We made it home in good time.. Trip overview..

We got to our house at about 11 PM. We left at 6:30 PM. That is pretty much record time for all the travel we did today. I had a good visit but it’s nice to be home. They’re good people who work their jobs and enjoy a pretty low tech life at home. They read the paper, watch the news or even play video games. That’s all great but in my home when I have leisure time indoors I use the computer and high speed internet. I was lost without it. I manage a couple different fantasy baseball teams and follow a few forums. I also try to post on my site but as you can see I managed to do that okay. Maybe I have messed up priorities and they have life figured out. Who knows? What I do know is that I’m not the only person who enjoys broadband access at home.

There’s not much I could say about the trip that I didn’t say each day in the posts when I was there. It was a good trip but I think at times we expect too much from these trips. These are just relatives of ours living their normal lives. They don’t stop for us and nothing special takes place. They’re not perfect people who always get along and neither are we. If you stop and realize this you enjoy the experience a lot more. We spent time with everyone, did lots of things and got some well needed time away. In a few days I go back to work and try to do the best I can.

Leaving today.. A good fantasy baseball week..

My Mom is pushing hard to leave because she’s a little on the antisocial side. She lives alone and if she has to be around people too long she wants out. That’s just the way she is. At her age there’s no changing her now. If it was up to her we would’ve gotten here Saturday evening and left Monday morning. That would mean driving 4+ hours to spend one day here. I don’t really like that idea much so we left Friday afternoon and we’ll probably leave here in the late afternoon or evening. I’ll have a couple more days off and my Mom has time off indefinitely so there’s no hurry. We’ll probably take I-87 home again because it’s quicker and easier on the car without all the steep hills. Their are tolls in NY but nothing compared to the ferry prices of over $20. Unless you leave during the day on a nice day it’s not worth bothering with the ferry. It is supposed to be 55 degrees or so up here today but who knows when we’ll leave. Colby and Holden get out of school at 3:30 so we might wait until after then to take off.

I set my lineups before we left and tried to follow things as much as I could up here and it turned out okay. All the teams in my league finished closely except Deb’s game that she won 9-0. I won 6-5 as did a few others, which means the other teams lost 5-6 so we’re all pretty close to each other. No teams are really standing out after only a week but that’s normal. I did alright in my ESPN league 7-3.