Yesterday afternoon, two of my best friends in the world got married.

The ceremony was outdoors at the lovely Cathedral of the Pines, here in Rindge NH. Despite a small amount of rain, it was so beautiful and classic. Short and sweet, mostly traditional and yet slightly casual and personalized, it was an event to be remembered. Never in my life have I seen a prettier bride.

Following the wedding proper, the wedding party rode to the reception in some really sweet antique cars. I got talked into driving the bride's best friend's children to the reception as she and her husband where both in the wedding. The reception was held just down the road at the groom's parent's house, which is a lovely place with open fields to party in.

The excellent cooks roasted a whole pig and also provided a plethora of other food stuffs. A live band was hired and they kept the dance floor hooping for much of the night. Two large circus tents provided shelter from a small amount of scattered showers, but for the most part, the weather was awesome. During the cake cutting, both the bride and groom managed to insert cake and frosting into each others nostrils.

After the reception was a rocking after party that went into the wee hours of the morning. One of the guest brought a karaoke machine and even I sang a few. I think I was out of tune, off key, etc. but who cares? Not me. After things started to settle down, people camped out. The bride and groom, the vast majority of the wedding party, and quite a few other guests, including myself.

The next morning, the groom's mother, Sylvia Paquin, and some other cooked breakfast for every one as Amy opened gifts from the night before. The coffee helped me wake up, but I didn't eat much despite the great food. The bride's car was duly attacked while Jake protested and Amy tried not to look. After breakfast and some brief chit chat and goodbyes, they departed for their honeymoon, trailing at least a dozen cans. But not before I got them to pose for one last set of pictures.

Expect me to be photo blogging choice shots for a while. First up'll be the one I printed out during the reception to surprise the new Mrs. Paquin with the first print. Ah, the power of digital.

I got rid of the global bolding for all styles except Black, which is unreadable without it. I also fixed Black's handling of <b> and <strong> to do something useful. (Italics in this case.) And I switched to justified paragraphs. It looks slightly more professional than ragged edged paragraphs, despite the fact that it sometimes has wide gaps due to a lack of hyphenation.

Take the MIT weblog survey. If you author a weblog, that is.

The survey is long since over and the related pages have mostly vanished from the web. However, you can read about the results here.

The Zoology of the Archipelago now details two types of monstrous spiders native to the lonely isles. (Hint: look under E & S.) They are still in the works, but fully playable.

I added a few small bits to the Archipelago page.

In other, belated news, the DnD page now features a JavaScript tool that makes semi-random names for random pub stops and such.

And my PC "Gebel" (on the Characters page) leveled up :)

I've done some spring cleaning on the gaming section. Mostly on the DnD pages. I also switched the default style to Blue. Neo Pink was nice and all, but such a waste of bandwidth.

P.S. Firefox users can use the Style Chooser 0.2 extension to permanently switch themes on this site.