So the nephew and his wife are returning to "Springside Green", with our warm wishes for another good year and they are soon to be replaced by "my-niece-the-librarian-adjunct-professor". Maybe I will begin to shorten that title to LAP or something like that. Personally, and what other way is there to deal with a blog, I am thrilled that Laura is coming home for some part of the summer. It is always a pleasure and an intellectual challenge to visit with her. Often I find myself play "devil's advocate", perhaps in the misguided effort to have positions, political and otherwise, for us both, thought through. Of course, I was struck with CanaGal's blog when she wrote about her niece's sixteenth birthday. With my niece there are a few more birthdays and I can remember the day she came home. Mom wanted to name her a name that neither dad nor I could pronounce. Poor kid could have been stuck with "Susan" had we not had some willingness to "accomodate".

Quodlibet is leaning the "wet-dream" ... oops, I mean Jet Stream, a BAE product and a step up the ol' career ladder. Good on her I say, although I must say, I certainly am dreading the day that she establishes herself in a different airline hub - bound to happen and we will adjust - that is the nature of the industry.

Cats, both the shy one and the kittenish one are well and at the moment hiding from the dreaded .... "suckker-upper-noise-machine", as it is cleaning day.

Guess that's about it for me, I'm off to the "hairy-port" soon and will say hi to a few friends whilst I wait for the bird from CO arriving from KGBI