More visitors!

Our friend Ragan is here right now. He came out for a business trip for his company, Cingular wireless; that was close by, in New Jersey, and then took a train to our place for an extended stay. Katie and I have been pretty busy, but we've managed to see him for dinner, or for a quick lunch during the day, and he's been out doing his own thing for much of his visit. This weekend, the Brooklyn Museum is hosting its First Saturday event (free admission, dancing, movies, activities, curator talks) and we'll check that out and Sunday we go to see the Mariners take on the Yankees at the "House that Ruth built." I'm not sure how vocal we'll be in our support of the Mariners since Yankees fans are known to be rabid. Seriously, they foam at the mouth when their team is losing! I think another friend from college, Richard, is coming this weekend, too. He is planning on going to the Yankee game with us also.

Katie has her last final next Tuesday and then she'll be going back to the Northwest to visit, so for those of you who live there, brace yourselves! I finish up in the next 2 weeks also. At some point, she and I may actually SEE each other. That will be great.

We've really been enjoying the weather the last week. The past few years, NYC hasn't really had a Spring. It goes from being very chilly to hot and uncomfortably humid in about 3 days. This year, and for the past week, it's been sunny and in the high 60s or low 70s every day. Wonderful! Ragan and I have been to Central Park 3 times in as many days. We are also about a month behind the Northwest in terms of plant blooming, so trees buds are only now starting to turn into leaves, all the cherry trees and magnolias are in full bloom still and tulips and daffodils are all over the place. So places like the Botanic garden and the major city parks are glorious.

That is all for now... Go Mariners!