missing

At the beginning of the year we planned on blogging more. That hasn't turned out to be the case, but hopefully it will change soon. Work has been extremely busy - today is the first day I haven't worked in more than a month, and I think in a six week span since we got back from Florida, I worked every day but one (in which I went skiing, and meant to write about, but never got around to doing). Lelaine's schedule has been the same. Hasn't left for much time for teampurplehouse.

It turned out that of the three biggest things of the year for my office, two of them happened at the same time. Fortunately those are now dispensed with (not to get too ideological, but to see how health care will benefit people in KC, look at this) and life should get back to normal...but before that happens we are headed on a cruise. We leave for New Orleans on Monday morning, will get on the ship that day, visit Progresso/Merida and Cozumel with a couple days at seas mixed in, and then arrive back in New Orleans. We are going to spend an extra night there to eat, although it can't be too much because I have a ten mile race the following weekend.

When we get back, we promise to not neglect the blog.

old man river

Other than Friday, the day of the week when the one magazine I subscribe to arrives, I don't like the mail. On Fridays I get the Economist. Every other day, anything I receive is almost always bills or junk mail, neither of which I really look forward to receiving.

When I went to the mailbox on Saturday something pretty funny happened: there was a letter addressed to me from the AARP. While I might wish I were retired, sadly I am not, and I would prefer to think I'm not quite yet in their target demographic. Apparently not, since they conveniently enclosed a membership card with my name on it. It has since found its way to the circular file.