FOR THE WOMEN WE CARE ABOUT

Rachel and her friend Andrea decided that they would raise some money for Breast Cancer and that they would participate in Saturday's 5K Making Strides Walk in downtown Atlanta. The first person they recruited was the old guy (me).

ANDREA AND RACHEL-FRIENDS SINCE BABIES!

They did a good job, raising something like $1,500 or so. They also invited two of Rachel's friends, Melissa and Michelle, to join us.

OUR TEAM-THE PINK LEMONADERS

They did this in honor of three very strong women who are dealing with Breast Cancer. In our family, Andrea's Mom and my bride Cathy is a breast cancer survivor. We hope she will be out of the woods in three more years.

Rachels cousin and our friend Rosalie, who lives in Birmingham, has been dealing with it for a shorter period of time but we believe and hope the worst is now behind her.

And Rachel's Mother-in-Law Vilma, in Jacksonville, is right in the middle of the hard part with horrific chemo treatments. She is fighting a valiant battle and we think of her daily.

So Rachel made us all pink tee shirts with Vilma, Rosalie and Cathy's name on them and because it was cold and a little rainy, she insisted we each wear a long sleeve black shirt under the tee shirts. The closest thing I had was a long sleeve navy blue shirt that was actually the top to a set of pajamas Luthansa gave me a couple of years ago when I was on a flight from Singapore to Frankfurt. I looked, as I often do, like a real dork.

NOTE THE FASHIONABLE BEIGE PAJAMA COLLAR PEEPING OUT ABOVE THE SHIRT

I ACTUALLY MADE IT TO THE FINISH LINE!

We had fun, it was for a good cause and we all finished. I'm glad we did this for the three brave women we love and all the other women we don't know who are struggling with breast cancer.

IT'S THAT TIME OF LIFE

Yes, I know I have not written on this Blog for a month or so. I forget why.

There is a guy named Dave that is CEO of a company that I am Chairman of. Therefore, we talk all the time but I always call him.

Yesterday, after an exchange of emails to set up a phone call with him for 6 pm tonight I told him "Why don't you call me at my Atlanta home at 404-973-7353?"

So at 6pm tonight he didn't call and I thought he forgot. About 6:10 he called and said "I couldn't get through on this number. I tried several times."

Thinking of course that he had to have dialed it wrong I replied, with a certain amount of cockiness and swagger "And what number did you call Dave?"

"404-973-7353" he said.

I then realized that I had given him the phone number from the early 90's when we lived in Atlanta previously. Of course in between we lived for ten years in New York and Chicago, but for some reason I had forgotten all of that and thought that the number we dropped in 1994 was still my home phone number. How I even rememberd it is beyond comprhension.

And you wonder why I forget to write on this Blog.