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Greetings, loyal Holt Blog Readers!

I just felt like saying that. Today Jill and I hacked outside. “Hacking” is a sport that involves a small beanbag-type object and keeping it up in the air with your feet. I did it in high school with a group of friends at lunch, the “druggie/hippie” type mostly, and I taught Jill when we were married. Her personal record is 13 in a row, and mine is 72. It must look pretty crazy from a third-person point of view.

Today I went to Worcester for my jury duty (remember that I’m on a Grand Jury for many moons) only to discover that it wasn’t meeting today. Waste of gas, grrrr. But at least I got the rest of the day off.

I also modified my already-powerful nerf gun, adding an extra spring from another gun. I have some pictures but it’s best if you just come over and subject yourself to point-blank shots from it.

I did some picture editing as well with a really neat program that has lots of filters/gradients, similar to Photoshop but a bit easier to use. I edited some sexy pictures of Jill but she won’t let me post them (probably for good reason). She WILL, however, allow me to send them to female friends to show off my work 🙂

Oh yes, and while I’m writing many paragraphs of updates, I should mention the wedding I played in last Friday. A couple from our church got hitched. The guy (Julius) is Kenyan, and the girl (Muriel) is French. It was an extremely multi-cultural wedding! I played classical music before and after the English-style ceremony, and a modern-style hymn during. The reception was pretty fun. We had Kenyans singing songs and dancing around the hall, and Muriel’s very French parents at our table (we got to sing “Michelle” by the Beatles together). I also got to practice my French, which is pretty lame even after four years of public school lessons. A fun time, although it was a hassle to drag my stuff around and be social for so long – that’s just classic Ben 🙂