Friday, July 08, 2005

Addendum

http://rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050708/BUSINESS/307080001

Harris RF/Communications to add 150 jobs in Rochester. Must say, this is all really good stuff. Now, hopefully, Infotonics will get some major projects we've been working on and we can add some additional good news to the local economic outlook.

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Disappointment

This past weekend was full of disappointment and, um, appointment? I had a great time this weekend at Conesus Lake. Julie's friend Don's parents have a lake house down there and we went for Ring Of Fire and fireworks. Spent most of the day there and had a great time! This was just before Don and Julie left for Arizona where Don is moving to take a job. Interestingly enough, I'm also going to do practically the same roadtrip with Rob Labowitz when he moves to Arizona.

Anyway, the lake was great. Also, the 4th of July was fantastic... other than a little rain. Went to Tim and Darlene Corio's place in the early afternoon, then spent the evening down at George's house. We ended up going to Highfalls to watch the laser lightshow and the downtown fireworks. Saw those from the roof of the Highfalls parking garage which was excellent!

And, prior to all this, had a fun night over at Rob and Chris' apartment for a little cookout on Friday night. Just your traditional hot dogs, hamburgers, et al. I also make an giant fruit salad and some jambalya. Everything got eaten, so it must have been good.

Now onto the disappointments of the past week. I think it all started at Schaller's, which I mentioned in the last post. Well, it extended into Saturday when I went to my 10-year highschool reunion. I have a bunch of issues with it. First, it cost $40 per person. Now, that's not terrible, but that's only when you think you're getting a buffet dinner. Um, well, they didn't make their numbers (in fact, weren't even close) so they cancelled the dinner portion. Oh, but no refunds! In fact, I got pulled into buy $10 worth of 50/50 tickets which they were selling to cover even more of the cost. UGH!!!! The food was pretty good, but not as advertised. They had a DJ who was TERRIBLE. He played all this music from the 70s and 80s... apparently confused that this was the class of 1995, not 1985.

The other thing that got to me was the people that were there. Other than about 5 guys (who all happen to still be in town, and I run into from time to time) the rest were folks I had little interest in speaking to. I would have hoped that some of the people I really enjoyed would have been there, but alas, they apparently had more important things to do. (Read that as: Jeff, Andy, Chris P., Karl, Larry, Ian, Chris N., Chen-Lin, Craig, etc., etc., etc.)

So, that was really a disappointment. Not to mention, the planning of the thing was marginal at best. I've done dozens of events in Rochester and I KNOW I could have done better. Granted, we're all busy, and working, but for $50 a person, I could have had an AMAZING party!

I think I'm going to plan a 13 year reunion... just for the hell of it. Very impromtu and with little overhead. If people want to come, they should come, but I'm not going to force them to send a check. Of course, an RSVP would be good, but nothing else. Guess I'd better start building a database of contact information soon. I'd bet I can collect a pretty accurate database of all the 1995 alumni even if that means doing individual searchs for folks on Google, or Anywho, or whatever.

Oh yeah, but before then, perhaps I'd better get cracking on getting my wedding invite list finalized! If Julie gets home from Arizona and I've done nothing, she will probably KILL ME!