Spent this past week-end in Atlanta… Jan went to the Southeast Regional gathering of AKY, a business fraternity of which Leah is a member, to assist Mike Kublin – her main business partner- on presentations he was giving to the gathering including the key note address. My role was to drive, guard and escort Jan and we stayed at the Atlanta Hilton on Courtland Street, two blocks East of Peachtree Street, and so did Leah who attended the gathering representing the University of Florida… I had planned to walk to Peachtree and 14th Ave, the Colony Square, where I stayed the first time I came to the US, as a visitor and as an IBM trainee, in October 1976, almost 36 years ago… But the weather did not cooperate; it was too cold for shirt, and too warm for coat…
This past Friday, the 24th, Alex – my third born – turned 22 years old… My, my, how time flies… It feels like only the other day she was a little itty bitty preemie baby and now she is a radiant, vibrant, full-of-life, smart and beautiful career-woman! Happy Birthday, my love… Very proud of you!
Somebody needs to thanks the crisis in Iran and Syria for driving the cost of oil up and up… Why, you may ask? Has he gone mad? Au contraire, mes amis… Do you realize that in the last debate not one of our Republican brothers brought up the economy or the jobless situation (like if everything was fine!); and that oil prices going up seems to be the last arrow left in the quiver to attach Obama with? At any rate, Mitt the Magnificent seems to be in a groove now, surviving the threat that Santorum posed in Michigan and Arizona… He beat Santorum fair and square and Santorum said “it is a two man race now”… Seriously? He beat you up like an old drum in the last several primaries/caucuses/straw polls and it is a two-man race? I don’t think so… As far as I am concerned, it is all but over; you can stick a fork to Rick, Newt and – my man- Ron Paul because they are done! Mitt’s the man!
Hawks Bluff wise, there is not too much going on in Phase I, that I know of… Spring seems to be here (it is 65 as I write this) and birdies are starting to appear… Hey, is anybody out there watching the “survivalist” programs on the Discovery Channel? Very interesting questions are being asked about what to do in, and how to prepare for, situations where there is no electricity, or no gasoline, or no sun-light for six months (volcano eruption)… Some of the folks appearing on the programs are plain-ole weirdoes (like Michigan-Militia guys, or anti-government/KKK types), but others seem to be main stream people trying to prepare for unforeseen situations… Makes you think… Hmmmm
Food for thought: “The game of Deception, making believe things are what they are not, may be useful (and profitable) in business, but harmful (and deadly) in personal relations”…
So, play carefully, my friends…
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