Battlestars, Cats, Legos, and Goodbyes

A variety of topics as I enter the home stretch

First, was in contact with the new employer and all sounds good - sounds like I have a great job waiting for me, and sounds like living arrangements will be good as well.

A lot of goodbyes in the last week. First, folks I work with threw me a couple of VERY nice going away parties - extremely thoughtful and generous. My kid's grade school classroom also donated a very nice goody bag (movie tix, popcorn, stationary, etc) which was very thoughtful. Am touched by the generosity.

Also wrapped up a bit of travel - trekked down to DC first part of last week with the family. Sick kids and bad (cool, rainy) weather made it a bit more challenging, but it was still fun. No. 2 threw up in the car on the way home in upstate Jersey on I-95 (in a bag, thankfully) and we had to tolerate the smell for about 15 miles until we hit the last rest stop on the road before the GW Bridge.

Said goodbye on Friday to my favorite TV show (OK - the only one I watch), Battlestar Galactica. If you have not seen it, you may think of the 1978 namesake or Star Trek, but it is actually a very good show with a bit of sci fi in the background. Edward James Olmos kicks butt. An excellent finale which tied things up nicely and wrapped up the four years in a good way. Bit of trivia - I bumped into Richard Hatch (who starred in the original and the new version - not the guy from that Survivor show!) in O'Hare last year - just said 'hi', did not ask for autograph or anything.

Cats - we have a DVD of the Broadway show CATS and my youngest loves watching it and dancing along. The soundtrack is drilled into our brains - though I am probably one of the few people in the world who did not see it on Broadway - and I never actually saw the whole thing. Our local h/s put on a production on Sat and we all went to see it - was FANTASTIC. Amazed that high schoolers could pull of a musical like that.

Boys' birthdays this month, so we are swimming in new Lego sets. I am normally very fond of Legos and especially new sets, but 1) this is even too much for me and 2) I used to help them put them together, but now they don't need my assistance any more. Guess they are growing up....

That's about it. As I enter the last few days, am going to be packing up and getting ready for the big goodbye. The last few weeks have had enough distance, plus we have been busy doing stuff - now it is the final days and there is no avoiding it. I'll post again in the next couple of weeks with my actual Navy adventures - no more random theraputic ramblings.