Then a 7 hour layover here.. then a 19 hour (OK.. I exaggerate.. an 18 hour 45 minute) non-stop flight .Singapore is 13 hours ahead of the East Coast. (It’s tomorrow there already. I wonder if I’m already there ? )

It’s about 7PM here.. my flight leaves at 11. I’ve found a great empty spot with a view of the airport.. I’m sitting at the end of one of the waiting areas for the AirTrain tram that travels between terminals. I’ve found that places like this are always the emptiest, cleanest and quietest.. it’s my little travel secret.. don’t tell anyone.

I just had a kinda lonely dinner at one of the food courts.
  

The aloneness of travel is immediately with me when I leave home now. I’m starting to wonder if I still enjoy travel as much as I once did. I still  love seeing the world, meeting new folks.. eating weird stuff.. but I really don’t like being away from home much.  Trips like this make for lots of alone time.. which can be good thinking (or not thinking) time..  Hopefully this will be fun, interesting and useful.. I’m going to do my best to make it so.

Last night was a good anti-loneliness vaccination.. We went up to Deb’s and had dinner with them. The boys didn’t arrive until some time later so I got to hang out with all those women.. It was very cool and different.

I spent most of this morning trying to pack my suitcase, backpack and laptop as lightly as possible. .I;m goin to 88 degrees and rain.. quite a difference from our bright snowy weather today.. Diane made this cute snow person in honor of the good packing snow.

ps. Hannah just sent me this great picture of last Monday’s trip to Jay Peak. I really love tis picture. What beautiful kids !!!!!!

We had several of the kids sleeping over last nght.. They were all pretty late sleepers.. Diane and I had soem quiet time this morning. We painted SamStones.. (Diane did most of them ) It’s a great spiritual thing to write Sam’s name again and again and again.. These stones have been such a great thing.

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I came back and took Chai for a long snowshoe in the back. She enjoyed getting out into woods. She’s been pretty mopey the last week with the new addition.. though she seems to be warming up to her.. We took the walk at a  really fast pace. We were both pretty tuckered out when we got back.   I was so relaxed that I decided to do our taxes.. not much fun.. but a great sense of accomplishment !  Lots of memories in there as well.

– Yoshimi  (Yoshi or Shimi for short) after the Flaming Lips song “Yoshimi battles the pink robots”
and
– Ninjette –(or ‘jet for short).. Ninjette is defined in the urban dictionary as:

The woman who is the equal and true soulmate for a Ninja.
Her intellect, wit and creativity must match his exactly.
Also, the Ninjette will always support her Ninja without fail through life.
Each Ninja only has one Ninjette and will never find another. Also, no true Ninja will ever be totally happy going through life with any woman other than his Ninjette.

Question from ordinary man 1:

Wow, Ninja John seems sharper and more deadly than ever, what do you think happened?

Answer from somewhat enlightened ordinary man 2:

He found his Ninjette and is now complete.