visitors from home

Spent the last couple of days with The Nephew® and his best friend who'd come over to see me. Getting away from the sticks so they could spend at least a moment in time in a modern metropolis. Those two are truly brothers. Being twice their age, they crack me up... old dog me looking at pups wanting to play all the time. The Nephew® always picking, not only at his friend, but at everybody. One day he will fully realize how lucky he is, what he's been GIVEN. He hasn't yet.

Didn't do much really but enjoyed ourselves. Went to an NBA game in which the hometeam lost by one point in the last seconds because they or their coach is/are IDIOTS.

Breakfasted at IHOP over dynamic conversation the next morning.

Then the Zoo - where they had more fun than they let on although many of the most-interesting of the animals went missing, prolly because it was so dang hot for early February.

Then walking around downtown.

Then the kiteboarders.

Then went to pick up and hang out with my most favorite person on Earth -- my daughter Jillani (rhymes with Connie). Being with my kid was the sweetest, butteryest way to top off the day. Any day.

Someone once said: "it's not where you go, it's who you go with."

Damn skippy.