Excellent! Customers that you like are so much better. Also, not you and Pix, silly! Maria and Pix.

We got our flu shots in October too. By "we" I mean residents and some of the staff and myself. A few days ago, one of the residents started sneezing and coughing. I started coughing a couple days ago. No fevers. I figured it was just a nasty cold. But today the day program called me to come get the person, because she was so sick. I won't go into details, you can imagine. I took her to the ER and she tested positive for influenza. While I was waiting for her discharge orders, I called my own primary care NP and asked for Tamiflu, too. By gum, that diabetes diagnosis is handy; they don't give out Tamiflu to "healthy" people, but she hooked me up fast.

Timelies all!

Last night Gary and I got a babysitter for Mr. S, and went to a great concert. The performer, Beth Patterson, is someone we've seen many times, and always enjoy. She's a Cajun/Celtic musician who plays bouzouki, and is a character, in the best way. In addition to traditional music and her own compositions, she covered an Ozzy Osbourne song, and did a duet with her partner- Tom Sawyer played on harmonium and bouzouki.

Oh, I love her. She's from New Orleans, and she used to play at the late and lamented O'Flahery's pub in the Quarter. Before she did solo stuff, she was in a band called The Poor Clares, which did more traditional Celtic stuff.

So it appears sarameg's Family Circus is visiting Iceland this July! Mom's really been bit by the travel bug.

Happy birthdays, maria & pix!

Help me, travel gurus: I'm planning a trip for this summer, and I can get a good price going, but not coming back. Is it insane to buy a one-way ticket and hope I can do better coming back, or is it just already too late to get a cheap ticket on a Sunday in the summer?

Except birthdays for you and Pix!! I hope you are both having delightful days. Have you had a chance to celebrate together? Because if not that totally needs to happen some year.

We have not! One of these years, Maria and I will have to manage to be together to celebrate, but we haven't managed it yet.

House-ma, Strix and Laura!

Is it insane to buy a one-way ticket and hope I can do better coming back, or is it just already too late to get a cheap ticket on a Sunday in the summer?

Have you checked out what Kayak and/or Google flights have for fare predictions on the flight?

Yikes. That reminds me I took to book a flight for Boston. Business trip coming up.

Husband has a job interview in Charlotte a week from Friday, which happens to be the same time I'm away at Escapade. Naturally, this ruins my plans to spend all of the time he was gone catching up on all of my TV.