Everybody be sure and stop by her blog and congratulate her. She worked her butt off to get to this point and I'm as proud as a one-legged peacock in a room full of rocking-chairs. Or, words to that effect.

Being the official family AV guy, it was my job to take the video and the pics at tonight's graduation ceremony.

I've had better luck, as some of the highlights below will demonstrate:

The guy in the middle in this first picture... well, he's hiding his face behind his mortarboard in shame. He's thinking "Doh! How could we have possibly left that light fixture right in Darrell's way?!? Stupid light fixture!"

It doesn't matter where you sit... if you're an audience member, you are not going to sit in a convenient place to photograph your loved ones... as evidenced below:

When the graduating class elects to skip "Pomp and Circumstance" and, instead, march in to the strains of "Another Brick In The Wall," you should be prepared for this kind of weirdness:

Here she is in all her graduating glory, Wendy herself! This is the moment she's worked so hard for. The grand result of all her toil, sweat, tears and sleepless nights. The very moment when she crosses the stage and is handed an empty diploma holder.

As you can see below, a number of celebrities showed up at the reception:

All in all it was a great night... even the mega-liberal professor who gave the mega-liberal commencement address couldn't spoil things for us.

So stop by The Dorkside and give her a pat on the back in the comments section. She deserves it!

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