Well, THE WOMAN gets another year older today.  In an effort to avoid the traditional birthday spankings at her office, she called in sick.  Life must be good when you are the boss.  Resources are a bit constrained this month, so all of her gifts are coming in small packages, and the dinner out will have to wait until the weekend.

Report cards are arriving at the house this week.  The first one was for FDSM.  We won’t go into details in this space, but it is safe to say that we’ve got free baby sitting for the next nine weeks.  FDFM never suffers those types of things, but she’s in her last semester of college so she’s got one last chance to be grounded for bad grades.  Let’s hope she takes advantage of that.

THE SAILOR has made it to her ‘A’ school in mostly one piece.  Her knees were bothering her at graduation so she went on sick call Monday to have them checked. It turns out that she’s got some floating cartilage on one side and a pinched nerve on the other.  They are talking about doing some rotating and balancing on her this week.  She’ll have to wait to start her next school while she re-habs but it should all be good.

Back with more later.