Holiday prep

Hi all,

I bet it's just a matter of time before Dave & his old lady make the trip to Wisco on the new Bimmer, eh?

I'm basking in the glow of just having snagged some great air fares for Domino and her roommate Andee to fly home for Christmas. Andee will be in Fort for a week before flying home to Philly on the 27th. I've met her and her parents twice at Vassar now and really like them all, and Domi spent part of last spring break with them in PA, so it's nice to be able to reciprocate.

Anyway, a friend and soon to be business partner was here last weekend so we could work on some plans and she saved a bundle by buying one-way tickets for her three-pronged trip from NY to Detroit to Chicago to NY, so I tried that with the girls' tix, and damned if it doesn't work!

I'm glad to save the dough, too, because last night I took a hit: my car was broken into and my beloved GPS unit was stolen. I was at Monica's in Old Town in Chicago celebrating her getting her Ph.D. (I'm dating a Doctor!), and I just happened to leave the GPS out on the dashboard. When I came out this morning my driver's side window was gone and so was the Garmin! Well, the window was still there, technically; it was just there in a million tiny fragments. Kind of a drag, especially since I had to drive home 100 miles in 40 degree weather with no window... At first I figured it was a bitter Bears fan who went berserk at the sight of Wisconsin plates, but then I found a mark where the perp had wedged a metal bar under the weatherstripping and popped the window from underneath. Pretty slick job. And of course both the window and the GPS fall within my deductibles. Oh well, the GPS was free in the first place, the car wasn't really damaged, and no one was hurt, so I can't really complain. I will miss the girl inside the GPS's refrain of "recalculating" whenever I didn't follow her directions, though...

Happy Thanksgiving to all, and to all a good Thanksgiving-night snooze.

Love
Mark