My lovely dearest, Stephanie, has gone to Vienna for a 10 day vacation to visit our friend who’s studying abroad. It was a close call. After a week of spring weather in November, St Louis froze solid the day she was supposed to leave. She spent 4 hours sitting in a plane on the runway, before they canceled it, and she called me to come get her. Then, strangely enough, on my way to the airport, I got a call from our friend Euphenia in Chicago, asking me to pick her stranded friend up at the airport.
It was nasty cold out. I probably wouldn’t have made the trek out into the ice to save him alone, truth be told. But I was going anyway and I had room in the ol’ tonton, so I picked him up and we offered to let him stay at our place but he politely declined when he saw it.
Stephanie was able to get out the next day, and had a relatively painless flight. Since arriving in Vienna, she’s enjoyed a european cafe, eaten shnitzel, seen David Hasselhoff six times, and watched one of Vienna’s best symphonies performing Beethoveen with interpretive dancing by a clarinet soloist, as Beethoveen would have wanted.
So I’ve taken the extra time to practice ‘flanking with the shotty’. And I drew a robot zombie for one of my nephews. Perhaps inspired by Ashley Wood’s Robots vs Zombies
