Last night of the work week, and then a three day weekend. Being at work is actually helping with my allergies, as this week my duties have been keeping me in a clean room, with heavily filtered air. So I have been feeling better at work, and worse at home, which is an interesting situation.

Tomorrow we will be helping with a wrestling take-down tournament. I have never been to one, so it should be fun. Rather than trying to pin each other, the kids try to take each other down, and the kids who takes the other one down more times wins the match.

There will be a fund raising dinner afterwards, a pig roast, and we will probably be helping with that as well.

On Saturday we will be going down to the hotel in Perrysbugh, Ohio, where we had our honeymoon. The hotel has a wonderful indoor/outdoor pool, so the kids should have a great time swimming. And on Sunday morning, they have what has to be the best brunch in the state of Ohio. The kids should enjoy that as well.

I've listened to Mahler's Sixth Symphony from Boulez and the Vienna Philharmonic twice now. From the opening notes you just know its going to be dark, deep, and passionate. It tells the story of someone who is fighting the darkness and depression and tragedy of life...and keeps coming back, no matter how how rotten it is...until the final movement when, in concussive blows of passionate music, the person is finally struck down.