Well, I must report (skip this paragraph, if you are feeling sorry for yourself or otherwise are mad at the weather gods for a long, wet, sloppy, cold and generally miserable winter in your current location... trust me, you don't want to hear what I haveto say) that we have had some really fantastic weather in Southern Florida. The worst day of all was a perfectly sunny, not a cloud in the sky day that only got up to about 62 degrees, but really felt much warmer and never got any colder than 60 that night. I biked 13 miles or so and it was great. People were swimming in the pool at dinner time (no swimming for me, as we had dinner that night at the club: "king cut" prime rib that was fantastic and a veal and jumbo lump crab piccata that we shared and baked alaska and german chocolat cake and capaccini--awesome!). Most days were in the high seventies or low eighties, and we didn't have rain the whole time. Quite nice.

John Saucerman and Sherry watched over the boat and kept Luca company for us while weheaded out to Park City/Deer Valley for some business meetings and lots of very seriously great skiiing (and more great eating!). Super company with the AVIcode founders, and two of our employees (the managers of the Russia office--great guys!). What afantastic time, both personally and professionally.

And now Luca is counting the hours until he sees Sasha again. We waited until yesterday to tell him, as to have told him too early would have been pure torture (or at least enhanced interrogation) for him.He is sleeping at my feet as we speak and I can tell from the smile on his face that he is dreaming of the reunion. Ah, puppy love.

We are also looking forward to seeing everyone at K-docks in Shelter Cove. As soon as we find our winter clothes wewillhead out of the slip here in Cape Canaveral for a 28 hour trip almost due NORTH. Before this week is done we will have traveled NORTH over 400 miles. Doesn't that sound like a great idea! You betcha.