We drove down Wednesday night after I had a unproductive morning at work. I was just too excited to get much serious work done at the office. GTD has this bit about organizing things so you can do mundane mindless but necessary stuff when you are feeling unproductive; I should have followed that advice last Wednesday. Anyway, we got to Conway just in time to meet my dad and head over to Myrtle Beach. We dropped in on Andre at his bowling league, then ate dinner at this new fancy Mexican resturant called Abuelo's. It felt like The Cheescake Factory but with Mexican food; it was decent, but not wonderful, although it had a cool inside setup.

Thursday we helped prepare for the wedding -- mowing the yard until the lawnmower broke, putting up tents, etc. Thursday night was the Bachelor Party. About 20 of us had dinner at The Rivertown Bistro, a great resturant in Conway that my brother's company has done work for. The food was great and the company wonderful -- I saw lots of guys I hadn't seen in a long time that are shared friends of my brother and I. After dinner we --- deleted --- and got home about 2:00 AM.

Friday was more running around, this time to get the tuxes. Andre picked out some nice one's. White, long coats over tuquoise vests and bacl pants. The kicker was our groomsmen presents. Dre ordered us customized Converse Chuck Taylor's, complete with embroidered names, to match the tuxes. Very nice. That nice was the rehearsal dinner, which was held at dad's old (and Andre's current) house. Some old family friends who now have a produce company and do some catering grilled chicken and steaks, lots of friends and family came by, and we all had a good time.

The lowlight of the whole weekend was Saturday morning, when Andre, Mark (Andre's friend from Atlanta and fellow groomsman), and I had to move 150 chairs about 300 yards from the parking lot to the dock where the ceremony was going to be held. Not fun in 100% humidity and 85 degree heat. Having survived the Chair Death March, we all went out to breakfast, where Andre's ex-girlfriend promptly showed up. It was a little odd, but everyone was nice and civil. We then went home, where Andre packed for his honeymoon and I took a nap.

The ceremony was at 5:30 on the Riverwalk at the Conway marina. It was raining just a little at 5:15, but that soon passed. Sure, it was hot and humid, but I was proud and honored to be standing up there for my brother with fellow groomsmen Kieth, Scott, Mark, Emerson, and my dad as best man. Heidi looked wonderful. The ceremony, performed by Heidi's uncle, lasted about 20 minutes. Then there were the obligatory photos. After those, we walked over to the COnway shrine club for the reception which was catered by the best bar-b-que joint in the world -- Radd Dew's. The cakes were great, the music was fine, I danced with my wife (whom, it seems, I had not seen very much over the weekend), my new sister in law, and my mom. Andre and Heidi were taken away by Paul and his 54 Chevy. Sarah and I helped clean up for a bit, then went home and went to bed.

Sunday we were up fairly early. Andre and Heidi were flying out of Charlotte to their honeymoon in Rome (not Georgia) and were leaving their car and dog (Harley, who was also in the wedding) with us in Rock Hill. They got to the airport no problem, and are probably going to bed in Rome even as we speak.

Today was spent at the office, working on my syllabus and taking care of random office catch up stuff. Our home builder is coming by the house tonight to check out underneath. There is a lot of moisture under there, and even some small pools of standing water under the moisture barrier. While that bugs me, they general contractor was very cool when I talked to him today on the phone, telling us he'd come over when he took his son to football practice at the high school down the road.

Tomorrow is the first of many meetings this week, as classes start next Tuesday.

Netflix watching -- Bull Durham (overrated), Firefly TV series.