Oh well.

The best laid plans aft gen ostray. Or something like that.

One of the reasons for coming back to the Aerie was to pick Terry up and head to Rutgers for the Army game tomorrow. We would leave here around 4 AM and drive to Piscataway for the noon kickoff. We'd stay overnight at her mother's house and haul Mom back to the Aerie for Thanksgiving. We had purchased tickets on line several weeks ago when it was announced that they were available from the visitor's allotment.

Well, Terry has been a busy beaver with her Embroidery Guild club meetings and here Smocking Arts Guild meetings and even the occasional Audubon Society meetings. (Me? Not so much. I meet with Mark...occasionally.) All that meeting with people exposed Terry to some sort of bug and she came down with a fever yesterday that has swiftly departed in favor of stomach "discomfort", shall we say. As a result we are pulling out of our planned trip so she can recover a little more. I could go on my own but it wouldn't be as much fun. (Especially the drive back to the Aerie with the MIL!) It means eating the $80 we paid out for the tickets but we will save $20 parking plus food and such at the stadium. Also, when Terry does go in to pick up her Mom, it will probably be in her Aveo which gets a bit better millage than my Tundra.

This is not a case of the flu. Much to swift in its arrival and departure and minus many of the flu symptoms. Just your average 24-hour bug. It's the stomach discomfort that makes her think a five hour truck ride followed by four hours sitting in the stadium and eating stadium food might not be the wisest decision. And I tend to agree. (On a side note, Terry hasn't gotten her flu shot this year despite my mentioning several clinics to her. I haven't gotten mine either, but then again, 32 years of teaching high school and middle school students has pretty much exposed me to all infectious diseases known to man...and a few yet to be discovered. (Except for those which are sexual in nature, I hasten to add. Never had, never exposed, never will be exposed.)

Anyway, if RU can beat Army (and they should as almost everyone else has) and then can beat Louisville (another team that has fallen on hard times) in their final game, the Scarlet Knights will be 7-5 and possibly on their way to another bowl game. Maybe we can get tickets to that where ever it might be.