E Minus 1

So it is our last day with just the four of us. Megan has some summer reading to finish up, and also a chemistry packet (they have a test on the third day of school, they had to teach all of this to themselves over the summer), and Brian has baseball tonight at 6. I've been following the SAS flight that goes back and forth to Copenhagen, and it was on time on Monday, but over an hour delayed yesterday. This morning, it was an hour and a half late landing in Denmark, but was still scheduled to take off on time, in fact to land three minutes ahead of schedule this afternoon in Newark. Not sure how, as it seems to have taken off 40 minutes late. Tailwinds? But we will keep watching.

We survived Megan's gala last night, the kids had a good time. A police car even drove by at one point, and didn't take anyone into custody, as far as I know. There wasn't even much of a mess to clean up, just some cups out by the pool and a bunch of leftover junk food.

We ended up getting Megan an LCD flat panel TV for her room. Then I was able to move her old one into E's room. A problem has arisen, of course. First, the LCD TVs are best when they get their signals through cable boxes. We have this one directly linked to the cable. Second, we thought her old TV had an inferior picture, but in the other room, it does not. However, the brand new LCD does! So obviously it's a problem with the cable in her room. But we'll work that out. It's a nice TV.

So the plans for today are up in the air. We are still considering a visit to the Old Folks Home in Philadelphia, but that's looking less and less likely as time goes by. Megan wanted to go, to be trapped in the car for 3-4 hours, so she might finish up that reading. She isn't enjoying The Devil in the White City very much. Reading comprehension is not her strength, and this one is very full of detail, apparently. They were all complaining about it yesterday.

In other news, the two main floors of the house, and the main bathroom, are now respectable. That just leaves the three other bedrooms (E's is fine, the door is closed to protect it from roaming cats), the hallway and the master bath. That won't take long. We plan to leave for the airport tomorrow at 1, unless the flight ends up being severely delayed. Which it had better not!