Since I started the Haverling Alumni Site I have had old classmates and friends from the Bath area get in touch with me. they have been saying how when they found this page they weren’t sure it was me since one of the pictures at the top showed me with long hair. And when I was in school and the years right after I had short hair, no mustache or glasses.

The other day one of them sent me an e-mail an asked how long my hair was these days and I realized I hadn’t taken any pictures of the length….so here are 3 of them…next time I wear a light shirt I will get better ones…..

Yea I finally got the new computer up into the office. There is a little more trim to put up but I figured I could work around the furniture. I needed a place to myself to work on stuff. Spent most of the day on Sat. at Ikea getting a new desk for myself and one for Carolyn. I just got a big table thing and I got here a nice desk thing with 3 drawers and a big top so she can have her laptop on it and still be able to write her correspondence.

Went to Avery’s parent teacher conference and got good news. Avery brought all her grades up to the A’s & B’s from last marking period. So she got ungrounded and is allowed to watch her shows again. Still has some stuff taken away because of the clarinet thing. The teacher put it all down to introduction of knitting in the class. I like to think that my kid is smart and wants to do well…..

So that’s what’s going on…looking at getting a new scanner and a firewire drive case for external storage.

More later…..

Bad day yesterday….I got only about 5.5 hours sleep on Wed night and I think we drank 1 to many pitchers of beer….

Ended up bailing out of here around 11:30 and crashing out for a few hours. I had to get up and come back in to get my check. I would have gotten the check in on time but some guy on his cell phone wouldn’t pull out of the parking lot while he was talking…

Well today is Avery’s parent teacher conference..so the question is will she have done better this semester to get all her punishments wiped out.

Planning to go see “The Punisher” movie tonight. I hope they do a good job of capturing the comic in the movie….

Gone are the days when the ox fall down
he’d take up the yoke and plow the fields around
Gone are the days when the ladies said “please,
gently Jack Jones won’t you come to me?”

Brown eyed women and red grenadine
the bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down
and it looks like the old man’s getting on

In 1920 when he stepped to the bar
he drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar
In 1930 when the Wall caved in
he paid his way selling red eye gin

Well I have been getting no work done on the office room this week, but I am going to get the office furniture on Sat. I think I am just going to put 2 tables in. 1 for ma and 1 for Carolyn. I am going to try and use the closet for all storage and not let the mess get out of hand in this office.

Lug/ip meeting last night. It went well Kurt Williams did a great presentation and we had a good crowd. We a re averaging about 2 new people a month. Getting allot of great compliments on the web site so that is make me and the board feel good.

So that’s about it for now……..oh yea get to go to school tomorrow for Avery’s parent teacher conference….that should go well…..

I’m gonna sing you a hundred verses in ragtime
I know this song it ain’t never gonna end
I’m gonna march you up and down the local county line
Take you to the leader of the band

Just like Crazy Otto
Just like Wolfman Jack
Sittin’ plush with a royal flush
Aces back to back
Just like Mary Shelley
Just like Frankenstein
Clank your chains and count your change
Try to walk the line

Did you say your name was
Ramblin’ Rose?
Ramble on, baby
Settle down easy
Ramble on, Rose

What an Easter weekend. ..

My mom, Carolyn, Avery, and my youngest cousin Lou worked most of the day coloring Easter eggs while my dad de dandelion my back yard and allot of the neighborhood to get enough of them to make dandelion pie for Easter Dinner. In the afternoon my uncle Fran came over to recover my dining room chairs seats. As he was working on those my dad and I stood around as the 3 of us talked and just kicked back and had a good time. We ended up at my aunt Clora’s for a good fish meal cooked and eatin’ outside by the big fire that Fran had gotten going to keep us warm so Carolyn could join us due to her allergies from the dog hair.

Saturday was my parents 38th wedding anniversary so we took them to the Philadelphia Art Museum for the Manet at the Sea exhibited and then out to dinner at the United States oldest family owned Italian Restaurant. Nat and Del joined the Bilancio’s on this great journey into the city of Brotherly Love. You can read Nat’s view and experience of following me from the museum to the restaurant here. The dinner was fabulous. I had muscles in red sauce on Spaghetti..they were wonderful…..After dinner Nat and Del headed home and we headed to the car but made a nice stop at a local coffee house on the way.. Some of the best espresso I have had in a long time…..

Sunday started out a little rocky because I got up in a bad mood and some stuff on my mind that carried over to the great breakfast at my aunt Cloara’s house. It was a great breakfast with all the traditional Easter foods that my grand mom use to make. Pizza gain, Wheat pie, and others that I can’t think of right now. The breakfast broke up and I headed home to start cooking the Easter dinner that was going to be held at my house. We had a nice beef roast that had been marinating in a great red wine concoction, green beans, salad, fruit salad and more of the traditional foods left over from breakfast. Nat and Del, Fran, Lou, my aunt Bea, and my parents started showing up around 4 and the party kicked off. I found that the kitchen in the house can really only hold about 6 people….so Nat and Del sort of got juggled out of the kitchen while the Bilancio tribe all started to get into the cooking and talking old times.

We finally sat down around 5:30 to eat. After a great grace by my dad Nat introduced us to one of her family’s Easter tradition of egg breaking. You take an Easter egg and hold it and your neighbor takes his/ her egg and wakes the top of the egg the person who’s egg breaks loses and the winner moves on to the next person until there is only one unbroken egg. It came down to my Uncle and me..I am now Champion…
The food was passed and the wine was poured and the stories started to be told We heard allot of great ones about our grandparents and my dads family. It was a great time. Things broke up around 8pm with my dad, mom Fran and Lou and Bea heading out to the house. Fran and Lou were heading back to Michigan this morning around 4 and my parents were heading back this morning at a saner time…All in all it was a good weekend….no major blow ups between my mom and me or Carolyn. Avery had a good time with her cousin Lou and I felt proud to be able to host the Easter dinner this year…maybe next year we can get Clora and Dean to make it…..

Thanks all for coming and making it a great Easter this year…..

Bebop baby, how can this be
I know you’ve been out a cheating on me
Round and round and round and round
Don’t take much to get the word around
Cross my heart and hope to die
I was just hanging out with the other guys