Blimey

Well I am sitting in the MSP airport lounge (a perk of flying international and being a platinum member) waiting for my flight to London. With my family in town and all the Christmas goings on I haven't had a lot of time write this week. Maybe on the flight tonight I will crank out a post or three. Don't know. I am surprised though at how empty the airport is. I checked my bag and got through security in like 10 minutes! CRAZY. Though I am glad of it. Now I am hanging out in the lounge. FREE BOOZE!!!! ok ok really I am just drinking Iced Tea, but I could have a free drink or five if I wanted. But I don't want to mix drinking and sleeping pills. This will be the third time this year I will have been in London but this time I will have a week to see the sights and no work. Yeah no work.

Again I have a countdown going. My flight leaves at 7:10 PM and arrives at 9:10am. There is a 5 hour difference in time and I expect to see my lovely wifey around 3 tomorrow London time. That is less than 15 hours away at this point. Still to long really but it is manageable I guess. This had been the longest we have been apart, and I don't really like it. If I can help it we won't spend this much time apart again. A big improvement this trip though is that we will spend a whole week together rather than 50 hours like the last time I went to Moscow. But I am certainly looking at options to get us closer together.

Along another note, once I get some paper from Ruzana and some friends of ours I will finally have the package ready for the ole USCIS (immigration). It should take about six months for them to process, then assuming she is approved it will be sent to the US State Department. Then who knows how long it will take. But by our best figuring RG has spend 10 months out of 24 back in Russia, so maybe with 6-9 more of processing they will just drop the remainder and let her come back early. We shall see. We shall see. I can not wait to get on the plan and pass out cuz, when I wake I should be with in 6 hours of seeing the MRS.