I got a substitute job today! Next week I have four days teaching a class on marketing... MARKETING! What the hell do I know about marketing?

Should be fun!

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you. I bought Wakana a little picture frame and printed pictures of us to go into it. I made a card for her too. She bought me a box of chocolates. That is the usual way the Japanese celebrate this day. The woman buys chocolates for the man. On March 15, White Day, the man reciprocates with expensive gifts of jewelry or brand name items. Something wrong with this picture. Fortunately we, in this household, do not celebrate White Day.

The other day I picked an old book, Lucufer's Hammer, off the shelf to reread. I found a slip of paper in it that I had once used for a book,ark. It had a Christmas list on it. The list mentioned my sister's oldest son but did not mention my own kids, now 21 and 24 years old. Since it does not include my father's father then it is from about 1981. It mentioned both of my grandmothers and my sister's mother-in-law. It includes my other sister's boyfriend, the one that she DID NOT marry. That sister has been happily married for quite a while. They have an 11 year old daughter. I guess I last read that book in 1981 or 1982, 25 or 26 years ago. Amazing how much changes in our lives.