Happy Thanksgiving all.

It was jsut the four of us today. One of our favorite retaurants had a dinner package available for just about what I would have spent at the grocery store. We picked it up last night, and just heated it according to instructions today.

Tonight, I have had too much good food and too much good wine. It has been a great day. I hope your day was great too.

It just continues. My sister, who is 63, went in for some tests. It was determined that her carotid arteries are plugged up. One is 90 percent blocked, the other 60 percent. Further testing found the need for a quadruple heart bypass. She will check in monday for the coarotid arteries, and stay in the hospital. Wednesay they will do the heart bypass.

Someday soon, I will post something upbeat........

Good morning friends,

I guess I am just getting to the age when we realize that we are not immortal. My friend Duane died yesterday of heart failure. Duane and his wife Pam have been friends of ours since our oldest children entered Kindergarden. We coached Little League with and against each other for years. Pam was a teacher's aid at the elementary school. One afternoon she held and comforted our oldest daughter, who had been injured on the playground until we were able to get there. Our familys have been joined by good times and bad.

Duane was a young auto shop teacher at the high school. On a field trip, he was discovered in a compromising position with one of the senior class girls (Pam) and fired. They were married a month or so later, and went on to thirty five more years together and five children.

He had heart bypass surgery a couple of years ago, but has been in failing health for a long time. I am glad he is at peace.

Good morning friends.

It would be great to have interesting and amusing stuff to post in my blog, but it just ain't happening. My trip to Fike last week to learn the Cheetah and Vesda systems put me a little more behind on my projects at the University. When I got back, I found that we have a new apprentice in our department. He seems like a nice enough kid, and he is willing to work. He knows nothing at all about what we do, do we can teach him from scratch.

It also proves that we do not profile our employees. He is in his early twenties, Arabic and his name is Jihad. Well, he will at least sty put. I am sure the Department of Homeland Security would not let him get on a plane,,,,,,