Weekend update and more

What a lazy past few days. Allow me to blame something . Steroids or should I say, lack of steroids. Diana wrote the following email to Dr. Erlich:

"Sorry to bother you again. It's Diana. Adrian is leaving this Wednesday for London, and I'm a bit nervous due to some new symptoms he has been displaying. He is a lot more tired than usual, mildly depressed, has a slightly diminished appetite, some mild nausea, and feels cold (primarily at night time). Is there cause for concern? Also, do you have a pulmonologist you can recommend? His breathing is still labored with the occasional coughing spasm. All in all, he is in much better shape than he was on March 5, 2008. Yay!"

Honestly, it's not as bad as it seems but I am definitely suffering from steroid withdrawal. All the symptoms I am showing are classic withdrawal symptoms. No, I did not read the information on the Prednisone package to garner more sympathy. I'm still quite blimpy and eating well but I guess I'm quite simply bored. Yes, bored though not all the time. I feel like an alcoholic self admitting! I do miss the good, fun parts of flying and I certainly miss my flying friends. I guess I miss traveling to some degree. So get a load of these plans:

Next week I'm off to London for a week. Russ has scheduled an action packed week including a Man U vs. Tottenham football game, a day trip to Paris and watching the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. Core blimmey. Oh, by the way, our mom will be joining us.

At the end of December the Baltimore Suskin clan will be going to Boca for just over a week. Lots of the immediate and extended family will also be down there at the same time. Can you say "one big party".

In early January Diana and I will be going to Africa. Specifically South Africa and Zimbabwe. But there is a wrinkle in the schleifenplanne. It's called "cholera". This obviously complicates things for me as I was personally hoping to finally get things moving on our Zim project. Diana is very concerned about my health situation. It's not that I'm not concerned for my health but my judgement is somewhat clouded by what I see happening now in Zim with the inflation and starvation. It seems the cholera epidemic is just another huge set back for a country struggling to survive. We will consult with our doctors and decide what to do closer to the departure date.

Saturday lunch time we watches Man U beat Sunderland in literally the last few minutes of the game. Smashingly entertaining game with a great result. Saturday evening we went out for Italian food with four (two couples) of our very close Baltimore friends. The dinner was really nice but the movie we saw afterwards was fantastic. The movie was called Slumdog Millionaires. It was about this Indian kid and his brother growing up in the slums of Mumbai and winning a shit load of money on the Indian version of "Who wants to be a millionaire". When we got home Mike had a bunch of friends over at the house playing poker. We thought that we would be having a lot of sleepover guests as there had been a light snow fall in the evening and the roads were pretty lousy. But in the end all these card mavericks decided to drive home. Safely and successfully I might add.

Carpe Diem.