One More Birthday in the Rear View Mirror

On Wednesday, I celebrated my birthday in an unusual way . . . by flying from Minneapolis to Miami to Detroit to Fort Wayne. All day in the air and airports. Amazingly, especially given the weather conditions, every single flight took off on time and landed early. And the flights were not full, so I generally had pretty good seats and was comfortable. I worked my way through two magazines, finished reading Tempered Steel and started The Red Sea Rules and generally had a fairly good travel day.

When I got home, there was a birthday cake awaiting me. Naturally, they couldn't put enough candles on it for this year's celebration. Not too long until AARP comes calling . . .


Melody helped me blow out the candles. And then we remembered she was sick . . .

But she was very excited to have me home after a week away . . .