Donna has had to fly back to New York due to the illness of her mother. Fingers crossed that Marilyn Zillini makes a complete recovery and is back soon with her children, grandchildren & great-grandchildren.

I may be blogging a bit more frequently over the next few weeks, as the job situation has finally appeared to resolved itself. Again I don't want to jinx things but it seems that Donna and I will both be fully employed by the middle of next month.

Just to quickly catch up on things: Helen DeGeneres did an excellent job at the Oscars the other night. Personally, I didn't doubt she would and there were few surprises. It was, of course, wonderful that Martin Scorsese received his long-overdue statue. I know that the winner is not known before hand, but it did make me wonder that they would be able to have Lucas, Spielberg and Coppola there almost miraculously when it happened.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann continues to be THE best news program on any of the cable networks. Sandwiched between Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough, Keith is a breath of fresh air. Hell, I even turn on early to see some of Hardball and remain tuned for the beginning of Scarborough Country.

I'll probably get around to saying something over at Shot's Shack, but did want to remind folks that Spring Training, followed by exhibition season is in progress as we speak. For me still the only sport which can get me to view just about any team playing any other team, baseball remains America's Pasttime as far as I'm concerned.