We recently flew out of LaGuardia on Delta and I was amazed by the upscale 21st Century Delta Terminal. We usually fly American from LAG and the contrast was shocking.  Shocking! Now I know why LaGuardia has been called a third World airport.  Maybe American is third World, but not Delta.  Plus Delta has direct flights to Key West!

This past Tuesday marked the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in 1945. My Mother had been transported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a few months earlier. Her “liberation” would not come until a few months later.  

The talk the past week and a half has been all about Tom Brady, Bill Belichek and the New England Patriots.  The Deflate-gate controversy has the entire sports world buzzing (and justifiably many sick of it).  We won't even mention the two week-long continuing flurry of "deflated ball" jokes.    

  It has arrived. The biggest storm ever, so they say.

I am the victim of a cyber-attack. It began almost three years ago when I was forced to make a motion to be relieved as counsel for a client because he owed my firm a significant fee (five figures). Not only did the judge grant my motion but he awarded me every penny of the outstanding fee and stated that the record indicated that my entire representation of the client had been superb.

I am computer impaired. Some time ago a glass of water spilled on my Apple laptop. It won't allow me to type upper case and ever time you hit a key you get two letters. Our very old Toshiba laptop just gave up two weeks ago. Something like computer heart failure. And three days ago my office computer made a loud pop, then sizzled and smelled like smoke as the screen went dark. I was afraid after that to even touch it. At least we have an iPad. When technology fails, you suddenly feel disconnected.

I woke up to the sounds of suburbia...a snow thrower tooling up to move the snow. Lovely.   Then a knock at the door. Not just a knock but that four tap knock of familiarity. I thought a neighbor needed help so I quickly threw on some pants, a Tshirt and hurried downstairs only to find no one at the door. I opened it and heard an unfamiliar "Hello?"   It was an enterprising young man asking if I wanted him, his snow thrower and three guys to take care of my driveway and yard. I was both impressed and annoyed that he is knocking at my door at 7AM.

According to Wikipedia, sleep is a naturally recurring state characterizedby altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity and inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles. Wikipedia goes on to say that during sleep, most systems are in an altered anabolic state accentuating the growth and rejuvenation of the immune, nervous, skeletal and muscular systems. So that's why I get so tired at around 9:30 at night and feel better in the morning. No wonder it is prudent to "sleep on it" when one must make an important decision.