The top of the morning to all of you&#33;<br /><br />Another night without a page&#33;  Unbelievable.  Can it be that the world is becoming a better place?  I have been on call eight nights out of the last nine ( one more to go ) and my pager hasn&#39;t peeped.  Not even a crisis call.  In twenty years, that hasn&#39;t happened.  It&#39;s about time, of course, but I guess I&#39;ve grown jaded in my old age and always feel suspicious when we go so long.  I&#39;m afraid the phones will be ringing once we all get back in the office on Wednesday and the kids get back to school.  It has been nice, though, to enjoy time with my youngest who is home from Cal Poly...of course, his girlfriend arrived Sunday from San Diego so, between his work and spending time with Katie, I haven&#39;t seen much of him. <br /><br />Mary Lou, I&#39;m happy you relieved the casino of some of it&#39;s money.  I&#39;m sure someone left theirs behind&#33;<br /><br />Maria, thankfully, your granddaughter is okay...good to have her own ortho folks if she needs them.<br /><br />So I&#39;ll be out for the New Year for the first time in many years ( other than en route to San Francisco General ) - and in San Francisco&#39;s North Beach, of all places.  Dinner is at 7P, with Sony doing sets all night, finishing at 12:30A - then I head immediately for home, hopefully, and my warm bed.<br /><br />I so looking forward to spending time in the coming year with my new friends here at cruisecrazies.