Drifting Away....

Well, we left the house at 5:30AM sharp and headed for Mitchell Field in Milwaukee. As usual, the Milwaukee check-in was very smooth....no worries. There is always lots of people on the early morning flights out of there but it flows smoothly. We ended up having a long conversation with the TSA dude about fishing......as he was checking out Billy's fishing poles. I almost had to say to him....."get back to work, there are people coming!".

It was very warm when we arrived, and after an hour or so we were headed for West Palm Beach to Diane's home. It reminded me of the many times I did this routine to visit Peg, but this time it was Peg and I together and the first time she had been back to West Palm Beach since our wedding.

We had a relaxing night and morning before going to a POLO match in Wellington Thursday. If you are not familiar with it, POLO is a very interesting game that lots of people get excited about....but really just has a lot to do with money....lots of money and lots of wealthy people. You for sure have the feeling that we are not in Kansas anymore.

The weather was great most of the day and we all just sort of enjoyed being there and starting to forget about work. Forgetting about work is not easy, we have banks and corporations with software issues all over the map.....and somehow I am trying to just forget about these issues for a while so I can enjoy being away. There are always issues....it's really how one deals with them in the end. Sometime we have a real crisis and sometimes we have just a Joe Smith crisis. It is important to know the difference.

The cruise business has taken a few hits today. Our honeymoon ship (the STAR Princess) caught fire on its way to Montego Bay and the Celebrity ship Milenium had a shore excursion go bad with 11 people dieing. Through it all, we are looking forward to a great trip out of Miami on Saturday afternoon. Arnie will be here tomorrow night and we will get a good night sleep before boarding on Saturday.

Billy is with his dad (they went to a Panthers game yesterday) and he called today to say he was having fun. We probably should call Katie tomorrow and tell her we have all left on a vacation while she has headed back to school!

Anyway.....vacations do teach you a valuable thing about life. There is life and there is work, between them a balance is needed..... I love my work and I would not say that if I didn't mean it, but I choose life.