, close by everybody, and very easy going and nice people there.
• I headed up to New York City for a few days for the New York Gift Fair – a convention of people showing off their stuff in hopes the mighty ThinkGeek will buy some of it.
• While I was there, I met with the supercool and hipster-thick Buglabs. Their outreach manager took me on a tour and showed me where the magic happens.
• After that meet and greet, I headed off to NYC Resistor, a colony of hackers, and got introduced into a fascinating world of art hacks and fun mechanical and electronic projects. It was inspirational! Now I want to join the DC area version, HacDC, and make my own Reprap!
• I was supposed to stay until Wednesday, but crappy weather forced me to sneak home a day early. I avoided the ice storm with about a half hour to spare.
• I’ve been playing with Windows 7 lately, and I really really like it.
• Our gas furnace, which had been leaking gas lately, got a brand new solenoid valve. Of course, being brand new didn’t make it free from defects, so that unit also leaks gas. No heat in the house but that which glows from our collection of electronics. Ambient house temp: 69 degrees.

My aunt Nadene surprised me last week with an Evite. “Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zuidema request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Sarah Elizabeth to James Garrett Whitt on Saturday the 17th of January 2009.”

I was quite surprised, needless to say! One week? How can they put together a wedding in just one week? What surprised me more was how well the wedding and reception came together with practically no notice. All credit goes to Nadene and her sister – my other aunt – Cheryl. It was Cheryl’s church, and her American Express card, I’m told, that threw the whole thing together.

Watching James and Sarah get married was so sweet – he’s in the Army, and wore his dress uniform, and Sarah’s dress was beautiful. James was very cool, and more goofy than I expected in a soldier. Meaning, of course, that he’ll get along great with the rest of my family. Goofballs, every last one of them.

Probably the funniest moment of the night was what I heard sotto from the grandparents’ table on the groom’s side. “Q: What was her name, again? A: Sarah.” Ah, the wondrous pitfalls of fastrack weddings!

You can go and check out all the photos from the wedding here, if you’re so inclined.

This is mostly for me, so I can watch the inaugural on Hulu, live, from work. You can enjoy it yourself on Tuesday January 20, of course.