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well, today was the last day of work for a couple of weeks. it is the last of the last before the wedding. we are packing now and head to austin today. the wedding is on friday and the it is off to san francisco.

i treated myself to a bit of a treat for the trip. i finally own a good camera. i purchased a nikon d50 digital SLR. it is really amazing and i am already excited about learning how to use it to take real photographs instead of just taking pictures.

in preperation for the number of pictures that i am going to take on the trip, and my laziness for updating photos on the webpage, i found a cool little program called JAlbum that is a little java application for creating photo galleries. i used to to update the seattle 1999 photos that were on the site before i updated. i plan to go back through and update the other pages when i get back, but i will be updating the site with photos while i am on the trip, or at least that is the plan.

and that is all there is to say about all of that.

so tomorrow is the day. i am going to be married. it is strange. i honestly still don't believe in the institution of marrage, yet i find myself entering into it. why? well, because it is important to the government and because the ceremony is important to our families. my love and commitment to melissa is not going to be validated or enforced by the act of being married, or at least i say that now. but considering that i have never considered the prospect of leaving melissa up to today, i cannot imagine how being bound in a contract legally makes that any different.

my father made a funny at the rehersal dinner and said some wonderful things. both of them did an outstanding job with the arrangements for today.

melissa meanwhile has been amazing. this day is going to be really special and wonderful for the both of us. in fact, i am pretty sure that this day is enough to make me eat the words of the first paragraph.

ok, my nerves are now pretty much shot. i think that i just realized why people have bachelor parties. if i had gone out for one last night with the boys, i would be spending my morning nursing a mean hangover. this would be doing a pretty good job of masking my nerves. i mean which would it be, the nasty post booze stomach ache or the oh crap i am getting married today stomach.

i would still take the latter.