Hey all you folks from NJ, NY, CT PA & MD, the sun is out!
Whoopie!

I was wondering what all the light outside was about!!!!

Of course it came a day late- My daughter graduated last night. The graduation was held outside in the football stadium and boy was it cold!!!! But it was worth it to see her get her diploma.

The funny thing about this Maria, is I was actually going to PM you to ask if you know what that big white shiny thing in the sky is. But thanks to CIP, I didn't get around to it yet.

Jac, that is pretty amusing. When I woke up this morning I thought there was something wrong with me (no comments, please...) and then I realized the sun was really there!

Don't forget about those of us in Maryland! We've been deprived of the sun right along with you! I have been having a rough week, but the sunshine makes it all better.

Here in the NW where it "always" rains, were looking at a record 90 today, gorgeous.

"The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle". Where's that line from?

Sunny in Maine too - and boy it is a welcome change!!

On the way in this morning the traffic was very light, I think people forgot how to drive in the sunshine

If you have a fraction of our sun, send us a fraction of your rain, please!!!

The sun has finally spilled over into MAssachusetts too! Just in time, as I felt like I was about to break out in mildew at any moment! First the winter that never stopped and now the spring that never started. Wonder what's up for summer?

Z-
We've had so much snow and rain this year, I am sending the next two week's worth to you right now.

Oh, and all you Nor'easterners: more rain again tomorrow!

You know, Maria, do you have some pull there in the Meadowlands, enough already, my nails are just nubs!
Go Devils Go
Go Nets Go
and don't forget
Go Funny Cide Go

For Zaibatsu & CAR-
Here, this is the best I can do:

RAIN FOR TEXAS

That's right Ellen, 5 minutes from my office. I wish I could make it to Belmont, but as I said, it's going to rain again.
I hope Funny Cide is a "mudder".

And, don't forget the Metrostars (soccer), we are one of their sponsors!

I saw on the news this morning that, in the last month, we have had 17 overcast days and 12 days of measurable rainfall. And this comes on the heels of one of the coldest and wettest winters in quite some time.

I told my coworkers that I'm going someplace where there's less rain: Seattle. (Seriously, Seattle area has a lower average annual rainfall than New York City metro area.) (And a lot fewer *%^%$%& Yankee fans, too.)

OK, time to go check out that big, bright thingy in the sky.

Jac, play it safe and weed your garden tonight!

I took a picture of your Garden!

Sun's been up for the last 21 hours....I just want the dang thing to go down! I don't like waiting til August for a good nights sleep

Hmmmm, the Devil made me do it!
Go Devils!

I'm sorry guys, I just can't work anymore today, it must be spring fever!

Dawnie: Here is your Sunset
Gee, playing the Devil is sort of fun!

Blue skies? Seattle? That can't be right. Seattle is where I send all of the stuff that I'm told to "stick where the sun don't shine."

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Maria...even sunsets on the internet are impossible here LOL

Dawnie, try it again! Maybe you can print it and put it on your window!

Are you kidding Maria? I'm having it blown up and wallpapering the windows in my office with it!

(Or is that windowpapering?) I'm off to Fairbanks next week for four nights, where the sun is actually at 24 hours up now (we get about 40 mins somewhere in the middle of the night of darkness right now...losing 4 to 5 a day).

Then...off to Boston, and I have to tell you, I'm looking forward to the night life...no not at the bars...the NIGHT! I'm gonna sleep as soon as the sun goes down!

Dawnie-Boston's a cool city, make sure you have dinner at Legal Seafood Restaurant, there are several of them.
The best New England clam chowder (except for Captain Toby's on Nantucket Is, Ma.)!
Night-night then.

Is there seafood that isn't legal in Boston?

Actually I ate there last year, and yes, it was yummy! I also tried the traditional food throughout town (Boston Baked Beans really aren't anything special ya know). Boston Cream Pie...well that is some food worth repeating!

Those blue crabs are kinda icky. We shell our seafood before we eat them. But...the lobster is smaller than ours, but so much sweeter! I loved loved loved the lobster!

Other than chowder and lobster, I stay away from seafood. I get plenty of it all summer long here I used to have an oyster and clam farm in Washington as well. Oysters I might eat one or two, but I prefer them cooked in an open fire til they just open up. Little horseradish and chili sauce...mmmm You never see that at a restaurant.

And frankly...if you've ever lived in the land of great steamer clams...those silly little bowls of clams with clairified butter just don't cut it. We cook 4 or 5 gallons in a HUGE pot, and dip them in melted, salty and foamy butter. No fancy sauce (dolup of white wine and garlic in the bottom of the pot) No fancy dippings...just ODDLES of clams

IMHO, nothing beats the sweetness of a North Atlantic lobster.
But Dawnie, if you go to Boston in the fall, you must try the bay scallops, nothing like it in the world.
You were talking about oysters, we buy the toxic (just kidding) NJ steamer clams and roast them on a grill and serve with lots of melted butter! Yum.
Now, if it will only stop raining long enough for a BBQ!

Oh my -- the bay scallops -- last year's vacation was on Cape Cod -- I ate scallops by the ton. How am I supposed to concentrate on bank-stuff now????????

Ohhhh I must have missed scallop season...maybe I can change the trip. I love scallops I guess that means the OCC can't visit in the fall...I'm sure they'll understand

Ellen, when I was a kid, we'd spend summers on Nantucket (before it was spoiled by commerce & tourism) at my great-aunt's big old house. She had friends that would take us scalloping every fall (around end of October).
Those were the days, and now I am getting hungry, too!

For those coming to ABA NRCC, there is a Legal Seafood Restaurant in Reagan National airport, too.

Leave it to a bunch of compliance types to favor a restaurant named "Legal".

That's funny!

Dear Tom C,
I guess I was thinking about Madaket Beach before it was overrun with condos and beach houses, where you could take your horse and ride like the wind and the only thing you were worried about were the ticks (not lyme ticks, just the ordinary tick) in the high beach grass and dunes; and then yes, your Mom would burn them out of you with a match, now call the "child police"... And you could pick all of the beautiful wild blackberries and blueberries...And your great-aunt would make jam out of rose-hips... And you could hunt in the "dumps" for antique glass bottles...And now, well, maybe the food is better, but I cannot agree with you, because nothing else is... And Tom, you might have though it underdeveloped and uninspired, however, after the whalers left, it became an artists' community; then converted into an elite playground only because the artists couldn't afford to live there anymore.
IMHO! I am off my soapbox now.