Friday, September 12, 2008

Washington visit

This morning Diana and I took Craig and Taryn to Washington to see the sights. They had never been to Washington before so we had to really manage our time. They chose to see the Holocaust museum and the Air and Space museum. Two fine choices. We spent a couple of hours at the Holocaust museum and if you've never been, I highly recommend it. It's very heavy, but well worth the experience and knowledge.

I ducked out a few minutes ahead of Diana, Taryn and Craig to get myself a hot dog from the street vendor. Wow, I'm really eating well. We then went and spent a little over an hour and a half at the Air and Space museum. What more can I say about this museum? Really interesting, as usual. While Craig and Taryn were doing their thing, Diana and I did what we (errrrrr...I) do best-EAT. Diana had an ice cream and I had a green salad. Not bad, eh?

We then went to pick up Robyn from College Park (ed. note-the TERPS beat No. 23 Cal today!!!) We were a few minutes late but she was nonetheless happy to see us and showed our guests around her room. We then drove back to Baltimore. Traffic was complete sh!t. Instead of the regular 45 minutes, it took us 2 hours. Max had his legs crossed he had to pee so badly.

We went to Sandra and Neil for Shabbat dinner and as usual, she made a really cool dinner, which, by the way, included Oreo cheesecake. Then, homeward bound to watch some Hurricane Ike action. I hope its not as bad as they expected it to be.

Carpe Diem.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

***Just in case you are wondering***

There may be a couple of days where nothing much is going on with me and the family. I do not want to start writing trivial and mundane stuff about my travails in general so a few days may go by before I have anything of substance to write to the blog. I appreciate you all checking the blog periodically. You can rest assured that when it's a health issue, something interesting or something news worthy, I will communicate it through the blog. Once again, I appreciate and am grateful for all the blog comments and personal emails. Thanks for your love and support.

What a sad anniversary today is!

Carpe Diem.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

It's pretty quiet

Not much going on the past couple of days. The weather has been pretty decent but even that being the case, we closed our pool for the winter season. No one was using it! The water was a bit chilly and there was no point in putting the heater on. Global warming, the $$$, yada, yada, yada.

Diana is working, Rob's at Uni and Mike is at school. So I'm eating out most days at lunch time. My appetite is still good and I seem to be slowly putting on weight. I'm not sure my current diet is the epitome of good eating but right now I need to concentrate on gaining my weight back. So what if my cholesterol kills me. Just kidding. I don't want to be premature but so far so good with the medication. Hopefully, it will stay that way.

What's coming up, you ask? Tomorrow Craig Solomon (Hylton's/Silvie's son from Cape Town) will be staying with us for a couple of days. He is coming with his fiance. It's their first visit to this area (or the USA) so we will do the touristy stuff for them. Then next week I am off to the Hamptons for a couple of days. Sounds pretentious. I will be meeting up with the London "gang". Russ, Gerry, Oren and Ilan. They are over here visiting and going to the wedding of a good friend of theirs'.

Carpe Diem.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Weekend Update

Saturday Hanna arrived. No, not our niece. The tropical storm Hanna. Lot's of rain and a bit of wind. Not much else. Good.

Phil came in from New York. She went to a surprise birthday party for her good friend Jeanne Segal (neice of George Segal - the actor). The party was in Bethesda, a really nice part of the suburbs of Washington, DC. I was drafted as her date for the evening. More like chauffeur & food taster but I was only too happy to do this. Met some interesting people. There was even another pilot there. A Southwest Airlines captain. The food and snacks were amazing. It was a Mexican theme and they had this really popular Mexican food truck come by the house and prepare all sorts of stuff for the guests. I know it doesn't sound that appealing but it was quite pleasant. Besides which, Prednisone makes it all good!!!

Phil went home Sunday morning after breakfast. Sunday evening Mike and I went for dinner with four of our very close Baltimore friends. These two couples were the ones who came over to be with us the night I was diagnosed with lung cancer. They have been wonderfully supportive and a really big help to all of us through this ordeal. It was our way (and our treat) of saying thank you for everything and thank you for being such good friends. It was a really nice Indian restaurant in a nice and interesting part of Baltimore. And yes, I ate really well!

Carpe Diem.