Friday evening, January 5th, finds us both back in our favorite home away from home, the San Francisco Airport Marriott.

Phil and I flew home from Shanghai on December 30th. On the 31st, we flew to New Jersey in order to attend a very exciting 100th birthday celebration of the husband of a very good friend of ours. That occurred January 1, 2007, and on January 2nd we flew back to Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Phil caught a flight immediately to San Francisco in order to get back to work on January 3rd, and I went home to Huntley for a day-plus. Yesterday, January 4th, I flew to San Francisco in order to join Phil for a week.

RE: Shanghai. Let me mention that due to the earthquake that occurred in Taiwan around Christmas, the internet and telephone communications between China and other parts of the world were interrupted for several days. Consequently, I was not able to add any posts to my blog.