A Traditional Diary Entry--3/30/10

There's nothing like watching miles and miles of countryside go by to inspire pensivity and self-reflection.  I love traveling, driving...watching the landscape change.  Granted it doesn't change all that much between Central Indiana and Northern Ohio, but I definitely marked the division between Central Ohio and entering into the Cuyohoga Valley.  Love the farms of northern Ohio.  So much I wanted to stop and take photos of the run down 100-year-old barns in the rolling, soon-to-be green hills.
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Ben said that since he started on his medicine, he feels more popular at school.  I asked him why and he said, "Maybe because I'm nicer...?"  Ben IS so much happier--ergo--easier to live with these days.  Pleasant to be around.  He's more popular with ME, too.  ;-)
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Wish John felt better.  He's been sick since he got home from school on Friday.  Flu, run down with exhaustion...he's better, but he says he feels weak and worn out.  He slept most of the drive up here.
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Listened to Marguerite Henry's King of the Wind on CD on the way up here.  What a great horse story....and based on a true story, at that.  Had to smile when Agba, the horse boy, and Sham (the Godolphin Arabian) were rescued by a Quaker. 
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Really starting to worry about money.  Something has to change.  What? How?
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Cleveland is really foggy.  Pollution?  Charlie says no. He says that if it were smog (as opposed to fog) , there would be health alerts and no one would be allowed outside.  That's sort of a relief.  It really IS foggy.  We're only a couple of blocks from Lake Erie.
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There are giant guitars everywhere here.  Like the bulls in Chicago and the bears in northern Michigan, the race cars and sneakers in Indy.  Kinda cool.
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Relaxing in our hotel room on the 9th floor.  Watching "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" with the kids.  Took Ben swimming.  Ate in a nice restaurant.  Tomorrow, "The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame".  Cool.