I see now that I've been pretty lax about posting this month. For some reason I just haven't had much to say. For that matter, I still don't.

Well not much anyway -- I wanted to just take a moment to point out an artist I've recently discovered and have been thoroughly enjoying.

Sarah Harmer

She has two CDs and I really like both of them.

Sarah Harmer @ BN

Simon & Garfunkel released a two CD set along with a DVD of the Old Friends tour. It contains material from the New York and New Jersey shows one of which Ali, Anita, Harry, and I went to. How cool is that?

The CDs are missing a few songs (one particularly noticeable omission was Keep the Customer Satisfied. However, the DVD contains the entire show.

I thought I've had this post up a week ago, and I can't even tell why it took me 'til now to get it out.

Along the line of firsts -- I was on my first airplane (an hour into the trip) where an engine failed. (In interest of keeping you from getting all worked up -- let me just say it was no big deal, I'm writing about it, right?) Anyway, so I'm half-way between Albany and Denver 30 some-odd thousand feet in the air, when I notice the plane is turning around. Normally this isn't something I would notice because my head is usually buried in a book, but during this turn it caused the sun to shine directly in my face. When that happened I found myself wondering, "Why is the sun all of a sudden shining in my face?" Well a couple of seconds into that train of though a stewardess comes on the speaker and says, don't be too alarmed but there is a problem with one of the engines and we are lowering altitude and turning around; the captain will be on momentarily with more information. The only *real* problem I see at this point is we're turning around, so I go back to reading my book.

A couple of minutes go by and then the captain comes on, and says something like, folks we've got an uncontrolled vibration alert in one of the engines; we've gone through our checklist on what to do when this occurs; we came to the conclusion the only safe thing to do is shutdown the engine; however, don't worry we'll be fine with one engine.

Minutes later the stewardess was back on saying, "This plane can land fine with one engine, there is nothing to worry about."

Shortly before we landed the captain was back on saying, "I don't want you all to be alarmed, but fire trucks and other emergency vehicles will be following us down the runway; this is standard procedure."