This morning, at an insanely early hour, my brother Mike left a message asking me to remove the news of his impending wedding from this site. He hadn't told all of my brothers yet, and he wanted to do so in person without having them read it here first.

Clearly, he has nothing to fear, since the only person who ever reads this journal--inside or outside of my family--is my mother, and she already knew.

To humor him, I went to delete it anyway, but for some reason, it won't disappear. I suppose he'll just have to spread the news quickly, against the unlikely event that any of my other brothers remember I'm alive and decide to click by.

And if they do happen to read the news here first, I hope they have the decency to act surprised.