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Last week, Sarah went into work, apologized for the short notice, and got the Executive Chef to give her this week off to help her sister with the new baby. She also canceled plans for a fall vacation that she'd been looking forward to with her boyfriend.

Then, the morning of her flight, she got up at 4:30 AM, traveled half a day with nothing to eat, and arrived in time to greet the new baby and help reset a house and kitchen that had recently been damaged by a catastrophic plumbing failure.

As I see it, that reaches way beyond helpful to heroic. So I'm thinking that on Sunday, when she gets back home, I'll give HER a Father's Day card for making me so proud to be what I am--her dad...

LPK
LiveJournal
6.12.2007

Sarah has boarded her flight for Phoenix. And if we had any doubts about her safety, they quickly vanished when we heard the TSA had confiscated her sunscreen and fruit gushers.

Thank goodness! We'd been worried sick about a rumored al-Qaeda plot to make fruit gusher bomblets that explode on impact.

(Believe me, it's no laughing matter. Sarah had me try one the other day and the second that sucker hit stomach acid, WHAMO! And don't even get me started on those Arab terrorists sneaking around the country with tubes of SUNSCREEN.)

Now, if they could just do something about a no-fly zone around the Indian Point nuclear plants near NYC. Or the ones thirty-five miles upwind from us in Oswego.

Oh, wait a minute. We can't do any of THAT because we've spent all our effing money in Iraq. Fruit gushers it is, then...

LPK
LiveJournal
6.11.2007