Ahira's Hangar

Visiting with your family sounds great MsMary. And I am glad you had a great time with your folk dancing weekend, too.

I am very interested in going to Chicago for a weekend with the kids and seeing the King Tut show this coming summer. I will keep what you just said in mind if we do get a chance to go -- expect delays and huge crowds. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Thanks for everyone's help during a tough year! Happy New Year! *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
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A Happy New Year to everyone!

Here is the best I can do to share my homemade chocolate chip cookies! ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Hope everyone's New Year got off to a good start.

My New Year started off with a bad cold or flu. I went in to work New Years' Eve, against my better judgment (as my husband said, who would fill in for me if I called in on New Years' Eve?). By the end of the shift, I had lost my voice. I have spent most of the past week recuperating, and am feeling stronger today, though I still have a residual cough and stuffiness.

I did get up from my sick bed for a few hours to attend the wedding of the daughter of a close family friend, and I am glad I did.

Here's looking forward to a good New Year and good health and happiness for everyone. "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"<i></i>

We, too, have had a bad cold spreading around our area. I picked it up before Christmas, and am also still having residuals.

Here's hoping we both get rid of our colds soon!

And here is hoping that everyone else is off to a productive and healthy and happy new year! ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Amen to those sentiments, Duchess. "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"<i>Edited by: MsMaryMalone  at: 1/9/06 11:49 am
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Duchess, I got your phone message and tried calling but the lines are busy. I just got the PM from the Watch came through in spite of the deviltry going on there.

As to Evanston, I've been by the campus, and it is a very gorgeous place, but I can't offer much in the way of places to eat in the area. The last time I was in the area was 3 years ago for a NU-Iowa football game. There are plenty of small restarurants around though, as I remember. Here's a site from the Chicago Tribune metromix.chicagotribune.com/ Metromix has reviews of places to eat and is, in general, a pretty good guide. Looks like you will have a rainy visit to town if you are there on Monday. If it was snowy you might have had trouble getting around since the campus is right beside the lake. <i></i>

Well, thanks for getting back with me, Damelon.

You probably tried to call me back while I was at work. I work two stories underground in an area completely surrounded by reinforced concrete and very heavy metal doors. There is no cell phone signal here, and I have to turn the phone off so the batteries won't run down while it searches for a signal for 8 1/2 hours. It's an old phone, and does not have a power saver signal.

Rainy, eh? Thanks for the warning - my wiper blades on my vehicle are starting to shred, so I should probably try to replace them before we leave for our drive to Evanston on Sunday.

I guess we will just ask at the hotel desk for good local places to eat. On Monday my younger son and I might take the train down to Chicago for the afternoon while my older son does the campus tour and meeting thing in the company of his father. Mr. Sunshine and I should be able to find plenty of good places to eat there, if we should do that.

I have been to Evanston before, but have never stayed there overnight, or tried to find a meal there...should be interesting... <i>Edited by: Duchess of Malfi at: 1/12/06 5:04 pm
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It was a very nice weekend in Evanston and Chucago. It was sunny and warm. We were able to walk around in light jackets rather than coats, though it would get colder after sundown.

My older son had a good day yesterday touring Northwestern, and even got a chance to sit down and talk to the dean of the engineering college for awhile.

I spent the afternoon in Chicago yesterday with my younger son. We took the train down from Evanston, and Calibaby and Bigred picked us up in the Jeep when they were done at Northwestern. We ate lunch in a good hot dog place (Damelon had to guide us there via cell phone from the subway stop) and then we visited the Field Museum where we visited a special exhibit with all sorts of artifacts from Pompeii and the surrounding areas. That was pretty interesting, and also recommended by Damelon.

Now its back to the usual routine for a couple of weeks, until our next campus visit, to Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo in a couple of weeks. Another engineering school... ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Duchess,
We're sending you a nice wet snow storm from the Chicago area. Since about 5.00 pm afternoon we've got about 4-6 inches of snow. So that snow will come your way in about 12 hrs or so, I think. taraswizard
Allan Rosewarne N9SQT/WDX6HQV
Chicago area
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The local forecasters all said we'd wake up to anything from 3-8 inches of snow this morning, Taras. They were all wrong. The storm went further north. We got very heavy rain all night long (I could hear the rain drumming on the roof for hours last night before I went to bed) but we only got a dusting of snow this morning. I will not complain. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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supposed to hit us this evening - has gotten very cold & windy here - we'll see what happens.
Anything less than a couple of feet doesn't count as a snow storm....
btw - my son is reading The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe in his first grade class - I knew I liked his teacher!!!!


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It's very very windy tonight, and we got a couple of dustings of snow today (one this morning, which melted when it got a bit warmer this afternoon) and another tonight. The roads were pretty icy driving home tonight. I am just now settling down enough after a hot shower and being home for 2 1/2 hours to try to go to bed. I'll take a foot of snow anyday over ice!!! ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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The weather has been crazy this winter. Late November and the month of Decemeber right up until the holidays were brutally cold and snowy. About Christmas it suddenly warmed up to around freezing and even above freezing and it has pretty much turned to rain ever since. January has had a couple of ice storms - one of them terrible where some local people died on the horrid roads - but no real snow to speak of.

The Super Bowl in Detroit was sold to the NFL as a winter party/carnival. Well, there is no snow anywhere, except for a few dirty piles on an edge of a parking lot here and there. It has been above freezing everyday for the past month or thereabouts (I am NOT complaining about that, by the way. ).

So they are trucking in snow to downtown Detroit to make snow slides and sledding hills and the like, and trying to cover those piles with tarps to keep the snow from melting from the unseasonable warm weather and all of the rain we've been having. They've brought in snow making machines but they can't even use them, because it has been too warm.
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Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Well, things have been interesting lately. There has been an epidemic in the southern parts of the state of the Norwalk virus, and we all got it two weekends ago. It was pretty rough, but we are all either finally recovered, or are nearly so.That was incredibly nasty stuff. Before I got that, I knew intellectually that severe enough diarrhea can kill someone, but now I have a much better understanding of how that can happen if it goes on long enough.

My older son is nearly done with his senior wrestling season; the younger one blew out his knee and will probably be out until sometime in the spring (for both wrestling and soccer). In a way this is a sort of blessing: we will get a lot more family time together now.

Did all of you hear the wonderful news about Fisty being engaged? ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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