Kimberly

I have 2 to 4 tickets available for the San Antonio show. To be sold at cost - $46 each.

A bunch of Trooper alumns are converging on Casper as we speak. Some are on DCP. I have to stay home and work because of deadlines. :-(

A couple of years a younger guy showed up at my Toastmasters club. I ended up sitting across the table from him at the restaurant that we go to after our meeting. I had not been able to talk to him before I heard him say "do you know anything about drum corps?" He marched Garfield in the 2000s. He's moved to another town but I still tease him about Hopkins on FB, when appropriate.

Way back when, I never imagined that it was a drum corps thing - I just figured that it was our thing.

He's NOT dead! He's on Craig Fergerson right now!

86 Troopers!

Yeah, in a metrosexual, flamboyant way.

Great mommy planning and mommy-ing, Terri. She was so well behaved and a joy to sit next to.

10 Carolina Crown - 8 Madison Scouts 12 Phantom Regiment - 9 Santa Clara Vanguard 16 Troopers +

Aurgh! You beat me to it by 6 minutes! LOL

No, not your seat partner.... YOU! I thought we were talking about moving to different corps - my bad! Sorry I won't be seeing you tomorrow or Saturday. :-( Miss you, my friend!! KimBERLY

Sometimes I think that I should have gone to a different corps because someone would put his dirty, stinky show socks in my face and ask me if they were either clean or if they smelled. (Time has dampened the memory of the exact words, but not the action or intent.) I'm not going to name any names, but you KNOW who you are.

I used to go there daily to read the interviews and the columns written by members and former members. Now that they don't have those columns, I don't have any reason to go there. It also doesn't help any that I don't like the new format.

Oh, no, I don't dare any more. A couple of years ago the young guy in front of me told me to shut up right before Phantom came on - totally ruined my viewing of a much loved corps. In Houston, clap politely but don't cheer.

In full uniform with friends who are dressed just like me, sitting in the back stands, watching a favorite spot in a favorite show for the n-teenth time.