I still haven't posted the pictures from my vacation. I did edit and crop them all and I hope to upload them sometime, maybe this weekend. We have had a recent spate of beautiful weather and the last thing I feel like doing in my small amount of free time is sitting at the computer for hours blogging.

Last weekend I got to do a little bit of boating and fishing. I've been driving my convertible to work finally, which is quite nice. On Monday I went to a Freemason open house meeting. They were presenting a 50 year award and also had a short lecture. I brought along my wife, so she could see what all I have gotten involved in, and I brought my nephew for the same reason. I had one of my first unique Freemason 'encounters' at the meeting. About halfway in, my next door neighbor walked in and was rather shocked to see me in his lodge! (This was not at my own lodge, but in Troy which is about 20 minutes away). Apparently my neighbor has been a Freemason for twenty years and I never knew it. Now we have something in common and I'm sure he will be enlisting my services for his many community projects!

The other day Monica Padilla finally replied to my email. Monica is the extraordinarily lovely young lady I saw on a subway train in San Francisco. She liked the photograph I took so much she stuck it up on her own blog.

Here's a link to Monica's page and here is a photograph that offers up yet more evidence that she may be the most beautiful young woman in the world.

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My company might be sending me on another business trip to San Francisco soon...perhaps I'll ride the same train again...

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