The birthday celebrations began last night with dinner at Claudine and Glenn's house where Claudine made awesome orange vodka Cosmopolitans and gave Iain a very appropriate pot holder.
Glenn is a detective and was at work covering a homicide -- when he got home, it took every ounce of willpower not to grill him about all the details. I try to remember that 'Law & Order: SVU' is just a TV show, Bensen & Stabler are not real people, and it's not really appropriate to ask about "the 411 on the perp". At one point he reached into his back pocket and removed a pair of unused crime scene latex gloves and I actually gasped. I am such a loser.
Later in the evening the guys were talking about wearing an earpiece to a function (dinner, etc.) so they could hear the rubgy game, and I said, "Oh wait -- someone did that in a movie. Which was it? I'm trying to remember the film... was it Scorsese? Tarantino perhaps? I definitely saw it. I think it was at a funeral. Which actor... Pacino?"
Suddenly Iain busts in with, "Oh! It was Joey! It was on 'Friends'!"
It's so embarassing how many of our cultural references can be traced back to episodes of 'Friends'. I mean, I guess that's better than "According to Jim" or "Two and a Half Men" but still...
Today we're continuing the celebration by having a late lunch/early dinner at an Italian place in Parnell. Tomorrow Iain heads off on his big fishing adventure.
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Or Dorf.
Oh, wait...
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