Not much new on the home front this week. The Dallas weather is getting semi-normal for summer; the big boss in the corner office at work wryly observed that we'd made it to five o'clock without an afternoon rain shower the other day. (If I wanted to live in Florida, I would live in Florida!)

We're starting to plan our end-of-summer vacation to Colorado: a road trip with good friends and their kids -- seven of us together in one vehicle, and three of the seven under five years old. We'll either be super-bonded or ready to kill each other at the end (or perhaps a bit of both).

But before that, six more days of Lean Six Sigma training (still a long way from "Black Belt in training" a.k.a. BBit, to "certified" Black Belt, but the formal classroom training is almost done) AND another FIASCO dinner to co-host. Dog days of summer, here we come!