Made it home!

Easy flight from St Louis and home..... Christmas was great! Now back to work! tomorrow......

Dodged the weather bullet

Looks like we missed the big snow in the east. They are talking about 26 inches in DC. Yikes! That will put a crimp in Christmas travel. Glad we got out today.

Woo Hoo!! On vacation!

Marilyn and I are sitting in a coffe house in the city market in Kansas City. We got off to a good but early start this morning. The flight went off without a hitch. The airport is always a major pain and can mess up a good vaction right off the bat. No crowds and on time... Yes! I'm glomming on to some free WiFi to get some mail and blog....

This is the week that is

Marilyn, Meg and I went out to the 1812 Productions "This is the week that is" a parody of the new of the moment. It was great, any production where Obama, Kim Jong Il and Iran's Ahmadinejad are in a song and dance number is going to be a scream. Go see it, It runs until Jan 3.

Happy Holidays Philly!

Wow it really happend in Philly!!!!

From MSNBC.com....

PHILADELPHIA - It played like a scene from a holiday movie — a mystery couple, who didn’t leave their names or numbers, walked into a restaurant, finished their meal and then set off a chain reaction of generosity that lasted for hours.That’s just what employees at the Aramingo Diner in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia said a man and a woman did during their breakfast shift Saturday morning.“It was magical. I had tears in my eyes because it never happened before. I’ve been here for 10 years, and I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Lynn Willard, a waitress.Willard and other waitresses told NBC Philadelphia that the couple started the chain reaction by paying double: for their own meal and for the tab of another table of diners at the restaurant. There's no evidence that one group of diners knew the others.“I could not believe it. And it continued and continued — it was very nice,” said Willard. “They asked us not to say anything until they left, say, ‘Merry Christmas, that person picked up your check.’”For the next five hours, dozens of patrons got into that same holiday spirit and paid the favor forward.The diner’s manager said not one person was concerned about price of the check — which ran between $12 and $30.“It was a surprise to all of us; the girls were even taken aback,” said the diner's manager. “Those who took the check also tipped the waitress. So nobody had to do anything other than pass it on, and that’s what they did. They just passed it forward.”It’s a true holiday story that proves how a small gesture of kindness can create some magic.

Dim Sum... Yum!

Marilyn and I went to Center City to have Dim Sum with Roy, Marj, Terri, and MaryBeth. Driving in a driving rain to Chinatown we park across the street. The other guys ended at the wrong Ocean.... Ocean City... Ocean Harbor... Peacful Ocean... Ocean waves..... a few phone calls and a walk in the rain we got it all straightend out and sat down in Ocean City. The resturant staff started throwing all kinds of small plates at us. It was a blizzard of food. The sticky rice was the hit of the meal.

Weeks Doings....

This week has been a whirlwind. Early gym sessions were hampered by a back "twinge" Nothing serious and it has not stopped me from going to the gym. Just enough to complain about not enough to stop me.

Had to bring Marilyn's car to the dealer AGAIN for the transmission solenoid. It not too bad but it's like the stinking keystone cops trying to get the car to the dealer, us to the train, and to everything else we have to do.

Pass the carrots....

Went to a nice vegetarian resturaunt in Southamton... Blue Sage with friends Saturday night, They have very good cusine, vegan dishes are available. If you have friends that are vegetarian, want to try something different, or want to take your bunny to dinner go there.

Christmas shopping

Got most of my Christmas shopping done. Now I just have to was for things to arrive home and at the hobbyshop. Then the cross shipping starts! Look out Mom you are going to get lots of visits from your friendly neighborhood guy that drives the big brown truck!

Weekend Ahead

Looking forward to the weekend. Week 7 of the workout sched ended and I'm looking forward to the days off.

M has an event at work. She has been working late and is working late tonight. Going to record her show tonight so she can watch it later this weekend.

I'm going to get all my heli stuff set up and batteries charged this weekend as next weekend is an indoor flying event at a local gym. Also, I would like to store a bunch of stuff for the winter and get everything organized.

Long week.

Why does a week seem longer when you had days off the week before?

Since M was traveling this week we went to the gym both Saturday and Sunday. This may have been my undoing this week. I'm completely exhausted. You really need those days off to recoupe. 5:30am gym sessions are getting to be no fun! Well two more this week then rest. ( Yahoo! )

I put Windows 7 on one of the computers. That was a pain in the fanny! It took Soooo long, and I messed up the activation numbers. Also, I went flying this Sunday. Luckily no crashes and I and fly my plane again maybe next year.

M got back last night. Delayed planes and all.. Well no gym for her this morning. Then she had to work from home....her building had no water. Didn't find that little nugget out till she got down there.

I did some more Xmas shopping last night. Going to Costco for the last of the stuff for the kids. The Hess trucks have been secured!