Richard called and said that he wouldn't be here tonight because his wife wanted him to go out on a date with her.  He felt it would be okay because we usually go out on a Friday too.  Funny, that tonight we had decided to stay in because we will be out for breakfast in the morning after the balloon launch for Alexi.  But I did want to do something more for Sheila so we had our meal here, and then went to Stone Cold Creamery to get some ice cream.  I really felt old when the girl serving us did not know what a banana split was!  After our ice cream (I did get my banana split) we came back home and did a pay for view movie.  We chose Mars needs Moms and who knew that it was an animated film.  I did sit through the whole thing and frankly I enjoyed it.  It wasn't really cartoonish and had an interesting story.  Now, Sheila has made a quick run to the store and we plan to be up and off before 8. I should have a pretty busy Saturday.  Good thing I did our recreation tonight because not only is Richard's work coming in the morning, he will bring Jim's work with him too, and Marv's should come in the mail in the morning.  I also have some ideas for any elective time that I might have.  I hope that I don't fall into the nothing pit and simply waste my time by doing nothing.  That's part of my new strategy and it will be a much better test this week end then it has been the last 5 days.  I hope I can keep it up.  We' see tomorrow.