Also...

I failed to mention that today, November 15th, was my former father-in-law, Chuck, Sr.'s birthday. Had he lived, he would have been 82 today and he would have rocked it. He passed of multiple myloma in June of 2004. I know he would have gotten such a kick out of knowing Nicholas and would be so proud of the young man Patrick is becoming. He was displaced from his family while visiting his family's summer home in Latvia (from Germany) at age 12 when the Nazis invaded Russia. He escaped a firing squad, lived off roots, berries and bugs and traveled back to Germany only to be put in a displaced persons work camp. Later he was reunited with his family and sponsored by a Lutheran orphanage to come to America where he joined the Air Force and worked his way up to Chief Master Sargent and served at the Pentagon as head of all of the dental facilities of the Air Force bases. He was a truly amazing individual, opinionated and extremely charming and I miss him.