Michael Odom had something important to tell us on Tue, 03 Aug 2004
20:38:35 -0500:

>We're having a shindig at our place the last Friday of the month.
>We're expecting about 55-60 people. It's to be an open house for her
>department (academic, that is) and mine, along with several guests
>from Dallas. D just informed me that the function she's accepted
>responsibility for is traditionally a dinner.
>
>Now I like cooking. I'm pretty good at it, in fact. But a dinner for
>60 people is beyond anything I've ever attempted. So she suggested
>having the event catered.

M y family are all good cooks... so when it came to my 21st birthday
there wasn't much question about how we'd feed the 50-odd guests - my
parents cooked a bbq and salads and cakes etc. The only problem with
that was that it really wasn't a fun party for any of us, because we
were run ragged doing the catering, serving and cleaning up. Get it
catered and then you can enjoy yourselves and let someone else do all
the dirtywork!