Yes, tonight it is a picture of my wife alone from our anniversary, (I am just to the right) but I cut myself out of the picture.  Tonight I left for a meeting I have tomorrow in Mansfield, Ohio (the Holiday Inn is nice here) because an ice storm was heading through the state.  I did beat the ice storm, but I am pretty down that I am not there at home.  (Come on, look at her and tell me you don’t understand….why would you want to leave her fr even 5 minutes??)  But what can you do?  It was a responsible choice to make……better the sacrifice now than to risk that kind of travel.

But what I want to everyone to know is that BEN is quite HAPPY about my being here.  He did the “party dance” after I left and he and his mom watched a movie and are having a “slumber party” in my absence.  Yes, he is suffering……..

So I am here and able to watch the Pro Bowl uninterrupted   Wow, what an honor.  In truth I would rather be in my own house, in my own bed, and not heading to a meeting or thinking about ice.  As an ice hockey player I can tell you that ice is what you SKATE on, not drive on, so I am more than a little let down.  But I will be home tomorrow after my meeting to do a few things……

But the first is to remove that little rat muscling in on my territory!!

Goodnight my friends and God Bless!

Tommy+