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Monday, Dec. 31, 2001 - 10:02 a.m.

Year in review

New Year's in shorts and a Fiesta Bowl to forget ... Shooting the Moon over the Navesink ... Irish women beat No. 1 UConn ... Casey IMs me ... Barenaked Ladies at Madison Square Garden and wanting to be with a lover, not a friend ... I watch Dale Earnhardt die on TV ... 14 beers during a day in D.C., one of the best days of the year ... Walking around Washington, all over the Mall ... A visit to Mt. Vernon ... Big East basketball tournament time ... Loving "Ed" and the Walden episode, "Live Deliberately" ... Spring training business trip to Florida, nearly crossing paths with Casey ... Notre Dame in the NCAA Basketball Tournament ... BlueClaws arrive in Lakewood ... Notre Dame wins women's basketball national championship ... "Live In New York City" is released, and I miss Bruce by inches once again ... BlueClaws open in North Carolina, and I visit with Jaime and Dave on the way out and the way back, flying from Philly. And Dave tells me his secret ... Mets beat Braves, Opening Day, April 9, 2001 ... Lakewood BlueClaws home opener, April 11, a no hitter the next night ... Jaime gets engaged ... Nate's party in Hoboken, then Mets-Diamondbacks at Shea with LJ ... A visit to Old Barney, Barnegat Light ... Torn between a Chicago stop after Jess's Notre Dame graduation and driving home with the folks ... Air travel woes on my way to South Bend -- renting a car for the drive from Detroit ... Jess's graduation weekend and my own college memories ... That first call to Casey from the Kregg's basement ... Six days later, three hours on the phone late at night after the message on my machine: "Hey Dan ... it's Britney Spears" ... I'm asked to be part of Jaime's and Dave's wedding party ... Memorial Day Sunday at Monmouth Park ... BlueClaws fundraiser at Scooter's ... Jess's graduation party ... Timothy McVeigh's execution ... Dave Matthews at Giants Stadium in a typhoon ... Riding in the Blues Brothers' Blues Mobile to Jenkinson's on the boardwalk ... The Dano 250th Entry Celebration ... Watching a taping of "Today" with Mary Chapin Carpenter, then meeting Mike Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) before seeing Cowboy Junkies in concert ... The Northeast roadtrip: Nantucket with Jaime and family; Cincinnati for a wedding via Washington, Pa., where I am when Casey says she's coming to visit; Boston via Philadelphia with Bryan; home on the Fourth of July ... Caving in -- buying a cell phone ... The realization of my eternal good mood ... Davey Jones at the Lakewood ballpark ... July 20, 2001: The First Date Explosion ... Eric McCormack in "The Music Man" on Broadway ... Lance Armstrong wins again ... The road trip to Greensboro -- live on the road in the minors ... Dinner in Philly one hot August night, dinner in D.C. the next ... Trip to Chicago and Barenaked Ladies in Tinley Park ... Visit with Mike and Barb ... A fun, lazy Sunday ;) ... Leaving then not, the El takes me back to her ... My birthday, 25, on the beach with New York so clear in the distance, then with friends at the ballpark ... The season ends on Labor Day ... Casey arrives for a week-long stay, and stays for two. Dinner at Martini's ... Jess's going away party and she's That Girl, drunk at Ichabod's ... Sept. 11: "DAN! Turn on the TV! A plane crashed into the World Trade Center!" ... Baseball in the park on a Sunday afternoon ... Off to Johnstown to meet the parents and learn more ... Ballgame in Baltimore ... Travis at Radio City ... Jaime and Dave's engagement party ... Benefit concert at Count Basie: Bon Jovi, Bruce and others ... Casey moves to New Jersey ... Scott's wedding in Queens ... Diamondbacks 4 games, Yankees 3 games ... Moving to Edgewater ... Thanksgiving with Casey, Moom, Bassett, Harry Potter ... A day in New York ... Goodbye to George Harrison ... Wandering Manhattan in Dad and Carol's wake ... The first Casey Christmas ... A night out in New York ... A night out in Red Bank with Matt, Dave, Jess, Christy, Casey and a few more for a gang ... New Year's Eve with Jaime and Dave in Philly ...

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