Warren Celebrates Eighty Years
Last Friday family and friends gathered at Goode Co. Seafood to celebrate Warren Edwin Brandau’s 80th birthday. The evening was cold and blustery outside, but warm and festive in the restaurant’s cozy private dining room. For the evening’s festivities, two appointed waiters carried out their duties with a earnest devotion to serve with a generous helping of Texas friendliness.
Lisa and Nancy spent hours in advance of the party scanning pictures from old photo albums. Lisa crafted some heart-warming videos using these pictures to retell Warren’s life from birth to present (video links are below).
And what video presentation over dinner would be complete without the bitter spice of troubleshooting? Lisa’s laptop decided not to boot. Only after assistance from restaurant officials and the commissioning of Jean’s laptop, we managed to cobble together a technical solution. Then, like a toddler who realized he wasn’t going to get his way, Lisa’s laptop stopped pitching a fit and showed off it’s desktop. Figures.
Rebecca also turned seventeen. Rebecca and Warren sang “Happy Birthday” enthusiastically to each other, blew out the candles and hugged. Their tradition continues.
Yes, we were celebrating another year for Warren, but with family and close friends assembled in one place, it seemed to me we were also celebrating another year of life together. Our kids are now self-sufficient, budding students of etiquette and discourse, and no longer eating from a kid’s menu. Friendships are now deep and wide, to the degree that lines between family and friends are now blurred. It was a great evening.
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