(This might have been the best darn chocolate-cocoanut-nut and wonderfulness cake I have ever tasted. Kate Jansen’s baking is unreal at Willow).

This week was a blur- it started at the Broadmoor in The Springs and culminated with Buffalo Nite, via the Big Pink Finance Committee and Spring Red Tie Luncheon with the Professionals.

Buffalo Nite was early this month, the last Friday in April. Almost can’t get any earlier, so it is not surprising that Tracy was swamped at Willow. I could go down the list- her husband got hurt, there was the beer tasting dinner on Tuesday, the end of Lent and the big Easter buffet last week on the day the restaurant is normally closed.

Accordingly, Buffalo Night kind of snuck up on everyone, but we managed to rally. A full boat was at the bar, except for The Lovely Bea, who was tied up at that big conference out of town that has had her wrapped around the axel for the last month. Jon-without and John-with, Jerry the Barrister, Old Jim, the Master Chief, former Long-Hair Mike and Ray the Jarhead.

That is not to mention the earlier stint that afternoon I did at the Spring Annual Meeting of the Professional Association held at the Army-Navy Country Club’s posh new club house. I played Jimmy Olsen, Cub Reporter for a Major Metropolitan Daily, with my Canon D50 camera, getting some great shots of a resurgent organization. There is new management with grand plans that I will continue to support as best I can, given the current regrettable downturn in the industry where most of us retirees labor.

And later today- noon on- it is the second Gnarly Hops and Barley Brew Festival down in Culpeper. I may stop at the gun show at Dulles Expo on the way out to sample the mood. The way the crowd feels translates pretty well to an unofficial exit poll of public sentiment, and has ranged from desperation to determination to defiance, and that is just the words starting with “d.”

Tomorrow the Tango holds forth in dance and song at the Kennedy Center. Senior Executive Jerry is singing in it and it should be a great show. I don’t know how I am going to fit all these activities in one sack- but it certainly appears that the winter is finally done and a huge backlog of energy is being released all across the National Capital Region. I don’t know how I am going to do everything- or really even get started on anything.

And did I mention Fabio of Deep Blue rolled the tarp cover off the pool, power washed the grim of winter off the concrete, patched some cracks and re-caulked the gaskets on the underwater lights? That clear clean water is even now slowly filling the big cement rectangle?

How could like get any better?

I would go on- you know I do have that inclination- but I need to get showered, the Panzer loaded, and get on with the day. Do not for an instant consider that I am not fully engaged on the other Great Issues of the Day.

I am going to join State Department spokesman Jen Paski in her decisive tweet that could overwhelm Russian aggression in East Ukraine, but I think she has got the message to President Putin that he is in deep kimchi on social media- and I am not just talking about Twitter, but even Facebook.

Before I get on the road, I am going to ‘unlike’ Mr. Putin. That should do it.

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