Present Day

Now that I got that ComicCon post I wrote 6/30 and didn't post till today, 8/23, I feel I owe you another one that is a tad more current.

Not much is new. Susan and I heard from Terry, thanks to Summer's heads-up, that Terry is getting married! She met the guy at the gym and it was love at first sweat. Gag, sorry that was was too cutesy but I couldn't resist. The wedding will be in December in Texas.

Steve and I are departing for the east coast next Thursday (8/30) on the redeye. We are going to bouncing up the coast from Connecticut to Maine. First, Steve has friends getting married Labor Day weekend in CT. After that, we head to Boston on the 3rd for a Red Sox game. Fenway baby! It will only be my second trip to this fabled ballpark, and I'm very excited. We had to buy tickets through StubHub because the games sell out so quickly. Here's hoping we don't have one of the notorious "obstructed view" Fenway seats. We'll be in Boston that night, and then head up to Maine the next day. We'll visit with Steve's family for the rest of the week until we fly home at the crack of dawn on the 8th. I'm driving up to LA tomorrow night to leave the Cleo with Mom & Dad while I'm gone so long.

I don't think I've shared the big news at work with you yet. In July, our company was sold, but the deal is not closed yet. The sale of such a large company to a competitor involves lots of governmental approval (anti-monopoly stuff), so we are all in limbo until that happens. No one at either company knows what's going to happen with restructure, merge, etc. The ideal time to have the sale closed would be by the end of this year, but it may not happen till next March. With the government, there is no set time-table. The company that bought us is Houghton Riverdeep, which is headquartered in Boston.

Can you believe I haven't seen the Harry Potter movie yet? I can't. I'm going to try to see it this weekend in LA since it is starting to disappear from theatres. I have seen Ratatouille and Bourne. Rat was cute but not as funny as previous Pixar films. Bourne is nonstop action.

Summer has flown by. Can it really be over? Steve and I only made it to one night zoo night. The San Diego zoo is open till 9 during the summer months, but it ends Labor Day weekend. We went last weekend. Almost all the big cats were doing something! They weren't sleeping! the snow leopards were up and playing, the mountain lion was pacing and stalking kids walking by his enclosure (which is really great fun to watch), and the lynx were wrestling. Even the lions were awake even though they were just sitting staring at us with a very arrogant and bored look on their faces. Our favorite animal, Spanky the Alaskan Brown Bear, was sadly off exhibit. We are worried about him. He's about 23 years old, and last time we saw him there was a sign on his exhibit id tag that he was being treated for some skin growths, but he was still on exhibit. Since he was gone last week, we only hope that he's behind the scenes getting treatment and that something worse hasn't befallen Spanky. We also saw the baby sun bear and his mama. Usually, when we visit the zoo it's during the day when the papa sun bear is on exhibit. This was the first we had seen the baby. He was having loads of fun rolling a large stick/branch around on the rocks.

I don't think I ever posted the link to the pictures from our weekend in Montana. Steve has them up on his Flickr page.

I think that will do it for now. Hope all of you are doing well. Have a good holiday weekend!