aarrgghh...and promises of more to come

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Since Facebook has turned into my medium of choice to exchange news - and I am just scratching the surface of twitter, this outage has made my morning ritual of updating and catching up on people's statuses, frustratingly almost impossible. I am shaking my fist in the air at those pesky hackers!

And I was thinking in the car on the way into work what an abomination it is that I waste so much time doing it in the first place. Especially since I heard this AM that the Marine Corps has banned these social networking websites from its computers, etc - effective immediately. And how can they do that - oh yeah, its the military - Glad to be working in the private sector (even if it has lost its luster recently)
Now I have to go cold turkey from my addiction too - NOT FAIR.

And I have lots to share lately:

• My whirlwind trip to Israel and all the intrinsic go-withs..., reflections, new friends and experiences, not enough time to see everyone and everything, travel delays, etc
• Astros game - fun, non-dramatic times with the kids and even my dad - who graciously sprung for a yummy dinner and parking. Good times! It deserves its own post with pics (hopefully coming soon)
• A tragedy -in a family other than my own- that [still] rings close to home.
• A family member who went for surgery and I am thirsty for updates from his immediate relatives to let us know how it went...

Plus I have special plans for this afternoon/evening that I want to make sure are still viable considering the circumstances - the kid friendly fun part of them have already been cancelled.

Finally - I was given a juicy work analysis project yestereday that I just can't get focused on because of all these other things going on and my recent dry spell has made me lazy in the actual real "use your valuable learned skills" work dept...

Glad we in my family like to be spontaneous and can be flexible. :)

More to come