One more day and a wake-up

Here's what it looks like when someone misses you in Ohio:


I just have to make it through Wednesday (high of 49, low of 29!!), get up early on Thursday, and then I'll be home and dry... and with you.

How did I get so lucky? What in the world are you doing with the likes of me?

Well, never look a gift horse in the mouth.

I'm going to go back up to my cell, sorry, room, and give you a call.

Toodles!

Love you,

Michael

Missing you in Ohio

Hey, Scientist Lady:

I could live with the thirty-degree weather.
I could live with the ridiculous out-sized pickup truck.
I could live with a hotel that shares a designer with many of today's finest penitentiaries.
I could even live where going to the gym is a bit like the quest for the grail.

But...

I wouldn't last five minutes without you.

I miss you.

Your Michael

Missing you in Alaska

Hey, Scientist-Lady!

This is how I feel without you in Alaska:


This, however, is how I feel knowing I'll get to see you tomorrow!


I'm off to breakfast, but will write more soon.

I love you.

Michael

Thanks for sharing!

I'm really glad you let kat, gabe, and I share the wii.

I suspect that this will give us a whole new dramatic arena in which to argue!

Seriously, you're super-nice for sharing, and I am grateful.

Here's what I'll look like after playing wii tennis a bunch:


And you thought I was funny looking before!!

Your michael.

Stuck in the airport with you

This is how I would feel if I were stuck in this airport without you:


But, this is how I feel with you here with me:


Thanks for making this a fantastic trip. Without you, San Diego would have just been another town.

Love,
me

How do I thank thee...

Let me count the ways. Thanks for:

1. making paninis with me. I love 'em, the kids love 'em, and they're not just for breakfast anymore!
2. helping set up the Cooley Aquarium. Yes, the attrition rate in there is coming up on fifty percent, but maybe that's a more valuable lesson than "we're all different, but we can still live together in peace." We'll do "we're all different, and sometimes you eat someone else, and sometimes someone else eats you" instead!
3. helping me turn my place into a home. This place is never going to win any awards from Martha Stewart, but Kat and Gabe need better than a military barracks, and you've helped me move from the latter towards the former.
4. going to the auto show... with three kids! Outline the prospect of attending an auto show to most people, and they'd decline. Add the presence of the fearsome Cooley trio, and most Army Rangers would say, "No thanks." I think all of us had a good time, and that wouldn't have been the case without you.

But most of all, thanks for that grin at Luciano's. Anyone who can enjoy that level of "I told you so" and still sit through a huge meal with us is all right in my book.

I don't deserve you, but I'm sure as hell glad I've got you. And for that, I'm a thankful guy.

A Great Saturday

Hey, Scientist Lady,

I had a great Saturday with you. I want to thank you for your help with the Apartment, the shopping, the eating at Luciano's, and all of the other stuff not fit for print.

I am excited about the Condo open house tomorrow.

I'm really lucky to get to spend the weekend with you, and want you to know that I KNOW THAT!!

You're the bee's knees.

Michael

Hows da Hoops?

I'm missing my girl!

Quite a match tonight between Lazio (formerly of Rome) and Napoli (formerly of Naples)! A young upstart named Gabe (who goes by Anakin, oddly) scored two goals!!

Only one, however, was for his team.

But don't let that diminish the accomplishment!

Meanwhile, Kat is practicing on the "Double Bass", as she keeps calling it. "It's not a fish," I remind her. "Fish aren't nearly that expensive."

So she's practicing downstairs, and I keep thinking something very horrible is about to happen to young Anakin Skywalker and I while he takes his bath... It's like have a foreboding soundtrack playing in the background all the time!

Later, tater.

Putting on the Ritz

No, it's not the Ritz-Carlton, it's the Clovis Hampton Inn.

Note the amenities! Will I need these? Is this a good sign?


So this is me, missing you, but having some ear-plugs, in Clovis, New Mexico. The good news: I'll see you tomorrow! Now that makes to drive to Albuquerque a little more bearable.

Clovis is a town of 42,213. Having seen the town, I'm not looking to make it a town of 42,214.

I'm looking forward to coming home.

me

Missing You

This is me missing you in Alamogordo, New Mexico.


Their gym was nice and all, but it's cold comfort.

"L.A.'s fine, the sun shines most the time
And the feeling is 'lay back'
Palm trees grow, and rents are low
But you know I keep thinkin' about
Making my way back

Well I'm New York City born and raised
But nowadays, I'm lost between two shores
L.A.'s fine, but it ain't home
New York's home, but it ain't mine no more."

Girl, who else would quote Neil Diamond to you at midnight?

Home is where the heart is, and that makes mine San Antonio for what used to be two, but is now three reasons. And I don't like to be away.

Your Michael

It's only ten?

Good googaloo!

A coworker of mine (who you may recognize) and I are amazed that it's only ten am. This class is interminable! And, they closed the snack bar because no one is in this whole enormous building! You could make a really creepy film in this place - all of this space and chairs and computers and such, and no people.

I think we should start doing the Times crossword puzzle together. You'll have to bring it over from your place, as it will start showing up there soon.


What else? I've got nothing for now.

Toodles.

Stellar Class

Hey, Scientist Lady!

A co-worker (who you may recognize) and I are in a class that is so exciting, it elicits outbursts like the one shown below. Jealous?




She described the class as a "public access channel show hosted by Ben Stein". She has a way with words, no?

Toodles,

Your favourite barrista

Hello to you, scientist lady, from Michael and Kat

Hello, Scientist Lady!

Kat and I are beginning our film career this evening. I think that her future might lie in front or behind the camera, but I've surely got a face made only for radio.

Here's our first feature film. See what you think.




Kat is keenly interested in setting up the aquarium, so I told her that Friday might be a evening to do a little work on it.

See if your schedule permits.


Toodles!

Hey, Scientist Lady

Hey, Carrie! Here's a picture of you!

Plans for Thursday?

Hey, Scientist Lady:

Kat says, "Take a picture of me in this shirt of yours I've fixed, and you can show it to the scientist lady.

I say, "Fixed?"

She says, "Just take the picture!"

So here's this shirt of mine she's modified with a pair of scissors to reflect her own artistic sensibilities.



New subject: when I went to Eddie's choir performance, in which he did not perform but drank wine in the audience with me, there was a musician featured who sounded pretty good.

Now, I know you've seen everyone and their brother in concert. But, if you haven't heard of this lady or seen her as yet, she's going to be performing this Thursday at a little place called... dramatic pause... Soleil Wine Bar & Bistro on Blanco Road!

Isn't that near your second residence / summer home?

It's from 8:30 'till 11:00, and I'd like to see if you're free to go. I've arranged to host my guys until about seven or so, and then be off-duty. So we could go, try the food and music, and see what we think.

More about the performing artist Lynette Brehm: http://www.lynetterocks.com/

Give it some thought.

michael