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Just a bit more detail about my travels and some observations while in transit.

I love travelling. My family went places quite a bit, either by car or plane, when I was a kid. I guess that’s why I still like travelling. Hell, I even enjoy going to the airport. Let me know if you ever need a ride.

James & I don’t get to travel together often these days, and the only down side is leaving him (and the boys) behind. But I’m usually only gone a day or two or three, which is a good duration, and minimizes the missing. What’s the saying, “distance makes the heart grow fonder”? It’s always exciting to go somewhere, and coming home is always exciting, too. I get anticipation on both directions of travel 🙂

I was a bit bummed because I didn’t get to do much on the weekend. Friday I evidently ate something I shouldn’t have at lunch at became suddenly violently ill just as I was sitting down to dinner at 8pm. My assumption is it was food poisoning. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice to say the next 18 hours or so were not pleasant. The worst part was that Bobby & Ian had gone to a lot of trouble to have us over for brunch and I was really looking forward to that. I laid on the sofa all day, and the weather was miserable all day to compliment the way I felt.

James surprised me with an early Valentine’s Day. He got me a really, really sweet card that touched me and also got us the movie “Ray,” which I had been dying to see. We watched it that night, and it was quite good. I actually am ready to watch it again already.

Yesterday, it was supposed to be only 56 and completely cloudy. It turned out to be 62 and sunny. I was so glad they got it wrong. I ended up taking the dogs with me to drive around finding caches. Two were in fields that involved decent length walks. They just love riding in the car and if it incorporates a walk, then all that much better! I found 6 and there was 1 more I couldn’t find. One I found was the pesky one down the corner – man that one is tiny! Log book is rolled up into a pen cut in half and gutted, stuck in a hole under the fence.

Sat evening, we went to see Bad Education with James, Bobby and Ian. Bobby and Ian had seen films by this director before, and the story sounded intriguing so we went. It was a great film that we all really enjoyed. Then we went for a late (10pm) dinner at Mi Cocina, and then over to Cru for some wine. Sometimes I feel like I’m dragging people along just because I like Cru, but I think everyone was glad we went. Great atmosphere, and we were all just chat-chat-chatting away. In my old age, I’m realizing I much prefer simply spending time with old friends as opposed to running around trying to keep up with a lot of different people.

So I promised that I would eventually post about St. Pete. This week has been busy at work but got a lot accomplished, so during the week I have been tired – and the weather has been mostly crappy, which doesn’t help. It finally became sunny on Thursday and everyone seemed to “snap out of it.” It is sunny now but meant to cloud up later today, so we’ll see. I plan to take the dogs geocaching…they really love it 🙂

Arrived in St. Pete last Thursday, Tim and Kate picked me up and brought Isaac along. He’s adorable and amazing. They dote on him, of course, and they really pay a great deal of attention to him. He’s only 3 months old, so that might change! They really seem to understand him…sometimes he cries almost uncontrollably and they say “oh, he wants to go for a walk.” As soon as they put him in the stroller and get going, he gets quiet. Amazing.

I just discovered a very significant flaw in this blog software, and I’m pretty pissed off about it. I just spent about 15 minutes tapping out a lengthy update of the past couple of days and my visit with Tim & Kate (and Isaac). Since it was pretty long and it is now 4:18 in the morning, for the first time ever I pressed “preview” instead of “submit”.

It only showed the first couple of paragraphs, so I hit “read more” and it gave me my true home page, without the new article. I hit “back” on my browser and it reloaded a blank entry form. I tried a few ways to get back to the correct screen but it seems pretty clear that post is gone.