gbNYC Internal Affairs: Excuse Us While We Attend These Nups

Not to put Stephen's business all out in the street or anything, but... let me put Stephen's business out in the street for a minute. He's down in Virginia right now, writing out place cards and double-checking catering and generally doing the things that people who are a day or so away from getting married do. This is because he's getting married this weekend. I know, right? They grow up so fast!

As SDP and I have been friends since we were very small -- we used to discuss photovoltaics and green roofs during kickball games at Ridgewood, New Jersey's Ira W. Travell Elementary -- I'll be attending this wedding, as well. While my role in the proceedings is not nearly as important as Stephen's -- people can generally find their seats without some ironical tuxedo'd guy's mumbled help -- it is demanding enough, time-wise, that neither he nor I will be doing much posting on gbNYC for a little bit. Regularly scheduled programming -- that is, posts by me; Stephen's going to be on his honeymoon -- will resume early next week.

While this isn't the time to wax grandiose about the dude, the actual time to wax grandiose about him would be a drunken toast of some sort, and I'm not going to make one of those. So I'll just say that it has been a pleasure working for him over these last couple months as we re-shape and grow gbNYC, and an even greater pleasure knowing him for the decades that I have. He's a wonderful friend and a very smart dude, and his wife -- if you were wondering, and even if you weren't -- is every bit his match. They're both moderate-to-small sized human beings with huge hearts and brains and I'm proud to know them both. Oh man, I told myself I wouldn't cry. See you Monday or Tuesday.