The offensively constipated New York Giants finally showed up to play football in the Meadowlands today, trouncing “America’s” Team by a healthy margin. Perhaps now they will have their mojo back.
No turning back now …
It’s my brother Dave’s birthday. He’s 40. Remarkably I remember the day he came home from the hospital. The reason that day is so clearly etched in my memory is because he came home at around exactly the same time that school was going to end. I was 6 and a first-grader at the time. My teacher, Mrs. Schwabele had placed me in the high reading group – a big “honor” perhaps- bestowing upon the holder the extra special “privilege” of being able to stay after school each and every day to sit around with six other high reading group members – all of them girls – while my friends got to play freeze-tag and kill-the- guy-with-the-ball on the playground. Oh joy. When Dave arrived it was exciting and a big event so I asked Mrs. Schwabele if I could skip high reading group and go home to meet my new brother. She said “Now Robert, life is full of hard choices and if you walk out that door that’s fine, but you won’t be in high reading group anymore …” Imagine how hard a choice that was; in retrospect – it was clearly the right one for me. And today, on his birthday, I’d like to thank Dave for helping me make THAT important life decision. Oh … by the way, and not to toot my own horn, but I think I’m reading at or about grade level right now.
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East Coast Skiiing! Baby It’s Cold Outside…
So we just returned from Windham where we’ve been skiing for years. The kids had a great time. We schlepped and trudged all over the mountain, ate burgers, listened to perpetually 70s tunes and had a standard mid-winter weekend. But boy was it cold for the first two days. Temperature on Friday night as we pulled in from our from our extended trek the long/wrong way around Route 55 to get from 17 to 23 was 5 degrees with wind-chill down below 0 and that remained through Saturday night. Sunday was warm and sunny 18 – balmy by comparison. The drive home was much smarter – under 2 hours, dinner at Macaroni Grill and kids asleep by 9:20. So it’s back to business as usual starting in the am.