The Lake - 2007


Word of the Day

Girlapse - The act in which a tomboy momentarily displays a feminine characteristic.

HTP has been busy making reservations for our return to The Lake. Who knew that for some odd reason there wouldn't be any hotel/motel rooms left in Omaha on the very night we'd planned to stay there? It's a puzzle. I know that GI Joe plans to run in a marathon that weekend.... but that's in Lincoln. HTP tells me that there is some sort of hockey tournament for young people that weekend but....could that fill all the hotel rooms? Are there LOTS of people getting married on the weekend? Is this one of those perfect convergences of events? Football season isn't until the fall. It's not like Omaha is hosting the Sturgiss Bike Rally this year...is it? I'm pretty sure it couldn't be the Senior Olympic Games. And I can't believe all the snowbirds are returning home on the same weekend. HTP figured that making our reservations a month before we leave should have guaranteed us rooms. Not so. However, not to worry. We did find a motel about eight miles up the road a piece and made our reservations there. We'll just do all our visiting in Omaha with DD Daughter, Ms. En, and GI Joe and then hit the road again. Eight miles further down the road isn't all that far when you're making a cross-country migration of nearly 2000 miles. It just means that we'll avoid Omaha morning traffic the next day and we'll be that much closer to The Lake for our next morning drive. Even so, we'll plan on an additional "just in case we're really worn out" night on the road at the Minnesota/Iowa border area.

While HTP works on our travel itinerary, I continue to whittle away at my Packing List. The guest room bed and the dining room table are beginning to fill up.

Murphyism of the Day

Gilb's Third Law of Unreliability

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

Noteworthy Quote of the Day

Never regret something that once made you smile.

- Amber Deckers