transitions

The big event this week was the funeral of a friend.  Our dear friend Ezra from Congregation passed away peacefully a few weeks after his 82nd birthday. He had a 20 year career in the USAF, and so had military honors, and burial in a National cemetery. I got to meet some of his 11 children at his wedding four months ago, and met a few more of them at the funeral. It was good to see that his generous and loving nature is being carried on by his offspring.

Had the opportunity to go see the movie Lincoln. Amazing performances by the leads - - one would never know that Sally is 11 years older than Daniel is! And Spader has always been a favorite actor - his character was hysterical. Wanted to get to karaoke this week but it was not to be.  It has been since before Christmas that I've been able to sing with that crowd. Luckily I was scheduled to sing at Temple on Shabbat, so I at least could sing.

Joyce and I went to the car show. She was downtown already going to class, so I caught the light-rail in and met her at the convention center. We spent a couple hours roaming through the cars, old and new, and took a fun test-drive in a new Jeep, Moab model. Posted a bunch of pictures at http://www.flamingeaux.com/2013/cars/ We also took advantage of a BOGO coupon at a downtown pizza restaurant, and had yummy food at a great price!

After singing with Charlie, Yosi and Phil at service, I went to watch football with Mama. Elder Harbaugh's team won the first game - a six quarter heart-attack-inducing thriller; and Younger Harbaugh's team handily won the second.  It was a good day for football! Sunday's games didn't go quite as we wanted, as it would have been more fun to have a home game against arch-rivals [instead we go East to play Atlanta;] and I really wanted the Texans to beat the Patriots - "I H8 the P8s!" The next three weeks are going to be very exciting football-wise!!