One of our semi-formal New Year’s resolutions for this year was to try to get together with CVCA colleagues for dinner, with the aim of offering an invitation once a week. Granted, people may be busy or we may get busy, but we figured if we aimed for once a week, then we had a good chance of being social with fun people at least twice a month.

Last Thursday we managed to catch up with Craig Rupe, who teaches science at CVCA. Craig is also heavily involved in cross country and track, and he is one of the more amazing runners I have ever known. Craig had an inclination to go to the Cheesecake Factory, and Mer and I do not ever have to be persuaded to do that.

We had an excellent supper, and got to chat for about an hour. Dessert is the main reason to go to the Cheescake Factory, so we all had a slab of cheesecake. It was a promising start to a new year.