Wednesday

I was supposed to be in Chicago this AM.  Actually, the plan had been to be in Wheaton last night and then take the commuter train downtown this morning for a continuing education conference.  But yesterday was a disaster here at the office, and I decided to pass on the seminar today to catch up on what didn't get done yesterday.  If the morning goes as planned, I'll jump on the freeway this afternoon.  There's a dinner scheduled with my pal Lee this evening in Wheaton.

The new car is different.  It is definitely an upgrade from the Lucerne, but it has the feel of a Hertz rental.  Nice.  Low mileage.  But not all that distinguished from others.  The electronics will take some time to fully understand.  I'm sure that an engineering team came up with the "improvements" over the older models.  Old Dog (that's for you, 4!), new tricks, and all that.  But glad to have reliable transportation for future trips to Harvest Path.

Many thanks to the extended family for the Christmas cards.  I do enjoy seeing the growing families.  Phil and Margaret would be proud.


Special thanks to Julie for the follow-up message on Aunt Martha's service in Las Vegas.  We'll republish that pic from Sunday and make her Niece of the Day!

I see in the news where Tiger Woods is finally opening a golf course after a couple of economy-scrapped attempts.  This one is down in Cabo San Lucas at a resort (Diamonte) where there is already an existing track designed by Davis Love III.  Cabo golf is an expensive proposition, and putting Tiger's name on it probably doesn't cheapen the freight.  We've talked about going back to Cabo for the January Boy's Golf Trip, but I doubt if that happens anytime soon.  Too much time to get there.  Too expensive to play.  Local unrest makes partying away from the resort iffy.  Let the jet set take over.  Maybe some of Tiger's old girlfriends are still around there.  Just sayin'.

Interesting how the fallout from the Sony pictures hacking situation has caused quite the dust-up.  I see on the news now that they've decided not to open that Korean dictator spoof for fear of incidents.  And those emails from exec's to others prove again that, once written, electronic communications never go away.  Loose lips sink ships, etc.  Kinda nice to see some of the Hollywood types eat crow.  Even better to know that the exec's have the same opinions of the stars that some of us coffee shop experts profess.

Not sure what this says about a person, but cleaning out the old Buick before leaving the dealership with the new car created another bag of miscellaneous "crap" that will need sorting through.  I actually have a couple of shoe boxes in my extra bedroom (if there's no bed, is it a bedroom?) from previous exchanges.  Typical stuff.  Coins, pens, hotel note pads, trade-in papers on the car, insurance paperwork, CD's and CD cases.  All valuable.  Right.  And there's a couple of other shoe boxes with the contents of the "junk drawer" from my previous residences.  And from the "pile on the kitchen counter" on Maplecrest that the RCL makes me dispose of every few months.

Not proud of that rat-packing.  But fear not.  After the good feeling from last weekend's purge of keepsake-boxes in the back closet, I see the clouds of worthless possessions easing.  You make not have a lot of gratuitous LtPC possessions to kick to the curb when that time comes.

OK.  Gotta go.  Here's to Hump Day to all of us...and TGIF to 4.

BCOT