@ the Erringtons

 Thursday night……caller ID saved the day, when our answering machine could manage to store only garbled noises, since a return call, to the Errington’s, showed that Jim was coming to town. Mucho excitement! After a near 80 degree day, here in the East Bay, it was a bit bizarre to hear about 3 blizzards in a row, but global warming comes with a price?

Jim awoke in the wee small hours of the Connecticut morning to the sound of a snowplough, rumbling down their street, clearing his way to JFK airport where he would sit in a plane, for an hour, while it waited for de-icing.

Technology rocks – I still get a buzz out of how simple it is to do such things as checking current flight arrivals information, over the Internet, so it was easy to find out that Jim’s plane was running late and then, when it did come in, coordinating pick-up was a breeze thanks to cell phones.

Photographic note – its probably a good job the weather was dull since Pearl had the camera set for taking pictures in a not-very bright theater.
Adrian, who reads manuals rarely, wasn’t bright enough to notice that the camera should have been set on "P" for automatic, instead of "A" for something completely different.