Here are the pictures I took with my Sprint PCS Vision phone on my trip:

Here we see Frank and Janet in their new kitchen.

Here we see Frank and Janet with Bugs Bunny.

Here is an attempt at taking a picture of me and Lisa.

A little different when I’m holding a dog treat instead of trying to hold a dog.

In St. Louis:
1) The person taking my order at Burger King was smiling, as was the person mopping the floor.  If you can keep a good attitude with that job, someone should hire you to do customer service.
2) A rather large woman jogging to catch her airplane.  It was a strange site.  I’m not sure why.
3) Four F-15 taking off.  Everyone in the terminal watched with awe as the planes went nearly ballistic.
In Phoenix
4) The Salsa at the Blue Burrito Grill is spicy-hot but otherwise dull and boring.  The Guacamole sucked.
5) I saw a man missing a thumb.  Did not ask him how it happened.

Leaving Oakland
6) I noticed a sign on the ramps to the airplanes that said “No thoroughfare - No vehicles may pass under…”  I then saw, not 1, but 3 vehicles of different types drive directly under the signs.

• Me: I have to go out of town for a couple of days for work.
• Alli: I don’t want you to go.  I want you to stay here with me forever.
• Me: I HAVE to go, its my job.
• Alli: What if you told your boss that I didn’t want you to go?
• Me: He would still make me go.  I have to teach people some things that only I know.
• Alli: Are you going to tell them not to run with sharp things?
• Alli: And not to drive too fast?
• Alli: And …
• Me: Something like that.
• Alli: I want to go with you.
• Me: I want you to go with me, but I don’t have anyone to watch you while I’m working.
• Alli: We could bring Mommy too.
• Me: Then what would we do with Danielle and Justin.
• Alli: We could bring them too.
• Me: That would cost a lot of money, and they have school.
• Alli: I don’t want you to go.  You are going to be gone for a long time.
• Me: Its only for a couple of days.
• Alli: I’m going to miss you and I’m going to cry.  Like when you went to Utah.
• Me: [[she remembered I went to Utah??? That was this summer]]  Try not to cry.  I will miss you too.
• Alli: I’ll miss you more.
• Alli: What if I do cry?
• Me: That’s ok, but try not to.

Walking into the restroom earlier today, I heard someone talking.  The good stall was taken, so I assume that the person was in there talking on his cell phone.  I of course took the stall next to him, pre-Flushed, and not surprisingly, his phone conversation immediately ended.

Bush and Blair are Evil and must be defeated. 

I can’t wait to tell Justin about this
two headed snake.

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I’ve determined that I have an addiction to almonds covered in chocolate. I have at least 5 empty tins that once held them in a drawer at work. We now have Hershey’s Nuggets with Almonds at work, at I go through at least 4 a day.

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Team 1 Hockey update — The other team had to forfeit last night do to lack of payment. We split our team into two groups and scrimmaged. Boy did we need the practice. I had one goal and half a dozen posts.

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Hockey will be costing me $50 less than I thought. Though I thought the price was a little steep when I signed up, I verified last night that I was overcharged.

I had a strange dream last night/this morning.  I’m not quite sure how to interpret it…

For some reason, I had taken up competitive swimming again, or I was at a pool (probably UMSL’s pool) during the Division 1 Nationals Swim Meet (Why it was being held at UMSL, I have no clue - especially since UMSL is a D2 school).  The only teams to have made it to Nationals were Mizzou, UMSL, and Rolla.  UMSL wanted me to swim in Breaststroke in the Medley Relay.  I walked in right after the prelims race had completed (Brother Rick was the Breaststroker).  They told me to go back to the hotel to rest (no, it was the Paris Hilton Hotel).

Back at the Hotel, there were two wizened elderly gentlemen just starting a game of chess.  I picked up a magazine showing a number of common opens and noticed the open I usually strive for was refered to as “The Fools Open”.  I was a little pissed off, but before I had a chance to read why they called it the Fools Open, I began to watch the game.  For some reason, I knew that the game was important, like a Bobby Fischer game.  Each player started play bringing out his knight.  The one player’s knight chased the other player’s knight around the board, until the player doing the pursuit smiled, moved a bunch of his pieces at once, removing the other players pieces and declaring checkmate.  The opposing player protested and I was also in awe, but then concluded that the first player had used a Bishop’s Open (I remembered Mr. Loser using it on me when I first learned to play.) I told the player as much.  He pressured me and said - “Do you think or do you know?”  I didn’t like being on the spot, but since he backed me into a corner I told him that I was pretty sure that the first player was correct.

I then realized that I needed to get back to the swimmeet, but my ride refused to get off of the couch.  I eventually found my way back to my hotel room, an my dog was there - Barking.  I found some keys and drove back to the pool, only to find out that I had missed my event.

Any shade tree dream analyst, feel free to respond…