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Yesterday was a lengthy day of odds and ends, mostly revolving around traveling:

• At the training office at 6:30 AM with luggage in tow to beat the long line of folks who would be bring their bags and having to go through the x-ray machine at the entrance.
  
• Good end to the class, but didn't have enough time to go over our second set of documents. They'll be emailed to us.
  
• Metro ride to the airport with one of my classmates who is a stunningly beautiful woman from Texas -- long dark hair, brown eyes, radiant smile. I wonder if she has a brother.
  
• The Delta airlines guy played a joke on me, putting his foot on the scale and telling me my bags were overweight. I was two seconds from freak out when he fessed up.
  
• Had lunch at T.G.I.Friday's and sat across from a sweet pretty Lesbian named Lindsay who has a new black Lab puppy and plays softball.
  
• Stopped at a news stand after going through security and the cashier short-changed me by $5, when I confronted her about it, she handed it over without argument.
  
• Multiple iPhone camera shots.
  
• Baby sat one row ahead of me on the plane. Luckily, he was 16 months old and didn't hardly fuss at all. Karma making up for my flight out. His dad was cute too.
  
• Stood at baggage claim for 40 minutes for my suitcase before finding out it was in the baggage office.
  
• Home! Cats happy and alive! Thanks SOOOOO much Brian (cincycub), you're a godsend. You've earned dinner and gifts! A cloned cubby of your choice as soon as I get the process figured out!
  
• Qdoba for dinner, because I needed it.
  
• Found Money total thus far = $1.05.
  
• Sleeping in my own bed, the happiest place on Earth for this weary traveler.

Today: Mowed yard (despite wetness) and waiting for the window replacement guy to show for an estimate!

Saving Money!

I was planning on spending my entire tax return on new windows for my house. I kept looking at the money and thought of all the really cool things I could have done with it -- a trip to Ireland, a new Mac Computer, etc., but the joy of homeowning means you have to keep things fixed up.

The window replacement guy was just here to give me an estimate, not a bear, but a nice red-haired Irish kind of guy.

The good news: the price for replacement is almost $2,000 less than I'd budgeted!!!!

WOO HOO!!!