"O! How full of briers is this working day world!" (As You Like It)

Today while RH+ went to play cards and the cleaning lady was coming, I took myself to IHOP for breakfast. They had a wondrous 2x2x2= Two eggs, two strips of bacon, and two pancakes. Who could ask for anything more? Before that I took my car to Firestone in order to have them fix my A/C switches. The A/C button that circulates only the air inside the car just always kicks over to the button that takes in outside air, and negates a lot of the cool air. However, I was told that the A/C guy wouldn't be in until tomorrow. So, I took myself to a movie called, "Iron Man."

I'm guessing Iron Man was or is a cartoon character. It was a fun movie, but the special effects were specially suspect. The mayhem that Iron Man was capable of doing were significantly impossible. It involved this guy who owned a company that manufactured incredible weapons for the government. So, after coming back from a war zone, he engineered his iron man costume that had the firepower of a battleship and the jets from his iron feet sped him across the Earth at the speed of light. It was OK and I guess worth the five bucks.

Some bad news. I loaned a neighbor my Yonex driver to try out, and he did fine with it. I asked him for $50 and we made the deal. However, today he told me that someone stole that club from his bag. Now when you lose, or someone steals one of your golf clubs it's like losing a favorite pet. I felt really bad for Jim and decided that the fair thing to do was to split the loss and settle for $25 even though he offered to pay me the fifty bucks.

Yesterday, our travel agent sent us the flight plans for our Scandinavian cruise in July. We will be flying on British Airways to London and then on to Amsterdam where we will board Celebrity's ship Century. We'll stop at Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, and some other place whose name evades me. At the end of the cruise, we'll spend two days in Amsterdam before returning home on July 20. It will take us nine hours to fly to London. I'll freak out!