PhilOsophy - Ever Vigilant

Hey, Internet friends, it's your old pal, Phil, here offering up today's "celebrity" guest blog. Sarah continues to tend to the family situation in Texas. Things there are going as well as can be expected. I'm sure she'll cover that in a future blog. I returned yesterday from my weekend at her ancestral home, where I helped the family and tended to our bouncing baby boy, who now seems to have two speeds: sound asleep and constant motion. By combining all of his means of locomotion, Amos is able to roll, tumble, and crawl his way all over the place. It's quite a sight.

I took the red eye back from San Antonio yesterday morning, arriving before dawn to catch my 6:20 flight home. To combat terrorism, we're all supposed to be watching out for suspicious characters during any airport visit, but I learned something important yesterday: At five o'clock in the morning, everybody looks suspicious. Are those people half asleep or deep in contemplation of nefarious deeds? Is that man sleeping or scheming? Do my red eyes indicate tiredness or conceal a hopped-up mind bent on badness? Yes, at that hour, I even became suspicious of myself.

After convincing myself that I was not up to no good, I was able to ease my mind enough to drift off to sleep shortly after enjoying my in-flight snack of a cup of orange juice and a cracker, so if any trouble occurred during the flight, the neer-do-wells were kind enough to keep the racket down and avoid interrupting my sleep. Or maybe they also fell asleep and failed to execute their plans. I know I always choose a sound slumber over mayhem.

OK. That's all for now. I'm sure Sarah will have updates soon. She certainly appreciates all of the kind words that have been posted here.