Short thoughts...

• Tomorrow's Dinah's birthday. Yeah, her birthday is a week before our wedding date (which happens to be my mother's birthday). This will be fun in the years to come as I have to figure out what two gifts to get her for the two events, so conveniently placed a week apart. Smart Joe. Very smart.
• It's snowing in Chicago. Not the light snow that I could laugh off, but whipping in your face snow. And it's gonna be around 4 to 5 inches worth by the time I get out of work today. This is not acceptable. Not at all. It looks like it'll melt off by Thursday when Dinah and I go to Grinnell for the wedding. That's the positive.
• The weather for the wedding weekend looks okay, so far. Mid-forties and mostly cloudy Friday and Saturday. A little rain or snow on Sunday This is according to weather.com. The Des Moines Register has only a 7 day, but their Thursday looks a bit warmer. I'm gonna believe the Register now, because they're telling me what I want to hear.
• Thank goodness for the NCAA. There was a couple hours last night where I didn't think about the wedding. (8 days away now.) It's not that I'm worried about things, I am a little, it's just that now it's all out there. It's like that moment when a pitcher has let the ball go...he went through his motion, hit his arm slot, good arm speed, released the ball where he needed to--it all went well. He knows about where the ball's going (unless he's Tim Wakefield), he knows how it should break, but that's it. He doesn't know how everyone else is gonna react. So, for a moment-a split second, really-he's just trying to get ready for anything. A come-backer, a drag bunt, a homer. Anything. I'm like that, but for a week or so.
• (I still believe there's a baseball analogy for every situation in life. My secret goal is to catalogue all the events of life and find the perfect baseball analogy.)
• It looks like I'm gonna make the target weight I set for the wedding. I'm sort of proud, but you know, I'm not done. I set the target as something I felt I could reach if I were trying hard enough, but not out of reach. So, it's probably not my ideal weight (which I'll probably never get), but it's better. And I feel better.
• We got dishes last night. Awesome.