My Dad and step-mom Shirley came by late Saturday afternoon for a visit after having been on a driving vacation for the last three weeks. I managed to make the downstairs visiting area mostly presentable, then we went out to a very good dinner at the Central Station in downtown Bloomington (an old fire-station converted into a restaurant ( Read more... )

I'll be going up to Jackson, Michigan tomorrow morning on a whirl-wind visit to celebrate my Dad's 70th birthday. I'll make an "unexpected" appearance at the restaurant he's being treated to for dinner (the Quarter Bistro in Ann Arbor), and take Dad  by surprise. Then my brother Chuck (who is flying in from Los Angeles) will walk in a couple ( Read more... )

Sigh. Tired puppy. I'm all graduated, now ( Read more... )