Baby shower pictures, courtesy of Sunil.

JZ receives thematically apt present for Zmayhem baby (Note also: wife still cute)

Lee, Bridget & Deb (Note: Non-blinvisibility of Deb)

Emily says, "Whoooo!" and JZ says, "Quit peeking up my skirt."

K-bug, pigtailed Suzi, Lee

JZ + finger puppets = adorable.

What? You don't believe me?

Beth and Suzi

Lee, working hard to make everything happen.

JZ and her longtime friend, Lisa

JZ demonstrates the proper way to greet Ple

"Honey! We got a picture of a car-seat! IFG!"

Me, a card, and What Would Ninjas and/or Pirates do

JZ and sprogwear

Juliana and me. She looks aghast, whereas I merely look gassy.

Katie B.

JZ and her Mom

Back porch with Emily, beth, K-bug's ponytail, Suzi's pigtails and Bridget

Matt and Suzi and Deb's nose

More Juliana (Because more is better in that instance.)

Note the blinvisibility of P-Cow since he took all the pictures.

JZ demonstrates the proper way to greet Ple

Another reason I wanted you to take care of the pictures was that I knew you wouldn't know any of the contexts and thus have to come up with amusing captions.

I would call the poll helpful information at this point - none of the weekends that we tested appear undoable.

I would strongly prefer to start some city pimpage and get that settled next - pimps could take the general suggestion that if you're investigating Northern climes, check out later dates, and vv for the Southerners. Having a general date range rather than a chosen weekend will be helpful there anyway since having a little flexibility might enable us to get some better deals if our chosen weekend happens to run into the International Brotherhood of Dental Hygenists annual shindig or some such.

OMG the finger puppet one is made out of adorable.

Could there BE a dorkier picture of me? I shudder to think.

Great photos! Happy parents! Happy friends!

Could there BE a dorkier picture of me? I shudder to think.

Are you kidding? You look so fucking cute.

Juliana and me. She looks aghast, whereas I merely look gassy.

juliana is aghast at how she looks in the picture. Ugh.

However, the event was fun, as was last night's hanging out with billy-the-tea and Emily and JZ & Hec and Emmett. We got to toast Em's good news immediately, and I got to see Venture Brothers for the first time ever, and we also watched Tales From The Far Side, which was appropriately sick & twisted. Good times.

juliana is aghast at how she looks in the picture. Ugh.

I think you look fab in the other one, though. That one came out quite nice.

I think you look fab in the other one, though. That one came out quite nice.

That is a very nice one, you are correct. I like that one.

I love all of the JZ ones. She so pretty!

Memo to self: keep handy brown paper bag to put over own head when camera is aimed during MS exacerbations.

JZ has the Look, the one all the books say women are supposed to get in pregnancy: blooming. I, in the same boat, looked as if I'd been impregnated by Willem Dafoe in "Shadow of the Vampire".

On topic, polls are good, place votes are good, date votes are good. Translation: I have no idea what either my health or schedule looks like for next spring at this point. I will vote in polls as they're posted based on that. Whatever will be, will be/sunrise, sunset/insert appropriate song snippet to sum up basic Zen about situation here...