"Pop" Cirillo gave me this cool Western Union sign for my sunroom--or, as Debbie calls it: my "happy place." Did you know that Abe Lincoln used to walk across the street from the White House every day to the Western Union office to check in with his generals during the Civil War?

Jake and I did a most awesome workout today with a "heavy rope," which is a jump-rope made out of rubber hosing filled with sand. It weighs 4 pounds but by the end of the workout you'd swear it's stuffed with a 50 lb. bag of concrete.

As I share this most interesting info our visitors are in the kitchen making dinner. We're going to have home-cooked Thai food. Dream come true...

I hope it doesn't sound like I'm bragging on it: but I am one lucky man.