whew

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Things have quietened down a lot. I picked Amy up at the airport this morning; it sounds like Delta just lied through their teeth about the flight last night. Of course, that's speculation, so don't anybody sue me for defamation. We know the flight was delayed twice, and suspect that they needed to delay it again, and THAT would have put the flight in after the (tiny) airport closed for the night, which would make it the airline's fault, and the airline would have been responsible for the overnight accomodations. As I said, pure speculation. The end result was that I picked her up 12 hours later than she was supposed to arrive, the Daniels drove Mother and Daddy to Lexington, and we met over there for lunch. Not a hugely long reunion, but still A got to see her uncle for the first time in 10 or 12 years, and got to meet Daniel. Mother and Daddy are great fans of chain restaurants; today it was Rafferty's; I'd never eaten there. I got BBQ, and it was excellent. None of that silly vinegar stuff that eastern NCers call BBQ. Ha. This stuff had body and flavor. Yum.

The Daniels brought a 2,000 piece jigsaw puzzle of "The Starry Night" and I think it's going to go unfinished. It's a hell of a hard one.

Not much other news. I'll be around.