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Here’s a pretty little town not far from Pisa, Italy. Taken at something of a distance, but all the better for it.

Greetings from the train. I have a Wifi connection again, so I’m daring to actually compose today’s post live.

Had an okay day. Got up at the normal time and came in by rail, as mentioned in the previous paragraph. Also got out at the normal time. I’m sincerely hoping we don’t run anybody over tonight. So far, so good. And the train’s not been overly crowded either. Maybe everybody’s been scared away by the late night the other day.

I’ll be in the car again tomorrow, though, which is not my favorite thing on a Friday. I have to be in the office tomorrow by 7:00 again, and I place an extremely high value on my beauty rest. So would you.

At least it will be warm tomorrow. Perfect open-air motoring temperature.

Let’s see, what else is going on? I’ve been watching a few episodes of Victory by Design from the Speed channel. Mine is the three-minute podcast version, of course, and we don’t get Speed on our cable, so that’s all I’ll be seeing. Still, it’s always interesting. The host shows a significant old car – or at least a beautiful example of the type. He gives interesting background information and drives the car. And he doesn’t baby it either. Very entertaining and highly recommended.

The warm, beautiful weather is upon us! I left my jacket at home this morning. And regretted it. It’s still cold in the morning. It wasn’t so bad at the train station – it was the walk from the bus stop to my building that froze me. Pity me, Loyal Readers. But have no fear, I thawed out in the first hour or two.

Time to read my book. See you tomorrow.

Here are Loyal Readers Numbers Two and Four hiking up to Pfeiffer Falls at Big Sur a couple of weeks ago.

Extremely Short Shrift tonight. It’s almost 10:00 already and I need to be at work at 7:00 again tomorrow, which means up no later than 4:30.

Loyal Reader Number Five pointed out in yesterday’s comments that I failed to mention her family’s visit on Sunday. It was indeed a high point of the weekend. We’re going over to their place on Saturday morning, which will also be a high point.

Traffic was very quick in both directions today – less than an hour and a half each way. Thus making up in a small way for yesterday’s disaster. Incidentally, newspaper reports today confirmed that three separate trains hit three separate pedestrians in the Bay Area yesterday. The guy hit by our train was the only one who wasn’t killed. Very sad for all the people involved.

On a happier note, we’re all slim, smart, and happy. See you tomorrow.

Here’s another one of those train engines at Baikonur. Nice whitewalls. Well, yellowwalls, anyway.

Greetings from the train. There’s big trouble here tonight. Apparently, the train ahead of us hit someone or something on the tracks – they’ve been quite vague about exactly what happened. We’re probably at least an hour behind schedule, and we’re probably about halfway there. Sigh. Well, at least I can console myself with the knowledge that the earlier train is fully an hour later than us, since we just attached ourselves to it. Double sigh.

No post on Friday. I went to Loyal Reader Number Two’s organ concert that evening and I just never got around to posting. Sorry about that, Anon. I’ll try to get a good five posts in this week. Well, maybe not good posts, but five posts anyway.

Went to the doctor’s office Friday afternoon. He said my blood pressure is better than I thought it was and suggested I take an antihistamine for my excessive allergy problems. I’ve been taking them for four days now and seem somewhat improved. Hope reigns.

It was General Conference weekend, so very little else happened around our house. We managed to wash a couple of cars between sessions on Saturday and, umm, that’s about it. I discovered on Sunday that the pond filter really needs to be cleaned – the spring algae bloom is going great guns and maybe I can ease it off a little with a clean filter. Hope to get to it before the weekend, but I have no idea when.

Speaking of no time, I’ve committed to being at work by 7:00 every morning for the rest of the week. One of my colleagues and I need to get some testing done, and that’s the only time the lab is available. So I’ll be pretty much going home, eating dinner, and going to bed tonight. And then tomorrow is Tuesday-go-to-meeting night. And Thursday is High Priest leadership meeting. And then we’re back to the weekend. So maybe the pond filter won’t get cleaned until Saturday after all.

On the other hand, I’m feeling better!

That’s about it for today. See you tomorrow.

Here’s a pretty little street in Cannes. Not very good for driving, though.

No time to blog tonight. I’m heading for my new Thursday evening leadership meeting. I need to stop doing my old calling now that I’m busy doing my new one. Hopefully, my leaders will take care of that little detail Real Soon Now.

The sinus pain isn’t going away. I think it’s related to allergies, which have been quite bad for a lot of people this year. I didn’t sleep much at all last night because of the pain. Pity me. I’m going to see the doctor tomorrow afternoon.

Gotta go already. See you tomorrow.

Here’s the sun going down in Cannes. Taken from my hotel room balcony during one of my many trips there.

No post yesterday. I got home from my Tuesday evening meeting too late and wanted to get to bed. Sorry about that, Loyal Readers. Nice to hear from Anon, though.

Got up with pretty nasty sinus pain this morning, and it hasn’t gotten much better during the day. Pity me.

Otherwise normal day. I rode the train again (keeping my personal Mon-Wed-Fri commitment for once) (or twice this week, actually). It was supposed to rain. It’s been cloudy all day and I felt a tiny drop or two while I was at the train station for the afternoon ride, but that’s it so far. Sunny and 74 degrees predicted tomorrow. Spring is pretty pleasant around here.

The hills are still mostly green. The rich, velvety appearance is gone, but they’re still not bad. It’s nice to sit and look out the train window. Although I’ve been much too busy mucking about with closing emails (I’m down to just a hair over 100 unread ones – down from over 700 when I got back from vacation a week and a half ago!), writing my blog post, and watching/listening to the iPod to spend much time observing.

No new podcasts on the iPod right now. I’ve downloaded numerous audio books from Librivox, but I’ll talk about them as I listen to them. Even though I go through four to five hours of content every day, there still seems to be no shortage. Which is a good thing. The big problem is deciding what to leave out.

Time to do other things. See you tomorrow.