God that you never drove anywhere with Kelly! It’s been a long journey.  We’ve been to weekend barbershop schools and we’ve been to Harmony Quartet College.  We’ve been coached by multiple talented men and women.  We’ve changed our style, from comedy to serious, and then from serious to a bit of both.  We’ve struggled with in tune singing since the beginning.  We’ve spent years taking voice lessons (thanks, Dr. Meehan), and we’ve coached each other. While all this work has, according to a panel of judges, paid off, for me (and us), it’s really about the journey.  Basically, it’s been a blast.  We laugh, we talk, we sing, and, sometimes, we cry.  For Chordiology, the laugh part dominates, and while it often interferes with the singing part, it’s really what’s kept us together.  Yes we love to sing, but I think we love to laugh just as much – and sometimes our singing makes us laugh!  After all, how important are 6th place finishes (we owned 6th place) and not making the cut compared to the death of a fellow Chordiologist, the death of a parent, and a seriously ill first child, all of which happened during our journey?  
 
We went to the 2007 contest to do our best.  We went for a reality check.  Yes, we wanted to win, but come on, we’ve done this before, and we had no delusions of grandeur.  We did not and never did care that much if we won, as long as we did our best.  Our fear, put in Dan Bezaire’s words, was not to “lay a giant turd on the stage”.   In the moments before our name was called, I was hoping for 4th or 5th place, not wanting to own our usual 6th.  Then, I