Both Nina and I went to bed on Saturday night telling each other that we were coming down with a cold. Sure enough, Sunday dawned with both of us sporting a full-blown cold. I stayed home from work today but do need to be there tomorrow if possible. There are a couple of meetings that I should attend. Nina took Bradica (the dog) to the veterinarian because of a possible eye infection, so that meant Nina had to get dressed and actually go out of the house. The vet didn’t have much good news. Bradica didn’t have an eye infection (the only good news) but rather some kind of an irritation. She can’t see much out of one eye and the other isn’t doing much good, either. Her heart is close to the end of it’s useful life as well. It’s beating too slowly and without a lot of force. She’s getting old! Meanwhile, Nina says that when she catches cold she only gets half as sick as I do and recovers twice as fast. That may be true … but it’s probably because she just can’t stand being sick. When I’m sick, I just want to have everything stop until I get better. This is the second cold of this new year! I’m not happy about that, either.

Travel schedules are starting to firm up. Nina and I will be making a very fast trip to Pennsylvania for Rachel’s baptism which will be on the 31st of March. We’ll fly in on Friday and back on Monday. Kirk’s parents will also be there as part of the big tour-the-country vacation they are taking with their fifth-wheel trailer.

I’ll be back home for a few days before heading for Manila. The travel agent says he’ll have the possible itineraries for me in the morning. I’ll be leaving sometime Easter weekend and coming back around the 20th or 21st of April — a two-week trip. The company I work for is making some serious investment again this year in our facility in Manila and that’s the reason for the trip. I’ll be glad to get this cold over with before I leave on either of these two trips.

The new web server is working reasonably well. The couple of issues that have been brought to my attention aren’t due to the new web server … they were problems that were already there and I’ve been able to fix a couple of them. The server certainly is faster. I even have some commitments from people who haven’t written in their blogs for a very long time to possibly, maybe, take finger to keyboard and post something. That would definitely be nice.

We’ve had continuing unseasonably warm weather. The southwest is in a serious drought and we may not be far behind. Today the temperatures were in the mid 60’s and similar temps forecast for the  remainder of the week. Time to get the motorcycle running!