My long-time friend Ilya announced that he and Colleen finally got engaged last week. Apparently he thought he better catch up to me with my wife of 7 years and 2 kids. Okay, so maybe not – it seems that I have a lot of catching up to do on the music front. Since I left his band back in 1997 I’ve been involved in zero bands. He is releasing track after track of gooohd music (btw, he uses his stage name Ian Jameson on this site).

In any case, I think the last time I saw (or met for that matter) Colleen was when she and him came out here to Massachusetts in 2003. We had a great time biking on the Minuteman Rail Trail into Cambridge – before I was into biking, and before my son was born, and my daughter was wee small.

Hopefully we’ll get a chance to see the happy couple soon, maybe over the winter holidays, or next time I bike to NY. Actually, Ilya is in Florida now studying – so maybe I should bike down there.