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Is this thing on??? Another beautiful Saturday here, thankfully I'm getting to see it from my own living room for a change. I've been on the road about 9 weeks already this year and will be headed up to Massachusets and across to Austin I think Texas within the next month. Still, it's not that bad, they've been trying to space it out so I'm not gone weeks in a row like I was in January.

Since it's starting to warm up here, we decided to do some yardwork this morning. That can also be read as, some friends are coming to stay with us and our yard looked like something out of National Geographic so we decided to clean it up some. The grass still hasn't come back full force yet, so there wasn't too much to mow in the front yard but when I got to the side, whoa look out. It would appear that our side and backyard is in line with the water drainoff from all of our neighbors above us. Because of this, while the rest of grass is pretty much dormant, along that one particular line the grass was thick enough to kill the lawnmower engine a few times. I did manage to get through it all though. Tara and Ryan took to the task of pulling some weeds and planting some seeds. We'll have to wait a month or so to see if anything took hold but we could have some pretty flowers popping up around the porch and trees.

The back yard?????? Has been completely written off. Ever since I fenced it in last year and let Bella start running around loose, it's become a war zone. You have to watch out for the defence trenches that are built everywhere and if you navigate those, you have to deal with the cleverly hidden mounds of grass that rise almost two feet off the ground where she used her special fertilizer. If you somehow survive all that, there are numerous landside devices littered around the yard just waiting to take you out if you step in the wrong direction or dont look down when you're walking. Yup, the backyard is all hers and the most I might do for the forseeable future is take the weed wacker to some of her grass hiding places.

I left my heart....

I'd say in San Francisco but I'm closer to San Jose this week so I guess I should be singing, Do You Know the Way to San Jose. I like that song too. One of the first times I came out this way, we had equipment problems on the plane and ended up having to fly into San Jose instead so our flight attendants started singing it. I thought it was funny. Speaking of sometines funny , sometimes not airplane events, our plane sorta lost power yesterday before takeoff. It had happened to me before on another flight so it didn't surprise or scare me too much but when they went to fire up the engines as we were being pushed out, everything went dead. The auxiliiary power systems run all the lights and a/c and everything else in the plane and if it's not completely charged, the current draw required to start the engines will shut everything down. There were lots of jokes on the plane about calling the FAA for a jump start or having a flat by the side of the runway.

It was a good flight though. We had a Deltta airplane that had the individual entertainment consoles so I wazs able to watch TV for a few hours and then create my own playlist from the CD's they had loaded while reading my book for the rest of the time. I'm reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown and it's awesome so far. I finisehd Deception Point last week and it was equally as awesome. That man knows how to write some books.

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

Dam, Monday already??

The weeks have just been flying by this year. Hard to believe it's already March especially when I was in San Fran in January and it seems like just last week. Of course, I'nt ll be back in that general area again next week so maybe that's why it seems like I was just there.

I had a decent week in Northern Virginia last week. The trip went well and I got to meet Deb's special guy. We had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and he was pretty cool. I got the feeling though that he didn't know how we had known each other at one point. This week I'm back in town and doing some local training before heading back out west for another week. All this travel has given me the time to read four or five really good books though. I recommend anything by Dan Brown and Steve Berry is catching up on my list. I've mostly been reading about Templars and Illuminati and the Catholic Church and all it's secrets but now I'm reading Deception Point by Dan Brown and it's excellent.

We went to West Va over the weekend to visit Tara's dad and he's doing great for someone who just had part of his lung removed. Our family illness woes aren't over yet though as I found out my brother has two annuerisms on his brain and we'll know more about what the doctors plan to do about it today.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Oh yeah and I forgot a big F U to blogger for marking my blog as a Spam Blog and making me go through extra steps to be able to post again. What kinda bullshit is that?? I mean really,I could understand if I were going to other peoples blogs and posting links to all kinds of commercial sites but I barely post once a month for Chrissakes.