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i can say almost universally that i went to school with them. there are two people from high school and before whom i suppose i met more through church, and otherwise they are all from school connections. 

What did you do this weekend?

I'll be turning 30 in November; a few of my friends already are, but not most. One of them became so on Saturday, so a few of us went from SF to Sacramento to celebrate.

Highlights of the weekend, in no particular order:

1. The Sacramosa, a combination of a light, pilsner or lager style beer mixed 2:1 with lemonade. Serve chilled, and in the am.
2. The Leisure Club presents: Croquet, always a good game. I had the shot of the weekend, a ten-footer that cleared the final two wickets and hit the post to win the game as opponents were lining up to finish ahead of me.
3. A friend ate an entire box of tic-tacs at once; I punched him (gently) in the cheek while he was stashing them all away in there. Hilarity ensued, at least amonst the two of us.
4. Seeing my friends' son, who is a little older than three. A little older than three is when kids start getting really fun, and he was no exception.
5. Pirates of the Caribbean. I mean, I don't know much more about life or its meaning than I did before seeing it, but I was rightly entertained.
6. Seeing a bunch of people I hadn't seen in years.
7. Having a great gift idea and knowing that it will work out (in-home cooking classes, file cooking classes under your emergency gift idea list. There's a ton of different options for how this could go, and it's an especially good idea for couples).

Lowlights: Some of my friends bitched out, for reasons unknown to me but that I have a hard time imagining as anything other than weak. We were once a fierce and proud tribe of people, but those days are largely over. I'm sorry to see that people can't do something more to be a part of their friends lives. But I don't know what the reasons were and so I have to admit that maybe something more important came up, even though I'm almost certain that that's not the case.