Another change (for the better) in our lives

For the past six months or so, I've been working here in Huntsville, and traveling back to visit my wife every month or so. Not the greatest situation, but our house in Sugar Land just wasn't getting sold. So recently, we received an application to lease the house for a year, and everything about the potential lessors checked out well. We advised our agent we were amenable to this, and at about the same time, received word that our other house in Tennessee was going to be rented by my cousin's oldest daughter and her husband. Great!

We found a house to rent here in Huntsville, and scheduled the movers to show up and get all our stuff here. That's supposed to start tomorrow, 2/24. I'll fly back to Houston and we'll drive back here over the weekend. Our stuff will show up in a day two afterwards. The only hitch in this giddy-up is that the lessor's company is balking at our rent amount, so we must wait while they evaluate some comparable rent amounts to see if it will all go through and get approved. Keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well.

A big change in Egypt

I have travelled to Egypt many times on business and once for pleasure. On each trip I have been touched by the hospitality and gentility of the people. I have never felt unsafe in Egypt. During most of my trips, at one point or another, traffic was stopped and held at rest while Mr. Mubarek took a ride to get from one place to another. I was often struck by the sheer disregard for the business of running Cairo, for the inconvenience caused to 20,000,000 people because one of them decided he needed to get a caramel latte at the 7-11. Or whatever the reason was.

I believe Mubarak was for the most part a benevolent dictator, but a dictator nonetheless. I am glad he realized that a graceful exit was the most advantageous.

I hope the upcoming elections are spirited and provide some choices for the Egyptian people. I hope to go back again someday and enjoy their smiles, their culture, their history. They added an important chapter today.