Geez that was a long weekend.  That means I’m in for a long week.  Can’t have it all.

As we approach the end of the year, I’m getting in my annual not-so-bad situation of needing to burn some vacation days.  So, I took off Thursday and Friday and drove Donette down to St. Louis to visit her sister.  We took the pup with us, which went moderately well.  She and her little doggy cousins didn’t hit it off so well.  They did just barely OK together;  I don’t think they will be sending each other Christmas cards though.  For the most part they just ignored each other, which is better than some alternatives I suppose.  Speaking of Teagan, we got to visit a bit with the girl that picked her up off the street, which was nice.  She was glad to see her rescue getting along so well, and had some funny stories of her short time keeping her.  (No good deed goes unpunished.)  After that visit, we walked down the street to some-place-I-forget-the-name-of and had some pizza and watched the baseball game.

That was pretty much it for my St. Louis trip.  I drove home Friday morning, and Donette headed to Indianapolis to watch her sister run a marathon.  I made it home just in time to join the boys down at the Brooksider for a bit.  And that’s pretty much it for my weekend.  Kept a low profile.  Worked in the yard a bit, played a few dozen hours of catch with the dog…  Not much to relate.  Donette took the Megabus home on Sunday, in sort of an experiment to see if it was a viable transportation option for future trips.  It didn’t exactly receive glowing reviews, I think that was a “one and done” experiment.