Jeff Billimek’s Journal

I didn’t wake up until about 8am. Because the house is on a hill a nice breeze blows through the area and we had the windows opened last night. The gentle breeze blowing through the house made sleeping very enjoyable. The large king-sized bed was much more comfortable then my lumpy old bed at home.

Around 9am Mom & Jim showed up and shortly after that we had breakfast. Mom-Mom’s house is very charming. The whole place reeks of being cozy and it definitely shows. Before we sat down for breakfast I snapped a photo of the inviting dining-room & table. Most of the indoor photos I took this weekend were shot at ISO 1600. I much prefer the natural light than the harsh flash. I was pleasantly surprised with the relatively low noise at 1600.

After breakfast I packed up my backpack and prepared to leave. We all did the obligatory posing for photos and then left for the Harrisburg airport.

(Mom & Mom-Mom)

(Me and Mom-Mom)

Mom & I got selected to be searched again at the Harrisburg airport. The last time this happened my camera bag set off their bomb-making material scanning device and there was quite a delay. Fortunately that didn’t happen this time.

I sat in the very last row right next to the bathroom of the 50-seat ComAir CRJ on the way back to Atlanta. I sat next to an 88-year old man who had quite a personality. He mentioned to me four times during the flight that the TSA people took away his 2-inch pocket knife and he was quite upset about it.

There were a few families traveling on this small plane and seeing one particular family around my age with a daughter around Makayla’s age made my thoughts drift to Michele. I wondered what would be different or how I would be different if her and I never broke up.

I finally finished my book: book 6 of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.

When I got home (Mom & Jim dropped me off) I saw a large box in the living room. It wasn’t there when I left. I called her up and she brought over a patio chair she won at work. She’s loaning it to me until she gets her own place with a patio.