MOM, I know it's quiet with the boys away for a little while. I wish I'd been better company today, but I was finishing up web pages and announcements at work because the kids all come back to campus in a couple of weeks. You know how THAT is. . .

I wonder if Rap is going to be able to bring his loot back in the airplane, or if he'll have to FedEX his luggage home. (Peter Greenberg, the travel reporter on TV, says he does that all of the time, just to avoid the airline luggage threshers and light fingers).