Welcome Daria DiGi...

Welcome Daria, glad to have you on board!

Long time no talk. Great that all seems well with you in South Florida. Everything fine out here, even with this being the year all three girls are in college at the same time. Cristina is due to graduate from Santa Clara in June, as is Kelly from UC Irvine (she took the more-extended, 7-year plan, but is almost at the finish line). Natalie is at Loyola-Chicago, and coming home for Christmas break later today. That is, if she can get out of Midway Airport and make her connection in Denver, where there might be snow today. I am having her fly Frontier Airlines, mainly because their frequent flier mile threshold is only 15,000 miles, and a while back I began to convert any available credit card miles to Frontier, so it will be easier to get the free round trips. Already I am hearing the "C" word (cheapskate), but she will like Frontier more than Southwest, or even American, because the seats are roomy, and there is Direct TV at all seats on all flights (like JetBlue). And she likes the way they paint pictures of animals on the tail of the plane. Though I suspect all of that will mean little if she gets snowed in later today in Denver.

One of these days, we'll get Mark and hopefully Paul and Dan to come down during spring training, when Florida is at its best. Come to think of it, baseball season is just a few months away. The sooner this football season gets over, the better...