Happy Birthday, Mick!
(a few weeks ago)

On September 2, we brought St. Louis Gooey cake (a.k.a. Diabetic's Demise?) to Mick at school for his 38th birthday. We shared the cake with his classmates and then he opened his gifts from us: from Aubrey and Dane, Lance Armstrong's War (Dane saw the cover at B&N and said it would be the perfect book because it had a bike on it) and, from me, the latest by Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men. Mick finished the Lance Armstrong book in a couple evenings and will probably read the new McCarthy during break.

Break started yesterday at noon and he'll start back to school on Monday, October 2nd. Mick pulled some all-nighters in his preparation for his finals last week in Biochemistry, Anatomy and Dental Anatomy. He also took tests in Restorative Dentistry, Orientation to Clinical Practice and some other stuff I can't recall. He's vowed to organize a little better next quarter so he's even more prepared for finals week, but we're happy to report that he made it through a-okay.

We have Grammy Jan in town this week (for two weeks total, actually) and she's not only joining us for some fun family activities (ferry ride, Discovery Museum, fish-n-chips, etc.--more pix/entry later), but she's going to stay with the kids Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, so Mick and I can bike, read, drink coffee, chill at a little B&B in Point Reyes for two nights. www.abaloneinn.com