We were thinking of going to Reno to scatter ashes today, but it didn't work out. Meanwhile, I have this niggling feeling I'm not doing something important. I'm also dealing with a little bit of guilt, but I don't know why. Is it that I've begun to get on with my life? While I still miss Himself, it's not as all-pervasive as it has been. My head knows this is natural and good, but maybe my heart is feeling guilty. Or is it not seeing another friend, who's been sick? Or my neighbor, who is home from the nursing home but in bad shape? I don't know why, but Doom seems to be lurking just over my shoulder.

I picked up the knitting again and realize that I was wrong about the other leg, that it is bandy-legged and big-bottomed. I'll just add a patch to make it more like the one I'm doing.

I have leftover notes from the flight home last Saturday. Pittsburgh Airport is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary of the big reconstruction. (I remember how awful it was in 1984 when we went back for my father-in-law's funeral. The thing I remember most was the baggage handlers who were not going to help us without a huge tip.) According to the TSA guy, it's the 4th best terminal in the US with the 3rd best food.

I got a newspaper, so I know that Pittsburgh was late with the paperwork to be involved with the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Since it started in Pgh, the festival organizers can't ignore the city entirely.
There is a celebration in 2004 to mark the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War.
October is the month that "Mother-in-Law's Day" occurs (like anyone pays attention to Grandparent's Day?)... when is this, the 31st??
Argh. In the business section, I discover that Edison (Schools) parties while their schools lack books and computers, etc. The shares are down 99% (they're in my fantasy portfolio, thank ghu not in my REAL portfolio!) and who's surprised? They went to the BROaDMOOR in Colorado Springs at $375-$3170/night on some sort of conference. Meanwhile, there's no teacher training, no computers, no school supplies. I must say, I am really disappointed. I really like the idea of Edison schools, of a private company that would do better than the public schools. It should work, if there wasn't a venal chairman, a venal board.

OK, why is it that the flight crew must tell us, every time, about seat belts? SEAT BELTS??!? Like no one in the entire United States has ever seen a seat belt? I understand the oxygen mask/flotation devices (ok, maybe we'll go down in a Great Lake, yeah, right) talk, but seat belts are not exactly esoteric technology.

Clear Channel Airports. As we got off the plane in Minneapolis, we talked to a family who was en route to Bozeman to look at land. At first I thought they were Montanans, but they'd never actually been in Bozeman, they were going on spec. I saw a guy studying corn, plants, farming. Gee, is he a UCDavis student?? We came home at 35,000', 450 mph, 80% the speed of sound. We were fed Spinzels pretzels. They are REALLY good!

I'm seeing ads for the proposition that will allow same-day voting. People with a late birthday will be "denied a right to vote." Ha. Roni figured it out. Her 18th birthday was the day before election day that year, but yet she voted. If you WANT to vote, you can.

"Argh
18 years ago, at Our Lady of Loretto"
(I dunno what that note was for)

ObGoe: is the World Series, even though Himself didn't like sports. He knew and liked Gene Autry.