I'm typing this from atop a comfy bed in Jack's apartment in perfect Venice, California. The window's open and there's no discernible humidity, only textbook sunshine. Jack and Kate graciously took the couch for three nights to ease our well-traveled backs. They lent us their car and entertained us too.
The USA men's soccer team has had dominantly good news in the World Cup so far, the kind you want to soak up until they play this afternoon, when one errant referee's call can send a team home.
The Shrek musical continues to be more lively with each passing week. I got to sit in the theater and watch a tap-dancing number, as well as a scene with the Donkey character. Friends, you want to get there if only to watch Matthew Henry play Donkey. He is a dazzler. But it is just plain funny overall. I found out that I do not need to learn to play a recorder after all, although I've still been dabbling.
My computer may be slow sometimes, but it is sturdy. It dropped three feet off the bed, about the fifth such occasion in the many years I've owned it, and works just as well today.
My kidney hasn't acted up in a long time by now, long enough that I can only guess at the last time. Also an ailing ankle has been behaving and might even be up for a jog. Medical reprieves rock.
For all it's post-9/11 inconvenience, airline travel is good. We had zero trouble getting to the coast. We showed up an hour early and there was literally no one in line. None. We had a leisurely 2-hour layover which gave us time to get to our gate, find a bathroom and snack, and chill out. Our LAX arrival was exactly on time. And the Jack limousine service was ready and waiting for us.
Sunscreen is a great invention. Yesterday's family reunion wouldn't have been quite the same without it.
Grocery stores are a luxury of our society. A five minute walk to get almost any basic necessity we could want.
Rosann is taking care of Cupcake at her house and sparing us all from the downsides of a kennel.
Today it's off for a paradise-like walk, a couple softball games, Skype with Mom, and other fineries of West Coast living!
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