I had a lot of fun with this wedding weekend. The travel was not as bad as I expected, as a matter of fact I was rather impressed with how things were handled. It looks like orders were seemlessly distributed from Homeland Security to every area of the airport. Well done! The wedding itself was very nice. The bride and groom are quite fond of each other, and that is always nice to see. I was not alone in eating way too much at the festivities either :-) I'm back in Cary for less than 24 hours, and then it is time for a business trip to Holtsville, NY. Then I'll be back for two days, going to class at IBM. Immediately after that, I leave for Parkersburg, WV and my half marathon race!

It is bad enough that they were trying to blow up planes, but now they have crippled our air transportation system again!

Bill Simmons weighs in on ways to make sports better. I have to say my favorite is #27. There are certainly a few announcers I could live without!

It's like a broken record in this blog! Unfortunately, we gave away too many easy outs and managed to lose once again in the last inning. This time, 10-8. We've lost four of our last six by one run, and the other two were by two runs. I'm not sure, but I think five of them were lost in the last inning. I played OK, with a hit and our team's first run, as well as one outfield catch. Now we enter the loser's bracket. Perhaps losing is just a scheme for our team to play more games!

We watched three hours of back-to-back-to-back Dog Whisperer last night. We are interested in putting some of these new techniques into use! The key seems to be keeping the dogs calm at all times by staying calm and assertive yourself. He makes it sound a lot easier than it is! Sometimes watching the show I just want to yell at him for making it look so easy. I did make some progress this morning, regarding Hank's barking at other dogs. You have to be real quick with the correction, or Hank gets very excited very quickly!

We bought a box at the grocery store. Ah, brings you back. The sugar and the preservative combine for a tasty treat :-)

I got a new laptop at work, the Lenovo Thinkpad T60p. Beautiful, beautiful machine! The screen is even an inch bigger than my previous laptop. Yay for capital budgets!

This time due to the threat of lightning. That's impressive, isn't it? In other news, the heat index reached 108 degrees today with an actual temperature of 100. The extreme heat is causing record levels of power consumption in North Carolina, and our power actually went off today due to the excess load.

It's 100 degrees in Cary today! Yikes!!

The roofers, of course! They started work today on replacing our entire roof. Looks like they are making good progress. This better make the leaks go away :-)