Josh ... eat your heart out ... Grandma Suzy sent me the interactive DVD game.  It arrived last night ... and I was having internet access problems this morning (Tues).  So, I loaded up the DVD and played a quick came [Note:  sometimes before 5am the internet is down; which seemed to be this case too ... at 5am everything started up ok].

Anyway, back to D-o-ND, started out with a pretty good set of pics on the 6 selection, 5 was ok too ... at that point I was uncovering more of the interior ranges ... the "deal" kept increasing from 20k, 41k, 108k, 203k .... took the 203k as I had 4 small values out there ... plus the 750k and 1,000k.  I was down to opening one case at a time.  I took the deal. My case actually held only 5k ... yuk yuk yuk.

**** BACK TO BUSINESS - Haven't seen all the local press reports, but the security reports suggests that there weren't any major issues with GWB's visit yesterday.  However, one never knows ... its really not the "hard targets" that terrorists go after ... but the "soft ones" such as hotels, cafes, and malls.

Work is work .... bah humbug.  I think I will take Wed-Fri off, while Stela is here ... and try to use up some of my remaining 25 days of vacation.

There is a possibility that we will receive our shipment on Friday afternoon ... barring anything unforeseen, we should have it no later than Tuesday.  Some of this stuff I haven't seen in nearly 7 years ... so it will be interesting to see what is actually in our shipment.

Once we open the shipment and see what we have (which also is supposed to include a lot of kitchen stuff) we can begin buying the last wave of furniture and accessories for the house ... and then begin hanging pics, mirrors, paintings, etc.  Hopefully by the time Chris and Paul arrive (16-Dec) we will more or less be done with the fleshing out of the house ...

ciao ciao ... and THANKS GRANDMA SUZY !!!!