Victory Laps Into Weekend Prep

Putin in Crimea Yesterday

Old Vladimir was up to his usual hijinks yesterday rubbing the West’s collective face in the dirt with a victory lap around his virtually bloodless seizure of another country’s sovereign territory by taking a victory lap around Sevastopol, Crimea.  I don’t want the Cantankerous Friend’s head to explode so I won’t belabor what an abject failure in international leadership this represents for the US president.  One can only hope he and the similarly weak kneed, Russian-gas dependent, European leaders aren’t recorded in history as the 21^st century’s version of Neville Chamberlain fifty years from now.  Meanwhile in Eastern Ukraine Putin’s second phase land grab appears on schedule with a referendum this weekend that will serve as his invitation to annex more of his neighbor and move inexorably closer to NATO’s borders.

I went with a default Friday yesterday which is never a bad thing.  My excellent boss had us firmly ensconced in Brew City for a marking of First Friday by 4pm.  This was followed by a date night at Zorba’s with a devastatingly beautiful Panamanian. The owner was also impressed enough with my date that he sent over a free dessert.  The dessert’s arrival doomed another attempted visit to Ronnie’s for ice cream.  I’m going to figure out a way to import the MEF to make that happen.  It was so much fun that I can almost overlook the Sox being nearly no hit in Texas.

Dessert-Worthy Date Last Night

Since the Sox were fast asleep in Texas we took to wandering the air waves and my wife inexplicably wanted to check into day 2 of the NFL draft.  While there were still no Kevin Costner sightings she did fall immediately in love with the latest Patriot’s selection, a quarterback.  She declared that he is a definite babe; oh well I guess we all take different paths to NFL fandom.

My Wife's New Crush

We are in full prep mode for Mother’s Day weekend (expanded from a  single day) with the arrival today of her favorite son.  My daughter will be unable to make it up here due to baby shower responsibilities in NYC.  I think my wife doesn’t mind as long as it serves in some small way as motivation.  I think I’ve talked her out of the planned lawsuit for lack of grandchildren.  My daughter’s card and gift did arrive yesterday so I know her Mom was in her thoughts this week.