In case no one’s noticed, posting has been kind of light of late as I’ve been in the final days of a huge project. Light posting is likely to continue for the next week or so as I’m traveling (though road trips have been known to generate some posts).

This weekend I’m with my sweetheart at our church’s annual Sweetheart Weekend. We’re having a very good time, thanks for asking.

Then on Sunday we’re off for Arizona for a week as the Big Corporate Event I’ve been working on since last June has finally arrived. For me it means long hours of double- and triple-checking menus, AV set-ups, tracking the whereabouts of our big-name guest speakers — and about 54 holes of golf. Meanwhile, the Reverend Mother (not one to sit around the spa eating bon-bons served by cabana boys) is renting a BMW motorcycle for a ride through the Sonoran Desert, and is going to spend another day with one of her best friends who moved to Arizona a couple of years ago. Finally, once I’ve got all the executives fed and sent off to the airport we’ll be driving over to Las Cruces, New Mexico to visit one of my wife’s favorite cousins.

With all that going on next week we were thinking we’d skip the Sweetheart Weekend, but the Mall Diva insisted that we go so we can learn even more about how to have a good marriage and so she can pick up the tips from us second-hand. And when I say she insisted, I mean that she actually paid for us to go. Aww, isn’t that sweet? Did we raise her right, or what?

Then again, perhaps she just wanted to get us out of the house over the weekend. Hmmm.

Kevin, you know where we live. Feel free to make an unannounced visit. Don’t bother knocking.