I'm in Sweden now ready to go to my brother's wedding. After the ceremony
we will have a real Swedish dinner, should be interesting. I think someone
hacked into your calendar; apparently buying Viagra is an upcoming event.

Got a good laugh from "Where's Baby".

The movie was great, but now I have this terrific urge to cook something fabulous.

I just spent all morning and part of the afternoon ordering pictures online. I have a sampling from the entire summer ordered.
I'll be leaving to see "Julie and Julia" shortly with Phyllis Hawk. Tracy and I didn't manage to fit that into the busy schedule in Bozeman and I thought I'd missed my chance to see it, but Phyllis knew where it was playing in downtown Decatur.

MADE IT TO WILLIAMSBURG!!!! When they canceled the 1:55 flight at 3:30 I ran to the bus to go to another terminal and run to the gate for the 4:00 flight. Made it on that, but find it incredibly wrong for a 1/2 full flight to take off somewhere when the same airline just cancelled a full flight accross the airport to the same destination and did nothing to get any of those passengers onto the 1/2 full flight.

I talked to her on the plane, waiting for the weather to clear. We hung up when it sounded like they were taking off soon, but she texted to let me know they were still sitting.

Well, I just talked to Veronica so she could pass the time some, and it seems the latest flight was just cancelled... she hung up so she could go rebook... so she may have some more time to talk here in a little bit.


Listening to pandora through the TV...

"Malcolm solves his problems with a chainsaw, and he never has the same problem twice..."

vo: Hope you get where you're going sometime today.

now this is just cruel. Put us on a plane and then take us back off, ugggggggggh

Still in Philadelphia....

Well, Nico has just formed his first sentence. He got the "I need, I need..." from the HSM Fabulous song, add the word "up" which he knew already and ....waalaa..."I need up."

It's not as funny as the (almost) sentence of "Daddy all wet", but it's his first.

Not independent enough to ride the bus, but we will get there.

Kids rode the Streamline (local bus) to meet Frank & I downtown for lunch. Now they are walking down to the swimming pool to meet some friends. Then they'll walk home after swimming. I LOVE this age!

No pictures, but it did happen. Cool 'end of band camp' show last night. FrankT was lookin' sharp. They even had a cool drill-down competition. FrankT lasted about halfway. We'll be putting up lots of video of him marching in uniform soon! And if anyone cares to join us, we'll be going to Spokane Oct 9-11 for the marching band competition. We're so sorry you moved AO!

I feel like sitting around airports all evening... good thing I choose Philadelphia to fly through today!!

I'm back in Mt. Pulaski and don't plan to leave until I head up to Racine for the end of summer picnic at the Wisconsin Ohler's.

I guess I need to educate Eric the same way I educated matto. Juju can not be photographed.

Yea, Best Western still had a room. See you in September people!

ao clearly hasn't been paying attention to her steeley dan lyrics. william and mary won't do.

I think I may be visiting William and Mary in January. Looks like our timing is a little off.

matto: please send pics of your juju.

A Virginia Ham?

last call on anyone wanting anything from Virginia...

what did I say? this is hurting my juju.

sorry, the net was down. Hope you had Happy Birthday's F&F. Brandon, May the grace of Farve be with you.

May want to look up the "broken window" fallacy.

Glad you're buying into the whole "spread the wealth" program. ; )

but mine is a negative trade on houses so although the realesate people, the appraisers, the HOA, the inspectors, lawyers, etc are going to be getting more money I am just losing it.

Brandon, we are here for you. And the silver lining is that they did not also acquire Vick.

So, now we have two people buying homes? We are really helping this economy recover! Way to go ohlers!

Brandon: Based on my embedded exposure to all things green and gold for the last 9 years I can only offer you this one
reassuring piece of advice. It's no longer 'your' team. This is Favre, the 33rd NFL franchise.

In the immortal words of many of the faithful:
So long, you will be missed Brent.

After the shocking news of the day, I know many of you are concerned for me and my overall mental health. While I cannot confirm nor deny the allegations of an alleged profanity-laced tirade this afternoon at my place of work, I can tell you with certainty that Rita and I are moving forward and are more committed to our lives together each day. Certainly life consistently deals us all challenges and adversity that we are not fully capable of absorbing or understanding in this, our current state of consciousness. We can only look deep into our own souls, deciding with conviction how we will accept and adapt to less than desirable situations which are presented to us. With that being said, after excruciating self-examination, and a truly humbling collapse of my overall belief system, I can only cling to one indeterminable thought. Brett Favre or no Brett Favre, I am a Minnesota Vikings fan. I ask only for your love and support through these trying times.

made it home. went to tracy's and brought:
an anvil, a balloon, a crowbar, a dog, earmuffs, fungi, a giraffe, hawaiian t-shirt, an icicle, jack-o-lantern, kaleidoscope, leather, mittens, Nathaniel, orangutan, pirate penguins, a quail, a ring, Sandy the snake, tremendously tall trees, unicorn underwear, a violin, Weird Al Yankovic, xeriscaping, a yellow yak, and a zany zealous zebra.

and when i got home, i had new windows in my apartment.

well home inspection wasn't too bad so I am getting used to this house and not condo idea.

You will be able to find my Dutch address in the contacts.

Normal Ohler: good luck with the bank tomorrow!

Happy birthdays Frank & Frank!

Dropped Roman off at the airport. I hope he likes spending the rest of his vacation time there.

AO, you taken up speed dating?

nto...can schmitz.cl get the user-friendly upload with all the bells and whistles? Everyone is sending me their pictures to upload.

Ok, so i uploaded the welcome party invite...
Don't know how to link it to my post but it's in the default folder?? I think.

See you all in a month! yikes!

I'm gonna give myself two thumbs up on teaching today. The afternoon class always goes better than the morning class.

Yes Merel, the Normal Ohler misses you as well. I'll be looking into visiting you as soon as I buy a house. I've got a date with a banker tomorrow.

Yes, Happy Birthday to the Franks!